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TOPICS

Yellowstone National Park, summer jobs for teenagers, I’ll be in later versus I’ll

be in late, loudly versus aloud versus loud, pronouncing lounge, lunch, and

launch

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GLOSSARY

geyser – a natural spring that periodically or occasionally sends water from the

ground up into the air

* Some geysers shoot water into the air every few minutes, but other ones go off

only once an hour or even less often.

faithful – reliable; predictable; dependable

* Pierre’s car is old, but it is so faithful that he was able to drive it across the U.S.

without any problems.

hot spring – hot water that comes from deep below the ground, often smelling

like sulfur or bad eggs

* After hiking in the mountains all day, they enjoyed soaking their tired feet in the

natural hot springs.

volcano – a mountain that has a hole on top where hot gases and lava (melted

rock) come out

* Mount St. Helens is a famous volcano that exploded in Washington in 1980.

lava – hot, melted, liquid rock that comes out of a volcano

* When lava comes out of a volcano, it burns and covers everything it its path.

pocket money – a small amount of money that one carries and spends on little

things that he or she wants or needs

* Each week, Henrietta gives herself $20 of pocket money to spend on coffee,

snacks, and other little things.

to flip burgers – to have a job that isn’t very impressive, doesn’t require very

much education, and doesn’t pay very well

* My father told me that if I didn’t want to flip burgers for the rest of my life, I

needed to earn a university degree.

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to pump – to use a machine to move air, water, or another liquid out of one thing

and into something else, such as to take gasoline from a station and put it into a

car

* You need to pump more air into your bicycle tires before we go for this ride.

to mow – to cut the grass; to use a machine to make the grass in one’s yard

shorter

* During the spring, the grass grows quickly and Cesar has to mow every

weekend.

duplicate – a copy; something that is identical to the original

* Do you know where I can make a duplicate of my house key?

internship – an opportunity for a student to get professional experience by

working for a few months, usually for little or no money

* The university requires all students to do a three-month internship before

graduation.

camp counselor – a person (often a high school or college student) who takes

care of a small group of children at a summer camp, usually leading activities

and sleeping where the children sleep

* If you like children and you enjoy spending time outside, consider being a camp

counselor.

loudly – noisily; with a lot of noise; not quietly

* The man spoke so loudly that everyone could hear him even though he wasn’t

using a microphone.

aloud – spoken; for other people to hear; using one’s voice

* The teacher asked Becky to read page 17 aloud to the rest of the class.

loud – noisy; with a lot of noise; not quiet

* The music isn’t loud enough. Could you turn up the volume?

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WHAT INSIDERS KNOW

The National Park Service

The United States has many “national parks,” which are areas that are protected

by the federal government because of their beauty, history, or importance to the

natural environment. The first national park was Yellowstone National Park,

which was established in 1872.

The National Park Service (NPS) is the U.S. “agency” (a part of the government)

that is responsible for national parks. NPS was created in 1916 and today it is

responsible for 390 “sites” (places or locations).

NPS tries to help visitors enjoy their national parks. Employees known as “park

rangers” try to teach visitors about the parks’ history and natural resources.

Sometimes the rangers organize educational “hikes” (outdoor walks) and

“campfire talks” (discussions around an outdoor fire at night). These are usually

free.

Most of the U.S. national parks charge an “admission fee,” which is money that

one must pay to enter the park. If you plan to visit many national parks, you can

purchase a “pass,” which is a small card or a piece of paper that gives someone

permission to enter many different parks. The NPS “annual” or yearly pass is

called “America the Beautiful.”

Normally you can drive to a park, pay the admission fee or show your pass, and

enjoy what the site has to offer. But some national parks, such as Yellowstone

and Yosemite, are very popular and require “reservations,” which are

arrangements to visit the park at a particular time in the future. People who want

to go “camping,” sleeping in a tent or trailer at the national park, usually need to

make a reservation and pay an additional fee.

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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT

You're listening to ESL Podcast's English Café number 88.

This is ESL Podcast's English Café episode 88. I'm your host, Dr. Jeff

McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in

beautiful Los Angeles, California. How are you today?

On this Café, we're going to talk about the summertime. We're going to talk

about summer jobs, what teenagers do to make money in the summertime in the

U.S. We're also going to talk about a very famous and popular vacation place, or

vacation destination, in the U.S. called Yellowstone National Park, our first

national park. And as always, we'll answer a few questions. Let's get started.

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interested in.

I record the Podcast episodes several weeks in advance, meaning this podcast

was recorded at least six or seven weeks ago. I mention that because

sometimes I get emails from people saying, “Oh Jeff, could you talk about this

story that happened in the news today,” or “this week.” And unfortunately, we

tape these in advance so by the time we tape them and you hear them the news

is rather old.

A couple of things we're going to talk about today are very appropriate for the

summertime. The first is one of our most famous national parks in the United

States, called “Yellowstone.”

Yellowstone is the first national park that the U.S. Government established, back

in 1872, and every American knows about Yellowstone Park. It's very famous. It

is located in the state of Wyoming, which is in the western part of the United

States. It is south of the state of Montana. The park actually goes into part of

Montana and Idaho, two other states in the west.

Yellowstone is a very popular vacation destination – a place where people go on

their vacation. It's not close to any big city, so you have to drive there. But, it's a

beautiful park. I visited it once back when I was eight or nine years old, back in

the 1920s!

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It happens to have some very interesting natural features. One of them is called

a “geyser.” “Geysers” (geysers) it when you have water that is naturally heated

in the ground, and it shoots up in the air – it goes up into the air – the water goes

up very high from the ground.

The most famous geyser in Yellowstone is called “Old Faithful.” It's called “Old

Faithful” because the word “faithful” means reliable, something you can count on,

we would say. Something you can depend on, you can expect it to happen on a

certain regular schedule, and Old Faithful is a geyser that regularly shoots out

water. You can even put the time that it's going to come out next. So, people

gather around it to watch it. It is a very large geyser.

Yellowstone also has what are called “hot springs,” and these are pools of water

that are heated from the ground, and they're quite interesting to see.

Yellowstone is actually over what is called a “super volcano.” A “super volcano”

is an area where there is a large volcano (volcano). A “volcano” is a hill or a

mountain where hot, what we would call, “lava” (lava), which is a kind of liquid

rock, and this hot lava comes out the top of the mountain.

Some famous volcanoes would be Mount Vesuvius in Italy and Krakatoa in

Indonesia. There are also famous volcanoes in other countries. Mexico has

Popocatépetl, near Mexico City. Hawaii also has several mountains that are

volcanoes, especially on the island of Hawaii.

Yellowstone, then, is on top of a volcano, and that helps explain these interesting

natural features that it has. I think it is definitely worth a trip to visit Yellowstone if

you ever come to the United States or if you live here, although, as I said before,

it's not close to any big city unfortunately, but it is quite beautiful.

Our second topic today is summer jobs. Yellowstone is a place where families

go on vacation during the summer, but the summertime is also a time when kids

– when teenagers try to find a job to make some money. This is a very common

thing in the U.S., students in high school and in college try to get a summer job to

make some extra money; we might call it extra “pocket money.”

Your “pocket” (pocket) is the little bag that is inside of your pants, usually in the

front of your pants or jeans, and you have one on each side. You often have a

pocket in the back. Men keep their wallets in their back pocket. So, the

expression “pocket money” means a small amount of money, money that you

could carry around with you in your pocket. It's not going to be enough to pay for

all of your expenses, but it can help you pay for some things.

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