Fables: The Hare and the Tortoise

The Hare and the Tortoise is a famous fable by Aesop, dating back to the 6th century BC
You are first going to read the fable and try to fill in the gaps with the correct words, click here for the exercise:

Thehareandthetortoise.htm

Then, you may want to read it again, check if it has any sense and see if you can pronounce all the words. If there are any unknown words you can look them up at Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary but if there are just a few words you don't know how to pronounce, you can listen to them as many times as you want at Howjsay.com

When you think you are ready, you can listen to me reading the fable and check your answers here: The Hare and the Tortoise or go to AesopFables.com to read and listen to it



Finally I recommend you visit this website: Fables from Aesop and listen to a very nice adapted online version of the fable by Tom Lynch.

You can download audio-files with many fables (and many other books!) at Librivox, which you can copy on a CD or store in your MP3 player to later listen to them

Pronunciation 2: Key or pin?

Visit the BBC Pronunciation page, go to videos and click on the sound board to watch the videos about the long and short i; then go to units and select unit 1 to learn more about these two sounds and do some exercises

Welcome to Learning guides

As sometimes it may be difficult for you to find things in the blog, I have started designing some new learning guides which will help you find your way in the blog and outside. The guides are meant to be a selection of links and exercises to reinforce and extend what we have learnt in class in each unit, they are not compulsory and you may choose just to do some of the exercises, which I am sure can be of good help to you.
I hope you like them!

Learning guide Unit 2 Intermediate 2

You'll soon find here another learning guide to reinforce and extend what you have learnt in unit 2

Learning guide Unit 1 Intermediate 2

In this learning guide you will find exercises on the different skills to reinforce and extend what you have learnt in Unit 1.

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Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Education Course Material esl int2unit1

How many words can you make?

Try and see how many words you can make at Fowlwords!

Pronunciation 1: Luck or lack?

If you want to learn more about similar vowel sounds in English, I recommend you to visit the BBB learning site, there you can watch some videos and do some exercises. Why don't you start this time with the confusing sounds of words such as luck and lack?