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https://ae393f94ea14aae7800fe0fc26ac2d0de302ee51.googledrive.com/host/0B21Cls20kyrcTTZySHZIaDVJWkU/courses/level2/goodluck/02_1.htm = = = = =Bill Morgan, 37, is an Australian lorry driver. Last year he had a heart attack. He nearly died. He was in a coma for several days. His doctors thought he would never survive. = =But, 12 days later, he suddenly woke up. He was fine. He was so fine, in fact, that he wanted to start work again. He got his job back. He also decided to get engaged to his girlfriend, Lisa. = =Then he got really lucky. = =Two weeks ago he bought a lottery ticket from his local newsagents in Melbourne. The ticket was the last one in the shop. When he scratched the ticket he discovered he was the winner of a $27,000 Toyota Corolla car! = =When newspaper reporters heard about his amazing luck, they came to take Bill's photo. He stood outside the newsagents with his new car. The photographers asked him to buy another ticket, so they could take his photo. He pulled out $5 and bought a ticket. The cameras flashed. = =Then Bill scratched the ticket. He looked at it and shouted: "I've won $250,000!" = =The reporters didn't believe him. = ="It's true! Look!" Bill started to cry. = =It was true. The man who nearly died a year ago had won $250,000. = ="I got my job back, I got engaged, I won a car and now I've won a quarter of a million dollars. It can't be true!" = =But it is. = = = https://ae393f94ea14aae7800fe0fc26ac2d0de302ee51.googledrive.com/host/0B21Cls20kyrcTTZySHZIaDVJWkU/courses/level2/goodluck/05_1.htm = Transcript for "Good Luck Story" =




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=This is a true story I read in the newspaper. It happened in Italy. A man - a doctor I think he was - it was New Year's Eve - he put some bottles of wine and champagne in the back of the car and he went to visit a friend. But on the way <span style="color: #ef0606; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">he got a flat tyre. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another man stopped and helped him <span style="color: #be1313; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to change the tyre. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> He <span style="color: #d80e0e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">took the flat tyre off <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and put the <span style="color: #cf0c0c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">spare tyre <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> on. The doctor thanked the man, and the man drove off. = = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was then that the doctor discovered that the man was a <span style="color: #c00202; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">thief. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The old tyre, some <span style="color: #af0404; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> tools <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> and all the wine and champagne was <span style="color: #970707; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> missing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">from the back of the car. But - this is the <span style="color: #e21212; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">funny bit <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> - the doctor found a lottery ticket in the back of the car. I suppose it fell out of the man's pocket when he was changing the tyre. = = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The doctor <span style="color: #b20101; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> kept i <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">t, and a week later he was reading the newspaper and he was <span style="color: #e90c0c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> amazed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> to discover that the ticket won first prize in the lottery. Now what do you think he did? Did he collect the prize money? Not at all. = = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He put an a <span style="color: #c91818; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">dvertisement <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> in the newspaper, <span style="color: #d70404; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">asking <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the thief to come and get the ticket. And that's what the thief did. He <span style="color: #ad1a1a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">apologized <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> to the doctor, got the ticket back, and <span style="color: #b31919; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">collected <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the prize money. Why did the doctor do that? Well, he told reporters that the ticket wasn't his. "H <span style="color: #e10e0e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">e may <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> be a thief, but I am not." Isn't that <span style="color: #eb0f0f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">amazing? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> It's true, too. I read it in the paper. =