M: Hello everyone! Welcome back to another podcast here at EnglishPod! My name is Marco.

E: And I’m Erica.

M: And today we’re looking at another one of our lessons for English of the past decades and this time it’s the nineteen nineties (1990’s).

E: Well, you know, the 1990’s is a little easier for most of us to remember.

M: Yeah, I guess it’s a little bit more recent. We’re gonna be looking at a lot of language that is still used today. Most of these words and phrases are still used today, so, um, they’re gonna be very useful and you’re gonna sound a lot more native.

E: Uhu, a lot cooler as well, huh?

M: Right, so, before we get started with this lesson, why don’t we take a look at “vocabulary preview”?

Voice: Vocabulary preview.

E: We have two words we’re going to hear in the dialogue. Now, the first one is a mall.

M: A mall.

E: M-A-L-L, mall.

M: Alright, so, a mall is basically short for shopping mall.

E: Uhu, and a shopping mall is a big building with many stores inside.

M: Right, so, it’s like a shopping centre.

E: Uhu.

M: And our last word for vocabulary preview is gang.

E: The gang.

M: The gang.

E: Okay, so, a gang is a group of people, right?

M: Yeah, it’s a group of people; you can call your friends the gang. We’re gonna go out with the gang tonight.

E: Yeah. Now, we sometimes hear this word, um, to have… and it has a negative meaning, right?

M: Right, like street gangs.

E: Yeah, so, people who are… who fight and deal drugs and all that sort of stuff.

M: Right, so, it can have a negative and a positive meaning, so… but it just depends on how you use it.

E: Yeah, but in the dialogue we’ll hear it with a positive meaning.

M: Right, so, that’s all the words we have for vocabulary preview; let’s listen to this cool and hip dialogue from the 1990’s and we’ll come back later and explain some words.

DIALOGUE, FIRST TIME

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A: Hey four-eyes! What’s up man, how have you been?
B: Not bad, just went to the mall and picked up some junk. Check out my new Adidas!
A: Those are dope! You are gonna be getting mad props from the gang, man. Anyways, have you seen Betty lately?
B: Dude, don’t even go there. That girl started trippin’ cuz I went to the movies with Veronica the other day. I was like ”look, you knew how I was before you got with me”.
A: That’s right! Your such a playa, man. Dude,there’s Mad Max. Let’s go say hi.
B: Max! Whassup! Are you okay? You look like you just saw a ghost.
C: I got an F in English class. My life is over...
A: Dude, get over it! You need to lay off the books for a while and have some fun! Come on, let’s bounce.
C: Where are we going? Oh, crap. My dad is gonna go postal when he finds out about this.
A: I’m gonna open a can of whopass on you if you don’t come with me now!
C: Okay, okay. Geez...