Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Sometimes, you just need a burger and fries at three in the morning. Or a cup of coffee. Or a bottle of cough medicine. When you run out of something important or get a craving in the middle of the night, you need a place that’s open 24 hours.
Most cities in the US have at least a few places that are open 24 hours. Some grocery stores and restaurants stay open 24 hours. Big cities like New York have even more 24-hour places. In fact, New York is sometimes called the 24-hour city, because you can get almost anything you want there at any time of day.
Find out what’s open 24 hours in Devan and Jeff’s city.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
Jeff: Hey, Devan.
Devan: Yeah?
Jeff: Got a question for you.
Devan: What’s that?
Jeff: Do you know of any 24-hour kinda joints around town here? Like, places that are open all night?
Devan: There’s really not that many, considering we live in a city and you’d think there would be. Like, New York and LA have a ton, they’ve got bars that are open all night, but I’ve noticed that sometimes in smaller cities or smaller places, the places that are open 24 hours are kinda bizarre, like my hometown had a 24-hour Walmart, or here, we have a 24-hour waffle restaurant.
Jeff: Yeah, it seems like places that…a lot of places will start out 24 hours and then kind of whittle their hours down.
Devan: I was just having a conversation with one of my friends about how our society seems to cater to morning people or like day people, whereas I’m kind of a night owl, and my peak awake time is three in the morning. And I would love to go run errands or go to the coffee shop or go see a movie at three, four am, ‘cause that’s when I’m most awake. But our society doesn’t really seem to be set up for people that are night people, you know?
Jeff: Yeah, that’s true. I’m a similar type of person.
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Discussion
Jeff is looking for someplace that’s open 24 hours. But he and Devan agree that there aren’t many 24-hour joints in their city. While most US cities have a few 24-hour places, none have as many as New York.
Devan likes it when places are open 24 hours because she is a night owl. She has more energy in the middle of the night than she does during the day. She wishes more places were open late so she could get more done when she feels most awake.
Is anything open 24 hours where you live? Are you a morning person or a night owl?
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