Month: July 2015

  • Listening: Bus Accident

    Bus Accident There was a bus accident. The bus accident was near a dam. The bus ran off the road. The bus tipped over. Two people died. Eight people were hurt. The bus driver was going too fast. The road is a two-lane road. It is a narrow road. It isn’t a wide road. The…

  • Listening: Brush Your Teeth

    Brush Your Teeth She walked into the bathroom. She took the cap off the tube of toothpaste. She squeezed some toothpaste onto her toothbrush. She turned on the cold water. She brushed her upper teeth and spit out some toothpaste. She brushed her lower teeth and spit out some more toothpaste. She rinsed out her…

  • Listening: Book Him

    Book Him A man accused of failing to return more than 700 children’s books to five different libraries inthe county was released from jail yesterday after a book publisher agreed to post his bond of $1,000. The publisher said, “There’s a story here. This is a man who loves books. He just can’t let go…

  • Listening: Better To Be Unlucky

    Better To Be Unlucky Sam, an unemployed piano tuner, said it was only the second thing he had ever won in his life. The first thing was an Afghan blanket at a church raffle when he was 25 years old. But this was much bigger: it was $120,000! He had won the Big Cube, a…

  • Listening: A Drunk Pilot

    A Drunk Pilot There were 102 passengers on the plane. They were waiting for the plane to take off. But the plane was just sitting there. The plane could not take off without a pilot. The co-pilot was already on board. But the pilot was not. Where was the pilot? The flight attendants didn’t know.…

  • Listening: $100 Deposit

    $100 Deposit The well-dressed, gray-haired woman was crying her eyes out. She had just been fined $100 by the judge because a month ago her dog made a mess on the front lawn of the courthouse. “I just got out of the cab and I leashed Poopsie to the light pole. After I paid the…

  • Listening: A Missing Cat

    A Missing Cat The owner of a missing cat is asking for help. “My baby has been missing for over a month now, and I want him back so badly,” said Mrs. Brown, a 56-year-old woman. Mrs. Brown lives by herself in a trailer park near Clovis. She said that Clyde, her 7-year-old cat, didn’t…

  • Listening : A Windy Day

    A Windy Day It’s a windy day. The wind is blowing hard. Paper is blowing everywhere. The wind blew the man’s hat off. It blew the woman’s hat off. It blew a bird off the telephone wire. The other birds laughed. The wind keeps blowing. The trees are bending over. The people outside are bending…

  • Listening : Naïve

    Naïve I’m walking down the street when a guy come to me and says, “hi, can I chat with you for a moment?”. He looks clean and very neat. I’m quite naïve so I think he’s just friendly. I say, “okey”. The man asks me, “how far would you go to save yourself?”. I say,…

  • Listening: Double Standard

    Double Standard There is a badass marine named Saron. He has an intimate relationship with Julia Roberts. They are very close. Saron likes Julia. One day he decides she’s just not what he’s looking for. He breaks up with Julia. Julia feels betrayed. She says, “how can you do this to me? Why’re you hurting…