Setting: Fairytale
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Hansel and Gretel
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Genre: HorrorSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Abandon, Belly, Betrayal, Breadcrumbs, Prison bars, Quitter, Sweet tooth, Twig, Witch, WoodcutterWord Count: 2357What if the witch in Hansel and Gretel was Chinese? Well, then things would be very different. In this twisted version of the classic fairy tale, the two young children run away from the house of sweets and end up somewhere far more exotic…
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Doggo and Kitty Bake a Cake (Pre-Intermediate)
Download as a PDF Watch on YouTube Hello my Lovely Learners, and welcome to Easy Stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from OK to Good, and from Good to Great. I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show. Today’s pre-intermediate story is called Doggo and Kitty Bake a Cake. As […]
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The Juniper Tree
Skin as white as snow and eyes as red as blood. Some would call it beautiful, but to Nicholas’s parents, he is a demon child. But when Nicholas discovers that his ‘mother’ is not his real mother, his whole world starts to change.
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Before the Light Dies
The king asks a clockmaker to repair an old magical clock. But when the clockmaker tries to repair the clock, nothing works… until he discovers a secret that will change his life.
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The Monkey’s Heart
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Fig, Graceful, Halfway, Indifferent, Nap, Nimble, Ordeal, Send someone your wishes, Toss, X and Y don’t mixWord Count: 1686A monkey shares his figs with a shark, and for a while they are friends, but when the shark invites the monkey to his home under the sea, the monkey suspects that something may be wrong…
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The Dragon of Kraków
A dragon is terrorising the city of Kraków, but one man has a way to defeat it. It won’t take strength, though, but wisdom.
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Three Balls of Wool
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Genre: Children’sSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Dot, Fig, Gaze, Her curiosity got the better of her, Itch, Reflection, Rotten, Scar, Scratch, Wart, WitchWord Count: 3099One day, Leila finds a strange butterfly with three dots and fine lines on its wings. When she tries to touch the butterfly, it turns into a witch and drags her to her castle! For seven years Leila works for the witch, trying to find a way to escape. Then, one day, the witch says she is going travelling…
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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…
