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297 | Intermediate - Short Story: The Headless Storyteller [English Listening Practice]

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Title: The Lighthouse Keeper’s Letters

Level: Intermediate (B2)

#Story :

Emily rents a cottage beside an old lighthouse in a quiet coastal town. There, she finds a hidden box of letters written by Elias, a lighthouse keeper from 1912, addressed to “My Dearest.” The letters reveal his deep love for a mysterious woman who disappeared. As Emily reads them, she feels an eerie connection to Elias and begins to sense a presence in the lighthouse. When she visits the local historical society, she learns Elias vanished under strange circumstances, believed to still haunt the lighthouse. One stormy night, following the glow of the lantern, Emily meets Elias himself—still bound to the lighthouse, waiting for her return. She discovers that she and Elias were lovers in another life. He offers her a choice: to stay with him forever in the timeless lighthouse or return to her ordinary life. Emily chooses to stay. The lighthouse becomes a place of legend, glowing every night, with two souls forever watching the sea.

#Vocabulary :

• Lantern : a lamp with a protective covering, often used in lighthouses or outdoors.
• Haunt : to appear or linger in a place repeatedly, like a ghost or memory.
• Crumbling : breaking down or falling apart, often from age or damage.
• Beacon : a guiding light, especially one used to warn or lead ships.
• Timeless : not affected by the passage of time; eternal.

#Grammar Focus:

• Second Conditional (Imaginary or Hypothetical Situations)
• Used for unreal or imagined conditions in the present or future.
• Example: If she stayed, she would live forever in the lighthouse.
• Past Perfect Tense (For Completed Past Events Before Another Past Action)
• Used to describe an action completed before another action in the past.
• Example: She had found the letters before the lantern glowed.
• Relative Clauses for Description (Using "Who," "Which," "That")
• Used to add extra information about a noun.
• Example: Elias, who had been waiting for her, smiled softly.

 

 

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