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Let s start the episode.
Remember, with Three Way English I will tell you a story three different ways.
First, in a very basic, simple way.
And then twice more with increasing difficulty.
The idea is to help you learn English grammar and vocabulary in context.
The first time through I will use simple present tense only.
I will use simple sentence structures and speak slowly with no contractions.
Today s story is called The Pig s New Friend.
On a farm, a little Pig becomes friends with the local Dog.
They play together all day, chasing each other around happily.
But the Pig s mother notices that the Dog often scratches behind his ear.
She tells her son to be careful because the Dog has fleas.
The Pig agrees to be careful, but he does not expect to have any problems with fleas.
Then one day the little Pig and the Dog play together until nightfall.
Because the farmhouse door is locked, the Pig invites the Dog to sleep in the pigsty.
The Dog does so.
The next morning, the little Pig and his mother both wake up to find they have fleas.
But unlike the Dog, they are unable to scratch themselves, so the fleas bite at them terribly.
Okay, now let s do the story a second time through.
This time, I will introduce different verb tenses, such as the simple past.
I will use some different vocabulary and sentence structures, and I will speak a little faster
than the first time through.
In a farmyard a little Pig became friends with the local Dog.
They would play together all day, chasing each other around squealing and barking happily.
But the little Pig s mother noticed that the Dog often paused to scratch behind his ear.
So, she told her son to be careful when playing with the Dog because the Dog had fleas.
The little Pig agreed to be careful, but he ignored the warning because he didn t think
the fleas would ever become a problem.
Then one day the little Pig and the Dog played together until nightfall.
They came back home to find the farmhouse door was locked.
So, the little Pig invited his friend to spend the night in the pigsty.
The Dog agreed and they slept the night peacefully.
The next morning, the little Pig and his mother woke up to find themselves covered with fleas.
But unlike the Dog, they were unable to scratch at themselves.
All they could do was run through the farmyard squealing unhappily.
Now, you know the story.
So I m going to do it one more time this time at native level speed and with more advanced
vocabulary and sentence structures.
In a farmyard there was a little Pig who became friends with the local Dog.
All day long they would romp through the yard together, chasing each other around while
the Pig squealed with delight and Dog barked happily.
But the little Pig s mother noticed the Dog would often pause and scratch behind his ear.
So, she pulled her son aside and gave him a stern warning.
Be careful when playing with the Dog, because he has fleas, and they can easily find their
way onto you.
The little Pig agreed, but as he did so he thought to himself: I ve never noticed a flea
jumping onto me so far.
And besides, without any hair for them to hide in I can easily find them and wipe them
away.
Then one night, after the little Pig and his friend had been out playing in the woods,
the two friends noticed the sun going down.
When they reached their home, the Dog was surprised to discover the door to the farmhouse
was locked.
I suppose I shall have to sleep outside tonight, he said sadly.
No problem, the little Pig told him, you can sleep with my family tonight.
So that night the little Pig and the Dog nestled together in the pigsty.
The next morning, the little Pig and his mother woke up to find themselves covered with fleas.
But unlike the dog, they were unable to use their little legs to scratch themselves, so
they ran through the farmyard squealing miserably.
The moral of this story is If you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
The idea of this moral is that the people you hang out with will eventually influence
your own behavior.
So, if you hang out with bad people you will adopt some of their bad habits but if you
hang out with good people you should adopt some of their good habits.
If you lie down with dogs, you will catch the fleas that they have.
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