Listen Up! English Listening Practice

Welcome to Of Fire and Fate — the ESL Listen-Along Series, where author Karen Hunter reads her own paranormal romance novel aloud, chapter by chapter, to help you grow your English through real adult storytelling.In this episode, Karen reads the seventh chapter. After the episode we discus 5 vocabulary words, an idiom and a question related to the chapter.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE LISTENINGThis podcast contains readings from an adult novel.It is intended for listeners aged 18 and over.This book contains:✦ Explicit sexual content — intimate scenes between characters described in detail✦ Depictions of domestic abuse and psychological trauma✦ Violence✦ Pregnancy loss and child mortality✦ Themes of cult recovery and healing from traumaThe romance depicted is healthy and fully consensual, but the content listed above is present throughout the series. Please make an informed decision before listening, and please do not share this podcast with anyone under 18.If any of these topics are difficult for you personally, please take care of yourself first.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 ABOUT THE BOOKOf Fire and Fate is a paranormal romance novel by Karen Hunter.He is a dragon King searching for his fated mate.She is running from a monster she just cannot escape.Seraphine thought escaping her abusive husband would end the nightmare — but her past refuses to stay buried. In the seaside town of Wavecrest, her fragile new peace is shattered when Draven walks into her café. Impossibly warm. Dangerously powerful. And utterly convinced she is his destined mate.His kingdom is dying. Her past is hunting her. And the cult that tortured her is coming to take her back.Draven will burn the world down to protect her. But the mate-bond must be chosen, not claimed. And Seraphine is not ready to trust a man who makes her feel again.Genre: Paranormal Romance / Fantasy RomanceSpice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ out of 5Content: Explicitly sexual — adults only━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎓 ABOUT THE ESL SERIESThis series is designed for upper intermediate to advanced English learners — approximately B2 to C1 on the CEFR scale.Each episode includes:✦ A full chapter reading by the author✦ Vocabulary highlights from that chapter✦ Idiom explanations✦ A discussion question to practise your thinking in EnglishYou do not need the book to enjoy this series — you can simply listen. But if you want to read along, Of Fire and Fate is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle eBook.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 GET THE BOOKAvailable on Amazon — paperback and Kindle eBook:Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3Mt1wM2 Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/48Y26c7 Also available on other Amazon sites, just search Of Fire and Fate by Karen Hunter

