Author: Ariel Goodbody
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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…
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The Golden Fish
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Calm (weather), Education, Fisherman, Grant a wish, Hut, Let go of, Nag, Politics, Revolution, StormyWord Count: 1086A fisherman finds a golden fish. The golden fish says it can grant his wishes. But the fisherman doesn’t wish for anything. However, when his wife gets home she says she wants a new house. So the next day the fisherman catches the golden fish again and wishes for a new house. That starts a series of events that ends in disaster…
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A Good Long Natter
Download this episode as a PDF. Watch on YouTube: A Good Long Natter – Transcript Welcome to Easy Stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from okay to good and from good to great. I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show. Today’s episode doesn’t really have much of a topic. […]
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Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Cut Off Your Hair
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Genre: RomanceSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Chew, Get caught on, Loom, Nail, Pharmacist, Scalp, Starve, Suit of armour, Sword, Trapped, Treat someone likeWord Count: 3658An 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 this life, and makes a plan to escape…
