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UK. Okay. on the podcast this time I'm going to be reading a story called the

escaped man by an author called CT plat the story is presented on comofal dot com

comrifal is a website where you can find short stories fan fiction and other

reading texts and it's all presented in a nice and easy to read format so this time the story is the escaped man and it's written by

CT Platt. Okay and the way this is going to work is that I will read the story once

and you can just try and follow it and understand it and then I will

summarize the story very quickly in plain English to make sure you've understood basically what

happened and then we will go through the story again, line by line, and I will

break it down for language and I will teach you bits of vocabulary and bits of grammar. I'll

point them out for you. So not only can you enjoy hopefully an entertaining story, but also

we'll use it as a way to learn some English. Okay? Learning English through stories is a great

idea and it tends to work because it places language

in a vivid context and is generally quite entertaining and fun.

So listen to the story and then let me break all the language down for you bit by bit.

Okay? So we're nearly ready to start reading the story.

Just before I read it to you, here are a few questions, okay, just to help you focus.

So question number one is, where does the story take place?

What do you think?

Where's the location of this story and how do you know? And secondly, is this American

English or is this British English and how do you know? And thirdly, the third question is simply,

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