visit to san francisco part 1 pov

Visit To San Francisco Part 1 POV Lesson


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Hello everyone. Today we’re going to listen to the point of view stories for “Visit to San Francisco Part 1”.
Now we’ve already heard one version of this story in the mini-story lesson. Today we’re going to hear three
other versions of the same story. Each one will have a different time for the story or it will have a different
person telling the story. I hope you’re ready because here we go.

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Madonna gets into a big fight with her husband. So she decides to go to Nepal for the day. She buys
a plane ticket and she goes to the airport to catch her flight.

When she gets to Nepal, her friend Binaya picks her up. That day they cram in a lot. They go on a
short hike and then they eat lunch. Nepal has amazing food and beautiful mountains. It is the best of
both worlds.

Then, after lunch, they visit a temple. There are a lot of monkeys at the temple and one of them jumps
on Madonna’s back. The monkey kisses her and then runs away. It makes for a great picture. Before
she knows it, it is time to go home.

Madonna enjoys her trip to Nepal but she misses her husband. She now knows that she should not
have taken him for granted.

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Okay, so you can hear that we just heard the story being told as if it is happening right now. Next we’re

gonna hear the story as if it happened twelve days from now. So it’s happening in the future. Okay, here we
go.

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Twelve days from now Madonna is going to get into a big fight with her husband. So she’s gonna
decide to go to Nepal for the day. She’ll buy a plane ticket and go to the airport to catch her flight.

When she gets to Nepal, her friend Binaya will pick her up. That day they’re gonna cram in a lot.
They’re gonna go on a short hike and then they’ll eat lunch. Nepal will have amazing food and
beautiful mountains. It’ll be the best of both worlds.

Then, after lunch, they’ll visit a temple. There’re gonna be a lot of monkeys at the temple and one of
them will jump on Madonna’s back. The monkey’ll kiss her and then run away. It’ll make for a great
picture. Before she’ll know it, it’s gonna be time to go home.



Visit To San Francisco Part 1 POV Lesson


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Madonna’s gonna enjoy her trip to Nepal but she’ll miss her husband. She’ll now know that she
shouldn’t take him for granted.

* * * * *

Okay so that’s the end of this version of the story, where the events will take place twelve days from now.
You can hear me saying “will” and “going to” because this is how we speak about something that has not yet

happened, something that’s going to happen in the future. Okay, now let’s hear the story from Madonna’s
point of view. So in this version Madonna’s gonna be telling us the story. Here goes.

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I got into a big fight with my husband. So I decided to go to Nepal for the day. I bought a plane ticket
and I went to the airport to catch my flight.

When I got to Nepal, my friend Binaya picked me up. That day we crammed in a lot. We went on a
short hike and then we ate lunch. Nepal has amazing food and beautiful mountains. It’s the best of
both worlds.

Then, after lunch, we visited a temple. There were a lot of monkeys at the temple and one of them
jumped on my back. The monkey kissed me and then ran away. It made for a great picture. Before I
knew it, it was time to go home.

I enjoyed my trip to Nepal but I missed my husband. I now know that I should not take him for
granted.

* * * * *

Alright so now we’ve finished the point of view stories for the lesson “Visit to San Francisco Part 1”. Now it’s
time to go back and listen to these stories again on your own. Listen to them until you feel like you know
them very well. Then try to tell the story to yourself or you can even tell it to a friend or one of your family
members. If you’re having trouble telling one of the stories then just listen to it again and then try to tell the
story on your own. Remember learning a language takes time and we want to learn everything deeply so we
do not forget it. Okay, that’s all for now. See ya next time.