Conversation Lesson 8
 
 
 
 
Lesson 8 - Near Accident

Dialogs for everyday use. Short situational dialogs for students of English as a Foreign (EFL) or Second (ESL) Language.
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Near Accident

Quinn: How about that!

Kerwin: What? What happened?

Quinn: Did you see what that guy did?

Kerwin: No. I was looking the other way.

Quinn: He made a U­turn right in the middle of the block and almost hit a kid on a bicycle.

Kerwin: Drivers get crazier every day!

Quinn: Right. Nobody wants to drive by the rules anymore!
Conversation Notes
  • Near accident
  • almost an accident
  • How about that
  • Just consider what happened!
  • guy
  • man
  • I was looking the other way
  • I was looking in the opposite direction
  • U­turn
  • turn a vehicle such as a car or truck in the shape of a U
Source: U.S. State Department
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