Any room for Mushrooms
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Release Date: 07/30/2022
Questions for a Long Walk
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Explore all episodes and download from the full library: The story stayed in Pablo’s mind as he walked. It made him think about reviewing things. Not judging everything. Not deciding that everything he had done was right or wrong. Just looking. Looking carefully at where he had been, where he was now and where he might be going. He wondered what would happen if he made a list of questions. Questions about his life. Questions about his time. Questions about what he valued and why he valued it. But what would the...
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The Long Journey
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Explore all episodes and download from the full library: Pablo could not remember every detail of the story. But he remembered the important part. A very famous man travelled to a tiny island, far away, near the bottom of the world. The man had become very important. Very important. In fact, he would eventually become the king of one of the greatest kingdoms on Earth. He could have spent his time anywhere. He could have met presidents, politicians, business leaders and other famous people. But instead, he travelled all that way to visit the family of an old friend. The friend had died many...
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What Is the Value?
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More Pablo stories: Pablo was still walking along the beach. The bowl was in his hands. Every now and then, he stopped and looked at it. He turned it over. He ran his fingers around the outside of it, and then around the smooth edge at the top. He wondered about its value. Not its value in money. He did not mean: “How much could I sell this bowl for?” Or: “How much would it cost in a shop?” He was thinking about a different kind of value. Who had made it? How had they made it? How long had it taken them? What tools had they used? And what was the bowl actually made from? He...
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The sand was soft under his feet
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Find more Pablo stories and listening episodes here: Pablo was walking slowly along the beach. The tide had gone out and the sand was soft under his feet. He had seen something sticking out of the sand. At first, he thought it was just a shell. He bent down gently and cleared the sand away with his hands. A small bowl appeared. It was old-looking and round, and quiet, in a way. Pablo did not pick it up straight away. He just looked at it for a moment. He wondered who had left it there. He wondered how long it had been waiting. Then he placed both hands around the bowl and slowly lifted it out...
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Pablo and the Shiny Object
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Pablo and the Story of Observation
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Pablo Learns to Listen
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Read, listen, and follow the transcript here: A gentle English listening episode about Pablo slowing down near the ocean and learning to listen carefully. In this episode, Pablo listens to the waves, the wind, and the small changes around him. This story helps English learners practise calm listening, observation, and simple reflective language. Full transcript and reading notes are available on the website.
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Pablo and the Word in the Sand
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In this gentle English listening episode, Pablo stands on the beach and tries to remember something from a dream. He writes in the sand near the waves and slowly remembers the feeling behind the word. This episode is designed for calm listening, simple English practice, and story-based learning. Listen and read here:
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Pablo’s Sidetime Beach Walk
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A slow English listening story about Pablo, the beach, and the quiet space between sleeping and waking. Read the story text and Gentle English Notes here:
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Pablo Woke in the Late Afternoon
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Explore all episodes and download from the full library: Pablo woke in the late afternoon. For a moment he was not sure if he had been sleeping for one hour or many hours, and the light had changed while he was asleep. He remembered the dream only in pieces: A young woman, A book on the table, An open window, A page turning in the wind, And seasons that were not quite the usual seasons. He thought about taking a walk along the beach, not to solve the dream, not even to understand it completely—he did not need it. Only to let the air move around him just for a while. Sometimes a...
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That night, Pablo had a funny dream.
He was sitting up on the magic carpet.
Flying above and through the clouds
When he looked down, he realized the carpet was made of pizza, and he was sitting on top of a large slice of pepperoni.
Large leaves of green lettuce stuck to the pizza, blew with melted cheese. Blew up, up into the air
Giant wheels of fried onions and huge cloves of purple garlic bubbled away among the whole black peppercorns glistening in the sunlight.
He was driving the pizza high up through the sky.
His steering wheel was made of a giant mushroom with soft rubbery edges.
He held on tight, turned the slice gently to the left, then lifted the mushroom as the whole portion glided up effortlessly. Towards the rising sun
He turned to the left, where cows and pigs flew by waving brightly Texan scarfs in Blue, White, and Red.
Pablo began to laugh. He was still laughing when he woke up and suddenly remembered he had no mushrooms.
How could he fly the pizza if he had no mushrooms?
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