Classic Stories: Cinderella
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Classic Stories: Cinderella

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 9, 20265 min
  • Fiction & stories

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writing, practising reading with exam-style questions or beating speaking anxiety, search programs by skill on our website, bbclearningenglish.com. Hello, I'm Tim. Today's story is a very well-known fairy tale involving ugly sisters, glass slippers, a very big party and a girl called... yeah, you guessed it, it's Cinderella.

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Cinderella, as you may know, has a tough life. Her mother died and her father remarried and now she lives in a big house with her stepmother and her two ugly daughters. Cinders does all the cooking, cleaning and washing up, while her stepsisters pamper themselves,

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