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Oct 2020
23m 5s

Stone Soup (Beginner)

ARIEL GOODBODY
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A poor man goes to a town and needs food, but nobody will talk to him. So he puts a stone in a pot and starts making "stone soup". The people in the town are interested now, and they add ingredients to the pot. When they eat the soup, they think it is amazing! The man has an idea, but it will end badly...

Today's story is Stone Soup. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Soup for the full transcript. Level: Beginner. Genre: Drama. New Vocabulary: Stone, Pot, Ingredient, Taste, Delicious, Nail (metal), Axe, Get stuck, Suffocate, Owner. Setting: Philosophical. Word Count: 792. Author: Fairy Tales.

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