Simplified Speech #137 – Kassy’s board game club

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🗓️ 9 January 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Board games are a fun way to spend an evening with friends. In this episode, Kassy talks with Andrew about her board game club and shares how it helps her meet new people, despite the pandemic. Simplified Speech episodes feature two native English speakers having clear, natural and easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics, like board games with friends. By listening to Andrew and Kassy chat and following along with the transcript and study guide, you can improve your English listening skills and increase your vocabulary Fun facts In 2008, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Scrabble, two skydivers in Florida played a short game…13,000 feet in the air! They built a special wooden board with adhesive pieces that stayed on the board while they were in the air. Expressions included in the study guide That’s the right idea To dwindle Revolving door Beast of a [something] A renaissance To branch out 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: Collie Coburn (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello there everyone. My name's Andrew and I'm Cassie and this is the
0:07.6	Qulips English podcast. Hey there friends welcome back to simplified speech the
0:20.5	Qup series that features clear natural and easy-to-understand English
0:25.4	conversations about interesting topics. Today I'm joined by my co-host
0:31.0	Cassie. Hello Cassie, could you let us know what we're going to talk about today?
0:36.3	Hey there Andrew and hi listeners. Sure, so I thought we could talk about my new Board Game Club in today's episode.
0:47.0	Board Game Club, okay, I'm intrigued.
0:51.0	Cassie, do you mean Board games like Scrabble and Risk and Monopoly? Those kind of games?
0:58.0	Yeah, kind of. That's the right idea at least.
1:03.0	Well, I'll let you clarify in just a moment, but before we get started with our conversation,
1:10.0	I want to let all of our listeners know that there's a study guide and transcript available
1:15.2	for this episode for all QLips members on our website, QLips.com. Yes, and guys, the study guide is an awesome way to learn English with this episode.
1:29.0	Inside the study guide, you'll find explanations and examples of difficult vocabulary, a
1:34.9	comprehension quiz, and some prompts that you can use for speaking and writing
1:39.9	practice. So, visit QLps.com and become a member and get that study guide.
1:47.2	We also want to give a shout out to one of our listeners from Poussanne here in South Korea named Joe and Joe left us a great review and a five-star
1:57.8	rating on Apple Podcasts so in the review Joe wrote I've been listening to your podcast for so long, God knows how long.
2:07.6	However, simplified speech number 130 was the funniest one I've ever listened to.
2:14.8	I don't really comment much on any podcast,
2:17.4	but this was so good,
2:19.1	and I laughed a lot when Cassie mentioned
2:22.4	losing her hair, and Andrew said,
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