It was late in the night around 12:30am. I was awake and bored, then an idea poped up in my brain, so I worked on it. I sneaked into my sister's room and made away with her powder. I applied the powder on my face, and covered my body with a white bed sheet. I looked my self at the mirror, and yes I was looking like a spirit. I quietly open our door and came downstairs. They were like eight flats in our building with eight families. I came started making some strange noise, and was calling upon strange spirits😁 I saw when Stephanie's mom look at me and ran inside. I also hear different people locking their doors. I was happy that they were all scared😁😁 Even I heard Uncle Ben and his newly married wife dragging who will lock their door. "Benny go now, your the man of the house, lock this door before that spirit enters here" her wife said in fears "Who told you am not scared? Am scared just like you are. Is like we better go together and lock it" uncle Ben replied his wife. Then I increased my voice. #Reading_Practise #Story @English_4U 🎙📕📗📙📘📓 📚📚📚📚📚🎙🎙🎙

Something strange happened, as I was calling invoking the unknown strange spirits, I heard a strange noice like mweew. Suddenly our compound gate that I locked earlier open and close by itself. "Blood of Jesus" I shouted and took to my heels Boom something was coming after me. I increased my speed as I ran upstairs but the thing increase its own speed too. I reached out door and wanted to enter but it was locked. Omg I hid myself at the back of our generator, the spirit keeps coming towards my direction. Infact I urinated more than seven times on myself. I closed my eyes and waited for end but to my surprise,the spirit touched mi and said "Oh Diala Emmanuel is that you" I recognize the voice and look up, it was my brother. He wanted to scare the entire compound but ghat scared by my strange acting. While I was running for my dear life, he was running for his own too. #Reading_Practise #Story @English_4U 🎙📕📗📙📘📓 📚📚📚📚📚🎙🎙🎙

👩‍🦰Interviewer: Hi, Luke. Thanks for talking to me today. 👨‍🦱Luke: Hi, Jo. Nice to meet you. 👩‍🦰Interviewer: Erm, what would you like to talk about? 👨‍🦱Luke: I'm going to talk about living in London, erm, and the kind of love–hate relationship I have with it – and I assume most people do. I've been living in London for about 15 years, maybe a bit longer. And I've lived kind of mostly in kind of north and east London. So I moved to Camden originally and now I live in Hackney, which is probably the kind of trendiest area of London, and that's not necessarily why I live there, but it's a nice area of London. And most people that come to London, visit London, think that central London is London. And, but, where – generally people don't live in central London. Erm, people don't spend too much time in central London. They might work there, but they don't visit there. So, you might come to London as a tourist and go to somewhere like Leicester Square, er, Trafalgar Square, Oxford Street, Regent Street, that kind of area. And I'm very rarely in that area. Erm, so, I live, erm, slightly on the outskirts but it's not really on the outskirts 'cause it's kind of Zone 2, Zone 3, which for most people that live in London, that's quite close to the centre. So, it takes me about half an hour to get into town. And when you live in London you say 'town' as in 'central London'. And things I love about London is that I've got two children that live in London. Well, my oldest is nine and there's so many things to do, constantly, and so many events every weekend. Erm, you go somewhere like the South Bank and there's always something happening throughout the year. You can always go to the theatre, go to the cinema, there's amazing restaurants and cafés. Erm, there's lots of things to experience but there's also … the downside is it's, there's a kind of lack of stillness and quietness that you might get if you live outside the city. But of course you can always go to Royal Parks which are amazing. Erm, I think my favourite thing about living in London is, erm, the kind of, well, where I live particularly there's a bit of a local community, it's kind of like a small village. It's called Stoke Newington, which everyone that lives in London has heard of but tourists haven't necessarily heard of and it's actually quite a nice place to visit. 👩‍🦰Interviewer: What's the worst thing about living in London for you? 👨‍🦱Luke: Erm, the Underground's pretty horrific, erm, and what I find is, I used to come up to London when my dad worked in London when I was a kid, sort of 20, 30 years ago. Maybe even longer. And there was, there was rush hour, and rush hour was the morning and the evening or the early afternoon, and now London is just one constant rush hour. Doesn't matter what time you get on the Tube or what time you get a bus, it's packed. It's always packed, and if you drive in London as well it's the same thing. It just takes forever to get anywhere. Erm, so, I, my worst thing is how busy it is. It's hectic. 👩‍🦰Interviewer: OK. Thanks so much for talking to me. 👨‍🦱Luke: Pleasure! #Reading_practise #Listening #Conversation @English_4U

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It was a warm, sunny day. She put a hat on to keep the sun out of her eyes. She needed to visit her bank. She walked down to the corner. There were four buildings at the intersection. One was her bank. Opposite the bank was a fast food restaurant. The other two buildings were a dry cleaner and an office building. Before she arrived at the corner, she could smell the fried chicken. The restaurant was open seven days a week, and the odor of fried chicken was in the neighborhood daily. She was a vegetarian. She used to eat meat and fish. But that was before she found a dead cat in her dumpster one day. Of course, she had smelled the dead cat before she opened the dumpster lid. Everyone knows the smell of dead flesh. She knew that something in the dumpster was dead, but she didn't know what. Just in case it was a human (some people dump their babies into dumpsters), she opened the lid. She saw the cat. Flies covered most of it. They were enjoying their meal. She loved cats. She had two of her own. A week later at a restaurant, she ordered a hamburger. She took one bite out of it, and almost gagged. She spit it out. All she could think about was the smell of that dead cat. That was the day she became a vegetarian #Reading_practise @English_4U

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#Reading_Practise Two birds A parrot lived on a tree. One day it left there in search of food. When a pigeon saw an empty nest of a parrot, it started living there. After a few days when the parrot came to its nest, it saw a pigeon there and started fighting with it to leave its nest. At that moment, a jackal was passing by. He asked both of them not to fight and told them to come to him, he will make a deal. As soon as both went to him, he ate them. The moral of the story is that sometimes a fight between two people can benefit the third one. #Beginner #Short_Story #Reading ✒️@English_4U🖌