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THE WATER CAR

An interactive story by Mark White

studyenglishwithmark@.au

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CONTENTS

1. The University Student (“be” verbs)
2. The Beautiful Woman (there is/are)
3. The Date (present simple)
4. The Change (present continuous)
5. The Returnee (present perfect)
6. Employment (“would” conditional)
7. The Business Deal (future “going to”)
8. Seeing the Beautiful Woman again (gerunds)
9. Brazil (adjective plus infinitive)
10.The Water Car (comparatives)
11. The Murderous Loggers (mixed patterns)
12. The Bar (mixed patterns)
13. A Happy Ending (mixed patterns)

1.THE UNIVERSITY STUDENT (“be” verbs)

It is early in the morning in a small apartment in Japan. A student is asleep. His alarm clock rings. Is it loud? He wakes up. He looks at the ceiling. He is still tired. Is he very tired?

The student goes back to sleep. He wakes up an hour later. Is he still tired? Is he lazy? Is he a bad student? He gets up. He goes to the bathroom. Is it clean or dirty? He washes his face. Is the water cold? He cleans his teeth. He combs his hair. Is his hair long? What color is it?

The student goes to the kitchen. He opens the fridge. There is a carton of juice in the fridge. What kind of juice is it? The guy drinks it. It is bad. It is very old. How old is it?

The guy goes to the sink. He spits the bad juice into the sink. He washes his mouth out. He drinks some water then he cleans his teeth. What color is his toothbrush? Is it soft, hard or medium? What sort of toothpaste is it?

The student puts his clothes on. Are they clean? He leaves his apartment and he walks to the station. How far is it? What is the name of the station?

The train is late. It finally comes. It is very very crowded. The student has to stand up. Finally he gets to school. He is very late for class. His teacher is angry. He shouts at the student. Is the student sad? Is he angry?

After class the student goes to the cafeteria. He eats lunch. Is it expensive? Is it healthy? He sees some friends. They talk. In the afternoon the guy has another class. He goes to the class but he falls asleep in class. Is the class interesting? Is it important?

After class the student goes home. On the train he sees a really beautiful woman. Is her hair long? She is reading a book. What language is it in? Is it a thick book?

That night the student watches TV. He watches a serial. Is it interesting? Is it the first episode? Is the ending exciting?

2. THE BEAUTIFUL WOMAN (there is/are)

A young Japanese university student is asleep in his apartment. He is dreaming. Is there a beautiful woman in his dream? The guy wakes up. He looks out the window. It is morning. Are there any clouds in the sky? Is it a nice day?

The guy gets up and washes his face and puts on his clothes. He goes to the fridge. Is there any food in the fridge? There is a carton of juice in the fridge. It is very old. How old is it? What kind of juice is it? The guy tips the juice into the sink then he throws the carton into the garbage bin. He makes a cup of tea. What kind of tea is it?

At the station, the guy sees a friend. He talks to the friend. They get on the train. There are ten carriages on the train. The train is really really full. There are no empty seats. There are a lot of students on the train. Are there any old people on the train? Are there any babies? Are there any foreigners?

Suddenly the guy sees a beautiful woman. She is really really attractive. She is like an angel. Her eyes are like stars. Her skin is like milk. Her hair is like coal. Her cheeks are red like apples. Her smile is like sunlight. The guy stares at her. Are there any other beautiful woman on the train?

The train stops and the students go to the university. The guy walks to class. He can see the woman in front of him. She drops some keys. The guy runs ahead. He picks them up. They are on a small key ring. There is an ornament on the key ring. What is it? How many keys are there on the key ring? Are there any other ornaments? The guy hurries after the girl. He gives her the keys. She thanks him. He asks her to have coffee with him after class. She smiles and she says “Yes”.

The guy goes to class. How many students are there in his class? How many are absent that day? How many are present? Is it an interesting class? Are there any girls in the class? Are there any foreign students? Is the teacher Japanese?

