I first saw this Homeless video on Rob Whyte's excellent ESLWriting. As a matter of fact, you can find a listening activity there.
However, I think that the level of difficulty is a bit high for intermediate students to understand it fully, which made me think that I should provide the transcript if I wanted students to make something out of it.
Self-study activity:
Watch the video and complete the blanks in the transcript with the missing words.
I served in the (1)... . I’d been working (2) ... years. Right up to my retirement I hurt my (3) ... . Yeah, I lost my job and next thing I knew I was in the street, you know? (4) ... .
I’m sorry, man.
Hurts to live in this country, shouldn’t have to live like that.
It could happen to anybody. When you are in a situation like this you don’t think nobody (5) ... . It’s great to have somebody care about you. People that (6) ... me was good enough. They helped me a whole lot.
I was off the street and now I have a nice (7) ... place of my own. There’s a whole lot of people out there need help. A lot of them don’t even know where to go. I am a lucky one. I am lucky.
Key:
1 military 2 thirty-five 3 leg 4 Homeless 5 care 6 helped 7 clean
