The Wolves and the Sheepdogs is an English fairy tale for young learners and intermediate English learners from Aesop’s fables about naivete in a very didactic and informative story. You can practice listening comprehension and vocabulary in real context with the help of this story.
Source of story: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org
The Wolves and the Sheepdogs
The wolves thus addressed the sheepdogs:
“Why should you, who are like us in so many things, not be entirely of one mind with us, and live with us as brothers should?
We differ from you in one point only. We live in freedom, but you bow down to and slave for men, who in return for your services flog you with whips and put collars on your necks.
They make you also guard their sheep, and while they eat the mutton throw only the bones to you.
If you will be persuaded by us, you will give us the sheep, and we will enjoy them in common, till we all are surfeited.”
The dogs listened favorably to these proposals, and, entering the den of the wolves, they were set upon and torn to pieces.
