Simplified Speech #135 – Suzanne’s trip to France

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🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this episode, Suzanne tells us about her experience of flying internationally during the pandemic, which didn’t go as smoothly as planned. If you are thinking about taking a trip abroad, listen to this episode to get some useful tips on how to avoid problems at the airport. The Simplified Speech series is the perfect way to learn from native speakers who use easy-to-understand English. In this study guide, there are detailed expressions to explain the more difficult words and phrases you hear, with examples to improve your understanding. Fun facts Did you know that there is a rule to make sure that pilots and their copilots don’t eat the same meal before a flight? This is so that if one of the pilots were to become ill due to food poisoning, the other could take over. Expressions included in the study guide Travel bug To scratch an itch Gee Hours on end Hubbub A piece of cake Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke For Free, Step On by Jahzzar Photo Credit: Ross Parmly(Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. My name is Andrew. Hey guys I'm Suzanne. And this is the
0:07.9	Q-Lips you're listening to
0:19.8	simplified speech which is our series for English language learners that features clear,
0:25.8	natural, and easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics.
0:32.4	And joining me today is my co-host Suzanne.
0:35.5	Hello there, Suzanne, how's it going?
0:38.1	Hi Andrew, hey everyone.
0:40.6	Good, it's good.
0:41.5	How about you?
0:42.3	How's it going?
0:43.0	I'm doing pretty well, Sue, but you know, lately I've been feeling the travel bug.
0:50.0	It feels like it's been eons since I've visited anywhere.
0:54.3	Yes, I know what you mean Andrew and I think a lot of people can relate to that, right?
1:00.6	Yeah, but not you, Suzanne. I don't think you can relate. Yeah, I mean, I know how you feel, but you know I was lucky enough to get to scratch that itch recently because for the first time in a long time I was able to take a trip from Montreal all the way to France.
1:21.0	Yeah, that's so great.
1:23.4	I'm happy that you were able to take that trip and slowly it seems like the world is kind of
1:30.9	returning back to normal?
1:33.3	Yeah, yeah.
1:34.9	Andrew, if it's all right with you, I thought we could maybe talk about my trip to France today.
1:40.7	Yeah, that sounds good to me and I'd be happy to talk about your trip and hear all about it as I'm sure our listeners would be as well.
1:50.0	But before we get into it, let's tell everyone about the study guide for this episode.
1:56.0	Right. Yes, very important. So you guys, we've made a study guide for this episode that includes a full transcript, a comprehension
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