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Visit To San Francisco Part 2 POV Lesson

Hey 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.

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.

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.

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.

Jeffrey 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.

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.

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.

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.

I 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.

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.