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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 livedRead
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 meansRead
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 ofRead
Covet 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 Covet 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 /ˈkʌv.ɪt/ (verb) to desire something strongly particularly something that belongs to another person, envy, yearn for, crave, wish for, have one’s heart set on, long for, hunger for, thirst for, want, hanker Once all of the itemsRead
Avarice 1100 Words You Need Avarice 1100 Words You Need Week 28 Day 4 with synonyms, antonyms, authentic examples and flashcards for GRE, TOEFL & IELTS /ˈæv.ər.ɪs/ (noun) an extremely strong desire to have more wealth, greed, cupidity, greed for wealth, greediness, materialism, covetousness, acquisitiveness, avidity, avariciousness If you remember being taught in grammar schoolRead
The Money’s Paw The Money’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs Available in the public domain at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ Part I. Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas aboutRead
The Goose With the Golden Eggs The Goose With the Golden Eggs One day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering. When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trickRead
Materialism 1100 Words You Need Materialism 1100 Words You Need /məˈtɪə.ri.ə.lɪ.zəm/ (noun) an obsession with material things and ignoring the spiritual dimension of life, greed, greediness, acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness Materialism is a form of philosophical monism that holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental statesRead
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 toRead
Cupidity 1100 Words You Need Cupidity 1100 Words You Need /kjuːˈpɪd.ɪ.ti/ (noun) greed for money and possessions, avarice, materialism, rapacity, covetousness, greediness, acquisitiveness, avidity, avariciousness But when I am alone with myself, I have not the courage to think of myself as an artist in the great and ancient sense of the term. Giotto, Titian,Read