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The Olive Tree and the Fig Tree from Aesop with a Podcast

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The Olive Tree and the Fig Tree from Aesop's fables with a podcast and vocabulary practice in real context for ESL students The Olive Tree and the Fig Tree is now in the public domain available on Gutenberg Project Video of The Olive Tree and the Fig Tree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nid5OnqiG9M The Olive Tree and the Fig Tree An olive tree taunted a fig tree with the loss of her leaves at a certain season of the year. to taunt: to provoke and ridicule someone "You," she said, "lose your leaves every autumn, and are bare till the spring: whereas I, as ...

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  1. The olive tree looks superior because it keeps its leaves while the fig tree loses them in autumn. But appearances can change. Something that looks like an advantage today, may not remain one tomorrow. So, we do not be proud of what you have today.

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      So, we should not be proud of what we have today.