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Stories can be used as very great means of language practice. Language learners who have good access to stories in their home are likely to have a good home environment for practicing their language. They can recall the ideas of the stories in class and use them in their writing. They can also use them to create other similar stories. Furthermore, they can draw on different ideas from the stories and use them as a means of discussion and enriching their spoken language. This book, I believe, has inspiring stories that readers could enjoy and use them as a means of improving their language skills. It has eleven stories consisting of exercises. The exercises have pre-reading and post reading questions to help readers develop their comprehension skills, increase their word power and grammatical skills.

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Tesfaye Mesele Zinabu is a lecturer at Mekelle University in the Department of Foreign Languages. He has received his BEd in English Language and Literature from Kotebe College of Teacher Education and his MA in Literature in English from Addis Ababa University.

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