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The Bob and Rob Show Study Guide

Lesson 111: Seattledate: November 11, 2007 file name: bobrob 11-11-07

Show notesBeautiful Seattle is the topic of this week’s show. Bob used to livethere so he’s the expert (to make a change!) BTW did you noticethe numbers this week? Date 11 / 11, lesson 111. spooky!

Phrasal Verbs and Idioms"to rain down"To fall or make something fall in large quantities eg: the bullets rained down on the soldiers in the hear ofbattle

"to be rained out (US) / rained off (UK)"To be cancelled due to heavy rain. We can also say a pitch or ground is too waterlogged eg: Due to thethunderstorm, the baseball game was rained out

Idioms: 1) "(to be) raining cats and dogs” Used when describing heavy rain eg:

Wow, did you see that storm yesterday? I got caught in it without an umbrella and I can tell you it was sureraining cats and dogs.

2) "(to) save for a rainy day " To save money for a day in the future when you might need it eg:

Perhaps rather than spend your savings on a new car, you should keep it for a rainy day.Note: In America, it is also possible to use the expression "a rainy day fund".

Bonus idiom: "(to) take a rain check "To postpone doing something due to a prior engagement, but willing to go another time when one is availableeg:

Sorry, Rob, I'm a bit busy tonight, but perhaps I'll take a rain check.

AJESSTry doing crosswords in English in order to increase vocabulary and stimulate the mind. An added benefit isthat one’s cultural knowledge of the target society is heightened. !

Both Sides of the PondTricky pronunciations of place names in America and Britain:(US) Des Moines, Iowa / (UK) Derby(US) Sioux city, Iowa / (UK) Norwich (Norich)(US) El Cajon (Ka hone) / (UK) Greenwich (Greenwitch)(US) La Quinta (La keen ta) / (UK) The Thames (Tems)

EXTRA: (UK) Edinburgh (Edinboro)

SongSeattle by Cameron Ember. See more at http://www.podshow.com

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QuotesHumankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we doto ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle

Every part of all this soil is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has beenhollowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. The very dust you now stand on responds morewillingly to their footsteps than to yours, because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors and our bare feetare conscious of the sympathetic touch. Chief Seattle

Show transcriptBOB:Hi, it's the Bob and Rob Show. This is Bob.

ROB: And this is Rob.

BOB:Morning, Rob.

ROB:Morning, Bob.

BOB:How are you doing?

ROB:Pretty good thanks, pretty good. And you?

BOB:I'm doing great. Today we're talking about Seattle.

ROB: All right. Is this were you're originally from?

BOB:

Well, that's what I tell people. I'm basically from the West Coast of the US. I did live near Seattle for abouteight years. I don't really know where I'm from now; I guess I'm from Japan, because I've lived here longerthan I have anywhere else. I did live near Seattle. I went to high school up in that part of the US in the PugetSound area, in a little town called Stanwood. I lived on Camino Island. Seattle's a really popular city ... in theworld and the US as well. It's the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It's locatedin the state of Washington, between this inlet1 called the Puget Sound which is a very beautiful waterway withlots of islands. It's located between the Sound - this inlet, and Lake Washington, which is a fairly large lake.So it's surrounded by water and mountains: very, very beautiful. It's about ninety-six miles south of the UnitedStates/Canadian border. Do you know where Seattle got its name from?

ROB:Perhaps you could enlighten me, Bob.

BOB:

It was actually named after an Indian chief: Chief Seattle, which is where the name comes from. But it wasfirst settled by Europeans in eighteen fifty-one (1851), and again, it was named after the Indian, Chief Seattle.He was chief of two local tribes in the area. The city has an estimated population of about five-hundredthousand (500,000), but of course, in the metropolitan area, the surrounding suburbs and whatnot2, alltogether there's about three million (3,000,000) people in Seattle. It's grown quite a bit in the last twenty yearsits really been discovered. A lot of people have been moving there for its beauty. It’s a very livable city, veryprogressive, but also, there's a lot of industry there. For example, some things you may be aware of, or someproducts you may be familiar with; Starbucks coffee, their headquarters is in Seattle; Boeing airlinemanufacturer; a lot of their factories are in Seattle; and of course Microsoft.

ROB:Oh, really?

BOB:Yeah, Bill Gates is from Seattle. And their headquarters is in Redmond.



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ROB:I see, okay. I thought they were based in Silicon Valley3.