Welcome to Of Fire and Fate — the ESL Listen-Along Series, where author Karen Hunter reads her own paranormal romance novel aloud, chapter by chapter, to help you grow your English through real adult storytelling.In this episode, Karen reads the first chapter, the prologue where we meet Seraphine. After the episode we discus 5 vocabulary words, an idiom and a question related to the chapter.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE LISTENINGThis podcast contains readings from an adult novel.It is intended for listeners aged 18 and over.This book contains:✦ Explicit sexual content — intimate scenes between characters described in detail✦ Depictions of domestic abuse and psychological trauma✦ Violence✦ Pregnancy loss and child mortality✦ Themes of cult recovery and healing from traumaThe romance depicted is healthy and fully consensual, but the content listed above is present throughout the series. Please make an informed decision before listening, and please do not share this podcast with anyone under 18.If any of these topics are difficult for you personally, please take care of yourself first.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 ABOUT THE BOOKOf Fire and Fate is a paranormal romance novel by Karen Hunter.He is a dragon King searching for his fated mate.She is running from a monster she just cannot escape.Seraphine thought escaping her abusive husband would end the nightmare — but her past refuses to stay buried. In the seaside town of Wavecrest, her fragile new peace is shattered when Draven walks into her café. Impossibly warm. Dangerously powerful. And utterly convinced she is his destined mate.His kingdom is dying. Her past is hunting her. And the cult that tortured her is coming to take her back.Draven will burn the world down to protect her. But the mate-bond must be chosen, not claimed. And Seraphine is not ready to trust a man who makes her feel again.Genre: Paranormal Romance / Fantasy RomanceSpice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ out of 5Content: Explicitly sexual — adults only━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎓 ABOUT THE ESL SERIESThis series is designed for upper intermediate to advanced English learners — approximately B2 to C1 on the CEFR scale.Each episode includes:✦ A full chapter reading by the author✦ Vocabulary highlights from that chapter✦ Idiom explanations✦ A discussion question to practise your thinking in EnglishYou do not need the book to enjoy this series — you can simply listen. But if you want to read along, Of Fire and Fate is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle eBook.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 GET THE BOOKAvailable on Amazon — paperback and Kindle eBook:Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3Mt1wM2 Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/48Y26c7 Also available on other Amazon sites, just search Of Fire and Fate by Karen Hunter━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Welcome to Of Fire and Fate — the ESL Listen-Along Series, where author Karen Hunter reads her own paranormal romance novel aloud, chapter by chapter, to help you grow your English through real adult storytelling.In this episode, Karen reads the first chapter, the prologue where we meet Seraphine. After the episode we discus 5 vocabulary words, an idiom and a question related to the chapter.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE LISTENINGThis podcast contains readings from an adult novel.It is intended for listeners aged 18 and over.This book contains:✦ Explicit sexual content — intimate scenes between characters described in detail✦ Depictions of domestic abuse and psychological trauma✦ Violence✦ Pregnancy loss and child mortality✦ Themes of cult recovery and healing from traumaThe romance depicted is healthy and fully consensual, but the content listed above is present throughout the series. Please make an informed decision before listening, and please do not share this podcast with anyone under 18.If any of these topics are difficult for you personally, please take care of yourself first.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 ABOUT THE BOOKOf Fire and Fate is a paranormal romance novel by Karen Hunter.He is a dragon King searching for his fated mate.She is running from a monster she just cannot escape.Seraphine thought escaping her abusive husband would end the nightmare — but her past refuses to stay buried. In the seaside town of Wavecrest, her fragile new peace is shattered when Draven walks into her café. Impossibly warm. Dangerously powerful. And utterly convinced she is his destined mate.His kingdom is dying. Her past is hunting her. And the cult that tortured her is coming to take her back.Draven will burn the world down to protect her. But the mate-bond must be chosen, not claimed. And Seraphine is not ready to trust a man who makes her feel again.Genre: Paranormal Romance / Fantasy RomanceSpice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ out of 5Content: Explicitly sexual — adults only━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎓 ABOUT THE ESL SERIESThis series is designed for upper intermediate to advanced English learners — approximately B2 to C1 on the CEFR scale.Each episode includes:✦ A full chapter reading by the author✦ Vocabulary highlights from that chapter✦ Idiom explanations✦ A discussion question to practise your thinking in EnglishYou do not need the book to enjoy this series — you can simply listen. But if you want to read along, Of Fire and Fate is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle eBook.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 GET THE BOOKAvailable on Amazon — paperback and Kindle eBook:Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3Mt1wM2 Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/48Y26c7 Also available on other Amazon sites, just search Of Fire and Fate by Karen Hunter━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙️ ALSO BY KAREN HUNTERLooking for something family-friendly?The Doctor Dolittle ESL Listen-Along Series is available on this podcast feed and on YouTube/wherever you get your Podcasts — suitable for all ages and levels.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━© Karen Hunter. All rights reserved.Written and read by Karen Hunter.Unauthorised reproduction or distribution of this recording is strictly prohibited.☕ Enjoying the series? Buy me a coffee!If this listen-along is helping your English, you can support the channel at buymeacoffee.com/eslpractice — even a small contribution helps me keep creating free content for learners around the world. Every coffee keeps the chapters coming!

