[Music] hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're bringing you another great lesson about appointments that's right we've got an elementary lesson about cancelling an appointment that's a really common situation sometimes you have an appointment at the doctor's or something or at work and you have to cancel it yes so we're going to learn some great language to help you cancel appointments today let's go straight to the dialogue then we're going to be listening as Samantha and Angela have a phone conversation and Angela is trying
to cancel an appointment and it's going to be a little bit fast in the beginning but when we come back we will explain all the great [Music] vocabulary hello Samantha speaking hi Samantha this is Angela calling oh hi Angela what's up I'm just calling about our meeting today I wonder is it possible to reschedule our appointment in the afternoon I have a bit of an emergency that I need to take care of let me see it shouldn't be too much of a problem I'm really sorry I hope it doesn't inconvenience you too much it's just
this thing came up and Angela You know what I can't make it to our meeting either why don't we postpone it to tomorrow afternoon at the same time sounds great see you tomorrow Anda angel look up see that lady over there who's trying on a red leather jacket isn't that Samantha what no wonder she told me she couldn't make it to the meeting oh no I think she saw me okay we have some really interesting words that you probably Listen to In This dialogue so let's start with language takeaway language takeaway today on language takeaway
we're bringing you three words uh Erica what's the first one the first word is reschedule reschedule reschedule reschedule when you reschedule an appointment you change it for another day or time exactly great the second word that we have is inconvenience inconvenience inconvenience inconvenience so to inconvenience someone is to to make things not convenient for that person right so to make things a little bit difficult or things a little bit U uncomfortable uncomfortable inconvenience and our third word is postpone postpone postpone postpone we have some examples of the word postpone that will help you to understand
its meaning a little bit better let's listen example one since Robert is late again we have to postpone the meeting example two I'm sorry Simon but your vacation has been postponed until next month example three unfortunately the flight will be postponed okay so basically postpone is to delay that's right make it at a later time at a later time mhm okay some great words there and uh we can listen to our dialogue a second time at a slower speed [Music] hello Samantha speaking hi Samantha this is Angela calling oh hi Angela what's up I'm just
calling about our meeting today I wonder is it possible to reschedule our appointment in the afternoon I have a bit of an emergency that I need to take care of let me see it shouldn't be too much of a problem I'm really sorry I hope it doesn't inconvenience you too much it's just this thing came up and Angela You know what I can't make it to our meeting either why don't we postpone it to tomorrow afternoon at the same time sounds great see you tomorrow Angela Angela look up see that lady over there who's drawing
on a red leather jacket isn't that Samantha what no wonder she told me she couldn't make it to the meeting oh no I think she saw me all right so in this dialogue we had some really great phrases that we should look at in fluency Builder fluency Builder we have three phrases for you today in fluen Builder and the first one is so common it's a great phrase what's up what's up what's up so this is a very common way of saying hi yeah what's up how's it going what's going on right and now the
interesting thing is that many people don't know how to answer this phrase yes I see this all the time with my students so if you say what's up you should say not much not much nothing nothing so what's up not much not much all right so the next time someone tells you what's up now you know what to answer yeah okay our second phrase is can't make it can't make it I can't make it we use this phrase when we want to say I cannot attend I cannot make it yeah I can't come right so
if you're having a party today I say oh I'm sorry I can't make it m it means I can't go exactly maybe one more example so Marco we've got a meeting today at 3:00 I can't make it I'm recording today oh okay so can't make it mhm our last word for fluency Builder this thing came up this thing came up this thing came up this is a great way of giving an excuse for why you can't make it to event so I can't make it today because this thing came up like something something happened something
happened yeah let's listen to a few examples of this phrase so we can see how it's used in the wild example one I'm sorry that I'm late this thing came up at work and I had to stay to take care of it example two I can't talk right now something came up example three sorry I missed the meeting something came up okay great example and I guess it's perfectly clear now yes so let's listen to our dialogue a third time and now we're ready to understand everything [Music] hello Samantha speaking hi Samantha this is Angela
calling oh hi Angela what's up I'm just calling about our meeting today I wonder is it possible to reschedule our appointment in the afternoon I have a bit of an emergency that I need to take care of let me see it shouldn't be too much of a problem I'm really sorry I hope it's doesn't inconvenience you too much it's just this thing came up and Angela You know what I can't make it to our meeting either why don't we postpone it tomorrow afternoon at the same time sounds great see you tomorrow Anda Andre look up
see that lady over there who's trying on a red leather jacket isn't that Samantha what no wonder she told me she couldn't make it to the meeting oh no I think she saw me [Music] so Erica have you ever canceled an appointment like this under false pretenses so for for a fake reasons for a fake reason to go shopping um well I may not have you know told my boss so I can't make it to a meeting because this thing came up and then I really I was going shopping and I've never done that but
how about you Marco well you know in Ecuador soccer is a really big thing right so um when we were playing in the World Cup Ecuador was playing and uh not you but well no like the Ecuadorian soccer team uhuh I canceled an appointment because I was going to go watch the game really a business appointment a business appointment well I guess that's okay yeah I mean it was like the first time we were ever in the world cup and you know my boss didn't really put up much of a fight because I guess he
also wanted to go watch the game so very similar to the events in this dialogue very similar I guess that's kind of the inspiration behind it all right guys I hope you found some of these phrases helpful and useful and remember if you have any questions about anything you heard in today's lesson please visit our website at English pod.com right there you'll be able to find more resources and also a large community to interact with yes including me and Marco right mhm so we'll see you there until then it's by [Music] bye they English pod
audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word what is the matter what's up schedule something for a different time reschedule cause problem or trouble inconvenience occur in an unexpected way come up decide to do something at a later time postpone not surprisingly no wonder let's try that faster cause problem or trouble inconvenience not surprisingly no wonder cause problem or trouble inconvenience what is the matter what's up not surprisingly no wonder schedule something for a different time reschedule cause problem or trouble inconvenience schedule something for a different time reschedule cause problem or trouble
inconvenience schedule something for a different time reschedule decide to do something at a later time postpone schedule something for a different time reschedule not surprisingly no wonder now say the word and hear it in a sentence reschedule I'm not feeling well could you reschedule my meeting with John to tomorrow afternoon inconvenience I don't want to inconvenience you so I'll pick up the flowers on my way home postpone since Robert is late again we have to postpone the meeting make it I'm sorry I can't make it to the meeting today I'm very sick no wonder Rebecca
has lived in the states for 5 years no wonder she speaks English so fluently come up I'm sorry that I'm late this thing came up at work and I had to stay and take care of it postpone since Robert is late again we have to postpone the meeting make it I'm sorry I can't make it to the meeting today I'm very sick [Music]
