2024-05-14
50 分钟Today's story I wrote with Alastair Budge from the English Learning for Curious Minds podcast. In last week's episode, we brainstormed the story together, and today we present to you A Visitor from Chilly Bottom. A man who has lived in Antarctica all his life visits the UK for the first time. Technically, he is a British citizen, as he grew up on British Antarctic Territory. And he has an important message for the king! It's just that, the king has no idea who this man is... Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Chilly for the full transcript. Get episodes without adverts + bonus episodes at EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Support. Your support is appreciated! Level: Intermediate. Genre: Comedy. Vocabulary: Chilly, Royal seal, Bonkers, Butler, Tailcoat, Worship, Spit, Regurgitate, Colony, Crumbs, Poo, Furrow your brow, Captive, Press release, Waddle. Setting: UK. Word Count: 3272. Author: Ariel Goodbody and Alastair Budge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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.
Todays story is for intermediate learners.
The name of the story is a visitor from chilly Bottom.
You can find a transcript of the episode@easysystoriesinenglish.com Chili C H I L L Y where you can also download the episode as a PDF.
This is a story I wrote with Alastair from English learning for curious minds.
Last week we came up with a story idea and worked on it together.
Then Alistair went away and wrote the story.
We edited it together, and today you're going to hear the final version with both of our voices.
After the episode, there'll be a discussion between me and Alastair about the story, what we think went well, what surprised us, and our thoughts on the experience.
So do keep listening.
You can go back and listen to the brainstorming session where we came up with the story@easystoriesinenglish.com.
together okay, we'll just explain some words that are in today's story.
Chilly means a bit cold when you go outside and the wind is blowing and making things cold, it's chilly.
When it's chilly, you might not turn the heating on.
You might just put on some extra clothes.
In the UK in winter, it's rarely freezing cold, but often chilly.
A seal, s e a l is a tool you use to mark a document or letter to prevent others from opening it or copying it.
Traditionally, seals were made of metal.
You poured out some wax onto an envelope and pressed the seal into it while the wax was still wet so that it would dry into the shape of the seal.