Welcome to Of Fire and Fate — the ESL Listen-Along Series, where author Karen Hunter reads her own paranormal romance novel aloud, chapter by chapter, to help you grow your English through real adult storytelling.In this episode, Karen reads the first chapter, the prologue where we meet Seraphine. After the episode we discus 5 vocabulary words, an idiom and a question related to the chapter.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE LISTENINGThis podcast contains readings from an adult novel.It is intended for listeners aged 18 and over.This book contains:✦ Explicit sexual content — intimate scenes between characters described in detail✦ Depictions of domestic abuse and psychological trauma✦ Violence✦ Pregnancy loss and child mortality✦ Themes of cult recovery and healing from traumaThe romance depicted is healthy and fully consensual, but the content listed above is present throughout the series. Please make an informed decision before listening, and please do not share this podcast with anyone under 18.If any of these topics are difficult for you personally, please take care of yourself first.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 ABOUT THE BOOKOf Fire and Fate is a paranormal romance novel by Karen Hunter.He is a dragon King searching for his fated mate.She is running from a monster she just cannot escape.Seraphine thought escaping her abusive husband would end the nightmare — but her past refuses to stay buried. In the seaside town of Wavecrest, her fragile new peace is shattered when Draven walks into her café. Impossibly warm. Dangerously powerful. And utterly convinced she is his destined mate.His kingdom is dying. Her past is hunting her. And the cult that tortured her is coming to take her back.Draven will burn the world down to protect her. But the mate-bond must be chosen, not claimed. And Seraphine is not ready to trust a man who makes her feel again.Genre: Paranormal Romance / Fantasy RomanceSpice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ out of 5Content: Explicitly sexual — adults only━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎓 ABOUT THE ESL SERIESThis series is designed for upper intermediate to advanced English learners — approximately B2 to C1 on the CEFR scale.Each episode includes:✦ A full chapter reading by the author✦ Vocabulary highlights from that chapter✦ Idiom explanations✦ A discussion question to practise your thinking in EnglishYou do not need the book to enjoy this series — you can simply listen. But if you want to read along, Of Fire and Fate is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle eBook.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 GET THE BOOKAvailable on Amazon — paperback and Kindle eBook:Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3Mt1wM2 Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/48Y26c7 Also available on other Amazon sites, just search Of Fire and Fate by Karen Hunter━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙️ ALSO BY KAREN HUNTERLooking for something family-friendly?The Doctor Dolittle ESL Listen-Along Series is available on this podcast feed and on YouTube/wherever you get your Podcasts — suitable for all ages and levels.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━© Karen Hunter. All rights reserved.Written and read by Karen Hunter.Unauthorised reproduction or distribution of this recording is strictly prohibited.☕ Enjoying the series? Buy me a coffee!If this listen-along is helping your English, you can support the channel at buymeacoffee.com/eslpractice — even a small contribution helps me keep creating free content for learners around the world. Every coffee keeps the chapters coming!

Welcome to Of Fire and Fate — the ESL Listen-Along Series, where the author Karen Hunter reads her own paranormal romance novel aloud, chapter by chapter, to help you grow your English through real adult storytelling.In this introduction episode, Karen explains exactly what this series is, how it works, and what to expect — including how to get the book so you can read along as you listen.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE LISTENINGThis podcast contains readings from an adult novel.It is intended for listeners aged 18 and over.This book contains:✦ Explicit sexual content — intimate scenes between characters described in detail✦ Depictions of domestic abuse and psychological trauma✦ Violence✦ Pregnancy loss and child mortality✦ Themes of cult recovery and healing from traumaThe romance depicted is healthy and fully consensual, but the content listed above is present throughout the series. Please make an informed decision before listening, and please do not share this podcast with anyone under 18.If any of these topics are difficult for you personally, please take care of yourself first.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 ABOUT THE BOOKOf Fire and Fate is a paranormal romance novel by Karen Hunter.He is a dragon King searching for his fated mate.She is running from a monster she just cannot escape.Seraphine thought escaping her abusive husband would end the nightmare — but her past refuses to stay buried. In the seaside town of Wavecrest, her fragile new peace is shattered when Draven walks into her café. Impossibly warm. Dangerously powerful. And utterly convinced she is his destined mate.His kingdom is dying. Her past is hunting her. And the cult that tortured her is coming to take her back.Draven will burn the world down to protect her. But the mate-bond must be chosen, not claimed. And Seraphine is not ready to trust a man who makes her feel again.Genre: Paranormal Romance / Fantasy RomanceSpice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ out of 5Content: Explicitly sexual — adults only━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎓 ABOUT THE ESL SERIESThis series is designed for upper intermediate to advanced English learners — approximately B2 to C1 on the CEFR scale.Each episode includes:✦ A full chapter reading by the author✦ Vocabulary highlights from that chapter✦ Idiom explanations✦ A discussion question to practise your thinking in EnglishYou do not need the book to enjoy this series — you can simply listen. But if you want to read along,Of Fire and Fate is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle eBook.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 GET THE BOOKAvailable on Amazon — paperback and Kindle eBook:Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3Mt1wM2 Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/48Y26c7 Also available on other Amazon sites, just search Of Fire and Fate by Karen Hunter━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙️ ALSO BY KAREN HUNTERLooking for something yThe Doctor Dolittle ESL Listen-Along Series is available on this podcast feed and on YouTube/wherever you get your podcasts — suitable for all ages and levels.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━© Karen Hunter. All rights reserved.Written and read by Karen Hunter.Unauthorised reproduction or distribution of this recording is strictly prohibited.