BOB:No, they are in Seattle. Seattle is often nicknamed "The Emerald City."

ROB:Why is that, then?

BOB:I think it kind of alludes to the lush evergreen trees in the surrounding area in the state.

ROB:Because, emerald is a shade of green?

BOB:Yeah, it's a shade of green. It's a nice sounding name as well. Seattle is also kind of referred to informally as"the gateway to Alaska" from the US. Because a lot of ferries - and you can get flights to Alaska fairly easily.

ROB: And isn't it famous for - well, I'm not sure about the present, but certainly within the last decade or so, a goodnumber of rock bands emerged4 from Seattle.

BOB:In the early nineties "grunge5" was quite popular, and a lot groups came out of Seattle that really helped pushthe grunge movement - Nirvana, Pearl Jam - they're all from the Seattle area.

ROB:R.E.M6, are they from there, too?

BOB: Are they? I don't know.

ROB:Not sure.

BOB:They might be.

ROB:I think so. I might be mistaken. Maybe our listeners could rectify my mistake.

BOB: And again, if you like the outdoors it's a great place: you can go sailing, skiing, bicycling, camping, and hikingnearby. And it's accessible pretty much the whole year. The terrain of the city is a little bit similar to SanFrancisco: it's a bit hilly in some areas, but it is wetter. In fact, Seattle has a reputation of getting a lot of rain,which isn't really deserved, it doesn't really get that much rain. Actually, a lot less than other cities, but most ofthe precipitation7 that falls, is kind of a drizzle or light rain, you don't really get a lot of downpours. So you getlots of days that are really cloudy and the drizzle8. But as far as amount of rain, it's not that much.

ROB:It sounds a bit like London, too, actually.

BOB:I think it's probably similar.

ROB:It's still a great place to live, yeah?

BOB:It is a very nice place to live.

ROB:

Forgive my geographical ignorance, Bob, but Washington state, is that were Mt. Hood - what's the four-thousand meter peak in Washington state?



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BOB:Mt. Rainier.

ROB:Rainier, right, right.

BOB:Mt. Hood's in Oregon.

ROB:How far is Rainier from Seattle?

BOB: About an hour.

ROB:Wow! That's cool. And Rainier's, what, over four-thousand meters, right?

BOB:Yeah, it's a fairly large volcano.

ROB:

Is it a volcano?

BOB:It's not an active volcano. It's an extinct volcano, dormant9.

ROB:Have you climbed up there?

BOB:I've hiked around it; I've never been to the top. That's something on my list that I hope to do someday.Probably the downside of living in Seattle now, is the traffic.

ROB:That's similar with a number of cities, right?

BOB:I think Seattle's especially bad; they don't really have a very good public transit system10. Yeah, that's whatI've heard, is that the traffic there has gotten11 really, really bad.

ROB:I remember on previous shows we've discussed this befor e, but I've said that perhaps in Japan, you really canget by without a car, but that's not quite the same in the States, in your opinion?

BOB:No you can't, you really do need a car. I think pretty much everybody has a car. That's why I like living here, isyou don't have to have a car.

ROB:That's true, yeah.

BOB:Some famous people from Seattle, just to name a few: Bruce Lee, I believe was from Seattle (the famousmartial artist); Jimmy Hendrix is from Seattle.

ROB:Yeah, the great one and only.

BOB:Bill Gates, and of course, me. Actually, I've got a friend that lived in Seattle, as well, in the city itself. I neveractually lived in Seattle I lived north of Seattle - as I mentioned before. He actually lived in the city, so Ithought I’d have him share a little bit about Seattle with us. Let's listen:

INTERVIEW:



