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The Thieves and the Cock by Aesop for ESL students with a podcast and vocabulary practice

The Thieves and the Cock by Aesop for ESL Students

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The Thieves and the Cock by Aesop for ESL students with a podcast, vocabulary practice in real context, and a Persian version to raise bilingual children The Thieves and the Cock is now in the public domain available on Gutenberg Project. Podcast of the Thieves and the Cock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhkx_mO88qs The Thieves and the Cock Some thieves broke into a house, and found nothing worth taking except a cock, which they seized and carried off with them. When they were preparing their supper, one of them caught up the cock, and was about to wring his neck, when he cried out ...

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Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl

Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl is an English and Persian instructor, educator, researcher, inventor, published author, blogger, SEO expert, website developer, entrepreneur, and the creator of LELB Society. He's got a PhD in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language).

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  1. The theme of this short story, I think is that we should think wisely before doing something.
    The rooster pleaded for his life because at first he wanted mercy and then he wanted to wake up the housowners.
    I didn’t get why the thieves didn’t kill the rooster at the first place.

    • The rooster just gave a pretext to save his neck by suggesting to wake the thieves up in the morning, but this pretext was illogical and ridiculous as it was to the detriment of their livelihood.
      According to the story, the thieves did not hesitate to kill the rooster at all. One of them just picked the rooster up and decided to wring or twist his neck (kill him before cooking him).
      Feedback
      housowners = houseowners

  2. I actually didn’t get the last part of the story but I noticed that the chicken wanted help ( d.r Hariri I actually have a problem in the LELB SOCIETY that every thing is Persian for me like in the story and documentary)

    • In this short story, the rooster (not to be confused with a chicken) begged for his life when the thieves wanted to eat him. The rooster claimed to be pretty useful for the thieves. However, he was in fact such a nuisance for the thieves as they don’t need to get up early in the morning.
      About the technical issue you’re referring to, I should say that most of our content, including short stories and some documentaries, come with Persian versions, as well, to feed our Persian / Farsi students. You might have accidentally clicked on the Persian versions. Another possible reason is that you might have set your internet browser up in a way that it automatically translates any language into Persian for you.

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