Make learning English engaging with this English comprehensible input short story designed for beginning English learners and ELL students. This ready-to-use ELL lesson includes an animated video, printable story, comprehension activities, vocabulary repetition, and story retell practice to help students build confidence while understanding meaningful English.

In this humorous story, Annette loves cheese so much that she begins to smell like cheese. Her boyfriend Peter can't stand the smell, leaving Annette to decide whether she loves cheese more than Peter. The simple, repetitive language makes the story easy for novice learners to understand while providing repeated exposure to key vocabulary and sentence structures.

The lesson targets four high-frequency structures:

• smells bad
• I don't love you anymore
• a lot of cheese
• she puts

The story is included in both a printable PDF and an animated MP4 version. A second text-free video encourages story retells, speaking activities, and personalized discussions. The materials work well with novice-low through novice-high learners, and more advanced students can retell or rewrite the story using different tenses.

Included in this resource:

• Animated video with text
• Animated video without text
• Printable PDF story
• Reading comprehension worksheet
• "Who Said It?" worksheet
• Story retell worksheet
• Answer key

Whether you're introducing comprehensible input for the first time or adding another engaging story to your classroom, this lesson provides an easy way to build vocabulary, reading, listening, and speaking skills through meaningful repetition.

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