This free English lessons is an ESL short story coming with reading text, questions, and Exercises: Reading Text: A PRIVATE CONVERSATION (from New Concept English -pre-intermediate – long man publisher) Last week I went to the theater. I had a very good seat. ...

1. A Good Teacher One day, a teacher was attempting to teach the names of animals to a class of 5-year-olds. She held up a picture of a deer, and asked one boy, “Billy, what is this animal?”. Little Billy looked ...

1. A lecture about English A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. “In English,” he said, “A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, ...

The story of Brother Coyote and Brother Cricket is the story of a coyote that comes upon a cricket in a field. When he sets his paws down and destroys the cricket’s home. The cricket and the coyote quickly get into ...

They had got "way through," as Terry said, to the nuts. It had been a beautiful Thanksgiving dinner so far. Grandmother's sweet face beamed down the length of the great table, over all the little curly grand-heads, at Grandfather's face. ...

A Thanksgiving Dinner That Flew Away by H. Butterworth "Honk!" I spun around like a top, looking nervously in every direction. I was familiar with that sound - I had heard it before, during two summer vacations, at the old farm-house on the ...

The First Thanksgiving by Nora Smith Nearly four hundred years ago, a great many of the people in England were very unhappy because their king would not let them pray to God as they liked. The king said they must use the ...