📖 About This Read-Along SeriesWelcome to my read-along of The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting! This classic children’s novel was first published in 1920, and it follows the adventures of a kind-hearted doctor who learns to speak the language of animals. With the help of his clever companions—including a parrot, an owl, and a dog—Doctor Dolittle travels the world solving problems in the most unexpected ways.Because the book was written over 100 years ago, some of the language may feel old-fashioned or unfamiliar. In each episode, I highlight a few words and phrases that might be tricky to pronounce or understand—perfect for intermediate English learners who want to build vocabulary while enjoying a fun and imaginative story.⚠️ A note on language and editing: This story reflects the attitudes and expressions of its time, including terms like “white man” and “black man,” which were commonly used in early 20th-century writing. I’ve chosen to remove or adapt certain phrases that I felt were racist or inappropriate for modern audiences, while keeping the story’s spirit and flow intact. My goal is to create a respectful and inclusive learning experience while preserving the charm of the original tale.Thanks for joining me on this journey—let’s read, learn, and explore together!☕ Support the Channel If you’re enjoying these read-alongs and learning something new, consider supporting my work at buymeacoffee.com/eslpractice. Every contribution helps me create more free educational content for English learners around the world. Your support means so much—thank you for helping me keep this channel growing!

📖 About This Read-Along SeriesWelcome to my read-along of The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting! This classic children’s novel was first published in 1920, and it follows the adventures of a kind-hearted doctor who learns to speak the language of animals. With the help of his clever companions—including a parrot, an owl, and a dog—Doctor Dolittle travels the world solving problems in the most unexpected ways.Because the book was written over 100 years ago, some of the language may feel old-fashioned or unfamiliar. In each episode, I highlight a few words and phrases that might be tricky to pronounce or understand—perfect for intermediate English learners who want to build vocabulary while enjoying a fun and imaginative story.⚠️ A note on language and editing: This story reflects the attitudes and expressions of its time, including terms like “white man” and “black man,” which were commonly used in early 20th-century writing. I’ve chosen to remove or adapt certain phrases that I felt were racist or inappropriate for modern audiences, while keeping the story’s spirit and flow intact. My goal is to create a respectful and inclusive learning experience while preserving the charm of the original tale.Thanks for joining me on this journey—let’s read, learn, and explore together!☕ Support the Channel If you’re enjoying these read-alongs and learning something new, consider supporting my work at buymeacoffee.com/eslpractice. Every contribution helps me create more free educational content for English learners around the world. Your support means so much—thank you for helping me keep this channel growing!

📖 About This Read-Along SeriesWelcome to my read-along of The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting! This classic children’s novel was first published in 1920, and it follows the adventures of a kind-hearted doctor who learns to speak the language of animals. With the help of his clever companions—including a parrot, an owl, and a dog—Doctor Dolittle travels the world solving problems in the most unexpected ways.Because the book was written over 100 years ago, some of the language may feel old-fashioned or unfamiliar. In each episode, I highlight a few words and phrases that might be tricky to pronounce or understand—perfect for intermediate English learners who want to build vocabulary while enjoying a fun and imaginative story.⚠️ A note on language and editing: This story reflects the attitudes and expressions of its time, including terms like “white man” and “black man,” which were commonly used in early 20th-century writing. I’ve chosen to remove or adapt certain phrases that I felt were racist or inappropriate for modern audiences, while keeping the story’s spirit and flow intact. My goal is to create a respectful and inclusive learning experience while preserving the charm of the original tale.Thanks for joining me on this journey—let’s read, learn, and explore together!☕ Support the Channel If you’re enjoying these read-alongs and learning something new, consider supporting my work at buymeacoffee.com/eslpractice. Every contribution helps me create more free educational content for English learners around the world. Your support means so much—thank you for helping me keep this channel growing!

