Listen to good English to improve your spoken English skills. Learn how to describe places, things, situations, people and actions. In this post, we take up a well known children’s story and try to learn how to describe situations and action in English.
Check out this video, listen carefully to the narration and notice how the setting of the story, the characters and the happenings are described. Read the annotations below to pick up new words and phrases. Once through, answer the quiz at the end.
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For your help, a description of the story is given in short as follows:
A lion, tired after a chase was sleeping under a tree. He was rudely awakened by a mouse who was playing on his back. The lion woke up and threatened to kill the mouse. However, the mouse pleaded with the lion and also promised to pay him back if he spared its life.
The lion felt amused on the offer of help but took pity on the poor creature. He let him go.
Some days later, the lion was trapped by some hunters. He lay there, entangled in the net laid out by the hunters. He cried for help in a pitiful voice.
The mouse heard the cries for help and saw his friend, the lion entangled in the hunters’ net. He assured him of all help and called all his mice friends. Quickly, they gnawed at the net and freed the lion.
Now, answer the following quiz.
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