His brother Mickey tells him about a pizza eating contest.. Jeffrey’s always up for eating pizza so he goes to the contest.. The restaurant serves only one thing: pizza with fried spider
Trang 1Hey everyone Welcome to the point of view stories for the lesson “Visit to San Francisco Part 2” I hope that you’re having a great day and that you’re anxious to get started I know I am so let’s begin
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Jeffrey has spiders in his house He hates them but he’s unable to get them to leave Jeffrey wants
to move but he doesn’t have enough money
His brother Mickey tells him about a pizza eating contest The person who eats the most pizza wins
$10,000 Jeffrey’s always up for eating pizza so he goes to the contest
When they bring out the pizza, it has spiders on it Jeffrey wants to leave but his brother talks him into staying He eats a piece of pizza and it blows him away
“It melts in your mouth,” he says
Jeffrey eats 120 pieces of pizza and he wins the $10,000 After the contest he decides not to move
Instead he uses the $10,000 to open a restaurant The restaurant serves only one thing: pizza with fried spiders
Now he goes out of his way for the spiders because he needs them for his pizza
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Okay, so that’s the end of the story being told as if it is happening right now or in the present Now let’s hear the story as if it happened three years ago So let’s start
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Three years ago Jeffrey had spiders in his house He hated them but he was unable to get them to leave Jeffrey wanted to move but he didn’t have enough money
His brother Mickey told him about a pizza eating contest The person who ate the most pizza won
$10,000 Jeffrey was always up for eating pizza so he went to the contest
When they brought out the pizza, it had spiders on it Jeffrey wanted to leave but his brother talked him into staying He ate a piece of pizza and it blew him away
“It melts in your mouth,” he said
Trang 2Jeffrey ate 120 pieces of pizza and he won the $10,000 After the contest he decided not to move
Instead he used the $10,000 to open a restaurant The restaurant served only one thing: pizza with fried spiders
Then he went out of his way for the spiders because he needed them for his pizza
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Okay, so that’s the story as if it already happened Now let’s hear the story as if it will happen in the future
So we’ll think of the story happening, say, seven months from now Okay
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In seven months Jeffrey’ll have spiders in his house He’ll hate them but he will not be able to get them to leave Jeffrey wants to move but he does not have enough money
His brother is gonna tell him about a pizza eating contest The person who eats the most pizza will win $10,000 Jeffrey will always be up for eating pizza so he’ll go to the contest
When they bring out the pizza, it’s gonna have spiders on it Jeffrey’ll want to leave but his brother will talk him into staying He’s gonna eat a piece of pizza that will blow him away
“It melts in your mouth,” he’ll say
Jeffrey’s gonna eat 120 pieces of pizza and he’ll win the $10,000 After the contest he’s going to
decide not to move Instead he’ll use the $10,000 to open a restaurant The restaurant is going to
serve only one thing: pizza with fried spiders
Then he’ll go out of his way for the spiders because he’ll need them for his pizza
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Okay so that’s the end of this version of the story where we talk about the events that are going to happen or events that will happen Now as I’ve pointed out before you can see that we sometimes will combine words when speaking For example, “he will need” will be shortened to “he’ll need” You see the “he” and the “will” are combined Sometimes people actually say “he will” sometimes they say “he’ll” They mean the same thing Okay, so let’s move on to the next version of the story In this version Jeffrey will actually be telling us the story, so it’s from Jeffrey’s point of view Okay, here we go
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Trang 3I have spiders in my house I hate them but I am unable to get them to leave I want to move but I don’t have enough money
My brother Mickey told me about a pizza eating contest The person who eats the most pizza wins
$10,000 I’m always up for eating pizza so I went to the contest
When they brought out the pizza, it had spiders on it I wanted to leave but my brother talked me into staying I ate a piece of pizza and it blew me away
“It melts in your mouth,” I said
I ate 120 pieces of pizza and I won the $10,000 After the contest I decided not to move Instead I
used the $10,000 to open a restaurant The restaurant serves only one thing: pizza with fried spiders Now I go out of my way for the spiders because I need them for my pizza
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Alright so that’s the end of the point of view stories for the lesson “Visit to San Francisco Part 2” Now go back and listen to each version of the story and try to tell it on your own As you listen to each version of the story, pay attention to how the verbs change when we change the timing or how they change when a different person tells the story Don’t worry if you’re having trouble Just take your time and relax Remember
learning a language should be fun Each time you listen I know you’ll understand more Okay, that’s all for now See ya next time