B1 · INTERMEDIATE Reading practice · ~2,700 words · 14-min read This is an original story for B1 (intermediate) readers. The sentences are a little longer, and the story uses the present perfect tense a lot. First, read the ten key words. Then read the story — it is in six short chapters. At the…
A2 · ELEMENTARY Reading practice · ~1,900 words · 13-min read This is a short mystery story for elementary learners. The story uses the past simple tense and short sentences. First, read the eight key words. Then read the story. At the end, there is a small quiz to check what you understand. Before you…
B2 · UPPER-INTERMEDIATE Reading practice · ~3,350 words · 22-min read This is an original short story for upper-intermediate learners. It is a quiet city story about two women who live opposite each other across a small courtyard and slowly build a friendship without ever leaving their flats. Read the eight key words first. Then…
B1 · INTERMEDIATE Reading practice · ~3,100 words · 15-min read This is an original story for B1 (intermediate) readers. The sentences are a little longer and the story uses the present perfect tense a lot. First, read the ten key words. Then read the story — it is in six short chapters. At the…
A2 · ELEMENTARY Reading practice · ~1,550 words · 9-min read This is a short story for A2 learners. It uses easy sentences and the past simple tense. First, read the eight key words. Then read the story. At the end, there are questions and a small writing task to help you remember what you…
B2 · UPPER-INTERMEDIATE Reading practice · ~3,200 words · 22-min read This is an original story for upper-intermediate (B2) learners. It is about ordinary people in an ordinary building — and what happens when one small machine stops working. First, study the ten key words below. Then read the story. At the end, there are…
B1 · INTERMEDIATE Reading practice · ~3,000 words · 20-min read This is the life story of Elena Voss — a fisherman’s daughter who changed the way people see her island. She is not a real person, but her story could be true. First, study the ten key words. Then read the six short chapters….
A2 · ELEMENTARY Reading practice · ~1,600 words · 11-min read This is an original story for A2 learners. It uses the past simple and easy connectors like because, so, and then. First, read the nine key words. Then read the story. At the end, there is a quiz to check what you understand. Before…
C2 · MASTERY Reading practice · ~3,170 words · 22-min read This is an original short story for advanced learners at C2 level. It is a quiet piece of science fiction that isn’t really fiction — a field scientist in a remote Scottish valley notices that the local bats are calling at the wrong pitch,…
C1 · ADVANCED Reading practice · ~3,950 words · 26-min read This is an original short biography for advanced learners. It tells the invented life of Inês Barroca, a Portuguese cartographer who devoted her career to hand-drawing the villages of her country in the years before they were flooded to make way for hydroelectric reservoirs….
