New Book Challenges Legends of Barbary Corsairs
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Dr Todd Gray wrote a new book.
- A2
Historian Dr Todd Gray wrote a new book.
- B1
Historian Dr Todd Gray has written a new book about maritime attacks.
- B2
A new book by historian Dr Todd Gray argues that seventeenth-century Barbary corsairs did not raid coastal villages in South West England.
- C1
For generations, local legends have suggested that seventeenth-century Barbary corsairs raided coastal villages in South West England to kidnap residents.
- C2
For generations, local legends have painted a terrifying picture of seventeenth-century Barbary corsairs sweeping onto the beaches of South West England to snatch villagers from their homes.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- maritime
- connected with the sea or ships
- raid
- to attack a place suddenly
- captive
- people who have been taken prisoner
- slavery
- the condition of being owned by another person and forced to work
- archive
- a place where historical documents are kept
- exaggerate
- made to seem larger, better, or worse than it really is
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by University of Exeter archaeology and history news. Read the original for the full report.