Best English short stories with videos to practice English
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The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle – An English fairy tale from Aesop’s Fables with a podcast and a list of important vocabulary and expressions to improve your English Source: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube Two game cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at last put…
Mercury and the Workmen – learn English with fairy tales from Aesop’s Fables with a podcast and vocabulary list Source: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube A workman, felling wood by the side of a river, let his axe drop by accident into a deep pool. Being thus deprived of the means…
The Farmer and the Stork – Learn English with fairy tales from Aesop’s Fables with a podcast and vocabulary practice Source: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube A farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowed lands and caught a number of cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he…
The Ass and His Purchaser – An English fairy tale by Aesop with a podcast and list of vocabulary to practice English with short stories and fairy tales Source: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube A man wished to purchase an ass, and agreed with its owner that he should try out…
The Milk Woman and Her Pail to learn English with short fairy tales from Aesop’s fables with a podcast and vocabulary practice Source: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube A farmer’s daughter was carrying her pail of milk from the field to the farmhouse, when she fell a-musing: The money for which…
The Farmer and the Fox from Aesop’s Fables with a podcast and list of vocabulary to improve your English Source: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube A farmer, who bore a grudge against a fox for robbing his poultry yard, caught him at last, and being determined to take an ample revenge,…
The Lioness and the Vixen to learn English with fairy tales based on Aesop’s Fables with a list of new words and expressions, text-to-speech functionality and a podcast to practice English The text has been adopted from Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube A controversy prevailed among the beasts of the field…
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…
The Young Crab and His Mother from Aesop’s Fables with a list of new vocabulary for pre-intermediate students of English and young learners with a podcast The text has been adopted from Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org Watch this video on YouTube “Why in the world do you walk sideways like that?” said a mother crab…
The Lion and the Mouse as an English fairy tale to learn and practice English with a podcast, list of new vocabulary and questions obtained from Gutenberg Project The Project Gutenberg EBook of Aesop’s Fables, by Aesop at www.gutenberg.net Watch this video on YouTube Once when a lion was asleep, a little mouse began running…