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Category: L2 – Pre-Intermediate
The Spider’s Thread (Pre-Intermediate)
Kandata was an evil thief when was alive, and now he lives in Hell. Buddha remembers a time when Kandata did good, and decides to give him a chance to show that he isn’t truly evil. Will Kandata become good, or is he simply a bad person?
The Last King of the Britons
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Genre: Myths & LegendsSetting: MedievalNew Vocabulary: Banquet, Be reunited, Crack, Dismount, Do someone an honour, Dwarf, Faerie folk, Give up (defeat), Make a deal, Risk your life, Rule, ShepherdWord Count: 1272Original Author: British MythsKing Herla is fighting a war against the Saxons and winning. A group of dwarves comes to his wedding and makes a deal with him: if they can come to his wedding, then in the future the king will go to the dwarf king’s wedding. He thinks the dwarves will give them amazing gifts, but he doesn’t know the risk he’s taking…
His Latest Experiment
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Genre: Science FictionSetting: AncientNew Vocabulary: After-show party, Bark (dog), Calculation, Coding, Disaster, Drag (art), Earthling, Economy, Error, Flash fiction, Gender, Graduate, Heartwarming, Heaven, Lifespan, Magnesium, Move on, Pregnancy, Rounding (maths), Times (maths)Word Count: 522Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyGod is trying to make humans, but something is wrong. His calculations look right, but the humans are staying babies for fifty years. What is the problem?
The North Wind and the Sun (Pre-Intermediate)
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Genre: Children’sSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Bam, Bathe, Bitter cold, Harmony, Hold tightly, Kindness, Retreat (holiday), Strength, Suffocate, Sweat, WeaklingWord Count: 862Original Author: Aesop’s FablesThe North Wind and the Sun are always arguing about what true power is. Does power come from strength, or from kindness? So the North Wind challenges the Sun to a competition to see who is right.
It’s a Small World
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Genre: Science FictionSetting: FutureNew Vocabulary: Apocalypse, Beehive, Cure, Gut instinct, Nuclear weapon, Seed, Shrink, Squirrel, Sting, ThroneWord Count: 1811Original Author: Ariel Goodbody‘You know, for an apocalypse, we live quite well.’ The soldier was eating seeds with honey. Normally, the food would have been very small, but he was small, too. So each seed was the size of his head. They were sitting in a small house made of dried grass. ‘You know I hate that word,’ said his friend.
The Shadow Club #12: The Elephant in the Room
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Genre: ActionSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Assume, Distract, Elephant in the room, Jealous, Knight, Pretend, Seagull, Shake your head, Step down, SwoopWord Count: 2178Original Author: Ariel Goodbody‘No!’ said Max, shaking his head. ‘You don’t understand. I want to do this. Not just because I’ll have more time for Heroes of Forever. If you’re all busy at the academy, one of us has to deal with the sh—I mean, one of us has to stay and run The Shadow Club.’
The Shadow Club #11: Fighting Cats and Fighting Bulls
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Genre: ActionSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: An escape, Apparently, Copy (Media), Echo, Fluent, Football academy, Foundation programme, Get the feeling, Share a look, Through gritted teethWord Count: 1929Original Author: Ariel Goodbody‘Here you go,’ I said, giving her the book. ‘Los Gatos Luchadores. You like cats, right?’ Willow looked up at the word ‘cat’, and then her eyes grew wide. ‘Fighting Cats!’ She grabbed the book out of my hands and immediately started reading it. It was a Spanish translation of a Fighting Cats book, apparently.
The Shadow Club #10: An Easy Game
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Genre: ActionSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: ‘The tension is so thick you could cut it with a knife’, Awkward, Bible, Catholic, French toast, Girly, Pale, Shut up, Tackle, WeirdWord Count: 2185Original Author: Ariel GoodbodySo Saturday came, and I woke up nice and early to go to the football match. Normally, I’d be excited, but today my stomach clenched and I felt tired before the game even began. ‘I just have to make it through this,’ I told myself. ‘It’s half term afterwards and then I can have a proper rest.’
The Shadow Club #9: Now We Know
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Genre: ActionSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Bitter, Chew, Focus on something, Incredibly, Paperwork, Struggle, Tense your muscles, Unconscious, Vision swims, WhisperWord Count: 2271Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyA scream came from the school, interrupting her. I jumped off the wall. ‘That was Max!’ We ran inside and up the stairs to the library. I threw my bag off my shoulder, pulling out my golf club. I saw Larry taking out his boxing gloves and Bethany getting her boots on as well. We all knew what was coming.
The Shadow Club #8: Ready to Fight
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Genre: ActionSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Drag, Ease something, Evil, Fantasy novel, For once, Golf club, Punching bag, Scribble, Slingshot, SweatWord Count: 2225Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyThe door to the classroom opened, and we all turned around. Mr Burne stood there. Then he saw Bethany, who was still holding his notebook in the air like, well, like a weapon. She gasped, but it was like she couldn’t move. None of us could move. For a moment, I wondered if Mr Burne’s hair was going to fall out, or if he would shout at us. But he just walked over, took the…