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  • Hi, Bob the Canadian here, during this past weekend's

  • live English lesson someone asked again if I could

  • tell more stories about my life,

  • so I thought this would be a great time to do another video

  • where I tell you two stories,

  • but where only one story is true and the other story

  • is a lie.

  • So stick around, this will be a great little English lesson

  • where you will have some great English listening practice

  • and I will tell you at the end

  • which of the two stories was true.

  • (lively music)

  • Hi, Bob the Canadian here welcome to this

  • little English lesson and if you are new here

  • you should click that little red subscribe button

  • down there and give me a thumbs up at some point

  • during this video if it helps you learn

  • just a little bit of English.

  • So, I'm going to tell you two stories,

  • as I tell those two stories,

  • I'm going to try and tell you when it happened,

  • where it happened, who it happened with, what happened

  • during the story, and then how it ended,

  • and this is a great structure that you can use

  • when you tell stories yourself.

  • But let's get to the first story.

  • When I was a little kid, when I was about eight

  • or nine years old, my mom and I went to the local

  • grocery store and we went up and down the aisles

  • of the grocery store and we got to the snack aisle,

  • and in the snack aisle they had all kinds of pop,

  • or soda, and they had all kinds of potato chips.

  • And there was a certain kind of potato chip

  • that I really liked,

  • and I asked my mom if she could buy it for me,

  • and she said no,

  • she said that I couldn't have those potato chips.

  • So as we went to the next aisle in the store

  • I kinda walked backwards into the previous aisle

  • and I went back to the chips that I liked,

  • the potato chips I liked,

  • and I secretly opened the bag in the store,

  • without paying for them, and I started eating them.

  • No, no sooner had I eaten a few chips and my mom

  • was standing over me,

  • and what she did out I will remember for my whole life.

  • We took the chips to the front of the store

  • and she made me apologize to the store manager,

  • then she put the chips in our grocery cart

  • and we went through the checkout and we bought the chips.

  • And then we took the chips home and she threw them

  • in the garbage and she made me pay for the chips

  • with my own money.

  • So that was story number one,

  • I'm not going to tell you if that story was true or not,

  • instead I'm going to tell you story number two,

  • which you might find is eerily similar story number one.

  • So here we go.

  • When I was a kid about nine or 10 years old

  • my mom and I went to the grocery store to buy groceries.

  • Does this sound familiar?

  • While we are at the grocery store we went up and down

  • the aisles until we got to the aisle where they had Coke,

  • and I really like Coca-Cola,

  • it is one of my favorite soda pops,

  • one of my favorite pops, one of my favorite sodas.

  • Notice there's a bunch of different words for that.

  • Anyways I asked my mom if she would buy me a can of Coke

  • and she said no, she wouldn't buy me a can of Coke.

  • So we walked to the end of that aisle

  • and we walked into the next aisle,

  • and then I kinda walked backwards and I went back

  • to the aisle that had the Coca-Cola,

  • and then I took a can and I kind of crawled right

  • onto the lower shelf of the grocery store,

  • because I was so little I could fit there,

  • and I remember opening the can of pop and it went ka-chhhhh,

  • and as it went ka-chhhhh I started to take a couple sips

  • of the Coca-Cola, and I think I drank about half the can

  • before my mom found me.

  • My mom grabbed me and pulled me out from under that shelf

  • and she said, "you will never, ever, do that again,

  • "come with me," and she took me to the front of the store

  • and we apologized to the store owner,

  • then she made me buy the can of pop with my own money,

  • and then we went home and she took the can of pop

  • and she dumped all of it down the sink,

  • the entire can of pop she dumped down the sink.

  • So I had to pay for the pop,

  • and she dumped it down the sink.

  • I will never forget that lesson,

  • that was a very important lesson for me.

  • Anyways, I told you two stories.

  • Notice, before I tell you which story was true,

  • notice the format of the two stories.

  • I like to start my little stories in English,

  • and if you speak other languages you'd do the same,

  • by talking about when and where something happened.

  • So in my stories you knew that they happened

  • when I was a little kid,

  • and you knew that they happened at a store.

  • So you knew the when and you knew the where.

  • The next thing I did was introduce who the story was about.

  • So the story was about me,

  • but it was also about my mom.

  • Then I described the what of the stories.

  • The first story, the what is that I snuck away from my mom,

  • so that's what happened, I opened a bag of chips.

  • In the second story I stuck with my mom,

  • I opened a can of pop,

  • I almost said bag of chips there,

  • and then you kind of know how both stories end as well.

  • So it's a great structure,

  • as you are learning English,

  • this is more than an English listening lesson,

  • this is a lesson on how to tell a good story in English.

  • Maybe write down a few stories in English

  • of something that happened to you when you were younger

  • so that you're ready to tell those stories

  • if you're ever in a social situation.

  • Anyways, I should tell you which story was true shouldn't I?

  • Well I told both stories, and I was trying to not give away

  • any hints as to which story was true,

  • so instead of telling two completely different stories

  • I told a story that was true and then a story where I just

  • changed some of the details in the story.

  • So here we go, the first story is a lie,

  • the first story did not happen.

  • I did not sneak away from my mom,

  • I did not open a bag of potato chips,

  • but the second story is definitely true

  • and I do remember that story very, very, well.

  • It happened as I said when I was a little kid

  • we were at the local little grocery store

  • in our town,

  • and I guess I was a rebellious little kid

  • and I didn't listen to my mum and I went

  • and I took a can of pop, without paying,

  • and I hid in the store and I drank half of it.

  • And I do remember my mom making me pay

  • for it, and I remember her dumping it all

  • down the sink at our house

  • so that I would learn a valuable lesson.

  • And I do remember apologizing to the store owner.

  • So anyways this was just a little English lesson

  • to help you with some of your English listening.

  • This was good English listening practice,

  • but also remember that structure of the story.

  • Talk about the when and where, talk about the who,

  • talk about what happened, and tell people

  • when you tell a story, tell people how it ended.

  • Anyways, I'm Bob the Canadian,

  • this was just a little English lesson for you.

  • I hope you are having a good week

  • and while you're here why don't you stick around

  • and watch another video, I would really appreciate it.

  • Anyways, see you later.

  • Live lesson this Friday morning,

  • live lesson this Saturday evening,

  • I hope to see you there.

  • (lively music)

Hi, Bob the Canadian here, during this past weekend's

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