A Miracle

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• essentially
• means a lot
• make something up
• partner

• makeshift
• altar
• come out of it
• miracle

• amnesia
• relieved

2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

When things get really bad, even people who aren’t very religious will often find themselves praying.

I bet you didn’t know that Amanda is Catholic. It hasn’t come up before. But now that one of her friends is in a coma, another has cancer and another has been kidnapped (although she doesn’t know about that one) she has set up a makeshift altar with some candles and started praying.

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Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Amanda

Devan

Jason

Amanda:  Oh Heavenly Father, I come to you tonight, asking you to grant me the strength to help heal our brother Jason. Jason has been in a horrible accident. He’s in a coma. He cannot move his limbs. He cannot stand, he cannot dance, he cannot play Scrabble. He can do nothing. I come to you now pleading, pleading…

Devan:  Amanda! Amanda!

Amanda:  One moment.

Devan:  Amanda!

Amanda:  Sweet Lord…

Devan:  The hospital just called…

Amanda:  What?

Devan:  The hospital just called two seconds ago.

Amanda:  So?

Devan:  Jason woke up. He’s not in a coma anymore.

Amanda:  What are you talking about?

Devan:  He woke up!

Amanda:  Our Jason?

Devan:  Our Jason just woke up…

Amanda:  Our Jason woke up…

Devan:  ...like two seconds ago.

Amanda:  ...and came out of his coma.

Devan:  Yes. What are you doing?

Amanda:  Apparently, I’m creating miracles tonight.

Devan:  Oh my God, you’re OK!

Jason:  Hey!

Devan:  I’m so relieved. Oh my God, how are you feeling?

Jason:  I feel surprisingly alright.

Devan:  Really? Is anything broken?

Jason:  A few broken ribs, I have quite a headache, but, you know.

Devan:  But your mind is fine? You don’t feel any brain damage or…

Jason:  Well, I can’t remember a lot that happened right before the accident, but other than that, it’s essentially fine.

Devan:  You mean like the conversation you and Mason were having right before you fell?

Jason:  Well, that…yeah, really the last thing I remember is that we were going to watch Wayne’s World, and that’s pretty much where my memory stops.

Devan:  That’s the last thing you remember? But that was like a month ago.

Jason:  Yeah, I mean…

Devan:  That’s really the last thing you remember?

Jason:  Did I miss anything good?

Devan:  Well, I mean…do you remember that you’re my boyfriend?

Jason:  No! I don’t remember that at all!

Devan:  You don’t? We’re dating. You told me you loved me.

Jason:  Oh my…really? Wow…I’m so sorry I don’t remember. Oh my God.

Devan:  Well, are you OK with it? I mean, it means a lot to me that we’re together so I hope you still feel that way.

Jason:  Yeah, how did it happen? How did we get together?

Devan:  You know, we were bonding about Wayne’s World and I was just pretending to be Garth and it made you laugh and then you said you loved me! You did! I wouldn’t make that up.

Jason:  Well, that’s great. I come out of a coma and I have a partner.

Devan:  Isn’t that great?

Jason:  That’s great!

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