Stories Cooking for Friends
A1 Suitable for KS4 and above Literary Fiction Friendship

Cooking for Friends

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Fatima learns to cook one simple dish — pasta with tomato sauce — and invites two friends over.

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A KS4/5 A1 Short story + 8 simple comprehension exercises.

Cooking for Friends

A1

Fatima cannot cook. Her mother cooks every day. Fatima wants to learn. Her mother shows her pasta. Boil water. Add salt. Put pasta in. Cook for ten minutes. For sauce: chop an onion, open a tomato can, add herbs. Fatima practises three times. On Saturday, she invites two friends. They eat the pasta. They say, “Good!” Fatima is happy. She cooks every weekend now.

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