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Four old animals, each told they were no longer useful, found a new life by working together.

Issue 94 · B1 reading · The Pieces Press

Read, mark words, and ask the annotator AI: https://piecespress.com/read/the-town-musicians-of-bremen

A sento is more than a bath: simple rules keep it clean and relaxing for everyone who visits.

Issue 93 · A2 reading · The Pieces Press

Read, mark words, and ask the annotator AI: https://piecespress.com/read/how-to-use-a-sento-a-japanese-public-bath

Autumn does not paint new colours onto leaves; it removes the green that was hiding the colours already there.

Issue 92 · B1 reading · The Pieces Press

Read, mark words, and ask the annotator AI: https://piecespress.com/read/why-leaves-change-colour-in-autumn

A kind fisherman saved a turtle, and it changed his whole life.

Issue 90 · A2 reading · The Pieces Press

Read, mark words, and ask the annotator AI: https://piecespress.com/read/urashima-taro-and-the-palace-under-the-sea

Japan sits where several of the Earth's tectonic plates meet, and this location, not bad luck, explains both its frequent earthquakes and the advanced engineering that keeps its buildings standing.

Issue 89 · B2 reading · The Pieces Press

Read, mark words, and ask the annotator AI: https://piecespress.com/read/how-japan-learned-to-live-with-earthquakes

A vending machine checks a coin's size, speed, and metal in a fraction of a second before it decides whether to accept or reject it.

Issue 88 · B1 reading · The Pieces Press

Read, mark words, and ask the annotator AI: https://piecespress.com/read/how-a-vending-machine-knows-your-coin

Living yeast feeds on the sugar in bread dough and makes a gas, and that gas is what makes the dough rise before baking.

Issue 87 · A2 reading · The Pieces Press

Read, mark words, and ask the annotator AI: https://piecespress.com/read/why-bread-rises

Jet lag comes from a mismatch between the body's internal clock and the new local time, and only a few well-timed habits actually fix it.

Issue 86 · C1 reading · The Pieces Press

Read, mark words, and ask the annotator AI: https://piecespress.com/read/jet-lag-resetting-the-body-clock

Coffee passes through several distinct stages of picking, processing, and roasting before it becomes the drink people recognize.

Issue 85 · B2 reading · The Pieces Press

Read, mark words, and ask the annotator AI: https://piecespress.com/read/from-cherry-to-cup-the-journey-of-coffee

The sky changes color during the day because sunlight is made of many colors that travel through the air in different ways.

Issue 84 · B1 reading · The Pieces Press

Read, mark words, and ask the annotator AI: https://piecespress.com/read/why-the-sky-is-blue-and-the-sunset-is-red