L1 - Beginner | Easy Stories in English: Recent Episodes
L1 – Beginner – Easy Stories in English
The moon is beautiful, but it wasn't always that way. True love was needed, as well as breaking a mother's heart...
The post How the Moon Became Beautiful first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Would you go fishing on Halloween night? That's when demons walk the Earth, and nobody is truly safe...
The post The Demon Cats first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
The king asks a clockmaker to repair an old magical clock. But when the clockmaker tries to repair the clock, nothing works... until he discovers a secret that will change his life.
The post Before the Light Dies first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
A horrible pirate called the Denschman terrorises a small Scottish island. But when a storm leaves the Denschman trapped in a cave, will the people of the island be cruel enough to leave him to die?
The post The Cave of the Danishman first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Why is the weather in March so changeable? Well, it's all to do with wine and a very angry lady from Bulgaria...
The post Grandmother March first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Felicity is a successful lawyer, but she wants a change. She tries painting and loves it. But there's a problem: everyone hates her paintings. Can she find the true shape of her art?
The post The Shape of Art first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Eugene is a big nerd, and he's afraid of everything. But one day, a man attacks him in the street, and Eugene discovers that he isn't so weak after all.
The post Think Fast! first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
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...
The post The Curse of the Pig first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
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?
The post The Freezer Door first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
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?
The post The Pumpkin Jug first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
The wind carries a pea to a crack by a window. Inside the house, a boy is sick and dying. The pea wants to help the boy, and slowly it grows into a plant. When the boy sees the plant he is so happy, and he helps the plant grow.
The post The Kind-Hearted Pea first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Dinewan gets married to Bohra the kangaroo, and they go for a walk in the desert. But Dinewan soon gets bored. Bohra is a magic kangaroo, and his spirit can walk through the sky. Dinewan thinks it would be interesting to see Bohra's spirit...
The post The Emu and the Kangaroo first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
A cat hunts all the mice in the town, so it goes to the fields. But the mice in the fields are too fast. So the cat decides to start praying...
The post The Holy Cat first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
A woman's husband dies, and she visits his grave every week to pray. When she dies, she goes to the land of the dead, and is excited to finally see him again. But she can't find him...
The post The Singing Widow (Beginner) first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Gemma finds a strange red book on her way home from school. She starts reading it, and it is a story about a boy called Nai. In the story, Nai also finds a red book, and when he starts to read it, the story is about Gemma...
The post The Red Book first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
A woman grows a really big turnip. She wants to pull it out of the ground but she can't. Her husband helps her, but together they still can't pull the turnip out of the ground. How much help will they need?
The post The Giant Turnip first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Three goats live happily in a field eating grass. But one day, there's no more grass. They decide to cross a bridge to another field. But when they try to cross, a monster jumps out, and he wants to eat them!
The post The Three Goats first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Simon gets a new job, but everything goes wrong. He doesn't wear enough deodorant and smells at work. He tries walking, taking the bus, the train, a taxi, but he always gets there too early or too late. One day, it all becomes too much...
The post Simon’s New Job first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Rats come to the town of Hamelin, three times as big as normal rats. The townspeople don't know what to do. But then a piper comes to town and says he can get rid of the rats with his music. The only problem? The price! But when the mayor refuses to pay him, the piper plays a different kind of music...
The post The Piper of Hamelin (Beginner) first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
There is a king who loves only his clothes. One day, two brothers come to town and say that they can make magic clothes for the king. If you are stupid or bad at your job, you can't see the clothes. But what happens when the king can't see them?
The post The King’s New Clothes (Beginner) first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Ken finally has his holiday. But his eyes hurt! Maybe watching TV will help. Lisa loves brushing her teeth - she does it EVERYWHERE. But what will happen when she goes to the dentist? Vladimir has beautiful, long toenails... but does his boss agree?
The post Eyes, Teeth and Toenails first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
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...
The post The Pancake Man first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Rory has always wanted a pet, but his parents don't like animals. When Rory finishes university, he decides to get a pet. First, he gets a dog, but then things start going wrong...
The post The Perfect Pet (Beginner) first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Goldilocks goes into the forest and gets lost. She finds a house with porridge by the window, and it smells so good... The old man who lives there would want her to go and eat it, wouldn't he?
The post Goldilocks and the Three Bears first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Two women come to the king with a baby. Both say that the baby is theirs. Who is the real mother? The king must decide.
The post Whose Child Is It? first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
One day, a young man called Anders hears his brother say, 'Oh, those scary stories make me shudder!'
'I wonder what it means to shudder?' Anders thinks, and he goes out on a journey to find out.
The post The Boy Who Knew No Fear (Beginner) first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Hector is a snail, so of course he's very slow. But he dreams of becoming fast. He decides to find a wizard and ask the wizard to swap his body with an ostrich's. What could go wrong? Well, a lot, actually...
The post Hector the Snail first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
A young man called Arran hates eating his vegetables. One day, his mother locks him out. Arran finds a house with a strange old woman inside, and a dog that talks. Will he find his way home, and will he discover the secret of the house?
The post The Turnip Princess first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
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 food.
The post The Very Hungry Dragon (Beginner) first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
‘I know you think you don’t want it,’ said Gary’s girlfriend, Claire, ‘but just think. When you turn 18, most of your friends will have their tattoos already. People will want to see yours. Look, you can tell them that you’re getting it later, that you couldn’t book an appointment, but how long can you lie? One day, you’ll look around and think, “God, why don’t I have a tattoo? Everyone else does.” ’
The post The Tattoo first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Suddenly, the goat started changing. It grew long and square, and became a big white table. And on the table were all kinds of food: bread, cheeses, jams, pickles, tomatoes, olives, and so on. The girl was hungry from the work, so she ate lots and lots of food, and when she was done, she said, ‘Little goat, little goat, it’s time to go.’
The post One-Eyed, Two-Eyed, Three-Eyed (Beginner) first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
She was singing. She was drunk, I think, the way she sang. Maybe she had drunk a big glass of vodka. But her singing was good. She sounded sad, but the music was good. We were all so surprised to see her there.
The post Have You Seen This Woman? first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
The people began to shout and cheer: ‘You can do it!’ ‘He’s three quarters of the way across!’ ‘Just a bit more!’ Everyone’s hearts were open to the tightrope walker. They did not imagine him dying now. They imagined him making it to the end. They imagined the feeling, when he would make the last step, and everything would be OK.
The post The Tightrope Walker first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
Why could nobody understand it? I loved Marmite, and so did my pet snake, Misty. Well, she wasn’t my pet. She was my ex-boyfriend’s. But I loved her more than him.
And she loved me, too. As soon as that letter had come through the door, I knew it. I was her real owner. Not my ex.
The post Misty the Snake first appeared on Easy Stories in English.
As Little Peter rode his horse, he held the basket so that the priest could not get out.
‘Help! Help!’ shouted the priest.
‘Shh!’ said Little Peter. ‘Do you hear that?’
They were by a river, and the priest listened to the water.
‘Most baskets do not talk, so if you can talk, you must be a magic basket. And I don’t like magic. I think I’ll throw you in the river!’
The post Big Peter and Little Peter first appeared on Easy Stories in English.