Here on the SGI Student blog, we try to choose the best internet content in English for you to enjoy. Why? Because when you are interested in what you are looking at and listening to, then your ‘language brain’ wants to understand it. So, your comprehension skills will work harder to understand as much as possible. Therefore, this is the best type of learning: short, entertaining and most of all – real language being used. I hope you enjoy this incredible story of the luckiest unlucky man ever!!!
English listening practice – How should I do it?
1. Watch the video – don’t worry if you can’t understand everything 2. Read all the vocabulary list below – learn the words you didn’t know… Watch the video a second time 3. Watch the video again – while reading the transcript (below) at the same time
Vocabulary Glossary
- a fault
- a problem, defect or mistake
- to plunge
- to fall suddenly
- sinking
- to go below the surface of some body of water
- bizarre
- very strange or unusual
- bound for…
- to be going towards a specific place
- plummeted
- to fall or drop down at a high speed
- malfunctioning
- machinery that is not working properly
- He must have thought he was a gonner
- He definitely thought he was going to die
- brush with death
- something that almost causes you to die
- skidded
- sliding out of control in a car
- ruptured
- broke suddenly
- albeit
- though / although / but
- clinging to a tree
- holding on very tightly to a tree
- death defying
- avoiding death
English listening practice – full text
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE our other listening practice transcripts:
1. Jim Carrey – lessons for a happy life speech
2. Charlie Chaplin’s amazing Speech – one of the most inspiring films on the internet – complete transcript with vocabulary help
3. SGI Teachers in a real unplanned conversation: Men v Women debate with every word written out in the free transcript
