Welcome to mr. Aslanov’s pre-ielts lessons 40 stories to retell

 
STORY 3. 
A clerk who worked in a small office in a factory discovered that there were so many files in his 
room that there was not room for any more. Also, each file was so full that it was impossible to add any more 
papers to it. 'Well,' he thought, 'every week I have to find room for several hundred letters, so something will 
have to be done about this.' He thought and thought, and then decided to send a note to his manager explaining 
what had happened and asking him for his permission to go through the old files and to take out and destroy all 
letters which were no longer of any use. The next day he received a note from the manager in answer to his. It 
said, 'All right, you have permission to do as you suggest, but you must make copies of all letters before 
destroying them. 
STORY 4. 
Len and Jim worked for the same company. One day, Len lent Jim $20, but then Jim left his job and 
went to work in another town without paying Len back his $20. Len did not see Jim for a year, and then he 
heard from another friend that Jim was in town and staying at the Central Hotel, so he went to see him there late 
in the evening. He found out the number of Jim's room from the clerk at the desk downstairs and went up to 
find him. When he got to the room, he saw Jim's shoes outside the door, waiting to be cleaned. 'Well, he must 
be in,' he thought, and knocked at the door. There was no answer. He knocked again. Then he said, 'I know 
you're in, Jim. Your shoes are out here.' 'I went out in my slippers.' answered a voice from inside the room. 
STORY 5. 
Timothy was ten years old. He was not a very good pupil, and he did not like having to do 
homework, because he preferred do to do other things in his free time. Frequently he did not do his homework, 
and when he did do it, he always made a lot of mistakes. Then one day, his mathematics teacher looked at 
Timothy's homework and saw that he had got all his sums right. He was very pleased and rather surprised. He 
called Timothy to his desk and said to him, 'You got all your homework right this time, Timothy. What 
happened? Did your father help you?' Usually Timothy's father did help him with his homework, but the 
evening before this, he had not been able to, because he had not been at home, so Timothy answered, 'No, sir. 
He was busy last night, so I had to do it all myself.' 
STORY 6. 
Two sailors who had just finished a long voyage went home to their village and decided to have a 
few drinks in the bar there. When they had had enough, they came out into the street to look for something 
amusing to do, but it was a very quiet place, and nothing interesting ever happened there, so they could not find 
anything. But at last, while they were standing in the market-place outside the bar, they saw a village boy 
coming slowly towards them. He was leading a donkey by a rope, so the sailors decided that they would have a 
joke with him. 'Hullo, ' one of the sailors said to the boy. 'why does your brother have to have a rope round his 
neck when he goes for a walk with you?' 'To stop him joining the navy,' the boy answered at once.