This esl podcast is about randomly meeting someone that helps you out. Isn’t it great when you aren’t feeling well and then you have a lucky day and everything changes in a hurry? Let’s hear what happens.

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Addison
I’m not really the kind of person that believes in luck or fate, or anything like that but what happened to me the other day might make me re-think my beliefs.  I was waiting for my friend at the corner of 5th and Columbus when someone tapped me on the shoulder.  I turned around and it was a woman that wanted to know directions.  It turned out that she wanted to go to exactly where my friend and I were headed so I offered her a ride.  My friend [bad word] a little late so she and I got to talking and I found out that she was a [bad word] for fresh graduates at one of the largest international banks.  I just graduated with a degree in economics and had desperately been looking for a good job.  I told her my situation and she offered me a job on the spot.

Key vocabulary and phrases that are discussed in the podcast:

luck –  good or bad things happen to you by chance. Ex.  He has very good luck. Also, we can say that this person is “lucky”.

fate – the idea of your life not being controlled by you and that it is already predetermined or decided.

re-think – to think about something or consider it again.

corner of “ “ and “ “-  intersection or cross-street of

tapped – touch lightly and briefly.

It turned out – the result or [bad word] of a situation

Headed – going towards a place or going in the direction. [bad word] a little late – [bad word]  here means how things are going or [bad word] . We can also things [bad word] smoothly for example.

Degree – university graduation certificate

desperately – putting your best efforts towards something of urgency or necessity

on the spot – making a decision or doing something immediately without wait