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sure thanks in two hours that'll be five o'clock

that's fine sleep well thanks i'll just read a book

hey aaron

what becca's asleep

i wanted to ask you to play catch

catch no thanks

here's your ball catch i don't think becca is sleeping now

i thought you were going to be quiet i'm sorry becca

me too go back to sleep

we'll be really quiet now i can't

i'm not sleepy now well you did ask me to wake you up

i know but i wanted to sleep longer than 20 minutes

nice jeff girls thanks for these baby clothes

they're really cute you're welcome i can't wait to see the baby

i can't either but we have to wait seven more months

that's a good thing we need time to get ready

what will you name the baby i don't know

jeff and i need to talk about it do you have any ideas honey

not yet i like the name john

but it's too common i want a special name for our baby

do you like the name aiden aiden

that's a nice name but there are too many ways to spell it

you could name the baby after mia's brother david

do you like that idea i

don't know what girl's names do you like

we think her middle name should be mia

good idea i like my name but its meaning isn't

very special it just means my that's right you're mia mia

ha ha but jeffrey is a good middle name for a

boy okay

let's talk about your daughter's first name

we like ava beryl or svetlana ava's a nice name and it's a popular

name for girls now really but

i don't want a popular name

right then what about svetlana

yes svetlana is hard to say

okay what about barrel the name barrel means

jewel isn't that a nice meaning um

we'll think about these names then we'll let you know

thanks again girls okay see you later

bye aren't they cute

claire and amber really want to help us so what do you think honey

well i was thinking

how about the name pebbles for a girl it's from my favorite cartoon

uh jeff

let's find a name that's not common or strange

hey erin look what i found in my mailbox

yesterday you got a postcard from greg and liz too

that's right liz told me a lot about brazil

it looks like a cool place what looks like a cool place brazil

it does i received a postcard from greg and liz

today look yours just arrived too

well it is a long way from brazil to tampa

anything else come in the mail today sis a package for me

i bought some clothes from a catalog cool

let me see erin you got something in the mail too

what a big envelope from dexter college

it's just junk mail give it to me i

don't think it's junk mail why not

because it says congratulations on the envelope

that doesn't mean anything and they sent it first class

so erin

are you going to college next september no

then why did dexter college send you this

because i might go there in january what are you wearing what are you

wearing um

i'm wearing a t-shirt and jeans i'm wearing a t-shirt and jeans

okay air wear wearing don't say weird or don't say why i don't say uh

what are you wearing i'm wearing a

t-shirt in jeans okay now number two what is your brother

wearing um

this number two we usually use when we go to some place to pick someone up for

example like uh i go to the airport to pick uh some of my friends or my

relatives and then i don't know what that person is wearing so i have to ask

okay what is your brother wearing what is your brother wearing what is your

sister wearing what is your friend wearing okay

he's he's wearing

i am um and he is he's okay he's wearing a

shirt and pants

he's wearing a shirt and pants how many how don't say how okay this is

this is how okay how many don't say how many

okay how many how many jackets

after how many we use the now but the now is plural form plural from that

means with s here okay if you say how many jacket that is not correct in terms

of grammar you have to say how many jackets okay how many checkers do you

have how many jackets do you have

i have three remember

three time between your teeth 48

3 3

jackets if you just have one jacket you don't

have to add s here you just say one jacket but if you have one two three

four five you have to say jackets okay i have three checkers

number four how many pairs of

shorts does your mom have how many pairs of okay

this is so you say pearson how many pairs of

shorts does your mom have in what situation we use

pear earth okay for the things that are in two

things together like maybe glasses you know glasses or earrings or maybe

like these shorts okay shorts jeans and pants two things together so you have to

say shorts jeans pants or glasses or earrings okay or maybe shoes

so in that situation you have to use pear earth okay how many pairs so okay

remember so how many we have to use the plural form

so pairs up

how many pairs of shorts those your mom have remember i use you here so i say do

