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new car

Date: Mar 10 2005

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Intro

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

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

Steph went out and made a major purchase last week.
She bought a new car! Listen in as she talks to Allison about it.

Dialog

1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.

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

Steph

Allison

Steph: Hey. Guess what?

Allison: What?

Steph: I bought a new car last week.

Allison: Wow. Great!

Steph: Yeah. It’s totally cool. It’s kinda hard but in the end it’s worth it.

Allison: I’ve heard that it’s hard to buy a car.

Steph: Yeah. I mean, it’s kind of expensive. But, ya know I had to get my financing together and stuff.

Allison: Did you understand what you were doing?

Steph: I don’t know. I mean, there was a lot of small print in all the documents I was signing. But, um, I got a loan from my bank so I’m happy with it.

Allison: Was there a lot of paperwork?

Steph: Oh my gosh. There were like twenty things that I had to sign. It was ridiculous.

Allison: Were the people helpful?

Steph: They were helpful but they were trying to sell me things every time I turned around.

Allison: Did you hold your own? Did you not buy the things you didn’t want to buy?

Steph: Totally. They tried to sell me like 4 thousand dollars worth of extra stuff, ya know. And I was like no I’m not buying that. I don’t need that.

Allison: Good for you!

Steph: Yeah.

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Discussion

Although it was complicated to buy a new car, in the end it was well worth it. I have never owned a new car, so I decided to get the one I wanted.
In the end, I decided to buy a Honda hybrid because it gets such great gas mileage.
Some of my friends are a little bit jealous, but I don’t really care. If they wanted to buy a new car, they could do it too. It just takes a lot of hard work and focus.