Elementary and Pre-intermediate English Short Listening Story practice -  Online Listening Test

In this section of Elementary and pre intermediate english short listening stories, I (Jeyhoon Yusifov) and Carla Flores try to teach you the English sentence structures that we will use in our daily English story telling part and the English-Azerbaijani-Turkish and Russian words and vocabularies through animations. At the same time, the English listening tests related to the English short listening text are shared below. Our main goal is to make English words and sentences used in the conversation and tellin stories  in a more memorable form in accordance with the rules of English grammar through simple dialogues and short texts in English.

My advice to you is to try to write your own English short stories in this form by pausing the video at certain intervals after the start of the video and replacing the English sentences with other English words in your own style. By writing your English stories and answers in this way, you will see that after a certain period of time, your English grammar, speaking, and English vocabulary base increase. 

Carla: Hello everyone.  Welcome to our short, easy listening story part. in this episode, my partner, Jeyhoon, and I will tell you some stories to let you improve your English listening skills. But, before we start, I recommend you to click the link down below the video to learn some words related to topics and test your English through quizzes. 

Carla: Hello, Jeyhoon. I have made only two stories for our listeners in this episode? how about you? 

Jeyhoon: Hello, Carla. I have only made one story. if everyone is ready, let's get started to hear our first story.

Carla: my first english listening story is about a girl who loves living in the village.  

There was a girl named Jessica, who lived with her family. She was 27 years old
She had a rich family. Her father very often was taking a business trip to foreign countries to promote his company. 
She could see her father's face from time to time. 
His father was feeling old enough to manage his business outside the country. He wanted to retire from his work and enjoy life. He was bored of living in town and hearing people's noise everywhere. 
So he decided to buy a house in a village where only a few people lived. 
One night he told everyone that he had already bought a house in the village and wanted to live there. 
Jessica felt upset when she heard his father's decision. She didn't want to live there. She stated that there was nothing interesting living. No cafe, no library or other different places to go, she said. 

Her father said: you can stay here in town if you like. Later she changed her mind and said: Alright, I will come and live with you. İf I don't like living there, I will return here.

A few weeks later, They moved to their new home in the village. They could only hear the chirping sound of birds, the flow of rivers falling from mountains, and drizzling rain. 

On the first week of her stay in the village, she felt alone. But she was an artist drawing the beauty of everything which is real to her. She decided to go to the mountain nearby to find something interesting to draw. 
She had to climb to the mountain to catch attractive scenes for her drawing. And she really did it
When she reached the peak, she found out that everything from the top appears more realistic to her.  She was very happy to seize the moment and that beautiful scene.  
She drew the beauty of the village that lies under her feet. She decided to come back there again the next day and make a drawing. 
When she came back home, she saw her dad making a barbecue outside for dinner. 
She approached her father and thanked him a lot. She said: Alright, I can live with you here. Because there are many beautiful places here to see and draw.

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Jeyhoon: My english listening story is about a man who never gave up his dream

there was a man named Joseph. He was 24 years old at that time. He always dreamt about being a rich man. He was a poor man. He lived with his family. His father had a big land. He was a farmer growing some vegetables in a small part of his land. He was selling them to his customers. He was an old man. He couldn't manage to work anymore in the field. Joseph mostly used to help his father. But, he wanted to create his own business by following what his father had taught him.  He had to find a better way to make the business more profitable. He knew that he had to learn and study a lot to make his plan become real. 

Joseph always used to watch some interesting videos related to farming on the internet. He followed many farming channels on youtube to get many useful ideas. 
He gained some beneficial knowledge over the next months related to farming and animal husbandry.  He made a decision to put the knowledge he gained into practice. 
He told his ideas to his father about farming and animal husbandry. His father liked the ideas he had. He stated that he at least needed 4 years to implement them. 
He had to use a big part of the land that his father possessed. Firstly, he had to plant clover, rice, and wheat in a big part of the land so that he could feed his poultry and cattle over the next years. in course of time,  He wouldn't be dependant anymore on paying extra money for his animal business.

İn the beginning, he had  2 cows, 4 sheep, and twenty turkeys. 
He also made a plan about how to increase the number of animals that he possessed. 
But he was well aware that he needed to have the finance to make his plans come true. 
As they were poor, he decided to find alternative work to earn extra money. He saved some money within a year. He used his savings to buy some types of equipment that he could utilize for cultivation and harvesting on his farm. With the rest of his savings, he increased the number of animals, such as goose, duck, hen, calf, in a small amount. 
He had to fight against some insects by using pesticides so he could harvest well enough from the soil. On his plantation, he improved the irrigation system. İt took nearly 2 years to develop it. 
He used organic fertilizers for his plantation in the soil. His cows were grazing at meadows and pastures which he grew. 
He worked very hard over the next four years. He experienced many difficulties along the way. But he never gave up his dreams. 
He is now a very rich man in his country. There are lots of workers already working for him in his agriculture. 

This is the story of Joseph

How about you, Carla. What is your next english listening story about?

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Carla: My next english listening story is about a woman from my neighborhood.

Many years ago, there lived a very quarrelsome woman in my neighborhood. Most of my neighbors didn't like her behaviors. 
One night while I was sleeping in my bed, a thief sneaked into my house. At that time, I was having a dream. İn my dream, I saw that I was listening to the tranquility of the river in the middle of the forest. While I was listening to it, suddenly I heard a crackling sound coming from the bush. Then I saw a wolf chewing the prey in its mouth. That scene horrified me. İ immediately woke up and drank a glass of water nearby. 
My husband was on a business trip. İ was alone at home that night. 
İ tried to sleep back. But later on, I heard another crackling sound coming from the kitchen. İ felt terrified. 
What sound could it be? İ asked myself
Then I began to go near the door and listened. There was somebody in the kitchen. İt was a thief looking for something valuable to steal. He knew that I was in the bedroom. 
My heart was beating so fast. 
Who could help me in the middle of the night? İ said. 
Unfortunately, I had left my phone on the table in the kitchen. 
İ couldn't call the police. 
While thinking about what I could do, suddenly I saw a light coming from the next building, 
İt was my neighbor watching on tv. 
That moment I immediately took a paper and wrote that there was a thief in my kitchen at present. Please call the police. 
İ opened the window slightly and waved the paper to the left and right. But it didn't draw her attention. Afterward, I used the flashlight that I took from my drawer. İ made it wink many times to draw her attention. 
She saw me from the window. İ let her read my call for help on the paper. 
My neighbor immediately went to the kitchen and got her hammer as soon as she read it. 
She called the police station. She called out to everyone living around before the police arrived. 
A few minutes later, many people gathered around and joined her. She came to my door and knocked on it. İ was so scared to open it. Because the thief had hidden in the kitchen. 
minutes later,  she broke into my house by breaking the door with the help of people near her. When she entered the living room, she found nobody around. Because the thief had hidden in the kitchen. Then I run into the living room by screaming. İ said: He is in the kitchen
The woman by herself went into the kitchen and saw the thief. She punched on his face four times and knocked him down
When policemen arrived, they saw the thief lying on the floor.
İ thanked her for saving my life and house.  Everyone who saw her heroism in saving my life appreciated a lot

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