🚗 Learning to Drive at Forty
In the app, the story is read aloud and you can write or speak your answers — the site corrects your mistakes.
Listen to the story and answer the questions →Most of Vesna's friends learned to drive when they were eighteen, but she never did. She lived in the city centre and didn't need a car. Then she moved to a village, and everything changed.
At forty, she decided to take driving lessons. At first, she hated sitting behind the wheel. She kept forgetting to check the mirrors, and she was terrified of parking. Her instructor, a patient man called Goran, suggested practising early in the morning, when the roads were empty.
After three months of lessons, Vesna failed her first test because she drove too slowly on the motorway. She didn't give up, though. Two weeks later, she passed. "I'm glad I didn't stop trying," she says. "Now I enjoy driving, and I can visit my friends whenever I want."
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Questions about the story
- Why did Vesna decide to learn to drive?
- What did her instructor suggest?
- Why did she fail her first test?
- What can she do now?