ESL Reading: free graded reading materials for English
language learners
Strange
News: Did That Really Happen?
Most of these stories are
true. Some are only partly true. A few are not really true
at all.
Can
you spot the false stories?
Bear Hug
Pre-Intermediate
- Don't get too close to a brown bear!
- Dog goes for a very long walk
- How do you hide $55 million?
- An ex girlfriend is an unwelcome wedding guest.
- A woman's wrong-number revenge
- Judge asks for $64 million for missing pants
- California man takes off from his garden.
Call Me!
Intermediate
- Young robber leaves his business card.
- Office worker trapped for 41 hours in New York lift.
- Cigarette-break saves Empire State elevator operator.
- Monkey flies economy class
- Man smuggles iguanas in his false leg.
- Car thief's lucky day?
- 'I made a mistake!'
- Why was a wheelchair traveling down a highway at 50 mph?
- A cow falls on holiday couple's car. - see clip here
- A Cambodian Cow causes traffic accident. Another travels in a car
- Don't dial the wrong number when you're looking for drugs
- Japanese Businessman escapes from Hiroshima - to safety?
- A woman marries a successful and popular doctor - or so she thinks.
Stupid Parrot? Upper Intermediate
- A woman marries a successful and popular doctor - or so she thinks.
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