VIP Class Notes (Celeste) [S]

Reread the storytelling exercise below a few times and retell it in your next class so it becomes more natural. 

In your next class be prepared to tell the story about your car accident. 

I will talk about the car crash in my experience. One day morning, it was heavy snowing when I was about to out for work. Normally, we cannot see the snow in Busan so I didn’t have snow chains in reserve and I wasn’t an experienced driver and I had been driving for 7 years so I didn’t care of that. I was onto the freeway and I was on the way down, I saw that one car was stopping on the middle of the road and driver came out and was standing beside of his car. It was so dangerous so I swerved my car handle and I stepped the brake suddenly. I almost hit that car and maybe the terrible things will be happened. I lost control my car and my car zigzagged likes dancing on the ice. I avoided car accident and I didn’t hit anything fortunately. I was out of my mind but I tried to calm down and I turned on the emergency light and stopped on the hard shoulder and called the police because I worried about that driver. We have to drive carefully anytime especially in the snowing day.

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I will talk about my car crash experience. One morning, it was heavily snowing when I was about to go out/leave for work. Normally, it hardly snows in Busan so I didn’t have snow chains in storage. I had been driving for 7 years so I wasn’t an inexperienced driver and so I didn’t care about that. I drove onto the freeway and when I was on the way down, I saw that one car stopped in the middle of the road and the driver came out and was standing beside (of) his car. It was so dangerous so I swerved my steering wheel and I stepped on the brake suddenly. I almost hit that car, if I did, terrible things would have happened. I lost control of my car and my car zigzagged like dancing on ice, like iceskating. I avoided a/this/the/that car accident and I didn’t hit anything fortunately. I was scared out of my mind but I tried to calm down and I turned on the emergency light and pulled over onto the shoulder and called the police because I was worried about that driver. We have to drive carefully every time especially on snowy days.

Grammar

heavy -adj – My bag is heavy.
heavily – adverb – It was heavily raining last night. / One morning, it was heavily snowing.

Vocabulary

storage n. – the putting and keeping of things in a special place for use in the future

on the outside vs. in the middle 
eg. There’s bread on the outside and meat in the middle 

bikes have handlebars, cars have steering wheels 

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I almost hit that car, but I didn’t, if I did, terrible things would have happened.
I was almost late to work, but I was not, if I was (late to work) my boss would have been mad.
I almost drank the expired milk, but I didn’t, if I did my stomach would have hurt.
I almost missed the train, but I got on the train, if I missed, I would have been late.