THE NAUGHTY BOY

Short Story written by Emmanuel Castañeda Cardona.

There was a child called Peter who really loved playing. One day he found a bag of gold coins and started spending the money without telling his parents.

After a week, Peter heard on the radio that somebody had lost a bag of gold coins. When Peter heard the news he told his mother what was going on and that he had spent half of the coins.

 

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THE ENGLISH PATIENT

John was an English teacher in Madrid, Spain. He was from England and during his class he always spoke in English and never in Spanish.

The pupils really liked him as a teacher, but during the lesson on verbs, they always behaved badly because they didn’t want to spend the whole class repeating verb tenses.

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They actually shouted and threw papers around every time John tried to teach them the verbs. So John would stop talking until the children were silent, then he would continue with his lesson.  Continue reading…

LITTLE JOHNY AND THE BUBBLE BATH

Short Story written by Manjari Shukla

Little Johny was a cute and charming young boy who was loved by everyone. He never troubled his mother and played all day with his toys. He would spend the entire day playing on the floor and the dirt and dust on the floor would make him very dirty.

In spite of his mother’s repeated requests he wouldn’t take a bath. He always made excuses to avoid taking a bath.

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One day he looked particularly dirty and his hair was all shabby, so his mother kissed him gently and said-“Today I will give you a bubble bath.”

Little Johny gave many excuses so as not to have a bath. But in the end he replied “Only if I can take my big yellow ball into the bath tub.” His mother agreed happily and said -“Yes, you can take it.”  Continue reading…

LINA AND THE MAGIC DOOR

Once upon a time there was a smart girl called Lina, who had lots of imagination.

One day, Lina realised that sometimes his parents left the heater on in the bathroom during winter after taking a shower.

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This was a serious problem because it was an unnecessary waste of energy and Lina wanted to save energy. Continue reading…

THE SWIMMER CLOWN

Once upon a time there was a clown who really loved swimming. He participated in important competitions all over the world.

He was a very good swimmer and he also dressed up as a clown in competitions, and that´s why everyone knew him as the swimmer clown.

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He was one of the best swimmers in the world, actually, and he won any competition he wanted, nevertheless, everybody knew what he did in every competition. Continue reading…

WILLY THE STUTTERER BEAR

Willy the bear lived in a beautiful place in the middle of a mountain range full of green fields that nobody knew about.

He was very lucky, as this beautiful place was all for him, and he could eat everything he wanted, so actually he was a very big bear.

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One day when he woke up found out something devastating. Some of the trees had died!

“What has happened to you?”- said Willy with tears in his eyes. Continue reading…

SHORT TONGUE TWISTERS

Today we are posting these short tongue twisters. See if you are able to repeat them with your children!

Very short tongue twisters for kids to help their concentration and enunciation.

 

 

A good cook could cook as many cookies
as the good cook who could cook cookies.
 
A sailor went to sea to see what he could see, 
and all he could see was the sea, the sea, the sea.
 
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JAMES AND THE TEACHER´S WHISTLE

James was a peculiar boy who lived near a main square in London, he was 7 years old and what he most hated in the world was his sports class at school.

James didn´t like to practice sports at all  and when he had sports class he would tell his mother he was sick, but his mother knew him very well.

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His mother was worried, James was getting fatter and needed to play some sport. So she went to talk to the gym teacher. Continue reading…

ELMY AND THE AUTUMN

Every year in October, when autumn arrives Elmy gets very sad and stops smiling.

Elmy was a young perishable tree who loved having fun and joking with the other trees in the park where he lived. But every year when autumn arrived, Elmy’s leaves started to fall and he became sad.

 

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One day one of his friends decided to throw him a surprise party to cheer him up. Soon, everything was ready for the party. Continue reading…

CLAIRE, THE UGLY FAIRY

In the fairy kingdom lived a young girl called Claire who was known as the ugly fairy. She was 17 years old and had been hiding at home all her life because she was ashamed of how she looked.

The ugly fairy only left her house once a month to go to the fairy ceremony, where old fairies shared their knowledge and experience with the rest of the fairies.

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Claire always wore a mask, when she went out to rescue a child on a mission otherwise the child would always ended up saying: “Go away, you ugly fairy!”, and the poor fairy always felt very sad when this happened. Continue reading…