All right, so yesterday I heard this little story and I thought, that's really interesting.
I'm going to share it with my students here at Practice Paradise, englishcoachchad.com.
So let's go ahead and just use this story to practice English.
And it has an interesting concept at the end.
Not a concept, just it makes you think about something.
All right, let's go ahead, and I'm just going to move along quickly, and you can echo me.
That means repeat after me.
We'll just do each little section quickly, all right?
There was a small town where everyone owed money to someone else.
There was a small town where everyone owed money to someone else.
One day a traveler came and wanted to stay at the inn.
The innkeeper said a $100 deposit would be required to reserve a room.
$100 deposit would be required to reserve a room.
The traveler paid $100 as a security deposit.
Moving on.
The innkeeper took that $100 and used it to pay off his own $100 debt to the shoe repairman.
Or restated, the innkeeper used that money to pay off his debt to the shoe repairman.
Say that.
Good.
The shoe repairman then used the $100, oops, To do what?
To pay his bank fees.
The bank used the $100 to pay its debt to the town cleaner.
The town cleaner also had 100 debt and used the money to pay someone who, by chance, owed 100 back to the innkeeper.
Right around then, the traveler changed his mind.
He asked for his deposit back.
He asked for his money back.
And the innkeeper returned the $100.
The traveler left town.
In the end, even though the money had gone in a circle and returned to its original owner, all the debts in town were paid off.
And no one owed anything.
Oh, isn't that interesting?
The money just went around in a circle around the town.
The man came into town.
Everyone was in debt.
His hundred dollar bill went all the way around the town and nobody was in debt.
And he left with his hundred dollars.
Nothing changed.
If you think about it, this story raises the question.
Is money actually real?
What is money anyway?
What is it all about?
I don't get it.
All right.
That was just a fun little story I heard yesterday and I thought I would turn it into a practice session.
So let's practice.
We're going to go straight from start to finish.
Um, just try to follow along, see if we can do this without making a mistake.
Every time I say that, I make a mistake.
I just jinxed it.
Oh, Chad, why did you jinx it?
That was our vocabulary word a few lessons back.
Anyways, let's do it.
Here we go.
There was a small town where everyone owed money to someone else.
One day, a traveler came and wanted to stay at the inn.
The innkeeper said a $100 deposit would be required to reserve a room.
The traveler paid $100 as a security deposit.
The innkeeper took that $100 and used it to pay off his own $100 debt to the shoe repairman.
The shoe repairman then used the $100 to pay his bank fees.
The bank used the $100 to pay its debt to the town cleaner.
The town cleaner also had a 100 debt and used the money to pay someone who, by chance, owed 100 back to the innkeeper.
Right around then, the traveler changed his mind.
He asked for his deposit back, and the innkeeper returned the $100.
The traveler left town.
In the end, even though the money had gone in a circle and returned to its original owner, all the debts in town were paid off and no one owed anything.
This story raises the question, is money actually real?
What is money anyway?
Can somebody please explain it to me?
All right, boom, good workout.
Having some fun with some English speaking practice.
Keep moving forward, one step at a time, and I will see you in the next English speaking practice video.
