Welcome to Easy stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from ok to good and from good to great.
I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's story is for beginners.
The name of the story is the north wind and the sun.
You can find a transcript of the episode@easystoriesinenglish.com.
wind that's easystoriesinenglish.com wind w I n d this contains the full story as well as my conversation before it today's story is adapted from Aesop's fables Aesop's fables are famous stories.
They were written in ancient Greece.
They mostly have animals as the characters, and they are all about morals.
So about how people can be good or bad.
They use animals to show the moral problems that people have to deal with.
For the next three weeks, we are going to have stories from Aesop's fables, and there will also be some future stories adapted from the fables.
Today's story is a very well known one.
You've probably heard it yourself, even if you don't remember it.
I'm choosing well known stories like fables and myths so that new people can easily listen to the podcast they will see, oh, I know that story already, and hopefully that will make them more likely to listen.
However, I haven't just left the stories as they were.
I've put my own details in.
Basically, I've put my own touch on them, and hopefully I have made them interesting for adults as well.
Aesop's fables have been translated into pretty much every language, but I'm not really sure if they're popular outside of Europe.
Within England, they're very well known.
Parents often read them to their children.