Welcome to Easy stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from ok to good and from good to great.
I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's story is for pre intermediate learners.
The name of the story is the boy who knew no fear.
You can find a transcript of the episode@easystoriesinenglish.com fear that's easystoriesinenglish.com Fear F e A R this contains the full story, as well as my conversation before it so this week it's Halloween.
Ooo, scary, scary, scary time.
The 31 October is Halloween, so today's episode is a special Halloween episode.
However, don't worry, it's not going to be super scary.
I don't like scary films, as I've said before, and we've already had some quite scary stories on the podcast.
So today's story has some ghosts and monsters, but it's more funny than scary.
Actually, I think this story is very funny, if I don't say so myself.
Halloween is a strange time of year for me personally.
It's a very popular holiday now in the UK, and many people dress up, go to parties, and go trick or treating.
So trick or treating is when children dress up and visit other houses and ask for sweets, or as they say in America, candy.
When I was a child, though, my parents were always very nervous about trick or treating.
They thought it was dangerous and they didn't want us doing it for very long or on our own.
So when we went trick or treating, we usually just visited the houses on our street, which didn't feel very exciting.
I feel like there's this idea of trick or treating that's very exciting that you see in tv shows where kids are traveling all around and we never really had that.
I don't even remember what I dressed up as for Halloween, and I don't know if we have any photos.
So it wasn't a big holiday with my parents.