📙 Part 2: Describe a time when you waited in line for a long time

This episode's vocabulary

Exhibit (noun) - an object that is shown to the public in a museum

Usher (verb) - to show someone where they should go, or to make someone go where you want them to go.

Occupy (verb) - to fill; exist in; use a place or period of time.

Thrilling (adj.) - extremely exciting.

Overcast (adj.) - with clouds in the sky and therefore not bright and sunny.

Complication (noun) - something that makes a situation more difficult, or the act of doing this.

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Questions and Answers

M: Rory is going to describe a time when he waited in a line for a long time. He'll say when it was , where he was, why he was doing that and how he felt about it. Rory, could you be a darling and start speaking now please?

R: Well, I have to say, I'm not used to waiting in queues these days, but I can remember a time a while back when I first started teaching. When we were in one for a while, and it was at the Natural History Museum, which is in London. And I think that was in about 2015. I think it must have been. Well, no, it must have been the summer since that's the only time I'm ever in London, or at least it was the only time I ever was in London. And when I would have been working at a summer camp since I've been plenty of times in my childhood. And I don't feel the need to go these days. That's a good thing because no one can go. But when we do it. When we have summer camps we take the students there and they like to see the dinosaurs and all of the other exhibits that are inside the building itself. It's a huge place. And when we go with the kids summer camp, it's never just a few kids either. It's actually like hundreds. And we have to usher them inside in an orderly fashion. So you can imagine that this took ages when I was doing this kind of work. Thank God I don't have to do it now. It wasn't a very boring experience since we all had phones and we could speak amongst ourselves and of course you occupy the time by speaking to the students. Um, but you can imagine it wasn't terribly thrilling either. I'm just happy it was overcast that day because if it had been hotter. London has these like famous hot periods. So if it had been hotter than it might have been harmful for the students and no one wants that to happen because it could lead to complications. It's kind of the same when you're waiting in the subway stations for a train to come with a big queue of students and it's really hot. It gets quite risky. So I'm glad that didn't happen in the underground and I'm glad it didn't happen outside the museum.

M: What about the kids, did they enjoy that?

R: Well, they didn't enjoy waiting in the queue, but they enjoyed the result of going to the museum, so it was worth the wait, I think.

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