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Hello my lovely learners and welcome to Easy Stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from okay to good and from good to great.
I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's advanced level story is called Adrian's Dream.
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So I'm trying something very different today, and when I say very different, I mean it's fundamentally changing the format of the show.
Don't worry, it's not going to be that crazy, but it's going to be a bit different.
Normally when I present a story on the show, I try and grade all of the language to a certain level and then I have about 10 or so new vocabulary items that are higher level that I define before the story.
Today's story is different.
Today I just wrote as I would write normally if I were writing for other native speakers speakers for other speakers of English.
So the idea is instead of defining some words, I'm going to read through the story twice.
The first time I read through the story, I will stop to explain the meanings of words and cultural references.
Then once we've gone through the story and I've explained all the difficult bits, I will read through it again without any, any explanations.
So you can just sit back and enjoy.