ESL Podcast 354 – Being Scared

http://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=5030375

Audio Index:
Slow dialogue: 1:22
Explanations: 3:07
Fast dialogue: 13:50

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Emily: I'm not going into that house. It's supposed to be haunted.

Stephen: Come on. Don't be a coward. You don't believe in ghosts, do you?

Emily: I don't, but I'm not taking any chances. Just look at that house! It's spooky. I'm getting goosebumps just looking at it.

Stephen: You're only freaking out because you've watched too many horror movies. It's just a house. Now, come on!

Emily: Why are we doing this anyway? Just because your friends dared you to go in doesn't mean you have to. This is stupid!

Stephen: I took the dare and I told them I'd spend the night in that house. If you're a scaredy cat, you can go home right now.

Emily: And let you go in there by yourself? What kind of girlfriend would I be? I'm scared to death, but I'm not going to chicken out. Okay, let's go before I change my mind.

Stephen: Really? I didn't think you'd have the nerve. You're braver than I thought. Don't worry. Nothing in there can hurt us.

Emily: Famous last words!


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- to be haunted: there are many ghost stay here and scare people (to haunt)
- coward (n): sb is afraid, doesn't have courage
- to take changes : to take risk
- to get goosebumps : noi da ga`
- to freak out : to become very scare, to act very strangely
- to dare sb to do sth, dare (n): to challenge sb to do sth
- to chicken out : to decide not do sb because you're too scaring
- to have the nerve : to be able to do sth which is scary
- famous last words: used to show that sb had said is properly wrong


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Thanks,
Duy Lam