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Howdy, folks, and welcome to the New Year's Special episode of “Learn English with Fairytales''.

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The story will be taking into account for this special episode of the podcast is: "The little match girl", from Hans Christian Handersen.

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Here's the list of vocabulary and expressions selected from today's story: - Dreadfully, /ˈdredf(ə)lē/, (adv) extremely

It was dreadfully cold; it was snowing fast and it was almost dark.

- Bare-headed, /ˈberˌhedəd/, (adj.) wearing nothing on the head

In the cold and the darkness, there went along the street a poor little girl, bare-headed and with naked feet.

- Flaxen, /ˈflaks(ə)n/, (adj.) made out of flax fiber, which resembles blonde hair

The snowflakes fell on her long flaxen hair, which hung in pretty curls about her throat.

- (to) cower, /ˈkouər/, (verb) to crouch down in fear

In a corner formed by two houses, one of which projected beyond the other, she sat cowering down.

- Alas, /əˈlas/, (excl.) of grief pity or concern

And now her little hands were nearly frozen with cold. Alas!

- Blessedly, /ˈbles.ɪd.li/ , (adv.) in a way that is welcome or feels like a relief

So blessedly it burned that the little maiden stretched out her feet to warm them also.

- (to) waddle, /ˈwäd(ə)l/ ,(verb) walk with short steps and a clumsy swaying motion

The goose jumped from the dish and waddled along the floor straight to the little girl.

- Lest, /lest/, (conj.) with the intention of preventing, of avoiding the risk of

And lest her grandmother should disappear, she rubbed the whole bundle of matches against the wall. .

"Learn English with Fairytales" is an educational project by Gaetano Del Gaiso and Camilla Turco aka Chestnutmane.

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Gaetano Del Gaiso is an Italian musician, composer, producer and sound designer, CELTA certified teacher/tutor, graduated in "Musicology" at Salerno's conservatoire and graduating in "European languages and cultures" at E-Campus University, with over three years of experience in teaching English language as a second and a foreign language in Italy.

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