After class the guy hurries to the cafeteria. Is it crowded? He sits down. He waits for the beautiful woman. He looks at his watch. What time is it? Is it an expensive watch? How big is it?
3. THE DATE (present simple tense)

A Japanese guy is sitting at the cafeteria at his university. He is waiting for a beautiful woman. Suddenly she arrives. She sits down. Is she late? She puts her bag down. How many books are there in her bag? Is it heavy? She smiles. She talks to the guy. What do they talk about? How long do they talk for? Does the woman have another class that day? Does the guy have another class that day?

The guy really likes the woman. Does she like him? He makes another date with her. That night he thinks about her and he has a strange dream. He dreams that he is in a big city. There is a lot of traffic. It is noisy and dirty and crowded. Suddenly the cars stop. Everybody dies. He looks in the cars. All the people are dead.

The guy wakes up. How does he feel? Does he remember his dream? Do you remember your dreams? Do you dream much? Two days later the guy meets the woman again. What time do they meet? They go to a restaurant. Is it expensive? What kind of restaurant is it? What does the guy order? What does the woman order? What time do they arrive? How long do they stay? What time do they leave?

The guy and the woman talk about the environment. The woman is a greenie. She loves nature. She worries about pollution. Is pollution a problem in Japan? She worries about the future of planet earth. Is global warming a big problem? She eats natural food. Is organic food cheap? She does not eat fast food. Is convenience store food healthy? The guy is very different from her. The guy eats a lot of fast food. Which convenience store does he like best? He does not think about the environment. He likes shopping. Where does he go shopping? He watches television every night. What is his favorite program?

After dinner the guy and the woman walk through the streets. They do not talk. The guy is happy but the woman is bored. The woman wants to talk but the guy is boring. The guy wants to see the woman again but she does not want to see him again. She does not like him.

That night the guy goes home late and he watches TV. What does he watch? Is it an intelligent program?
4. THE CHANGE (present continuous tense)

It is early in the morning in a Japanese guy’s apartment. He is asleep in his bed. He is dreaming about global warming. The ice at the north pole is melting. The ice at the south pole is melting. The sea level is rising. Is the sea level really rising? There are typhoons and tornadoes. Are there tornadoes in Japan? The earth is changing. Is it getting cooler? Many people are dying.

Suddenly the guy wakes up. He looks out the window. The sun is shining. Is it raining? It is a beautiful day but it is very very hot. The guy gets ready for university then he leaves his house. He walks to the station. How long does it take? At the station he sees a friend. What is the friend doing? What is he wearing? Do they talk?

On the train the guy sees the beautiful woman. She is wearing a colorful shirt. Is she wearing jeans? What kind of shoes is she wearing? Is she wearing a headscarf? Is she wearing make-up? Is she wearing any ear-rings? She is wearing a necklace. What is on it?

The guy talks to the woman. He asks her for a date but she does not want to go on a date with him. She does not like him. She thinks he is boring. She is interested in environmental problems and political problems but he is only interested in shopping and money. She thinks he is superficial.

At school that day the guy has three classes. One class is chemistry. Another class is design. During the class he looks around. A lot of the students are sleeping. What percentage of them are sleeping? The third class is an English class. During that class a lot of the students speak Japanese. During the class the guy thinks about the beautiful woman. At one point he looks around. Some of the students are sleeping and some of them are speaking Japanese. They are wasting their time. Only a few of them are speaking English. Only a few of them are using their time wisely. How many people are there in the class? How many of them are sleeping? How many of them are speaking Japanese?

After class the guy talks to another student. The student speaks really good English. He always asks questions in class. He is different from the others. He is not like everybody else. Are you different from other people?
5. THE RETURNEE (present perfect tense)

It is Wednesday afternoon in the cafeteria at a large Japanese university. A student is sitting at a table with a classmate. He has not talked to the classmate before. The classmate is a returnee. He has been to Europe and America and Australia. He has lived in Australia. He has studied there. He speaks good English.

