ELT MOOC by Jason R. Levine on WiziQ.
This is a professional development massive Open Online Course in listening and pronunciation techniques.
MOOC team organisers:
Dr. Nellie Deutsch
Sylvia Guinan
27. The Old Man & The Lost Shoe
Recently when I was in Bangkok, I saw an old man pushing a cart full of fruit
across a busy intersection. As he hurried across the street, one of his shoes
came off. I saw him look down at his lost shoe and then up at the traffic
coming and then decide in an instant to leave the shoe behind in order to get
his load of fruit to the other side. I was not too far behind him and not in a
hurry, so I waited for a break in traffic, went out to get his shoe, and brought
it to him on the other side. When the old man saw me walking up to him
with his lost shoe, his face broke into one of the biggest, sweetest smiles I've
ever seen. He offered me some fruit as a reward. I tried to refuse or at least
pay for it, but he insisted. I took it finally because I didn't speak enough Thai
to tell him that the beautiful smile he gave me was already a sweet reward.
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