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Oct 2021
20m 28s

Strange Friends (Intermediate)

ARIEL GOODBODY
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There is a cat and mouse, and they are very good friends. They live together, and everyone calls them the "Strange Friends". But they must buy food and keep it for winter. So they get a pot of fat, and put it in the church, but the cat gets hungry...

Today's story is Strange Friends. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/FriendsInt for the full transcript. You can listen to the beginner version of this story at EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Friends. Level: Intermediate. Genre: Children's. New Vocabulary: Altar, Fantasise, Christening, Anticipation, Spare (Give), ‘Good things come in threes’, From top to bottom, Deter, Gravely, Evoke memories. Setting: Fairytale. Word Count: 1384. Author: Ariel Goodbody.

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