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    The First Kiss: ESL Reader American English
    The First Kiss: ESL Reader American English
    The First Kiss: ESL Reader American English
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    The First Kiss: ESL Reader American English

    By Teacher Greg

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    AN ESL ADAPTATION OF GREG KROJAC'S SHORT STORY INCLUDING A GLOSSARY AND EXERCISES

    Are you an adult ESL learner? Do you want to read a story that's more geared to an adult reader? Most ESL Readers are aimed at children or adolescents. Now, you can read a story that's more appropriate for your intellectual level, with a body-horror story that could happily be mentioned in the same breath as David Cronenberg movies.

    I have adapted my short story, The First Kiss, to be easier for non-native English speakers to enjoy while learning new vocabulary and testing their learning by completing the accompanying exercises.

    "A night that begins with Daniel and Melody sharing a romantic meal together at a swanky restaurant culminates with a disturbing discovery."

    The book has a glossary with definitions sourced from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary and comprehension, gap-filling, error recognition, and a true/false exercises to challenge the reader's language competency

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTeacher Greg
    Release dateFeb 28, 2021
    ISBN9781393028307
    The First Kiss: ESL Reader American English

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      The First Kiss - Teacher Greg

      A SHORT STORY BY

      GREG KROJAC

      ADAPTED BY

      TEACHER GREG

      This story or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Please note that this story is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

      Copyright © 2020/2021 Greg Krojac/Teacher Greg

      All rights reserved

      BEFORE YOU START READING...

      Please be aware that this story is an adaptation, for ESL students, of an already published story (of which I am the author).

      As such it contains adult themes and is not recommended for anyone under the age of sixteen years.

      Bold text signifies that the word or phrase can be found in the glossary. Annotated definitions to assist the ESL reader are drawn mostly from the Cambridge English Learners Dictionary. Definitions are given relevant to their context in the story.

      At the end of the story, you will find reading comprehension, gap fill, correct the errors, and true/false exercises sourced from the story.

      THE FIRST KISS

      Daniel looked across the table at the person sitting opposite him. He’d never seen a woman as beautiful as Melody. There was something about her eyes, something that he couldn’t quite put into words.

      Then it hit him.

      It was the sparkle – that was the special thing that separated her from the other women he’d dated. It wasn’t that those other women’s eyes looked dead and lifeless – far from it (their eyes were lovely in their own way) – but Melody’s eyes had something extra, a je ne sais quoi that made it so difficult to draw his own eyes away from them.

      His fascination hadn’t gone unnoticed by his dinner date. Melody knew she had striking eyes – her mother, Katia, had told her since the day she was born that she had beautiful eyes – but it wasn’t until she was

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