Best English short stories with videos to practice English
Improve your reading comprehension with hundreds of English short stories with vocabulary practice and podcasts. Enrich your advanced vocabulary in real context by reading these English short stories with videos and podcasts.
Belling the cat to learn English with fairy tales based on Aesop’s Fables with a podcast, list of new words and expressions for young English learners or beginners Belling the Cat is now in the public domain available on Gutenberg Project. Video of Belling the Cat Watch this video on YouTube Belling the Cat Long…
The Crow and the Pitcher The Crow and the Pitcher to learn English with fairy tales based on Aesop’s Fables with a podcast, new words and related lessons for young English learners or beginners. Watch this video on YouTube A crow perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it…
The Shepherds Boy The Shepherd Boy – English Fairy Tale from Aesop’s Fables with a podcast, new words and some exercises to learn and practice English with short stories and fairy tales Watch this video on YouTube There was once a young shepherd boy who tended his sheep at the foot of a mountain near…
The Dog and the Shadow The Dog and the Shadow – learn English with fairy tales from Aesop’s fables with a podcast, list of useful words and phrases, illustrated flashcards and text-to-speech, ideal for young learners and beginners. Watch this video on YouTube A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of…
Vanka by Anton Chekhov Vanka by Anton Chekhov an English short story with a podcast to practice listening, illustrated flashcards inside the short story to improve your English vocabulary, and enjoy literature Available in the public domain at https://www.gutenberg.org/ Podcast of Vanka by Anton Chekhov If you cannot see the podcast below, click here to…
Misery by Anton Chekhov Misery by Anton Chekhov to learn English with great short stories together with illustrated flashcards, an embedded podcast to practice listening and comment form for discussion. Available in the public domain at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ Podcast of Misery by Anton Chekhov Watch this video on YouTube “To whom shall I tell my grief?”…
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde Available in the public domain at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large…
The Cactus by O. Henry The Cactus by O. Henry Available in the public domain at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an…
A Horseman in the Sky A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce Available in the public domain at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ I One sunny afternoon in the autumn of the year 1861 a soldier lay in a clump of laurel by the side of a road in western Virginia. He lay at full length upon his…
The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid Available in the public domain at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass. But it is very deep too. It goes down deeper than any anchor rope will go, and many,…