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    LISTENING FLUENCY LIBRARY

    #242

    Deep English
    LISTENING FLUENCY LIBRARY
    The Businessman And The Fisherman

    These lessons are designed to improve your listening and pronunciation.


    Shadow along with the audio and match the speaker’s intonation and stress.

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    #242 The Businessman And The Fisherman

    isles: islands While on vacation in one of the southern isles, a


    wealthy businessman was taking a morning
    stroll: walk slowly stroll along the beach after breakfast. He arrived
    at a pier just as a small boat was docking. Inside
    pier: a platform the vessel was a young fisherman with two
    on pillars
    freshly caught tuna fish.
    extending from
    land out into the
    water where boats The businessman complimented the fisherman
    can park and on the quality of the fish, asking how long it had
    people can walk taken him to catch them. The fisherman said,
    around “Oh, not so long.”
    dock: to park a
    boat Then the businessman asked why didn’t he stay
    out longer and catch more fish, to which the
    vessel: a ship or fisherman replied that two fish were enough to
    boat support his family’s needs for the day.
    compliment: to
    “So what do you do with the rest of your day?”
    say something
    nice
    The fisherman said, “Well, I sleep in, I fish a little
    in the morning, then eat lunch with my lovely
    wife, take a nice long nap in the afternoon, and
    then wander down into the village each evening
    to drink wine with my friends and have a few
    laughs.”

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    #242 The Businessman And The Fisherman

    The businessman shook his head and scoffed at


    scoff: to speak the fisherman. He said, “Look, let me help you.
    scornfully or in a You’re doing this all wrong. What you should be
    mocking way doing is spending more time fishing each day.
    Then you can sell the extra fish you catch for a
    proceeds: profits profit, which you can use to buy a bigger boat.
    And with the proceeds from the bigger boat, you
    fleet: a group of
    boats or ships could buy several more big boats and start
    with a common operating a whole fleet of fishing boats. And then
    purpose instead of selling your fish to a middleman, you
    can open your own cannery. Then you can
    middleman: a control the entire catch, processing, and
    company or
    distribution. From there you can move to New
    person who buys
    from producers York or Hong Kong, expanding your operations
    and sells to larger around the globe.
    distributors or
    retailers The fisherman thought about this for a moment
    and then asked how long it would take. “About 20
    cannery: a factory
    years. “ the businessman replied.
    where food is put
    into cans
    “And then what?” asked the fisherman.

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    #242 The Businessman And The Fisherman

    The businessman laughed. “That’s the best part.


    IPO: (Initial Public At just the right time, you can announce an IPO,
    Offering) the first sell your stock to the public, and make millions.
    time a stock from You’ll be rich!”
    a private company
    is sold to the
    “Rich, huh? And then what?”
    public

    The businessman replied, “And then you can


    retire and move to a small village near the coast,
    where you can sleep in, fish a little in the
    morning, eat lunch with your lovely wife, take a
    nice long nap in the afternoon, and then go into
    the village to drink wine with your friends and
    have a few laughs.”

    Photos / Credits:
    Photo #1 (cover) – by Fe Ilya:
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/renneville/2908748583//

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