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If you want to read the texts online as you listen, first (down)load the audio files and then click on the links below the descriptions on the right. The texts will open in this same window. When you've finished reading and listening, you can do the language activities if you wish. To return to this page, click on 'Back'.
how to read the texts offline as you listen
If you want to print the audio scripts on paper, click the links to 'See/print audio script' on the right. These will open as Word documents in a new window.
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Develop your English listening and reading skills using our MP3 audio files and audio scripts. You can listen to the files online, or download them onto your PC and put them on your MP3 player, then see if you've understood by reading the scripts. You can also read the stories online as you listen, and then do language activities, or print out the audio scripts and read the stories on paper as you listen.

this week

This week we've got Black Sheep and the Mysterious Uncle Bob (article), and The Sick Child (poem).

 Black Sheep and the Mysterious Uncle Bob
All families have their stories, their dramas, their private jokes, nicknames and phrases. They’re the place where our personalities were made
(Read article online and do a language activity)
(See/print audio script)

 The Sick Child
In this sad little poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, a mother spends the night at her sick child's bedside.
(Read poem online and do a language activity)
(See/print audio script)

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