📖 About This Read-Along SeriesWelcome to my read-along of The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting! This classic children’s novel was first published in 1920, and it follows the adventures of a kind-hearted doctor who learns to speak the language of animals. With the help of his clever companions—including a parrot, an owl, and a dog—Doctor Dolittle travels the world solving problems in the most unexpected ways.Because the book was written over 100 years ago, some of the language may feel old-fashioned or unfamiliar. In each episode, I highlight a few words and phrases that might be tricky to pronounce or understand—perfect for intermediate English learners who want to build vocabulary while enjoying a fun and imaginative story.⚠️ A note on language and editing: This story reflects the attitudes and expressions of its time, including terms like “white man” and “black man,” which were commonly used in early 20th-century writing. I’ve chosen to remove or adapt certain phrases that I felt were racist or inappropriate for modern audiences, while keeping the story’s spirit and flow intact. My goal is to create a respectful and inclusive learning experience while preserving the charm of the original tale.Thanks for joining me on this journey—let’s read, learn, and explore together!☕ Support the Channel If you’re enjoying these read-alongs and learning something new, consider supporting my work at buymeacoffee.com/eslpractice. Every contribution helps me create more free educational content for English learners around the world. Your support means so much—thank you for helping me keep this channel growing!

📖 About This Read-Along SeriesWelcome to my read-along of The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting! This classic children’s novel was first published in 1920, and it follows the adventures of a kind-hearted doctor who learns to speak the language of animals. With the help of his clever companions—including a parrot, an owl, and a dog—Doctor Dolittle travels the world solving problems in the most unexpected ways.Because the book was written over 100 years ago, some of the language may feel old-fashioned or unfamiliar. In each episode, I highlight a few words and phrases that might be tricky to pronounce or understand—perfect for intermediate English learners who want to build vocabulary while enjoying a fun and imaginative story.⚠️ A note on language and editing: This story reflects the attitudes and expressions of its time, including terms like “white man” and “black man,” which were commonly used in early 20th-century writing. I’ve chosen to remove or adapt certain phrases that I felt were racist or inappropriate for modern audiences, while keeping the story’s spirit and flow intact. My goal is to create a respectful and inclusive learning experience while preserving the charm of the original tale.Thanks for joining me on this journey—let’s read, learn, and explore together!☕ Support the Channel If you’re enjoying these read-alongs and learning something new, consider supporting my work at buymeacoffee.com/eslpractice. Every contribution helps me create more free educational content for English learners around the world. Your support means so much—thank you for helping me keep this channel growing!

📖 About This Read-Along SeriesWelcome to my read-along of The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting! This classic children’s novel was first published in 1920, and it follows the adventures of a kind-hearted doctor who learns to speak the language of animals. With the help of his clever companions—including a parrot, an owl, and a dog—Doctor Dolittle travels the world solving problems in the most unexpected ways.Because the book was written over 100 years ago, some of the language may feel old-fashioned or unfamiliar. In each episode, I highlight a few words and phrases that might be tricky to pronounce or understand—perfect for intermediate English learners who want to build vocabulary while enjoying a fun and imaginative story.⚠️ A note on language and editing: This story reflects the attitudes and expressions of its time, including terms like “white man” and “black man,” which were commonly used in early 20th-century writing. I’ve chosen to remove or adapt certain phrases that I felt were racist or inappropriate for modern audiences, while keeping the story’s spirit and flow intact. My goal is to create a respectful and inclusive learning experience while preserving the charm of the original tale.Thanks for joining me on this journey—let’s read, learn, and explore together!☕ Support the Channel If you’re enjoying these read-alongs and learning something new, consider supporting my work at buymeacoffee.com/eslpractice. Every contribution helps me create more free educational content for English learners around the world. Your support means so much—thank you for helping me keep this channel growing!

🐾 Get ready to explore the magical world of Doctor Dolittle—a beloved classic brought to life in this engaging read-along series! Perfect for intermediate English learners, each episode combines storytelling with vocabulary highlights, pronunciation tips, and fun facts to help you improve your English while enjoying a timeless tale. 🎧 Follow along, learn new words, and fall in love with the animals and adventures of Doctor Dolittle. 📚 Whether you're learning English or just love a good story, this series is for you. ✨ Subscribe now so you don’t miss the first episode!