Episode 93 | Part 2: A story someone told you

IELTSCast | Weekly shadowing exercises for IELTS Speaking

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Here is a transcript of what is heard in this episode:

Talk about a story someone told you that you remember well. Please say:

-what the story is about

-who told you the story

-when he/she told you the story

-and explain why you remember it so well

This story was told to me several years ago. It is nothing short of incredible, and I’d have a hard time believing it had actually happened if it weren’t my brother who told me.

My brother had planned to propose to his girlfriend of several years, and he put the engagement ring in his pocket hoping to surprise her when they met later that day. His girlfriend worked at the public transit depot in our city, so my brother’s plan was to take the bus to her office and walk with her to a park nearby where they could picnic and he could ask her to marry him.

Unfortunately, when he went to put his coins into the bus’s fare repository, he accidentally dropped the engagement ring in too! He realised it a minute later and told the driver who radioed to have someone ready at the terminal station to open the repository and retrieve the ring.

When the bus pulled into the transit depot, my brother’s girlfriend was standing there. The ring was quickly retrieved and my brother proposed to her right there on the spot!

My brother and his wife remain happily married to this day, so as you can imagine this story is a cherished family memory that gets told a lot.