Beck's Return

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• wasn't there
• mellow
• poppy
• down the drain

• in-store credit
• all of
• record store
• pay attention

• bucks
• lyrics

2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

Every once in a while, you buy a CD that you end up not liking or not listening to. It can be a bummer, since CDs are not cheap.

In the US, there are stores that buy CDs from customers. You take old CDs that you don’t listen to anymore (or new ones that you don’t like) to the store. The store sorts through them and decides which ones they think they can re-sell. They offer cash or in-store credit. Usually, you get more money if you choose credit.
Mason bought the new Beck CD, but didn’t like it. Listen as he tells Kevin all about it.

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Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Kevin

Mason

Kevin:  What are we talking about right now?

Mason:  Beck.

Kevin:  God, I’ve got nothing to say. What’s the new album called?

Mason:  Uh, it’s The Information. I had it for all of, like, five minutes and then I sold it back to the record store.

Kevin:  That bad, huh?

Mason:  Well, I loved his last album, Guero, I mean, it was just, like, my favorite album of the whole year.

Kevin:  So what happened?

Mason:  I don’t know. I mean, I don’t pay attention to lyrics all that often so maybe the lyrics were good, but the music just wasn’t there.

Kevin:  Really?

Mason:  Yeah, Beck’s… Beck’s, you know… He, he likes to alternate between kind of mellow albums, and I can like it for being mellow and then he does, like, really good, fun poppy albums.

Kevin:  He’s definitely quirky.

Mason:  He definitely is quirky. And this was just kind of bluhhhh.

Kevin:  Dull.

Mason:  The whole thing. The whole thing. But, man, and I hated to sell it back ‘cause it came with all these cool stickers. The packaging was awesome. Uh…

Kevin:  Well…

Mason:  But you know…

Kevin:  There’s got to be some content.

Mason:  It was, like, 16 bucks down the drain. I was, like, If I… It’s still new. Maybe I can get, like, 10 bucks for it and buy a new album.

Kevin:  How much did you get?

Mason:  I think I got, like, 10 bucks in trade.

Kevin:  That’s alright.

 

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