21-2-9【地道美语182】喜迎牛年，当牛人做牛事！Year of the Ox

dialogue 1

Jingjing: Mark, this is the_ time I'll see you_ the new year.

Mark:  Iknow, 2020 just__.  Do you have plans to __ for the _____?

Jingjing: I'll have to ___, to ___ into my ____.  I'm___ at themoment.

Mark:  Don'tfeel _, Jingjing.  A lot of people are _where they _____, __ going back totheir ____.

Jingjing: It's_ that way.  But it's a pity to _.

Mark:  Iknow.  It seems employers are _ their staff fewer and fewer __for the _holidays.

Jingjing: That may be.  But employees are _more ___ days to__anytime, as wellas __.

Mark:  ___,I guess: making it _ for employers to know what each member of _____ is doingfor their company___.

Jingjing: Well, I hope I've___ this year.

Mark:  I _you have. ___the new year, what are your _____ for this coming __?

Jingjing:  Ithink it'll be a good time to_ work, to put a little _____ into anything youdo, and probably get ________.

Mark:  Thatsounds__.  The ox _ ______ and _____.

Jingjing: Yes.  So, work done ____ __.  It's a good year to _ ____ and___ everything you've started.

Mark:  ___,right?

Jingjing: Yeah.  Last year, I told you the _ about how the ox came in _, whenthere was a_ ____ to see which ____ would be first.

Mark:  Iremember.  Even though the_ ____ the ox's ____ and ____for the _, the ox____of the river sooner than _ other animals.

Jingjing: Good ____!  So, the _ is, do everything well, and you'll be_successful.  Don't let a _______ bother you.  But stay _.

Mark:  That'spretty_ _____, Jingjing.

Jingjing:  Ihope it _ you.  I feel like this will be a good year for the people Iknow.

dialogue 2

Jingjing: Mark, do you know anyone _ in the year of the ox?

Mark:  I hada _ friend _, born in an ox year.  She was quite ______, one of the onlyreally _students I knew.

Jingjing: Was she your student?

Mark:  Nope. She had _ already when I knew her.

Jingjing: What do you _____ of her_?

Mark:  I _she was ___ to get a better job, while working __.  After she'd _____, thecompany that was going to_ her took _____her about the position.  She_and_ all the books she'd read for the exam.

Jingjing: That sounds like_.  Most people with ox as their _ animal arevery _ and _____________, your friend was very ____, right?

Mark:  Yeah. I wasn't_ when she __.  And I couldn't believe it_________.

Jingjing: Hmm,_ what you _____, I know each ox _ ______ or be their own boss, _reporting to a _.

Mark:  Do youknow if oxen born in 2021 have ________, or what as their_?

Jingjing: This'll be a _ox year.  So, this year's __________________ andavoiding hierarchies.

Mark:  That_me.  I like people who get ______done and don't play_.

Jingjing: Well, how about some _?  Do you know which ___ and _ were born in oxyears?

Mark:  BarackObama is _____, isn't he?

Jingjing: That's right.  So were Albert Camus, Vincent Van Gogh, CharlieChaplin and Walt Disney.

Mark:  Hmm,Walt Disney _ what you said earlier about _______.  That's a list of__people.  What about ____?

Jingjing: Princess Di, Keira Knightley, and Jane Fonda—___.

Mark:  That'sa _____ also.

Jingjing:  Ithink so.  Well, ______for the coming new year, Mark!

new words andphrases

from dialogue 1

onstandby:  

break tradition:  

That's the beautyof.:  

bottom line:

pull weight:  

from dialogue 2

an ox move:  

flip out:  

office politics: