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.
The Mouse, the Frog and the Hawk is an English fairy tale from Aesop’s Fables. You can enjoy this English short story and improve your vocabulary together with reading and listening comprehension. You can also select any text and listen to the selected text to improve your listening. Source of story: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this…
The Goatherd and the Wild Goats – an English fairy tale from Aesop’s fables with narration and video and vocabulary practice to improve your reading and listening comprehension Source of story: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube The Goatherd and the Wild Goats A goatherd, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found…
The Eagle and the Jackdaw is an English fairy tale from Aesop’s Fables to let you practice vocabulary in context and improve your reading comprehension. You can also select any text and listen to it to improve your listening ability. Source of story: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube The Eagle and the Jackdaw…
The North Wind and the Sun – An English fairy tale from Aesop’s fables to improve your vocabulary and reading comprehension. You can also select any text and listen to the selected text to improve your listening comprehension. Source of story: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube The Northwind and the Sun The…
The Sick Lion – English fairy tale with vocabulary practice and podcast for English learners Source of story: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube The Sick Lion A lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice. resolve to: make up one’s…
The Miser – An English fairy tale from Aesop’s fables with vocabulary practice and podcast Source of story: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube The Miser A miser sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an…
The Bear and the Two Travelers – An English fairy tale with a list of vocabulary and expressions to improve your reading comprehension and expand your vocabulary Source of story: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube The Bear and the Two Travelers Two men were traveling together, when a bear suddenly met them…
The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – An English fairy tale from Aesop’s fables with vocabulary practice and podcast Source of story: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing A certain wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the shepherds. But one night he found…
The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean by Bothers Grimm with a podcast, list of visual word list and text-to-speech technology to improve your English Source of story: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Listen to the audiobook below. Watch this video on YouTube The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean In a village dwelt a poor old…
The Fisherman and His Wife – An English fairy tale by Brothers Grimm with a podcast and visual dictionary in context and text-to-speech to improve your English Source of story: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Listen to the audiobook below. Watch this video on YouTube The Fisherman and His Wife There was once a fisherman who lived…