Hello English learners（学习者）. Welcome to another great lesson with English Pod. My name is Marco. And I'm Erica. So, Erica, how are you today? I'm doing pretty well.

  And I think（ 想） we've got a good lesson today, a really helpful（给予帮助的） lesson. What are we talking about today? We have an elementary（基本的） lesson about making an appointment（任命）. All（ 全部） right, making an appointment（任命）. Yeah, that's really helpful. I guess you have to make appointments for the doctor or...

  At work, maybe. At work, personal. Or with your friends. Yeah. So, this is language that you can use every day to make appointments. Great.

  Well, so why don't we take a look（看） at our vocabulary（词汇） preview（预演）? Vocabulary preview. We only have one word today, which you need to know to understand this dialogue. And it is financial（财政的） advisor（顾问）. Financial advisor. Financial advisor.

  So, what is a financial advisor? A financial advisor is a person who gives suggestions（ [C] 建议） or recommendations（推荐） about investing（投资） money. Someone who wants you to put money in the stock（树干） market. Okay（好）, great. I guess we're ready now to listen to our dialogue for the first time. And as always, it's going to be at a normal（正常的） speed（速度）, but you don't have to worry（ 担忧） about it because...

  We'll come back and teach you all the important words. Hello. Fairbrook Consulting. How may（可能） I help you? Yes, this is Julianne Horton, and I'm calling to arrange（安排） an appointment（任命） with Miss McNeely. Certainly（一定）.

  What day were you thinking of? How's Thursday? Does she have any time available（可利用的） then? Um, let me double（ 加倍） check（检查）. Unfortunately（不幸地）, she's booked（预定） solid（固体的） on Thursday. How does next Monday work for you?

  Actually（实际上）, I've got something scheduled（安排） on Monday. Can't you do a Tuesday? Sure（ 〈口语〉 的确）. Tuesday's perfect（完成式）. May I ask where you're calling from? Sure.

  Merton Financial Advisors. Oh. Actually, Tuesday's no good（好处）. Sorry about that. Well, I guess Miss McNeely does not want to speak to any financial advisors. Yeah, I guess she doesn't really want to invest in the stock market, huh?

  Or maybe she just gets too many phone calls from them. Yeah, yeah. If you have money, I guess you'll get phone calls from people like that. I guess we don't have that problem, okay? No, we don't. Okay, let's start with our language takeaway（外卖食品） for today.

  Language takeaway. So, four words today. The first one is available. Available. Available. Available.

  Meaning? That you are not busy. That you're free. You're free. You're not busy. Exactly（确切地）.

  Let's move to our next word. Double check. Double check. Double check. Double check. I think we've got some examples of this phrase.

  Example one. Do you have the tickets? I think so, but let me just double check. Example two.