Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Stories in English

Cuentos clásicos en Inglés

Rapunzel, Brothers Grimm

There were once a man and a woman who had long, in vain, wished for a child. At length it appeared that God was about to grant their desire.

     These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world.

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Stories in English

Cuentos clásicos en Inglés

Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving (1783–1859)

Rip Van Winkle, a Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Stories in English

Cuentos clásicos en Inglés

Rumpelstiltskin - Brothers Grimm

Once there was a miller who was poor, but who had a beautiful daughter. Now it happened that he had to go and speak to the king, and in order to make himself appear important he said to him, "I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold."

     The king said to the miller, "That is an art which pleases me well, if your daughter is as clever as you say, bring her to-morrow to my palace, and I will put her to the test."

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Stories in English

Cuentos en Inglés

Sleeping Beauty - La Bella Durmiente

Along time ago there were a king and queen who said every day, "Ah, if only we had a child," but they never had one. 

But it happened that once when the queen was bathing, a frog crept out of the water on to the land, and said to her, "Your wish shall be fulfilled, before a year has gone by, you shall have a daughter." 

What the frog had said came true, and the queen had a little girl who was so pretty that the king could not contain himself for joy, and ordered a great feast. He invited not only his kindred, friends and acquaintances, but also the wise women, in order that they might be kind and well-disposed towards the child. There were thirteen of them in his kingdom, but, as he had only twelve golden plates for them to eat out of, one of them had to be left at home. 

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English

Poesías en inglés estaciones del año

Spring - All flowers are waking

All the flowers are waking,
Spring has come again.
God has sent the sunshine,
God has sent the rain.

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English

Poesías en inglés estaciones del año

Spring - Butterfly, Butterfly

Butterfly, butterfly,
Whence do you come?
I know not, I ask not,
Nor ever had a home.

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English

Poesías en inglés estaciones del año

Spring - My spring garden

Here is my little garden,
Some seeds I'm going to sow.
Here is my rake to rake the ground,
Here is my handy hoe.

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English

Poesías en inglés estaciones del año

Spring - Spring flowers

Look, Spring the season of flowers has come.
Look, Spring the season of flowers has come.
Blue flowers, red flowers, yellow flowers and pink.
Blue flowers, red flowers, yellow flowers and pink,
Look, it has come.

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Stories in English

Cuentos clásicos en inglés de miedo, suspense, halloween

Staley Fleming's Hallucination - Ambrose Bierce - Horror

Of two men who were talking one was a physician.

'I sent for you, Doctor,' said the other, 'but I don't think you can do me any good. Maybe you can recommend a specialist in psychopathy. I fancy I'm a bit loony.'

'You look all right,' the physician said.

'You shall judge -- I have hallucinations. I wake every night and see in my room, intently watching me, a big black Newfoundland dog with a white forefoot.'

'You say you wake; are you sure about that? "Hallucinations" are sometimes only dreams.'

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English

Poesías en inglés estaciones del año

Summer - At the seaside

Our seaside summer holidays
Are happy as can be,
We love to build sand castles
And wade out in the sea.

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Poesías en inglés estaciones del año

Summer - Bed in summer

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English

Poesías en inglés estaciones del año

Summer - The beech tree

I'd like to have a garden
With a beech tree on the lawn;
The little birds that lived there
Would wake me up at dawn.

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English

Poesías en inglés Acción de Gracias

Thanksgiving

The year has turned its circle,
The seasons come and go.
The harvest is all gathered in
And chilly north winds blow.

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English

Poesías en inglés Acción de Gracias

Thanksgiving day

Over the river and through the wood,
To Grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way
To carry the sleigh
Through the white and drifted snow.

Over the river and through the wood,
Oh, how the wind does blow!
It stings the toes,
And bites the nose,
As over the ground we go.

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English

Poesías en inglés Acción de Gracias

Thanksgiving Observance

Count your blessings instead of your crosses; 
Count your gains instead of your losses. 
Count your joys instead of your woes; 
Count your friends instead of your foes. 

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Poesías en inglés Acción de Gracias

Thanksgiving Time

When all the leaves are off the boughs, 
And nuts and apples gathered in, 
And cornstalks waiting for the cows, 
And pumpkins safe in barn and bin, 

Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Stories in English

Cuentos clásicos en inglés

The Adventure Of Black Peter - Arthur Conan Doyle

I have never known my friend to be in better form, both mental and physical, than in the year '95. His increasing fame had brought with it an immense practice, and I should be guilty of an indiscretion if I were even to hint at the identity of some of the illustrious clients who crossed our humble threshold in Baker Street. Holmes, however, like all great artists, lived for his art's sake, and, save in the case of the Duke of Holdernesse, I have seldom known him claim any large reward for his inestimable services. So unworldly was he -- or so capricious-that he frequently refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the problem made no appeal to his sympathies, while he would devote weeks of most intense application to the affairs of some humble client whose case presented those strange and dramatic qualities which appealed to his imagination and challenged his ingenuity.