The two guys are drinking. What is the returnee drinking? What is the other guy drinking? The returnee talks about life in Sydney. Has the other guy been to Australia? Does he want to go? Has he been to America? Does he want to go there? Has he been to Europe? Does he want to go there? Has he been to any other countries in Asia? Which countries does he want to go to? Has he traveled in Japan? Which prefectures has he been to? Does he want to go to Africa or South America?

The two classmates talk about the future. The returnee has talked about this topic a lot with his father. Has the other guy talked about it before? Has he thought about it? The returnee talks about new inventions and new products. He wants to start his own engineering company. He wants to design new products. What does the other guy want to do in the future?

The returnee talks about pollution. He talks about the causes of pollution. What are the causes of pollution? He talks about the oil industry. Later the two guys walk to the station together.

That night the guy dreams about global warming again. He dreams that he is in a big city. What is he wearing? What is the name of the city? Is pollution a big problem in that city? What other problems are there in that city?

In the dream a strange silent car passes the guy. He runs after it. The car stops. The guy opens the hood. There is a strange engine under the hood. It is very small. It is very quiet. The guy gets in the car. He drives the car to a gas station. The guy at the gas station fills the car with water. It is not a petrol car. It is a water car. The fuel is hydrogen. The exhaust is water. It is environmentally friendly. It does not pollute the environment. Has the guy ever seen a water car before? What companies in the world produce hydrogen cars now?
6. EMPLOYMENT (“would” conditional)

Two university students become friends. One of them has studied overseas but the other one has not. Would you study overseas? Would you work overseas? Would you live overseas permanently?

Time passes and the two university friends graduate. One of them gets a job at a big automobile company. Would you work for an automobile company? The other one gets a job at an electrical products company. Would you work for an electric company? The two friends stay in touch. They meet once a month.

One night the guy from the electric company has a strange dream. He dreams that he is driving a water car. He has had this dream many times but this time it is different. This time he can see the engine and he can understand how it works. Would you buy a water car?

The guy wakes up and he draws a design of the engine. He emails his friend at the automobile company. That weekend they meet. Do they meet at a restaurant? What time do they meet? What is the guy from the automobile company wearing? What is the guy from the electric company wearing?

The two friends talk about the design. In their spare time they build a model. The model works. The guy at the electric company tells his boss. Would you tell your boss? His boss is not interested. Would you be interested? The guy at the automobile company tells his boss. The boss is not interested. The two friends decide to leave their jobs and start their own company. Would you start your own company?

The guy from the automobile company borrows money from his father. The guy from the electric company borrows money from the bank. Together the two friends start a company. They produce a water car. The two guys want to sell water cars in Japan. They go to the government. They ask for a license. The government says “no”. If you were the government, would you say “no”? If the government said no, what would you do? Would you give up?

The two guys decide to go to America. They fly to Chicago. They arrange to meet the head of a big automobile company in America.
7. THE BUSINESS DEAL (future “going to”)

Two Japanese engineers are in Chicago. They are going to meet the president of a big American automobile manufacturer. They are sitting in a hotel room. What are they wearing? How long have they been in the hotel? They are going to meet the president the next day. What time are they going to meet him? Are they going to meet him in his office? What are they going to wear?

The time of the meeting arrives. The two guys tell the president about their water car. They talk about the environment. They offer to sell the car to the American company. The American guy wants to see the car. He wants to have a test drive. The car is in Japan. The American has to fly to Japan. They arrange a time to meet in Japan. What date are they going to meet? What city are they going to meet in? How long is the American going to stay in Japan? Is he going to take his wife? Has he been to Japan before?

The day of the meeting arrives. The American wants to see a demonstration of the water car. The two Japanese guys take the American for a drive. The American is impressed. The water car is safe, cheap and environmentally friendly. It is also light and fast and cheap to build. It is a great design. The three men sit down and talk for hours. They discuss details. They make a deal. The American guy is going to buy the water car and he is going to produce them in America. How much is he going to pay the two Japanese guys up front? Is