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BOB: You lived in Seattle for how many years? TIM: I lived in Seattle for about six and a half years. BOB:Let's say I'm from a different country and I've never heard of it or anything. How would you describeSeattle? TIM: Seattle is I'd say it's a very liberal city, very educated, very diverse. You've got a lot of peoplefrom Japan, China, Vietnam, and a lot of Hispanic people. Probably everybody that's heard of Seattle hasheard of like the Space Needle and Pikes Place market. Those are very popular places. BOB: Pikes Placemarket - describe that ... I've never heard of it. TIM: It's like a very large market that you go to, and there'sindividual farmers and produce sellers. They have little stands that sell vegetables, and they have handmadecrafts like T-shirts, jewelry, anything you can think of, jams and jellies. There's the Pike Place fish marketpeople probably have heard of where people toss the fish around - and you can ship it anywhere in the world.BOB: How old is the market? TIM: It's been there for about a hundred years I think. In fact, I think this year it just had its hundredth anniversary. It was going to be torn down in the nineteen sixties, they wanted to build aparking garage there but a bunch of people gathered together and saved it. Which I think is a good thing,‘cause it's probably one of the best things about Seattle. BOB: Isn't the original Starbucks still there? TIM: It is,yes. If you go down it's in the same market, the very first Starbucks is at Pikes Place market. BOB: Thecoffee shop. So what sorts of companies started in Seattle or are associated with the Seattle area? TIM: Well,of course, everybody knows about Boeing. BOB: What's Boeing? TIM: The aircraft manufacturer. Microsoft,I'm sure that everybody knows about that. Starbucks, of course, everybody knows about. BOB: Those aresome global companies. Can you tell me about the geography of the Seattle area? Tim: The geography iskind of hilly; it's built right along Puget Sound. BOB: What's that? Tim: It's a body of water that ... BOB: Like aninlet? Tim: Yeah, it's like an inlet. And there's a lot of islands off the coast of Seattle where people live. Seattlehas, I think the biggest ferry system of any city in the country. ‘Cause a lot of people live on the islands andcommute to work that way. BOB: Is there like a local cuisine? TIM: Seattle has pretty international flavors.

They have a lot of famous chefs there now. A lot of Asian influence on the food. Seafood is very big there,obviously. Bob: What kind of seafood? TIM: Salmon is big, oysters, clams. BOB: So it kind of has a marineclimate? TIM: It does, a little bit. It's pretty mild in the summer and mild in the winter. It does get a lot of rain,but it's not as much as people seem to think. It actually gets less rain than most cities on the East Coast likeNew York City and Atlanta, places like that. BOB: Why do people say it's so gloomy and wet? TIM: Because, alot of those places, the rain just pours down, and they get a whole bunch at one time: Seattle, it just kind oftrickles down throughout a long period of time. It seems like it's raining all the time, but it's not usually rainingheavily, there's just kind of a constant drizzle. BOB: How many people are in Seattle? TIM: Seattle, I think thewhole area is around two and a half million (250,000,000) maybe. In the area that's not just Seattle. BOB: Themetropolitan area? TIM: Yeah. It's really grown. BOB: It has grown in the last ten years. TIM: Oh, yeah,definitely. BOB: Why is it growing do you think? TIM: I think people just like to live there, they hear so muchabout it. The location is great, you can get to the mountains in an hour, you can get to the beach, it's close toCanada if you want to go up to Vancouver for anything, it's in a very beautiful setting. BOB: Is there anythingyou didn't like about living in Seattle? TIM: I didn't like the fact that it was so expensive in places like buying a

home. The average price for a home in Seattle now is about four hundred and sixty thousand dollars($460,000) BOB: I've heard the traffic is really notorious. TIM: It is. In fact, I think Seattle has the secondworse rush hour traffic of any city in the country. I don't know which one would be worse, maybe LA. When Ilived there we tried to avoid I-5 whenever possible. BOB: What's I-5 mean? TIM: Interstate-five, it's the bignorth/south freeway that runs all the way from the Canadian border down to California, but it becomes aparking lot 12 at times during rush hour.

BOB:Okay, so that was Tim.

ROB:Thanks, Tim. Excellent. Are we going to move on to the next section, Bob?

BOB:Sure, why not.

ROB:Some phrasal verbs and idioms.

BOB:Yeah, Oh, by the way, in Seattle we have a little saying: "We don't tan we rust13."

ROB:So that's due to the rain ... the water

BOB:Yeah, but again, we don't get that much rain it's kind of gray and overcast a lot. But anyway, "rain down" is our

phrasal verb today. "To rain down" means to "fall, or to make something fall in large quantities." For example,"The bullets rained down on the soldiers in the heat of battle." Now, another phrasal verb is, "rained out." We



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would use that for a sports event; for example, "Due to the thunderstorm, the baseball game was rained out."Do you say, "rained out," in the UK?

ROB:I don't think we would necessarily say that. We understand it of course. We're more likely to say, "rained off."So, a slightly different phrasal verb, with the same meaning. The different prepositional part of the phrasalverb.

