Story-based English
Myths and Legends for Adult English Learners
Graded stories with audio, vocabulary support and unhurried interactive practice. Real stories, written for adults.
The idea
A lot of English material for learners is technically useful and emotionally flat.
Story gives language somewhere to live. A character wants something. A situation changes. A line stays in the mind. Vocabulary becomes attached to a scene rather than a list.
This strand of the work is about adult English through myth and legend: not childish stories, and not decorative reading practice, but carefully graded narrative material with real atmosphere and the right support to read it.
First reader
St George and the Dragon
A lower-level interactive myth reader for adult English learners, with story, audio, vocabulary cards and workbook practice.
- Lower level
- 9 chapters
- Interactive reader
- Workbook included
This is the first paid Myths and Legends pack, available now, with my narration across all nine chapters. The £12 founding price is open while the series grows.
Second reader
Tam Lin
A middle-level retelling of the Scottish ballad for adult English learners. Janet enters Carterhaugh, learns what the Fairy Queen has planned, and must hold on while Tam Lin changes in her arms.
- Middle level
- 10 chapters
- Claire narration
- Interactive workbook
The complete illustrated reader is available now at the £12 founding price. You can read the first two chapters and hear Claire's Scottish narration before you buy.
What comes next
St George now gives the series a lower-level starting point, while Tam Lin offers a longer middle-level read. Later stories can extend the same approach into other tones and levels, with British Isles myths first and world mythology later.
Lower
Finn McCool
A warmer, comic myth, where the giant wins by wit instead of fighting.
Middle · available now
Tam Lin
Janet holds on while Tam Lin changes in her arms: a snake, a lion and a bar of red-hot iron. Read the complete ten-chapter edition now.
Higher
King Lear or Beowulf
Richer language for learners ready for a more literary register.
Choose your reader
Start where the language feels right
Choose St George for a shorter lower-level story. Choose Tam Lin for a longer middle-level story with more complex relationships, richer sentences and adult themes.