The Untied Nations by Chris Rose

It was the house at the end of the street; the one where nobody wanted to live. The landlord who owned the house always worried about it. He wanted to rent the house, but nobody wanted to live there. It was at the wrong end of the street, people said. It was too dark, they said. It was too damp. The rooms are too small. It’s in the wrong part of the city. That’s what all the people said when they came to look at the old house at the end of the street. Nobody wanted to rent the house; nobody wanted to live in the wrong part of the city.
The landlord thought about what to do...

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• the story that you can listen to in the podcast in a pop-up player;
• a pre-reading vocabulary activity;
• a comprehension activity based on the story;
• a vocabulary activity.