BOB:

"Off," you say, "rained off." "The game was rained off."

ROB:Right.

BOB:We would say, "rained out."

ROB:Okay, that's interesting.

BOB:So what are our idioms for today?

ROB:Our first idiom is, "raining cats and dogs14."

BOB:That's a popular one. What's that?

ROB:It just means that "it's raining really hard." However, I think we should tell our listeners that it's a rather oldidiom.

BOB:It is a bit old.

ROB:It's not used that often anymore, but it's still obviously good to know.

BOB:You'll hear it sometimes.

ROB:Sure, that's right.

BOB: Also, another idioms is, "save for a rainy day."

ROB:

That's a good one.

BOB:That means "to save your money for a day in the future when you might need it." Can you give an example?

ROB:"Perhaps, rather than spend your savings on a new car, you should keep it for a rainy day."

BOB: Also, we say, "rainy day fund" like "set aside a rainy day fund," F-U-N-D.

ROB:That must be an American expression, we don't say that in the UK.

BOB:What's our bonus idiom?



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ROB:Our bonus idiom is, "to take a rain check."

BOB:For example, "Sorry, Rob, I'm a little busy tonight, but perhaps I'll take a rain check." So that will be in thestudy guide.

ROB:That's right. Check the study guide to find out what "take a rain check" means.

BOB:Let's move on to Ancient Japanese English Study Secret.

ROB: Ancient Japanese English Study Secret.

BOB:What are we going to recommend for our listeners today?

ROB:Today's secret is "to have a go at crosswords."

BOB:Crossword puzzles?

ROB:Crossword puzzles, yeah.

BOB:That's a good idea. I think they're a way to not only build vocabulary, but obviously they're good for your brain.

ROB:Definitely. They may be difficult. A lot of newspapers might have crosswords that pose difficult questions, interms of your cultural knowledge. But again, that's testing your schema15, your awareness of the targetlanguage and culture. So it's not just a linguistic type of quiz: it's testing your own knowledge. Often, I do acrossword here in Japan and it's an American based crossword ...

BOB:The best.

ROB:But some of the clues are based on say, for example, baseball players or something connected to America ...and I have no idea. It's difficult. And until I get the other clues, I think "all right, now, I can guess" it'stoo difficult, for example. It's good to test your schema, as well as your vocabulary.

BOB: And again, I wasn't joking before when I said it was good for brain, because a lot of old people areencouraged to do crossword puzzles now because, apparently it does help keep your brain active. Keeps theneurons firing.

ROB:Yeah, and that's really important.

BOB:It's because it is a puzzle, and you're puzzling through things. The one thing I would recommend though, isdon't just go to any crossword puzzle, there are some newspapers, and of course, you can go online. Theyhave tons of crossword puzzles online, but start out with a really, really low level one. And also, with a lot ofcrossword puzzles you can choose if you want, what sorts of questions you want. Right? Like some can bebased on historical or some could be current issues or based on historical facts. If you go into a bookstorethey have books of crossword puzzles - compilations from the various newspapers. I should say they havecollections of crossword puzzles, from various newspapers (at least in the US). I've never seen them in othercountries, I'm sure they have them; like the New York Times crossword puzzle book. And a lot of these books,they have ranking on them like easy to medium difficult, to very difficult. So it's a good way to quickly get a

bunch of ones that are at your level.

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And like you say, ultimately it is good for the brain. The brain is a muscle, and so if you think of the brain asbeing utilized as a muscle then you’re keeping it ...

BOB:The brain's not a muscle. It's a metaphor.

ROB:It's a metaphor ... but by keeping it active, you're going to prevent future potential illnesses: such as, Alzheimer's.

BOB:But also, it's a fun way to build your vocabulary because you're having to read the clues.

ROB:Good study secret.

BOB:I don't know if we've done it before. It sounds familiar. But if we have, what do we do?

ROB:It's always good to remind people.

BOB:How often do you do a crossword puzzle?

ROB:Whenever I get the paper, which is not that often, maybe three or four times a week, something like that.

BOB:I don't do crossword puzzles16 very often. I should get into them; I think they are fun. Well, there you go - Ancient Japanese English Study Secret.

ROB: Ancient Japanese English Study Secret.

