A2 · 4 minutes · Stories for children

The magic seed

A poor boy finds something small that changes his life.

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What you’ll practise

Follow a short magical story in the past tense.

Words to know

seed: A small part of a plant from which a new plant grows.
huge: Very big.
share: To give part of something to other people.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 95% of the words in this lesson.

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These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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