| 26 Videos |
Episodes
feature diverse ethnicities and real-world scenarios
familiar to many ESL learners. The main Crossroads Café
characters are:
Victor Brashov , the outgoing and fatherly manager of
Crossroads Café ; Rosa Rivera , the bold young chef
who attends night school ; Katerine Blake , the
hard-working waitress and single mother of two ;
Jess Washington , a café customer and retired postal
worker ; Henry Chang , the ingenuous high school
delivery boy and aspiring musician ; Jamal Al-Jibali
the under-employed engineer who tackles the café's
myriad repair problems . The episodes portray challenges
, struggles , conflicts and victories typical of everyday
life . For example , in "Trading Places" ( unit
13 ) , the characters trade jobs for one day to gain a
wider and somewhat humorous perspective on being
"indispensable" . In "Lifes Goes On"
( unit 14 ) , Mr. Brashow is stuck in the hospital and
struggles to let go of his hand-on management style . In
"United We Stand" ( unit 17 ) the feisty chef ,
Rosa Rivera , rallies the tenants in her building to
confront their negligent landlord . And in "Let the
Buyer Beware" , Brashow encounters and defeats a
beautiful con artist .
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