EP023 Planning For The Worst | Upper-Intermediate

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  Hello English learners and welcome to another great lesson with us here at EnglishPod.

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  My name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're bringing you a great upper intermediate lesson.

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  That's right.

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  We're gonna talk about a topic that's been in the news recently and this topic is the bird flu.

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  That's right.

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  So can you tell us what the bird flu really is?

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  Basically the story is a lot of chickens and birds keep getting this disease and they've managed to pass this disease to humans.

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  And the fear is that humans will start to pass this disease to each other.

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  And a huge, huge number of people in the world could get really sick.

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  OK.

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  Yes.

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  So it sounds scary.

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  Well, it may be a little bit scary, but we do have some interesting language.

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  We've got language to talk about a disease and language that you might use in a planning meeting at work.

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  All right.

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  So let's start by looking at our vocabulary preview for this dialogue.

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  Vocabulary preview.

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  Okay, the first word on our vocabulary preview today is contingency plan.

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  Contingency plan.

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  Contingency plan.

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