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09/07/2024

L2 – Pre-Intermediate

Genre: Romance

Word count: 3658

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Cut Off Your Hair

An old couple wish for a son and instead have a daughter with long, magical hair. They don’t see the value in it, and sell her off to an old man who keeps her in a tower. Every day, he massages the oil from her hair and sells it. But the girl gets tired of…
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02/07/2024

L4 – Advanced

Genre: Children’s

Word count: 1554

Strange Friends (Advanced)

A cat and a mouse live together as friends, and what strange friends that makes! One day, the cat suggests they store some food for the winter, so they buy a pot of fat and hide it in a church. But while the mouse happily cleans the house, the cat starts to think about the…
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11/06/2024

L2 – Pre-Intermediate

Genre: Myths & Legends

Word count: 979

The Light at the Bottom of the Sea

Żgugina lives on the coast of Malta with her son. When pirates attack, she rushes to the church to pray to St Demetrius. ‘St Demetrius,’ she says, ‘if you save my son I will light a lamp that burns forever!’ What happened next was too much for her to believe…
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04/06/2024

L1 – Beginner

Genre: Children’s

Word count: 1081

The Kind-Hearted Pea

The wind carries a pea to a crack by a window. Inside the house, a boy is sick and dying. The pea wants to help the boy, and slowly it grows into a plant. When the boy sees the plant he is so happy, and he helps the plant grow.
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Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Cut Off Your Hair

Strange Friends (Advanced)

The Light at the Bottom of the Sea

The Kind-Hearted Pea

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