Any suggestions for very short English language stories or essays for adult early intermediate learners
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@AnthoDerv Not sure if these are the right level but, Patrick Sherriff has written some short story anthologies, they're meant for high school students but I've read them and I'd be fine reading the equivalent in Japanese as a learner https://freetalktefl.substack.com/p/the-hana-walker-mysteries
@wombatarama Thanks very much - I'll check them out!
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@AnthoDerv
I was looking through my bookshelves.
My wife used "Big Fat Cat" (Mukoyama Takahiko) readers for Japanese.
There's a short mildly amusing story with furigana, then a notes section explaining the grammar etc. in detail. almost sentence by sentence.
To me the English reads normally. not esp. adult though, but engaging enough. It feels intermediate. not beginner, not advanced.
Can't really comment on the grammar explanations but it looks ok.@shiawase Interesting - much appreciated!
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@mylesserhalf I pulled The Old Man ad the Sea off the shelf but the language is too out of date for the level of M's student.
@AnthoDerv that's what I was afraid of. I hated reading him in HS because the sentence structure was too simplistic!
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Any suggestions for very short English language stories or essays for adult early intermediate learners?
All my ideas are too last century with archaic language (A. A. Milne etc)@AnthoDerv E.B. White or S.E. Hinton. I don't have them to check the language, just a thought.
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@AnthoDerv E.B. White or S.E. Hinton. I don't have them to check the language, just a thought.
@dandelionwine2 Thank you. I'll take a look!
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Any suggestions for very short English language stories or essays for adult early intermediate learners?
All my ideas are too last century with archaic language (A. A. Milne etc)@AnthoDerv Perhaps the RTÉ (Irish national broadcaster) short story competition might be a potential source. The stories are read beautifully and clearly on the podcast and there's a link from each one to the written story.
The shortlisted stories themselves are exceptional, year after year, and they're modern and diverse.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/podcasts/series/33013-rte-short-story-competition/
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