Vocabulary: Dragon
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Saint George and the Dragon
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Genre: Myths & LegendsSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Collar, Desert, Dew, Dragon, Kingdom, Knight, Pass out, Saint, Scratch, Tame, Well (water)Word Count: 1662Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyDownload this episode as a PDF. Transcript 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 story is for pre-intermediate learners. The name of the story is Saint George and the Dragon.…
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The Very Hungry Dragon (Beginner)
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Genre: Children’sSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Cart, Dragon, Freezer, From now on, Hug, Ignore, In one go, Jewel, Reputation, Smell, Spit out, Taste of somethingWord Count: 1290Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyShe flew down and took the roof off the cart. The people with the cart saw her and ran away. Grella laughed, and picked up the cart in her hand. She emptied it into her mouth, eating all of the jewels in one go. Grella understood now. Her mother had been right. Jewels were amazing.…
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The Flesh and Blood We Share
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Genre: RomanceSetting: MedievalNew Vocabulary: Alley, Armour, Beast, Bladder, Choke on your own spit, Claw, Dignity, Disarm, Dragon, Flesh and blood, Penance, Prostitute, Slay, Sorcerer, TameWord Count: 4436Original Author: Ariel GoodbodyIt was the place he and Bulan had first kissed. Hale fell to his knees and threw up all his beer onto the dirt. The edges of his armour plates cut into him, and he felt like a skeleton dancing inside it, like a sorcerer had used magic on him or something. He threw up…
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To Be a Hero Chapter 1
Once there was a boy called Norm who lived with his stepmother. Like all stepmothers, she was wicked, and she spent all day shouting at Norm. ‘It’s freezing in here! Where’s the firewood? Oh, if only Sabrina were here!’ Sabrina was her own daughter, who had died the day Norm was born, the same day…
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Three Dragons
Once upon a time, there lived three dragons on three mountains. They were brothers, and each ruled over their own mountain. One was black, called Ba, one was red, called Ra, and one was green, called Ga. In the middle of the three mountains lay a small kingdom, ruled over by a human king, but…