About this video
The Cloud Who Refused to Share is a short moral story about what keeping everything to yourself actually costs. This page adds the English words to practise and questions to talk about with your child.
Meet the characters
Keeps all its rain, then learns to let go
The story in English
A cloud fills up with rain and decides to keep every drop.
Below it the fields go dry and the flowers droop.
When the cloud finally lets the rain fall, everything below comes back to life.
Key English words from the story
“The rain fell on the dry field.”
“The cloud learned to share.”
Talk about it with your child
- What was the cloud holding on to?
- What happened to the flowers while it waited?
- How did things change once the cloud shared?
Practise sharing words: 2 minutes
- Watch the video together and say the words aloud: "rain" and "share".
- Look out of the window and name the weather in English.
- Ask your child what they could share with someone today.
Frequently asked questions
What is the moral of this story?
Holding on to everything helps nobody, not even you. Sharing is what makes things grow.
What English words does this video teach?
"Rain" and "share", plus simple weather words a child can use looking out of a window.
What age is this for?
It works well for young children just starting to speak in English, roughly ages 3 to 7.
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