B1 · INTERMEDIATE Reading practice · ~3,000 words · 15-min read This is an original story for intermediate (B1) learners. It is about a young woman, a small English town, and a festival that is 150 years old. First, read the ten key words. Then read the story — it is in five short chapters….
Quick Answer The past perfect is had + the -ed/-en form of the verb: I had finished. You use it when you are already talking about the past and you need to point at something even earlier. When I arrived, the train had left. Two past events — the past perfect marks the first one….
B1 · INTERMEDIATE Reading practice · ~2,600 words · 13-min read This is an original story for intermediate learners. It is about a young traveller whose perfect plan goes wrong — and what happens next. First, read the ten key words. Then read the story in six short chapters. At the end, there are questions…
B1 · INTERMEDIATE Reading practice · ~3,000 words · 18-min read This is an original folk tale for intermediate learners. Nobody has read it before — it was written just for you. First, study the ten key words below. Then read the story, one chapter at a time. At the end, there is a quiz…
B1 · INTERMEDIATE Reading practice · ~3,050 words · 15-min read This is a B1 biography — the life story of an ordinary Portuguese woman who did one small thing very well for almost seventy years. The English is intermediate, with perfect tenses, relative clauses (“the town where she was born…”) and simple past narrative….
B1 · INTERMEDIATE Reading practice · ~3,000 words · 15-min read This is an original story for intermediate learners. First, read the ten key words below. Then enjoy the story — it is told in six short chapters. At the end, there is a quiz, a grammar focus, and ideas for speaking and writing. Before…
B1 · INTERMEDIATE Reading practice · ~3,000 words · 15-min read This is an original folk tale for intermediate learners. Before you start, read the ten key words below — they all appear in the story more than once. When you finish, there is a short quiz, and a question the story never answers… Before…
B1 · INTERMEDIATE Reading practice · ~2,780 words · 14-min read This is an original folk-tale, written in simple English for intermediate learners. First, read the ten key words below. Then read the five short chapters. There is a small quiz at the end to check what you understand, and one grammar point to notice…
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…
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…
