Easy Stories in English Ariel Goodbody & Glassbox Media

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Recently, I worked with Alastair Budge on Pioneers of the Continuum, an eight-part audio drama featuring your favourite ESL podcasters as narrators. Today, we talk about Pioneers of the Continuum and Alastair's other work. Alastair also hosts the English Learning for Curious Minds podcast, where you can learn about history and inspiring stories in accessible English.
Pioneers of the Continuum comes out today! Find it on your favourite podcast app.
Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Pioneers for the full transcript.
Level: Intermediate.
Genre: Conversation.
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With every month that passes, Eileen gets cleverer. The kids at school hate her, and her parents are afraid of her. There's something not... human about this child.
This story covers my feelings about AI (artificial intelligence). I talk a lot about an episode of another podcast, Your Undivided Attention, which explains the dangers and possibilities of AI.
Today's story is Eileen. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/AI for the full transcript.
Level: Pre-Intermediate.
Genre: Horror.
Vocabulary: Exponential, Precocious, Bully, Disguise, Bruise, Acid, Climate change, Come up with, Hack, Disprove.
Setting: Modern.
Word Count: 1449.
Author: Ariel Goodbody.
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St George is a famous mythical figure throughout Europe. Most versions of his story involve him fighting and killing a dragon who is causing problems in a city. But in my version, things are bit... smellier.
Today's story is Saint George and the Dragon. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/George for the full transcript.
Level: Pre-Intermediate.
Genre: Myths & Legends.
Vocabulary: Saint, Dragon, Dew, Kingdom, Desert, Tame, Well (water), Pass out, Knight, Scratch, Collar.
Setting: Fairytale.
Word Count: 1662.
Author: Ariel Goodbody.
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Heorhiy lives happily as a peasant, but one day a rich man comes to his house and tells him he has a family debt. Heorhiy works three years to pay it off, but the rich man doesn't want to let him go, so he thinks of a way to trick him...
Today's story is The Rabbit Man. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/RabbitMan for the full transcript.
Level: Intermediate.
Genre: Comedy.
Vocabulary: Solidarity, Peasant, Starve, Manor house, Forefather, Shirk your duty, Interest (money), Hare, Graze (eating), Lira, Strangle.
Setting: Medieval.
Word Count: 1932.
Author: Ariel Goodbody.
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Francis's mother dies, and his father gets very sad. One day, Francis's father starts making pancakes. Francis loves the pancakes, so his dad makes bigger and bigger pancakes. But maybe they're too big...
Today's story is The Pancake Man. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Pancake for the full transcript.
Level: Beginner.
Genre: Drama.
Vocabulary: Pancake, Frying pan, Flip, At first, Giant, Sick of something, Connect (person), Run (business), Space, Lift weights, Grave.
Setting: Modern.
Word Count: 1194.
Author: Ariel Goodbody.
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A woman keeps ending up in bad relationships. A businessman works so hard he has heart problems. A young man killed his friend by drunk driving and now he can't stop drinking. All three of them are lost. All three of them go to drive. They go to the place where all roads lead: the labyrinth.
Today's story is The Labyrinth. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Labyrinth for the full transcript.
Level: Pre-Intermediate.
Genre: Philosophical.
Vocabulary: Labyrinth, Smash, Image, Ignore, Chest, Tight, Poison, Ashes, Urn, Fork (road), Melt, Hourglass.
Setting: Modern.
Word Count: 1532.
Author: Ariel Goodbody.
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