پادکست سطح Intermediate — شماره 8

The Weekend – Christmas Chronicles II

A: Really, gentlemen, you can’t take me to jail! Don’t you know who I am? Kris Kringle, you know, Papa Noel, Pere Noel, Babbo Natale, sheng dan lao ren!

B: Yeah, Yeah, we’ve heard that one before, haven’t we Joe?

C: Yeah, last week we booked this guy who claimed to be the tooth fairy! Can you believe that?

A: It’s Christmas Eve and I have all these presents to deliver! Where is your Christmas spirit? What will happen when all the children wake up tomorrow and don’t find any gifts in their stockings?

B: Sorry buddy, you were parked in a no-parking zone, you were speeding, and you have no ID!

C: Besides that, even if we let you go now, your sleigh has been impounded and those reindeer were taken to the city zoo.

A: What! This is unbelievable! What’s this world coming to? Christmas is ruined!

C: What’s that up ahead? It looks like… elves!! Elves!! Whoa, they’re shooting candy canes! Mayday, Mayday, we are under heavy attack! We need backup!

Key Vocabulary

take someone to jail : take someone who is arrested to a place where other criminals are kept

book : arrest (informal)

claim : say something is true when some people say it may not be true

stocking : large sock; traditionally, Christmas gifts are put inside on the Christmas Eve

speed : drive faster than legal speed limit

impound : held by the police

ruined : damaged or destroyed

reindeer : large deer that lives in the north part of the  globe

elf : small creature (in stories) that have pointed ears and magic powers

candy cane : a stick-shaped candy with red and white  curves on the top

under heavy : being attacked or hurt

backup : help

Supplementary Vocabulary

charge : formally accuse someone of a crime

pull someone over : make a moving car move to the side of the  road

ambush : a sudden attack

stocking stuffer : small gifts that are putting the Christmas stocking

Christmas ornament : decoration that is used to make the Christmas  tree beautiful