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Easy Stories in English
Ariel Goodbody, Polyglot English Teacher & Glassbox Media
Learn British English with Fairy Tales and Advanced Conversation
- 24 minutes 11 secondsHow the Platypus Came to Be (Pre-Intermediate)
The nose of a duck, the fur of an otter and the tail of a beaver: platypuses are one of the strangest animals in the world! So where did they come from? Find out in this hilarious story...
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Level: Pre-Intermediate.
Genre: Myths & Legends.
Vocabulary: Platypus, Beak, Came to be, Can’t be bothered, Pester, Beaver, Tail, Dam, Otter.
Setting: Modern.
Word Count: 1040.
Author: Ariel Goodbody.
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10 December 2024, 7:00 am - 49 minutes 50 secondsNew? Start here! (Conversation)
New to the podcast, or want to know how best to learn English, and more about me, Ariel Goodbody? You're in the right place. In today's episode I reintroduce myself, answer some frequently asked questions and recommend you my favourite episodes.
Transcript: https://www.easystoriesinenglish.com/start
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Word count: 6463
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26 November 2024, 7:00 am - 45 minutes 59 secondsThe Curse of the Pig (Beginner)
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...
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Level: Beginner.
Genre: Children's.
Vocabulary: Curse, Forbid, Dragon, Tell the future, Mud, Pork, Pass by in a blur, Transform, String, Tie around, Wear out, Iron, Bone, Catch wind, Ladder.
Setting: Fairytale.
Word Count: 4280.
Author: Ariel Goodbody.
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12 November 2024, 8:30 am - 30 minutes 7 secondsThree Kisses (Pre-Intermediate)
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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...
Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Kiss for the full transcript.
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Level: Pre-Intermediate.
Genre: Children's.
Vocabulary: Ruby, Grief, Servant, Dragon, Witch, Seagull, Courage, Slave, Smash, Bathtub.
Setting: Fairytale.
Word Count: 2405.
Author: Gordon Urquhart.
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29 October 2024, 8:30 am - 12 minutes 14 secondsI have a confession to make...
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Today, I have a confession to make. I thought I knew what you all wanted, but I was wrong. In this episode, I ask for your help.
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18 October 2024, 11:08 am - 28 minutes 28 secondsThe Freezer Door (Beginner)
A woman has a loving husband and children, and she's great at her job. So why is she sad? One day, she opens the freezer door and sees the way into another world. If she goes, she will lose her husband and children. But could she be happy there?
Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Door for the full transcript.
Level: Beginner.
Genre: Philosophical.
Vocabulary: Freeze, Freezer, Cheek, Pick at, Kid, Nightmare, Gooseberry, Cliff, Sober, Weigh something up, Parallel universe.
Setting: Modern.
Word Count: 1517.
Author: Ariel Goodbody.
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15 October 2024, 7:30 am - 1 hour 35 secondsThe Superpower of Story with Bree Aesie
Today I talk to Bree Aesie from the Into the Story podcast about how to use stories in your everyday life, what makes a great communicator and some interesting memory techniques.
Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Bree for the full transcript.
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1 October 2024, 7:30 am - 1 hour 10 minutesHamburg, City of Water (Conversation)
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In today's episode, learn all about the second-largest city in Germany with the world's largest model railway, how I'm conquering my fears with a piece of paper, the controversial new smoking bans in the UK and my fabulous new course Story Builders!
Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Hamburg for the full transcript.
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Vocabulary: ‘How did you find…?’, Streak (record), Leafy, Suburb, Model railway, Nerd, Cityscape, VR, Overwhelmed, Demolish, Bulge out, Privilege, Cobbled, Mortar, Rest on your laurels, CV, Bubbly, Rejection, Trial shift, Bucket list, Resilient, Ban, Phased ban, Nanny state, Vaping, Second-hand smoke
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24 September 2024, 7:30 am - 44 minutes 50 secondsThe Pumpkin Jug (Beginner)
A king meets a woman who grows pumpkins. She gives him water in a dirty old jug, and then she breaks it. The king thinks this is strange, but he likes the woman. So he gives her a challenge: if she can put a big pumpkin in a small jug, he will marry her. But she cannot break the jug or the pumpkin. Can she do it?
Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Jug for the full transcript.
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Level: Beginner.
Genre: Romance.
Vocabulary: Pumpkin, Jug, Pick (flowers), Poppy, Thirsty, Bow (verb), Hole, Fit, Rule (noun), Impossible, Landslide victory, A good match, Come into season.
Setting: Fairytale.
Word Count: 1348.
Author: Ariel Goodbody.
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10 September 2024, 7:30 am - 31 minutes 44 secondsMisty the Snake (Rerun)
Misty 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...
This episode is a rerun, BUT I add some new commentary and talk about my exciting new project, Story Builders. Story Builders will be an eight-week online language course where we will work together to create a story based on all our experiences that will then appear on the podcast. To hear as soon as sign-ups for Story Builders are open, join my email newsletter at EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Email.
Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/MistyRerun for the full transcript.
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Level: Beginner.
Genre: Comedy
Vocabulary: Sneak, Parcel, Queue, Bubble wrap, Marmite, Lick, Ex, Prison bars, Put a bounty on someone’s head, Owner, Tongue, Yeast.
Setting: Modern.
Word Count: 1457.
Author: Ariel Goodbody.
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3 September 2024, 7:28 am - 1 hour 5 minutesMy Sister's Wedding (Conversation)
In today's episode, I 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. Keep listening to learn English!
Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Wedding for the full transcript.
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Vocabulary: Buddy, Nomenclature, Yap, Gen Z, Segment, Ramble, Civil partnership, Registrar, Brother-in-law, Bonfire, Cartwheel, Pull a hamstring, Ceilidh, Gaelic, Calves, Killing me, Polyamorous, Sedate, Woo woo, Stoic, Two sides of the same coin, Adman, Conscript, Eyewitness, Testify, Tabloid newspaper, Beaver, Rewilding, Double whammy, Food for thought, Ultra-processed food, A rule of thumb, Livestock, Calf (cow), Fasting
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