The Guide Who Got Turned Around
A free A1-level English story for language learners, readable online in English, with an option to listen via the free Storyteller app.
A road closure throws off a walking tour guide's usual route, and one of his own tourists helps him find the way back.
Gustav leads walking tours through the old town every day. Today he takes a small group down a new street. Workers block the road. Gustav turns another way. He leads the group down new, quiet streets. The streets twist and turn in every direction. Gustav checks his own map, but it looks different here. Rae, one of the tourists, notices his confused face. "Are we lost?" Rae asks with a small laugh. "A little," Gustav says. "This is new for me too." Rae opens the map app on her phone. "I saved this area yesterday," she says. She shows Gustav the blue dot on her screen. "Turn left at the next corner," she tells him. Gustav follows her directions down the narrow street. The group turns left and finds the main square again. "There's the fountain," Gustav says, and laughs. "I think I know this street now too," Rae says. Gustav laughs and thanks her for the help. The group claps and continues the tour together.
