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Hello this is AJ. Welcome to the point-of-view stories for this month’s lesson, so same story as the mini story, just a few different versions. First we’ll tell it as if we’re with Roger as everything is happening, like we’re going along with him as it happens.

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So, Roger the mosquito feels guilty about sucking blood. His conscience bothers him. In fact, his conscience bothers him so much that he can’t sleep. Every night he tosses and turns all night. He tosses and he turns and he can’t sleep.

Well, this continues for quite a while, until finally Roger decides to stop sucking blood.

He decides to completely stop sucking blood. Of course, he needs to live off of something, so first he tries to live off of apple juice. He tries to live off of apple juice completely and only apple juice, apple juice and more apple juice. Unfortunately, he doesn’t like the taste of apple juice. It’s too sickly sweet for him.

So next he tries to live off of carrot juice. Again, he only drinks carrot juice every single day all day. He actually likes the taste of carrot juice, but unfortunately he turns completely orange and he doesn’t like that so he finally decides to just stop eating completely. He gets hungrier and hungrier and he begins to crave blood.

In fact, seeing veins enflames his desire for blood. He dreams about blood constantly, until one day when he is famished he sees a tomato. He’s flying along and he sees a tomato. He’s so hungry he files down to this nice, ripe, bright red tomato and he sucks it dry and he loves it. He loves tomato juice and from that day forward he lives completely off of tomato juice and he never sucks blood again.

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

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Since the age of 15, since the age of 15 Roger has felt guilty about sucking blood. You see, something happened at the age of 15, a little extra information about Roger. At the age of 15 Roger sucked the blood of a small child and he sucked so much blood out of that small child that the child got sick and almost died and since then Roger has felt very guilty. He has felt very guilty about that incident and, in general, he has felt very guilty about sucking blood.

That’s the part that caused him to become guilty; to become worried, to cause his conscience to bother him. It all happened back when he was 15 years old and since then his conscience has bothered him constantly, every day. Every day he has thought about that incident and that child almost dying. Every day his conscience has bothered him. He hasn’t been able to sleep. He has tossed and he has turned all night every night since that incident happened.

What caused him to feel guilty? Well, making the child sick caused Roger to become guilty. So Roger has felt guilty ever since then. Since he was 15, since he made a child sick, Roger has felt guilty about sucking blood. His conscience has bothered him constantly every day. He has tossed and turned all night every night. He hasn’t been able to sleep, until finally one day it was too much, he felt too bad and he decided to stop sucking blood.

Of course, he needed to live off of something, so first he tried to live off of apple juice, but that was too sickly sweet for him. Next he tried to live off of carrot juice, but that caused him to turn orange. Finally he decided to stop eating all together, but then he began craving blood. In fact, seeing veins enflamed his desire for blood. He dreamed about blood all the time, until one day when he was flying along feeling famished he saw a tomato. He flew down and he sucked it dry and he loved it. He loved tomato juice and from then on he lived off of tomatoes and only tomatoes. His conscience felt better and he was happy.

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Finally, our third and last version of the story, going into the future we can imagine that…

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One day there will be a mosquito named Roger and he’s gonna feel guilty about sucking blood. (All our old members know that ‘gonna’ means going to. It’s a casual way of using the future.) So Roger is gonna feel guilty about sucking blood. His conscience will bother him. His conscience will constantly bother him. He’s not gonna be able to sleep.

He’s gonna toss and he’s gonna turn all night.

He’s gonna toss and turn all night every night because his conscience bothers him because he feels guilty about sucking blood, until one day in the future he’ll decide to stop sucking blood and he’ll first decide to try to live off of apple juice, but that’s gonna be too sickly sweet for him. He’s not gonna like that. So next he’s gonna try to live off of carrot juice, but that’s gonna turn him orange and he won’t like that. So next he’s gonna decide to not eat at all, but then he’s going to crave blood. He’ll crave blood more and more and more. In fact, seeing veins will enflame his desire for blood. He’ll dream about blood constantly. He won’t be able to stop thinking about blood, blood and blood.

Well, finally one day he’ll be flying along feeling famished, super hungry. He’ll be feeling famished and he’ll see a tomato and he’s gonna fly down to that tomato and he’s gonna suck it dry. He’s gonna suck all the juice out of that tomato and he’ll love it. He’ll love it!

It’s gonna taste great. He’s gonna feel fantastic and from that day forward he’ll live only off of tomatoes and he’ll be happy for the rest of his days.

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All right, so that’s the end of our point-of-view stories. They’re very simple and all you need to do is listen to them at least once each day. Just doing that will help these different grammar points of view get deeper into your brain until they become automatic.

You don’t need to think about them. Don’t analyze them. Don’t worry if I’m mixing different grammar tenses in the stories it’s totally normal. Just focus on the stories, listen for the differences between the stories and that’s all. Don’t think too much.

All right, enjoy and I’ll see you again next time, bye-bye.