App Driver Chooses Pizza Instead of Cash to Hear Woman's Story
Listen to the story
A woman in Goiás, Brazil, took a ride with an app driver.
She wanted to talk about a bad problem. Her partner was unfaithful to her.
She offered the driver 150 reais to listen to her story.
But the driver did not want the money. He wanted pizza instead.
He said he was very hungry. He said, 'I was dying of hunger.'
The woman agreed. She gave him pizza instead of the money.
The driver listened to her story about the problem.
This story happened in the state of Goiás, in Brazil.
Many people liked this story. It made people smile.
The story shows a small act of kindness between two strangers.
Vocabulary15 words
- app
- a program on a phone; used to call a car
- unfaithful
- not loyal; cheating on a partner
- story
- words that tell about something that happened
- hungry
- wanting to eat food
- offer
- to say you will give something
- instead
- in place of something else
- kindness
- being nice and helpful to someone
- passenger
- a person who rides in a car
- driver
- a person who drives a car
- partner
- a boyfriend or girlfriend
- agree
- to say yes to something
- listen
- to pay attention to sounds or words
- reais
- the money used in Brazil
- state
- a big area of a country
- smile
- to make a happy face
Quiz
Answer key
1. Her partner's unfaithfulness 2. Pizza 3. Goiás
Fill-in-the-blank listening
Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.
A woman in Goiás, Brazil, took a _____ with an app driver.
She wanted to talk about a bad problem. Her partner was _____ to her.
She offered the driver 150 _____ to listen to her story.
But the driver did not want the _____. He wanted pizza instead.
He said he was very _____. He said, 'I was dying of hunger.'
The woman agreed. She gave him _____ instead of the money.
The driver _____ to her story about the problem.
This story happened in the state of _____, in Brazil.
Many people liked this _____. It made people smile.
The story shows a small act of _____ between two strangers.