Driving Tunes

Intro

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• tunes
• talk radio
• sound booth
• rear view mirror

• soundtrack
• commute
• sing along
• stuck in traffic

• busted
• freeway

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Driving and music make a great pair. A good soundtrack can liven up a boring commute, and there’s something about being on the road that makes listening to music all the more fun. Maybe it’s because if you keep your windows rolled up, you can sing along as loudly as you want and no one will hear you.

As you’re about to learn, both Mason and Jeff love to rock out while they drive. But sometimes it can get a little embarrassing.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Jeff

Mason

Jeff:  So I was driving on my way over here, actually, and I was stuck in traffic on the freeway, and pretty bummed out because I…my car was stolen for the second time, and this time, I was lucky enough to get it back again, but my stereo system was stolen as well.

Mason:  Oh man.

Jeff:  And I haven’t been able to replace it. I’m pretty frustrated.

Mason:  You have no tunes while you’re driving.

Jeff:  Well, I think it might be illegal these days, but I was just driving with headphones and an iPod.

Mason:  Yeah, because it’s that important. I mean driving is one of those things, like music and driving, I think, you need to have them both going on at the same time. I’m not a talk radio guy. I need a soundtrack for my commute.

Jeff:  Yeah, sometimes talk radio can be OK, but more often than not I appreciate the music.

Mason:  I drive by myself every morning, you know, I spend about an hour in the car every day and it’s kind of my private time. It’s nice to…you know…it’s like your own little private sound booth, really, it’s a sound booth with wheels, so you can find that great song that comes on, I sing along sometimes.

Jeff:  Sometimes it’s kinda hard, though. I want to do that, I want to completely rock out, but…

Mason:  You ever wonder if someone’s watching you in their rear view?

Jeff:  Somebody’s gonna catch me. It’s like one step below getting busted picking my nose.

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