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Stories

See also:
grammar:
narrative tenses
 
functions:
past events - talking about
 
skills:
urban myths
 
skills:
anecdotes
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
Past simple and continuous - anecdote - the Donkey Dog
Short anecdote about a frightening experience, gapped for past continuous and past simple plus 'enormous' and 'the biggest'
 
 

 

Material from other sources

 
 
 
Eslreading.org external link icon
Site with small number of good, short (6 - 10 page) simplified versions of classic stories, mostly for reading online, some for download
 
 

 

 
 
 
American Stories for English Learners external link icon
Fifty-seven 15-minute mp3 files with text, read at medium-slow speed.
 
 

 

 
 
 
New Cutting Edge Pre-Intermediate students' book book cover 
New Cutting Edge Pre-Intermediate students' book
Module 14 Money, money, money  Page 128 
Tell a story from pictures, listen to story, find differences between listening and pictures
 
 
New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate students' book book cover 
New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate students' book
Module 3 Adventures and mishap  Pages 32 - 33  Telling a story from two points of view
Split listening: two versions of a minor incident
 
 
The Great Train Robbery
 
<i>Black Mirror</i>
 
Escape from the canyon