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🇺🇸 English for Brazilians · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 20 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

A compromise with losses on both sides

The chosen room costs more and holds fewer people, and Ana learns to state the cost of a choice clearly and test a compromise with an offset. Say the second-floor room costs twice as much, and it holds twenty fewer people, that's the trade-off, more expensive and smaller in exchange for quiet and a door that closes, twenty fewer families is a lot, Carla could you live with twenty fewer if we ran two sessions instead of one, two sessions twice the cost, two sessions in the same morning one after the other the cost is for the morning not the session, so double the price and the same number of families, and quiet, that I can live with.

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THE STORY

At the café, Dave and Carla bring up the two problems with the second-floor room, and Ana puts together a compromise that Carla can accept.

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The second-floor room costs twice as much.tha SÉ-kond flór rúm kósts tuáis ez mâtchThe second-floor room costs twice as much.
And it holds twenty fewer people.end it rôuldz TUÉN-ti FIÚ-er PÍ-polAnd it holds twenty fewer people.
That's the trade-off. More expensive and smaller, in exchange for quiet and a door that closes.théts tha TRÊID-óf. mór eks-PÉN-siv end SMÓ-ler, in eks-TCHÊINDJ for KUÁI-et end a dór thét KLÔU-zezThat's the trade-off. More expensive and smaller, in exchange for quiet and a door that closes.
Twenty fewer families is a lot.TUÉN-ti FIÚ-er FÉ-mi-liz iz a lótTwenty fewer families is a lot.
Carla, could you live with twenty fewer if we ran two sessions instead of one?KÁR-la, kud iú liv uíth TUÉN-ti FIÚ-er if uí rén tú SÉ-shans in-STÉD ov uânCarla, could you live with twenty fewer if we ran two sessions instead of one?
Two sessions, twice the cost.tú SÉ-shans, tuáis tha kóstTwo sessions, twice the cost.
Two sessions in the same morning, one after the other. The cost is for the morning, not the session.tú SÉ-shans in tha sêim MÓR-ning, uân ÉF-ter thi Â-ther. tha kóst iz for tha MÓR-ning, nót tha SÉ-shanTwo sessions in the same morning, one after the other. The cost is for the morning, not the session.
So double the price, and the same number of families.sôu DÂ-bol tha práis, end tha sêim NÂM-ber ov FÉ-mi-lizSo double the price, and the same number of families.
And quiet.end KUÁI-etAnd quiet.
That I can live with.thét ai ken liv uíthThat I can live with.