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Jul 2021
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A Holiday Gone Wrong (Intermediate)

ARIEL GOODBODY
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A tourist goes to a small village in Japan because it's part of a TV show he loves. He looks around, remembering all the horrible things that happened in the horror show, but just when he's about to take a picture, he falls down a hill...

Today's story is A Holiday Gone Wrong. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Holiday for the full transcript. Level: Intermediate. Genre: Horror. New Vocabulary: Curse, Shinto shrine, Mecca, Guts, Cicada, Jet lag, Chopsticks, Incense, Crow, Ritual. Setting: Fairytale. Word Count: 2620. Author: Ariel Goodbody.

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