BOB:

Let's do some Both Sides of the pond. We're talking about Seattle. Phonetically - if you look at the wordSeattle it does come from a Native American name. And a lot of times when you see place-names in the USor anywhere I guess, in English sometimes, they don't read like you think they would - you don't pronouncethem like you think they would. So a lot of times, they might have tricky pronunciations. In the US they can bebased on the French language, they can be based on Native American languages - Seattle being one ofthem ...

ROB:Or, Mexican and so on.

BOB:Mexican-Spanish, yeah. For example, there's a city in Iowa state that's called Desmoines, but it's D-E-S-M-O-I-N-E-S.

ROB:See, if I read that I would have thought "Desmoines."

BOB:Yeah, but it's "Desmoines." How about in the UK?

ROB:There's a city in the north of England called "Derby."

BOB:Oh, now see, if I read that I'd think "Derby" ... D-E-R-B-Y. This is an Indian name, comes from an Indian tribe,the name of an Indian tribe in Iowa ... Sioux City, Iowa. That's S-I-O-U-X.

ROB:There's another city in Britain, on the East Coast, which is pronounced "Narwich," but the spelling is N-O-R-W-I-C-H.,



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BOB:Yeah, I would think "Norwich." You were mentioning Spanish before. There's a place in California called ElCajon, but it has a "J" cause it's C-A-J-O-N .... ‘cause you think "Cajon," but because it's Spanish you say, "ElCajon." And similarly there's one called "La Quinta," which Q-U-I-N-T-A ... you think "Quinta."

ROB:Interesting. A couple more difficult pronunciations of British areas - "Greenwich"

BOB:Sounds like Greenwitch; it looks like Greenwitch.

ROB:But we pronounce it "Greenwitch." The river running through London is called, "The Thames."

BOB:You think the "Thames."

ROB:Right, right it could be looked at that way.

BOB:

I can see a lot of American tourists there that would be like "Can you tell me where the Thames river is?"

ROB:My wife often complains of some cities like Edinburgh, but it's actually spelled E-D-I-N-B-U-R-G-H.

BOB:Well, that's just to confuse foreigners. Be careful, because the reading might not be what it looks like.

ROB:Sure. Yeah, very good advice. So, Bob, are you thinking of retiring perhaps to Seattle?

BOB:I don't think so. I think I'm gonna just retire here in Japan. I'll always have a place in my heart for Seattle, butmy family doesn't live there anymore, a lot of my friends have moved out of the area, so I don't think I'll live

there again. But certainly it's a nice area of the world. I might live in the Puget Sound area. I could see myselfliving in Washington State, but I'll probably be here long-term. Anyway, visit Seattle sometime.

ROB:Sounds like a good place; I'd like to go one day.

BOB:Okay, announcements: Thanks always, for your donations and your support. If you interested in getting fourshows a month rather than just two, consider becoming a member, because you'll get the detailed studyguides ...

ROB: And the transcripts to the shows. It's a good deal. And please write to us if you've got any questions or

comments or feedback; you can reach us at thebobandrobshow.com.

BOB: And let people know about us.

ROB:Yeah, much appreciate it. Should we finish off with some quotations, Bob?

BOB:Great idea. And you know, a good person to quote, since we're talking about Seattle, is Chief Seattle. He hadsome very eloquent17 things that he said, about the environment and man's relation to it. Why don't I read thefirst one; you can read the second one. He said that, "Humankind has not woven the web of life, we are butone thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together, all thingsconnect."

ROB:Very wise. Very wise, indeed.



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BOB:Did they have the Internet back then? Just joking.

ROB:Wow, that's cool.

BOB:Different kind of web.

ROB:Great metaphor. He also said, "Every part of all this soil is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley,every plain and grove has been hollowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. The very dustyou now stand on responds more willingly to their footsteps than to yours because it is rich with the blood ofour ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch."

BOB:"Our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch." That's nice. Very, very eloquent.

ROB:He was obviously an intelligent man.

BOB:Yes, yes. And we're going to leave you with a song called " Seattle18", by Cameron Ember. Hope you enjoy thesong, and hope you enjoyed the show. If you want to learn more about Seattle you can just go online.

ROB:There must be numerous sites.

BOB:It's a nice place.

ROB:Just to point out, if you want learn more about Cameron Ember, then please go to music.podshow.com.

BOB:

That's where we got the song from. And we're going to go, we wish you a very good week. Good luck withyour studies; good luck with your crosswords19.

ROB:Yeah, I'm going to get a flight to Seattle I think.

BOB:Take care.

