What's best?
A morning shower or an evening shower?
What can magic teach us about the brain?
Making friends as you get older.
These are all topics you'll discover in The Reading Room,
our new series of magazine-style articles on our website.
They each come with highlighted vocabulary, comprehension questions and an audio download.
Learn about the world and improve your reading skills with The Reading Room at 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.
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.
Cinder's does all the cooking,
cleaning and washing up while her stepsisters pamper themselves, eat cake and go shopping.
One day a postman delivers some invitations to a ball,
a sort of posh party that's being held by the king of the land.
Sounds good.
But things go downhill.