you but my mom my mom okay mom is this the singular form the singular now we

have to use this okay yes how many pairs of shorts does your mom

half she has okay

i have but she or he or my mom

has remember that she has five

five remember she has five pairs of

pairs of shorts she has five pairs of shorts she has

five pairs of shorts okay so one more time what are you wearing i'm wearing a

t-shirt and jeans what is your brother wearing he's

wearing a shirt in pants or in this situation jeans or pants

you can also say i'm wearing a t-shirt and

a pair of jeans okay but known as a pair of jeans

he's wearing a shirt and a pair of pants okay

now how many jackets do you have

i have three jackets how many pairs of shorts does your mom

have she has five pairs of shoes one more

time what are you wearing i'm wearing a t-shirt and jeans what is your brother

wearing he's wearing a shirt in pants how many jackets do you have i have

three checkers how many pairs of shorts does your mom have she has she has five

pairs of shoes she has five pairs of shorts

do you like wearing jumpsuits do you like wearing jumpsuits or do you

like wearing over rolls do you like wearing

crop tops okay if

it is true you say yes i do link them together yes i do i usually wear

jumpsuits when i go out yes i do i usually wear jumpsuits when i

go out or when i hang out with friends or anything okay

any reason or if that is not correct if you don't

like it you can say no i don't i don't really like jumpsuits

no i don't i don't really like jumpsuits they are

if in short form of they are we write them

like this and then we pronounce them

there there okay not they are there they are

inconvenient inconvenient okay

inconvenient that means not convenient okay

no i don't i don't really like jumpsuits they are inconvenient

what do you usually wear when you at work i always

wear uniform when

i'm i'm at work like when you go to work what do you

usually wear i always

wear uniform when i'm at work it's

it's compulsory com if you say compulsory compulsory

that means you have to do it because it's the root okay it's the root the the

root of the company and then you have to wear the uniform so it's compulsory okay

i always wear uniform when i'm at work is compulsory

what do you enjoy wearing when you're at home

i enjoy up to enjoy we have to add in up to the

verb okay so you cannot say i what do you what do you enjoy wear you

have to say what do you enjoy wearing what do you enjoy

wearing when you're when you're at home remember

you are you are like this if in short form you have to say you're

just like what's your name okay your your

i enjoy wearing pajamas because they are there they are comfortable

comfortable i enjoy wearing pajamas because they are

comfortable what are you gonna wear go into in short

form you can say ghana okay ghana

what are you gonna wear to the wedding party

what are you gonna wear to the wedding party

i'm gonna wear or i'm going to wear an evening gown

i'm going to wear an evening gown now one more time do you like wearing

jumpsuits yes i do i usually wear jumpsuits when i go out

no i don't i don't really like jumpsuits they are inconvenient

what do you usually wear when you're at work

i always wear uniform when i'm at work it's compulsory

what do you enjoy wearing when you're at home i enjoy wearing pajamas because

they're comfortable what are you gonna wear to the wedding

party i'm gonna wear an evening gown okay remember

this is e

of our letter you have to say and not uh not an evening gal you have

to say an evening gal okay so

that's all for today thanks goodbye see ya

text

hello yeah this is the net cafe

you want to talk to becca sorry she's not here

sure no problem bye

aaron harris hi becca

do you always answer the phone like that sometimes

that's not the way to answer the phone at work

you should say thank you for calling the net cafe this

is aaron i know but what i said was okay right i was

friendly yes but you were so informal customers

like friendly workers we're supposed to be friendly and

professional okay

i mean it aaron i wouldn't want to have to tell our boss

about this you'd tell ron i don't answer the phone

well enough i will if i have to

alright then don't worry sis i'll be so professional that everyone will be happy

i hope so okay

erin thank you for calling the net cafe this is aaron how may i help you much

better yes becca is available

may i ask who is calling one moment please

here you go it's a customer she wants to talk to the manager

hello this is becca harris

hi mom may i use your phone a minute sure

thank you for calling the net cafe this is aaron how may i help you

erin i'd like to speak to the manager i'm sorry becca is not available right

now may i take a message no thanks i'll call back later