My NearDeath Experience Advanced Vocabulary Practice
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm
have you ever almost died let’s talk
about it in this video i’m gonna tell
you a short story about something really
scary that happened to me a couple weeks
ago if you hear any new words or new
expressions in the story i recommend
writing them down i’m also going to give
some definitions to expressions here on
the video so that you can learn as you
listen for most of us the most dangerous
thing that we consistently do in our
lives is drive driving has a high
mortality rate it’s a pretty dangerous
activity you have to be really careful
and sometimes things are not even your
own fault you have to be a defensive
driver as well as offensive driver you
have to make sure that everything is
safe around you and that you’re being
safe as well a couple weeks ago as i was
driving i started to hear a strange
sound in our car it kind of sounded like
thunk-thunk thunk-thunk and as i slowed
the car down the sound also slowed down
with me and as i went faster the sound
went faster too so I kind of thought
this is a little strange maybe there’s
something wrong in the engine or maybe
there’s just something stuck in my car
let’s just see what happens and a couple
days went by and the sound started to
get louder and louder eventually when I
was in the car with my husband we both
decided hey we should probably go to a
mechanic just to see what’s up with the
car why is it making this sound it’s
kind of worrying us kind of freaking us
out a bit because driving isn’t exactly
a safe activity especially when you’re
barreling down the road at 60 miles per
hour so we decided to go to the closest
mechanic and it was 5 o’clock and the
mechanic closed at 5:00 so we rushed in
and
said hey we have this problem our cars
making a strange sound can you just take
a quick look at it to see if there is
something you can see that’s obviously
wrong so he went out really nice guy he
went out and took a look at our car and
the first thing he saw was this
all three of these are loose
our wheel was about to come off this is
the bolt that you use to screw on the
wheel
so that it stays on the car and ours was
about to come off the mechanic pretty
much freaked out when he saw that and he
said wow you guys are so lucky to be
alive I can’t believe that you were
driving like this
most people who have this problem if it
ever happens they only get down the
street a couple feet they can’t make it
much further before the wheel falls off
but we had been driving more than that a
couple days not too far but for a couple
days with that sound and he said any
second more and the wheel could have
fallen off we are so lucky I’m so
thankful that this mechanic came after
hours to tighten each of the bolts and
the screws and the nuts on the car to
make sure that they were on tight we
still don’t know why it happened in the
first place but at the moment the tires
and the wheels are safe we are safe
thank goodness but at that moment I have
to tell you the truth I was pretty angry
I didn’t know why that happened and I
just imagined all of the terrible things
that could have happened so thankfully
this near-death experience wasn’t any
closer to death just a near-death
experience thankfully we’re safe
everyone is relieved and I hope that
that never happens again but I wanted to
tell you the story just expose you to
natural English and I hope that in the
the comments down here you learn some
new expressions if you have any
questions about the expressions that I
wrote feel free to ask about them but I
want you in the comments of this video
to answer this question have you ever
had a near-death experience I hope not
but I think most of us probably have
hopefully it wasn’t any more dangerous
than what I
perience but there’s a lot of things out
there in the world that are pretty
dangerous so I hope that your experience
finished well and it’s all finished now
I hope so let me know in the comments
tell me the story if you’d like to use
any of the expressions that I used in
this video
go ahead thanks so much for learning
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