Count and Non-Count Nouns

Intro

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• hang out
• festival
• into
• act

• headliners
• diehard
• fan
• port

• expensive
• live

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Pool parties. Root beer floats. Movies and pizza. Some of the best ideas come from taking two things that are already awesome on their own, and combining them.

The latest example? Concert cruises. These special voyages are perfect for diehard fans who love to vacation in the sun. On a concert cruise, you sail the seas with your favorite band. During the day you can hang out by the pool, swim in the ocean, or visit port towns. At night, there are live concerts with just you and your shipmates for the audience. Jason recently went on his first concert cruise. Hear him tell Marni about his experience.

Dialog

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Marni

Jason

Marni:  I am a big fan of a big summer rock concert, and I hear the new thing is these concert cruises.

Jason:  Definitely. That’s the new festival. Take all the bands, put them on a ship.

Marni:  Tell me about it. I’m fascinated.

Jason:  I’ve been on one. I’m gonna go on another one.

Marni:  Really?

Jason:  Yeah. The best part about it, really, is the fans.

Marni:  OK.

Jason:  Because you’re surrounded by people who are into the same music as you, so you immediately have something in common with all these people. And it’s not…it’s better than a festival, where there’s 60,000 people, you know? These are the most diehard fans of that thing, so they are just ready to eat, drink, and breathe that band for four days.

Marni:  Yeah, definitely! I think the thing about festivals, too, is often there are so many bands that, you know, people are there for different bands, and it sounds like these cruises, it’s really more specific, like that headlining act is why you’re there.

Jason:  Usually. At least one or two headliners, yeah. And you get to see them multiple times. And kind of nothing beats being in the water, in the Bahamas, in the ocean, while a band is playing on the beach. It’s pretty awesome.

Marni:  Doesn’t sound terrible.

Jason:  But it’s not cheap.

Marni:  I was gonna say, it has to be pretty expensive.

Jason:  Yeah. Definitely.

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