Name: B1_L06_P138_Reading Plus
Uploaded: 2014-09-21T13:31:47.000Z
Duration: 1 min 21 s
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a device that translates your dog’s barks into English, was introduced,

Past simple

and then the Meow-Lingual became available the following year.

but what I really want is a Wife-Lingual.

Most of the time, my wife seems to speak a different language.

Her short and vague responses are confusing and misleading.

I need to know what my wife really means when she says “Oh   yeah” after I ask, “Can I do the dishes later?”

Responses like “whatever,” “uh-huh,”

or “up to you” to such statements as   “I will come home late tonight”

or “I can’t pick up the kids today”

leave me no clue as to what I should do next.

Besides, my wife is good at playing emotional hide-and-seek.

She says “I am fine” when obvious signs of   anger have appeared on her face.

Yet the wrong interpretation of her emotional state might lead to   a cold war or to a later volcanic eruption.

I really want to know her present emotional state

when will be the best time to talk   about a raise in my allowance.

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B1_L06_P138_Reading Plus

obvious

state

emotional

fantastic