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Hello, this is A J and welcome to the VIP mini-story for “The Dip”, let’s get started immediately.

There was a guy named Dirk and Dirk was a daredevil.

In fact, Dirk had always wanted to be famous when he was young. When he was young he had always dreamed about being famous, becoming a famous daredevil.

Now a daredevil is someone who likes to do crazy stunts, crazy dangerous things. We call that person a daredevil. And he’d always wanted to be a famous daredevil. In fact, when he was young, Dirk’s hero was Evel Knievel. Evel Knievel was a very famous daredevil in the past.

What had Dirk always wanted?

Dirk, had always wanted to be a famous daredevil.

Who had always wanted to be a famous daredevil?

Dirk, of course.

Dirk had always wanted to be a famous daredevil.

So, he had always wanted to be what?

A daredevil.

He had always wanted to be a famous daredevil.

Now, had he always wanted to be a fireman?

No, no, no, no, no you know, in his youth he had not always wanted to be a fireman; he had always wanted to be a daredevil.

He had always wanted to do crazy dangerous things and become famous.

Who had always wanted to do crazy

Of course, Dirk. Dirk had always wanted to be a famous daredevil.

When he was young, who was his hero?

His hero was Evel Knievel.

Whose hero was Evel Knievel?

Dirks; Evel Knievel was Dirks hero

When was he Dirk’s hero?

When Dirk was young.

When Dirk was a kid, his hero was Evel Knievel.

And so, when he was 10 years old Dirk used to jump his bicycle over cars.

What did he do when he was 10 years old?

He used to jump his bicycle over cars.

He created a ramp, a ramp is like a piece of wood or something at an angle that goes up. He would ride, hit the ramp and fly over the cars with his bicycle.

When did he used to jump over cars?

When he was 10 years old.

When he was 10 years old he used to jump over cars with his bicycle.

Does he still jump over cars with his bicycle?

No, he doesn’t.

He used to do that, but not anymore.

Who used to jump over cars with his bicycle?

Dirk did.

And, when did he used to do that?

He used to do that when he was 10 years old.

And, in fact, he crashed many times. Many times he crashed and hit the cars, he fell and he had a big crash.

Did he crash a few times?

No. He crashed many, many times.

In fact, by the time he was 15, Dirk had broken 29 bones in his body.

How many bones had he broken by the time he was 15 years old?

Twenty nine, 29 bones.

He had broken 29 bones by the time he was 15 years old.

By when?

By what time?

By the time he was 15 years old, he had broken 29 bones in his body.

Did he become famous?

No, he still was not famous.

He had broken 29 bones in his body, but he was still not famous, poor Dirk.

How many bones had he broken?

Twenty nine

By when?

By the time he was 15 years old.

By the time he was 15 years old he had broken 29 bones in his body, and yet, still he was not famous.

At the age of 15 he made a change. He started riding Harley Davidson Motorcycles.

When did he start to ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles?

At the age of 15.

At the age of 15 he made a change, no more bicycles, he started riding Harley Davidson Motorcycles.

What kind of motorcycles did he start to ride?

Harley’s, big Harley’s…Harley Davidson Motorcycles When did he start to ride motorcycles?

At the age of 15.

Did he just quietly ride the motorcycles down the street?

Of course not! Dirk was a daredevil.

He liked to do dangerous things he didn’t just ride his Harley motorcycle. He jumped his motorcycle over buses. He stopped jumping over cars with his bicycle and he started jumping over buses with his motorcycle.

What did he jump over?

He jumped over buses.

In fact, one time he jumped over 39 buses at once.

What was the maximum number of buses he ever jumped over with his motorcycle?

Thirty-nine

He once jumped over 39 buses with his Harley motorcycle, he was a daredevil.

Now unfortunately, he also crashed and wrecked his motorcycle many, many times. He wrecked his motorcycle many, many, many times doing dangerous stunts.

Of course, to wreck and to crash are similar; they mean basically the same thing. So he wrecked his motorcycle. He crashed his motorcycle many, many times.

Did he crash? Did he wreck his motorcycle a few times or many times?

He wrecked his motorcycle many, many times.

Who wrecked his motorcycle many times?

Dirk wrecked his motorcycle many times.

Why did he wreck his motorcycle many times?

Because he was a daredevil.

He wrecked his motorcycle many times because he was a daredevil, because he was always doing dangerous things with his motorcycle but mostly he was trying to jump over buses.

So he wrecked his motorcycle many, many times and so, by the time he was 25 he had broken 57 bones in his body; even more bones broken.

How many bones had he broken by the time he was 25 years old?

Fifty seven

Fifty seven bones

He had broken 57 bones in his body.

By when?

By the age of 25

By the time he was 25 he had broken 57 bones in his body Had he broken 72 bones in his body by the time he was 25?

No.

So, by when had he broken 57 bones?

By the time he was 25

By when had he broken 29 bones?

By the time he was 15

So, by the time he was 15 he had broken 29 bones. By the time he was age 25, he had broken 57 bones.

Now, by the time he reached age 25, had he become famous?

No, no, at the age of 25 he still wasn’t famous.

He had broken all those bones, yet still wasn’t famous.

Poor Dirk. Poor, poor Dirk, terrible.

Well finally, at the age of 38, he lined up 129 jumbo jet airplanes and he jumped over all of them with his motorcycle

So what kind of airplanes did he line up?

Jumbo jets

Jumbo means very, very big. It means large or huge.

He lined up really big ones, like the kind of jets that we use to fly from America to Europe. Big jumbo jets. He lined them up. He put them next to each other one after the other, next to each other and then he jumped over them with his motorcycle.

How many airplanes did he jump over?

He jumped over 129 jumbo jets.

Did he jump over 172, 150 or 129 jumbo jets?

He jumped over 129 jumbo jets.

At what age did he jump over 129 jumbo jets?

At the age of 38

At the age of 38 he lined up 129 jumbo jets and he jumped over them.

What did he jump over them with?

He jumped over them with his motorcycle, his Harley motorcycle.

Who jumped over 129 jumbo jets at the age of 38 with his motorcycle?

Dirk

Dirk, at the age of 38, jumped over 129 jumbo jets with his Harley motorcycle.

Did he become famous?

Yes, he did!

In fact, he did. All of the news stations covered his stunt.

Now, when we say covered, like a news station covers, reporters cover, it means they watched the event and then they write about it or show it on their station.

So the news stations covered his story. It means they focused on his story. It means they talked about it or showed it.

So, all the news stations covered his story. All the news stations covered his stunt.

A stunt is a dangerous action of jumping over buses, jumping over airplanes, that’s a stunt. Jumping out of a window and falling is a stunt, if you do it on purpose, if you’re trying to do it.

If you’re not trying it’s an accident. But, if you’re trying to do it safely it’s called a stunt.

So, all the news stations covered his biggest stunt. They covered him jumping over 129 jumbo jets with a motorcycle, so his story, his stunt was shown on all the big international news stations.

Everybody covered Dirks amazing stunt of jumping over 129 jumbo jets with the motorcycle and as a result, he became a famous daredevil.

Who became a famous daredevil?

Dirk became a famous daredevil.

He had a lot of broken bones, but he finally reached his goal.

That is the end of our mini-story for this month.

Listen to it as many times as possible. There’s some good grammar in there, but you don’t need to think about the grammar just listen, listen, listen and you will learn it.

I will see you next time. Bye-bye.