Vocabulary: Dragon

The Curse of the Pig

Nov 12, 2024

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Genre: Children’s

Setting: Fairytale

New Vocabulary: Bone, Catch wind, Curse, Dragon, Forbid, Iron, Ladder, Mud, Pass by in a blur, Pork, String, Tell the future, Tie around, Transform, Wear out

Word Count: 4280

Original Author: Ariel Goodbody

A 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…
Three Kisses

Oct 29, 2024

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Genre: Children’s

Setting: Fairytale

New Vocabulary: Bathtub, Courage, Dragon, Grief, Ruby, Seagull, Servant, Slave, Smash, Witch

Word Count: 2405

Original Author: Gordon Urquhart

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…
Saint George and the Dragon

Apr 25, 2023

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Genre: Myths & Legends

Setting: Fairytale

New Vocabulary: Collar, Desert, Dew, Dragon, Kingdom, Knight, Pass out, Saint, Scratch, Tame, Well (water)

Word Count: 1662

Original Author: Ariel Goodbody

Download 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. […]
The Very Hungry Dragon (Beginner)

Dec 14, 2021

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Genre: Children’s

Setting: Fairytale

New Vocabulary: Cart, Dragon, Freezer, From now on, Hug, Ignore, In one go, Jewel, Reputation, Smell, Spit out, Taste of something

Word Count: 1290

Original Author: Ariel Goodbody

She 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. They made her feel wonderful inside, like there was a party inside her stomach. Grella flew off to find more…
The Flesh and Blood We Share

Nov 30, 2021

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Genre: Romance

Setting: Medieval

New Vocabulary: Alley, Armour, Beast, Bladder, Choke on your own spit, Claw, Dignity, Disarm, Dragon, Flesh and blood, Penance, Prostitute, Slay, Sorcerer, Tame

Word Count: 4436

Original Author: Ariel Goodbody

It 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 twice, then three times, and finally stopped. A bit of sick slid down his chin and neck, leaving a stain…
To Be a Hero Chapter 1

Jul 28, 2020

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Genre: Comedy

Setting: Fairytale

New Vocabulary: Broom, Dragon, Fearsome, Feel like death warmed over, Frown, Knight, Mercenary, Pat, Pegasus, Urge, Wicked, Wizard

Word Count: 2155

Original Author: Ariel Goodbody

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 that Norm’s father abandoned them in the dirty little hut where they lived. So Norm grew up under the thumb…
Three Dragons

Jul 21, 2020

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Genre: Drama

Setting: Fairytale

New Vocabulary: Assassin, Belligerent, Boulder, Carnation, Catapult, Claw, Dragon, Dungeon, Knight, Lair, Petal, Slay, Spit

Word Count: 3196

Original Author: Ariel Goodbody

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 the dragons paid little attention to this. Within the kingdom, however, the dragons caused much anxiety.

Vocabulary: Dragon

The Curse of the Pig

Three Kisses

Saint George and the Dragon

The Very Hungry Dragon (Beginner)

The Flesh and Blood We Share

To Be a Hero Chapter 1

Three Dragons