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Free Sample of our EasyReader Audio Ghost Story

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This week you can download a free sample of our audio ghost story – The Signalman, by Charles Dickens, the famous English writer.

Today’s free sample is from our EasyReader, perfect for students from elementary level upwards, and good revision for higher levels too.


For intermediate to advanced level students, we have the original Dickens version of the story, which was written in 1885, and so is a great way to learn formal English.

We also have the story in modern English so you can see the difference in style.  

Reading and listening to stories is a great way to improve your English speaking and listening – remember to speak along with the audio to practise your pronunciation, rhythm and tone.  


“Hello! Hello down there!”

When he first heard [1] me shouting [2] down to him, he was standing [3] at the door of his signal box [4] with a signal flag [5] in his hand.


But he did not look up to the top of the cutting [6] where I was standing. Instead he looked down the railway line.


This seemed a little bit strange but at the time.

I could not think why. I was high above him looking down into the deep cutting and I had to cover my eyes because the light from the evening sunset [7] was very strong.

“Hello down there” I shouted [8] again.


He stopped looking down the railway track,[9] then he turned and looked up at me.

“How can I get down there? Is there a path[10] or some steps? I need to speak to you.”

Notes:


1. heard (‘heard’ is the past simple tense of the irregular verb ‘to hear’ : hear, heard, heard)

2. shouting = speaking in a very loud voice

3. he was standing (‘was standing’ is the past continuous tense of the irregular verb ‘to stand’: stand, stood, stood)

  1. signal box = small hut or building beside a railway line (which is used for changing the signals in order to communicate with the train drivers.)
  2. flag = a coloured piece of material attached to a wooden pole (here, the flag is used for signalling to the train driver, but often a flag is the national emblem of a country.)
  3. cutting = railway cutting (a deep man-made valley that is cut into the ground when a railway is built.)
  4. sunset = the last light of the sun before the end of the day
  5. shouted = yelled / said in a very loud voice
  6. the railway track = the railway line (the track consists of metal rails supported
    on pieces of wood or concrete, called ‘sleepers’.)

  7. a path = a walkway (a route that people walk along)


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