The Best Day of My Life
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🎧 Then and Now — Episode 42: “The Night of the Snow”
THEN AND NOW is the podcast where ordinary people tell the story of one extraordinary day. Each episode is about twenty minutes long. This week, our guest is Ruth Ellis, who worked as a nurse for forty years before she retired. In January 1987, Ruth was driving home after a night shift when a snowstorm closed the main road. What happened next changed two lives, and possibly three. Ruth tells us why that night was the best of her life, and what happened when she received a letter thirty years later. New episodes every Tuesday. Next week: a man who found a wallet with £5,000 inside.
Vocabulary
- episode — one programme in a series
- retired — no longer working because of age
- shift — a period of work, often at night
- snowstorm — a storm with a lot of snow and wind
- deliver a baby — help a baby to be born
- ambulance — a vehicle that takes sick people to hospital
- stranger — a person you don’t know
- grateful — wanting to thank someone
Sample questions (11 questions)
- What is the podcast about?
- famous people and their careers
- nurses and hospitals
- ordinary people telling the story of one extraordinary day
- What happened to Ruth in January 1987?
- She retired from nursing.
- She started a new job.
- A snowstorm closed the road while she was driving home.
- Listen for the gist. What is Ruth’s story mainly about?
- getting lost in the snow
- a car accident on the way to work
- helping a woman give birth in a car during a snowstorm
Answers and hints from Migo appear when you do it online.