ROB:Bye-bye.

SONG:

"Seattle" by Cameron Ember

Sweet renaissant20

As your sharp I heard a noiseI saw you in SeattleOver there at the farther house ?

The direct Sun’s averted ?Dirty old man I just bought usFirst to the bed lights and captionsFor the devil converse ? artist’s ? toys in open boxes

And everything’s going so well / it’s gonna be a great year More than it’s gonna be a firewall ?

I can go to work and play and be free to certainities 21 ?I don’t even need a friend It’s gonna be a great year



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I went door to door Selling stolen ties out of backpacksBoyfriends who teach you All of the trapdoorsIt’s gonna be a great year

And everything’s going so well / it’s gonna be a great year More than it’s gonna be a firewall ?I can go to work and play and be free to certainities ?

I don’t even need a friend It’s gonna be a great year

Extension and Review Study*note: we encourage you to respond to the questions and readings by posting on the discussion board (Loginusing your Bob and Rob Show membership username and password )http://thebobandrobshow.com/discussionboard/

1/ When and what was the last event that you missed because it was rained out/off. How did this make youfeel? Have you ever saved anything for a rainy day? What did you get? Do you think it is wise to save for arainy day or should we be more carefree and just live for today? When was the last time you took a raincheck? Describe why you had to cancel.

2/ Do you have any idioms in your language and culture connected to rain or the weather? Explain them bytranslating them in an appropriate way. Do you do crosswords in your native language or in English? How doyou think they can help you develop your language proficiency?

Glossary1 Inlet = a narrow passage between islands or an indentation of the shoreline such as a small bay.2 whatnot = something or anything of the same kind.3 Silicon Valley = Many computer companies are based in Silicon Valley, in the south of San Francisco inCalifornia. See more here: http://www.siliconvalley.com/4 emerged = originally came from.5 Grunge = a music genre combining punk and hard rock.6 R.E.M = This stands for Rapid Eye Movement. This band has produced numerous successful albums. Youcan find out more here: http://remhq.com/index.php And Rob was wrong (as usual !), they formed in Athens,

Georgia, USA.7 Precipitation = a meteorological term used to show the amount of rain etc that falls in a certain period oftime.8 Drizzle = light but constant rain. Some other facts about the Seattle climate: Seattle's worldwide reputationfor rain derives from the fact that it is cloudy (not rainy) an average of 226 days per year (vs. 132 in New YorkCity). Most of the precipitation falls as drizzle or light rain, with downpours happening only occasionally. Thespring, late fall and winter are filled with days when it does not rain but looks as if it may because of cloudy,overcast skies. Still a cool place live/visit though.9 Dormant = this means the volcano may yet be active one day. If it is extinct, then it will no longer erupt at all.10 public transit system = In British English, people say public transport (system).11 Gotten = the British past participle of get is got.12 parking lot = this allusion obviously refers to the fact that the freeway becomes so congested that the cars

are unable to move at all making it feel like a parking lot (or car park in Britain).13 Rust = if too much water comes into contact with certain metals, they rust or erode.14 raining cats and dogs = apparently, the history of this phrase comes from literal beginnings. That is, inolden times, pets such as cats and dogs used to sleep in the roof’s rafters. When it rained heavily the ceilingand roofs would sometimes collapse and with them the poor animals. Hence the expression ‘it’s raining catsand dogs’ comes from a literal sense originally.15 Schema = the organization of experience in the brain that includes a particular organized way of perceivingcognitively, hence we have different ideas being brought up in different cultures and societies. The plural isschemata. 16 crossword puzzles = some are notoriously difficult, such as The Times (from England), and also crypticcrosswords are ridiculously hard, at least for Bob and Rob!17 eloquent = concise, powerful at speaking and relaying ideas/opinions orally.18

Seattle = see more about this cool city here: http://www.seattle.gov/19 crosswords = Try some of these online crosswords designed specifically for ESL students, and from easyto advanced levels: http://iteslj.org/cw/

http://iteslj.org/cw/

http://remhq.com/index.php

http://thebobandrobshow.com/discussionboard/





http://www.seattle.gov/

http://www.seattle.gov/



http://www.siliconvalley.com/

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20 Renaissant = adjective describing something connected to the renaissance.21 Certainities = this word does not exist, but Rob couldn’t catch it so he thinks it may be artistic license. Hemay be completely wrong of course!

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