Luyện nghe Tiếng Anh - Tape 5: Did you hear about? (Kèm file nghe)

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DID YOU HEAR ABOUT? 
[Buôndưa lê] 
Lilian: Did you hear? 
Joanna: What? 
Lilian: Paula’s taking redundancy. 
Joanna: Oh, she is gonna take it, is she? 
Others: Mmm. 
Ahhh. 
Eileen: Knew that was on the cards. 
Joanna: Yeah. She wasn’t sure last time I spoke to her. 
Alicia: I didn’t know. 
Joanna: I’m not surprised. 
Lilian: Yes, well, I mean, she’s been working part time because her 
parents are so sick. 
Others: Yeah. 
Yeah. 
Eileen: Yeah. Poor bugger. Not just one, but both at the same time. 
Lilian: I know. And her father’s in hospital. 
Joanna: Oh, no wonder she’s hardly been here. 
Eileen: Yeah yeah exactly. I wonder who’s gonna get her job. 
Lilian: I heard. 
Joanna: Who? 
Lilian: Joan’s going for it. 
Others: No! 
Eileen: You’re joking! Joan? 
[laughter] 
Joanna: Oh that’s ridiculous. 
Eileen: Oh God! 
Joanna: Oh, it’s a joke. She couldn’t do a supervisor’s job. 
[laughter] 
Joanna: She can’t communicate with anyone. Who told you that? 
Alicia: Oh, depends who with. She communicates pretty well with the 
boss. 
Joanna: Oh that’s true. 
[laughter] 
Alicia: Can I make you another coffee? 
Eileen: Oh. That’ll get back. 
Joanna: That’s why she’s gonna get the job though. That’s not fair. 
Alicia: Well, if she gets the job, I’m moving to another section. 
Joanna: I don’t blame you. I’m with you. 
Lilian: But wait a minute, I’ve also heard. 
Joanna: What? 
Lilian: Jan’s going for it too. 
Joanna: Oh, that’s all right 
Eileen: Oh wait wait wait. Did you know she’s getting divorced? 
Lilian: No! 
Eileen: Yeah truly. 
Joanna: Really? 
Others: Oh no. 
Finally 
Eileen: Yes, they’ve got the house on the market. Actually the auction’s 
this Saturday. 
Others: Ohh. 
Eileen: But there’s a huge mortgage on it. There’ll be nothing left. The 
poor bugger. 
Joanna: Oh the poor thing, a divorce. 
Eileen: Mmm yeah. Mind you she said it was amicable. 
So that’s good. 
Alicia: Oh she’s lucky. That’s my ambition in life to have an amicable 
divorce. 
[laughter] 
Eileen: I think the bad ones are better. You’ve got nothing to regret. 
[laughter] 
Alicia: Yeah. Well mine’s shaping up to be a bad one. 
Joanna: Oh really? I thought once the kids were older it wouldn’t be so 
bad. 
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Alicia: Yeah. You’d think that but if there’s a lot of unresolved stuff, it’s a 
nightmare. 
Eileen: Mmm mmm. 
Alicia: I mean economically it’s so bad. Just try and cheat you out of your 
share of the money. 
Eileen: Aren’t they mongrels? 
Joanna: I didn’t know you were going through a divorce. Is that 
happening now? 
Alicia: Yeah, well we’ve been separated for years. But this is the final 
economic, you know. 
Eileen: Mmm. 
Alicia: Finally separating. We put it off for years. 
Eileen: Ah, ours was a cinch. We didn’t have any money. 
[laughter] 
Eileen: So there was no problem there. 
[laughter] 
Joanna: That’s easy. 
[laughter] 
Eileen: Mind you. It meant he paid no bloody maintenance. 
Joanna: Oh, that’s outrageous! 
Lilian: Same here! 
Joanna: Really? 
Lilian: That’s such a common problem, isn’t it. 
Joanna: Oh, it’s disgusting. 
Lilian: Oh, deadbeat dads. Yeah. 
Eileen: Oh, it doesn’t really matter. I mean the kids are grown up now. I 
can’t be bothered any more. It doesn’t matter. 
Joanna: So do the kids still see their father? 
Eileen: Oh no, well, the boys don’t, but my daughter does. Oh, she’s, um, 
having a baby. 
Others: Oh no. 
Really. 
Lovely. 
Joanna: Oh you’re gonna be a grandma! 
Lilian: Fantastic! 
Eileen: Yeeeesss. Isn’t it fantastic! 
[laughter] 
Lilian: Oh it is. 
[laughter] 
Eileen: Oh God. Well she’s chuffed. Oh, you know she’s still studying? 
Mm hmm. 
Yeah. 
Eileen: And so her husband is too. 
Yeah. 
Yeah. 
Eileen: So she rings her father to tell him the news. Get this. 
Mmm. 
He he’s worried about how she’s gonna support herself. 
Joanna: Oh my! 
Alicia: What? He is just. 
Eileen: I couldn’t believe it. 
Joanna: Oh bastar, ohhhhh. 
Eileen: The cheek of it. I know. She should have said, Oh, Dad we were 
hoping you’d support us. 
Exactly. 
Alicia: For the first time. 
[laughter] 
Eileen: Make a change, wouldn’t it? 
[laughter] 
Eileen: Out of everyone she told, he was the only one who was worried 
about it. 
Alicia: Yeah right. 
Lilian: Yeah. Subconscious guilt, that’s why. 
Eileen: Yeah. 
Joanna: I reckon. 
Eileen: Absolutely. 
Joanna: You married him!