Author: Ariel Goodbody
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The Curse of the Pig
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Genre: Children’sSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Bone, Catch wind, Curse, Dragon, Forbid, Iron, Ladder, Mud, Pass by in a blur, Pork, String, Tell the future, Tie around, Transform, Wear outWord Count: 4280A princess finds a book that tells her future. When she grows up, she will have to marry a pig. The girl doesn’t want to believe it, but one day a pig comes knocking on her door. But things are not as they seem. This is a curse, and there has to be a way to break it…
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Three Kisses
Leah’s mother dies, and her brother leaves home, and Leah is so sad that she cannot speak. Her father plants a rose garden on her balcony, and every day she gives a white rose to a seagull and kisses it three times, sending it to her brother. But dark magic is also travelling across the sea, and soon Leah will find that every rose is not so sweet…
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The Freezer Door
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Cheek, Cliff, Freeze, Freezer, Gooseberry, Kid, Nightmare, Parallel universe, Pick at, Sober, Weigh something upWord Count: 1517A woman has a loving husband and children, and she’s great at her job. So why is she sad? One day, she opens the freezer door and sees the way into another world. If she goes, she will lose her husband and children. But could she be happy there?
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The Superpower of Story with Bree Aesie
Learn about how to use stories in your everyday life in this fascinating interview!
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Hamburg, City of Water
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Genre: ConversationNew Vocabulary: ‘How did you find…?’, Ban, Bubbly, Bucket list, Bulge out, Cityscape, Cobbled, CV, Demolish, Leafy, Model railway, Mortar, Nanny state, Nerd, Overwhelmed, Phased ban, Privilege, Rejection, Resilient, Rest on your laurels, Second-hand smoke, Streak (record), Suburb, Trial shift, Vaping, VRWord Count: 8540Download this episode as a PDF Watch on YouTube Attributions Hello my lovely learners! My Story Builders course is now open. If you want to sign up straight away, go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Build. Let’s get to work! [intro] Welcome to Easy Stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from OK to Good, and […]
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The Pumpkin Jug
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Genre: RomanceSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: A good match, Bow (verb), Come into season, Fit, Hole, Impossible, Jug, Landslide victory, Pick (flowers), Poppy, Pumpkin, Rule (noun), ThirstyWord Count: 1348A king meets a woman who grows pumpkins. She gives him water in a dirty old jug, and then she breaks it. The king thinks this is strange, but he likes the woman. So he gives her a challenge: if she can put a big pumpkin in a small jug, he will marry her. But she cannot break the jug or the pumpkin. Can she do it?
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Misty the Snake (Rerun)
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Genre: ComedySetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Bubble wrap, Ex, Lick, Marmite, Owner, Parcel, Prison bars, Put a bounty on someone’s head, Queue, Sneak, Tongue, YeastWord Count: 1457Misty the Snake loves eating other people’s pets. This does not make the people of the United Kingdom happy. So her owner takes her to Brazil, but really she wants to go home to Ghana…
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My Sister’s Wedding
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Genre: ConversationNew Vocabulary: A rule of thumb, Adman, Beaver, Bonfire, Brother-in-law, Buddy, Calf (cow), Calves, Cartwheel, Ceilidh, Civil partnership, Conscript, Double whammy, Eyewitness, Fasting, Food for thought, Gaelic, Gen Z, Killing me, Livestock, Nomenclature, Polyamorous, Pull a hamstring, Ramble, Registrar, Rewilding, Sedate, Segment, Stoic, Tabloid newspaper, Testify, Two sides of the same coin, Ultra-processed food, Woo woo, YapWord Count: 8449I talk all about how I injured my leg at my sister’s wedding, the race riots currently happening in the UK, not so nice, and end with some motivation for all of you. Very nice.
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Doing Evil Part 2
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: ‘Even if I die trying’, A-level, Brush yourself off, Detention, Do-gooder, Frame someone for something, Indoctrination, Oxbridge, PE, Practically vibrating, Put your head down, Ripple, Theology, Wet the bedWord Count: 4021Tobias arrives at St Gummarus’ School for Nasty Children. At first, he thinks his parents might have made a mistake, because all the kids here are badly behaved and nasty. But he soon realises that deep down, they are good, and they’re threatening his mission to do evil. So Tobias decides to use goodness as a weapon…
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Doing Evil Part 1
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: A cross to bear, Atheist, Boarding school, Bullying, Chapel, Evil, Host (Christianity), Hypocrisy, Lord, Mass, Rota, Satan, Seven deadly sins, Spit, Tabernacle, Test the watersWord Count: 3625When Tobias’s parents ask him what he wants to be when he grows up, he says, ‘Evil.’ There’s just one problem: his parents are devoted Christians! As Tobias does more and more bad things, his parents try to find ways to make him good, until finally there is only one option left…
