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let's start the episode remember
with three-way english i will tell you a
story
three different ways first
in a very basic simple way and then
twice more with increasing difficulty
the idea is to help you learn english
vocabulary and grammar
in context the first time through
i will use simple present tense only
and i'll also speak slowly with no
contractions
today's story is the dog and
his reflection
in town a butcher goes about his work
he cuts up meat to sell to the town's
folk
as he works a small pile of bones
builds up on his table he sees a little
dog nearby
and throws one of the bones to the dog
the dog happily grabs the bone and
hurries home with the prize
as fast as he can go
as he crosses a small bridge he looks
down
and sees his reflection in the water
but the dog believes he sees another dog
with another bone
a bone much bigger than his
own he doesn't stop to think about it
instead he drops his bone
and jumps at the dog he sees
in the river he falls in with a splash
and in a moment he has to swim to shore
he reaches the shore and looks back at
the river
sadly he remembers the good bone
he lost and realizes what a
foolish dog he is
okay well let's do the story a second
time through
this time i will introduce different
verb tenses such as the simple past
i will use some different vocabulary and
sentence
structures and i will speak a little
faster than
the first time through all right are you
ready
in town a butcher was going about his
work
he was cutting up meat to sell to the
townsfolk
as he worked a small pile of bones
built up on the table next to him
he saw a dog playing nearby
and threw one of the bones to the dog
the dog happily grabbed the bone and
hurried home with his prize
as fast as he could go
while crossing a small bridge the dog
looked down and saw his reflection in
the water
but the dog believed he was seeing
another dog with another bone a bone
much bigger than his own he didn't stop
to think about it but instead
dropped his bone at once and jumped at
the dog
he thought he saw he fell in with a
splash
only to find himself forced to swim to
shore to save his life when he reached
the shore
he looked back at the river in sadness
remembering the good bone he had lost
and realizing what a foolish dog he was
now you know the story so i'm going to
do it
one more time and this time at native
level
speed and with more advanced
vocabulary and also more advanced
sentence structures the town butcher was
going about his work one day
cutting up meat to sell to the other
townsfolk
as he worked he steadily built up a
small pile of bones on the table next to
him
seeing a dog playing nearby the butcher
decided to be
friendly and tossed one of the bones to
the dog
of course the dog snatched the bone up
at once
and hurried home with it as fast as he
could go
while crossing over a small footbridge
however the dog chanced to see
what looked like another dog with a bone
much bigger than his own of course the
dog was
only seeing his own reflection but in
his greed
he didn't stop to think instead he
dropped his bone in the river
and leapt at his own reflection he fell
into the deep water
with a splash but rather than catch a
bone
he found himself forced to swim to shore
to save his own life
after reaching the shore the dog could
only look back at the river
mournfully regretting the good bone he
had lost
through his own folly now
the moral of this story is that it is
foolish to be greedy being greedy
means having a strong and selfish desire
for something
do you know a story from your own
culture about greed
share it with us in the comments section
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