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Energy Detox VIP – POV

Welcome to the point-of-view stories for this month’s lesson. Let’s get started. Three versions of the story, very simple, all you need to do is just listen to them every day.

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So, Allen is fried. He is totally burned out and he’s totally stressed out by the noise in San Francisco. See, every day sirens are blaring outside of his apartment and drunks are yelling and AJ is always getting stressed out. So one day he goes to Delores Park to find peace and quiet, but as he’s sitting in Delores Park a crazy man comes walking through the park shouting “Give me money for booze! Give me some money for booze!” And the man continues shouting and shouting and shouting and totally disturbs Allen’s peace and quiet.

So next, Allen goes to Golden Gate Park, the biggest park in San Francisco, but when he arrives there is an enormous music festival there. There are throngs of people. There are hordes of partiers. Allen is very upset. In fact, Allen is at his wits’ end. He reaches the limits of his patience and he decided immediately “I must leave San Francisco. I must find peace and quiet.”

He goes home immediately and starts looking through travel books and doing research on the Internet and then he sees a gorgeous picture of Maui, one of the islands of Hawaii. It’s beautiful. It looks so peaceful and quiet and tropical and wonderful and he decides immediately to move to Maui and, indeed, Maui is peaceful and serene, very relaxing and calm and tropical and warm and wonderful. Allen finally finds peace and quiet and he’s very happy.

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All right, the next version of our story begins with…

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Since he moved to San Francisco several years ago, Allen has been fried. He has been burned out and stressed out by the noise in San Francisco. It started immediately when he moved to San Francisco and it just continued and continued the whole time he has been there and so during that whole time he has been fried. He’s been burned out. He’s been stressed out by all the noise. He has been totally stressed out by all the noise in San Francisco.

You see, during that time sirens have blared outside of his apartment constantly and drunks have yelled and caused lots of noise. All this has been happening frequently, constantly, daily since Allen moved to San Francisco. Well, one day Allen finally went to Delores Park to find peace and quiet, but as he was sitting there a crazy man came up shouting “Give me some money for booze! Give me some money for booze!” So, next, Allen decided to go to Golden Gate Park to find quiet, but there was an enormous music festival there. There were throngs of people, hordes of partiers. Allen was at his wits’ end. He finally decided “I must leave San Francisco. I must find peace and quiet.” He went home immediately and began to do research and he saw a gorgeous picture of Maui, Hawaii and he decided immediately to move to Maui and, indeed, Maui was peaceful and serene and tropical and beautiful and wonderful and Allen finally found peace and quiet and was very happy.

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And, finally, our next version goes into the future. Imagine this will happen in the future.

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There will be a guy named Allen and he’ll be fried. He’ll be burned out. He’ll be stressed out by living in San Francisco. He’ll be stressed out by the noise in San Francisco. He’s gonna be stressed out by the sirens especially, because the sirens will always be blaring, blaring, blaring outside of his window and he’s gonna be stressed out by all the drunk people yelling outside of his apartment.

(And, of course, ‘gonna’ means going to. It’s a casual way to use the future. Use it only in speech, not in writing.)

So one day finally Allen is gonna go to Delores Park to try to find some peace and quiet, but when he goes to Delores Park he’s disturbed by a crazy man shouting “Give me some money for booze! Give me some money for booze!” Well, this will upset Allen, of course, so next he’ll try to go to Golden Gate Park to find quiet, but when he gets there, there will be an enormous music festival. There’ll be throngs of people. There’ll be hordes of partiers and Allen is gonna be at his wits’ end.

Finally he’ll decide that he must leave San Francisco. He’ll say “I must leave San Francisco. I must find peace and quiet.” He’ll go home, he’ll search on the Internet, he’ll do research looking for a new place to live and, finally, he’ll find a picture of Maui, gorgeous, beautiful, tropical and he’ll immediately decide to move to Maui. He’ll move to Maui and, indeed, Maui will be peaceful, serene, tropical and wonderful and Allen will be peaceful and calm and happy.

And that is the end of our point-of-view stories for this month’s lessons. Just remember with these points of view there are many, many ways to tell a story, many points of view.

We could tell this story in many different ways. These are some of the most common points of view we use every day in English. That’s why I use these three or four almost every month, because they’re the most common and I want you to know them very, very well.

Now, it’s possible that we could, even with these three points of views, say things in a slightly different way. We could use a little bit of a different verb tense in one part or the other. So don’t think about it too much. Don’t analyze it. There are many right answers, not just one. All you need to do is just listen to each version of the story. Don’t focus on it as if it’s the only right answer because, remember, there are many, many right answers, many, many ways to say something in English or in any other language.

So just relax. Let it get into your brain each day by listening, listening, listening. Listen with concentration, listen with focus and month by month your understanding, your feeling of English grammar will get better and more clear and you’ll begin using English grammar more and more correctly in your speech. That’s how it works. So all you need to do is relax and listen with concentration and focus every day.

See you again, bye-bye.