Best English short stories with videos to practice English[/caption]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 Bet by Anton Chekhov The Bet by Anton Chekhov IT WAS a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one autumn evening. There had been many clever men there, and there had been interesting conversations. Among other…
The Beggar by Anton Chekhov The Beggar by Anton Chekhov “KIND sir, be so good as to notice a poor, hungry man. I have not tasted food for three days. I have not a five-kopeck piece for a night’s lodging. I swear by God! For five years I was a village schoolmaster and lost my…
The Hare & the Tortoise The Hare & the Tortoise A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow. Watch this video on YouTube. “Do you ever get anywhere?” he asked with a mocking laugh. “Yes,” replied the Tortoise, “and I get there sooner than you think. I’ll run you…
The Ass The Fox And The Lion The Ass The Fox And The Lion An Ass and a Fox had become close comrades, and were constantly in each other’s company. While the Ass cropped a fresh bit of greens, the Fox would devour a chicken from the neighboring farmyard or a bit of cheese filched…
God Sees the Truth but Waits God Sees the Truth but Waits In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own. Watch this video on YouTube. Aksionov was a handsome, fair-haired, curly-headed fellow, full of fun, and very fond of singing.…
The Rocking-horse Winner The Rocking-horse Winner There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had boney children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them. They looked…
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned…
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson The Lottery by Shirley Jackson The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the…
How much land does a man need? How much land does a man need? An elder sister came to visit her younger sister in the country. The elder was married to a tradesman in town, the younger to a peasant in the village. As the sisters sat over their tea talking, the elder began to…
The Gnat and the Bull to learn English with fairy tales by Aesop for pre-intermediate students of English and young learners with a podcast and list of important vocabulary The text has been adopted from Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube. A gnat settled on the horn of a bull, and sat…