A2 · 4 minutes · Stories for children

The fox and the grapes

A retelling of an old fable about wanting something you cannot have.

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What you’ll practise

Follow a short fable told in the past tense.

Words to know

fable: A short story, often with animals, that teaches a lesson.
vine: A plant that climbs, on which grapes grow.
sour: With a sharp taste, like a lemon.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 90% of the words in this lesson.

Show 2 words that may be new

fox B2Look up
hanging B1Look up

These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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