Easy C2 reading stories — short original graded readers with key words, a comprehension quiz, and a grammar link.
C2 · PROFICIENCY Reading practice · ~3,150 words · 16-min read This is an original folk tale written for proficient readers. The prose is rich and idiomatic, the syntax varied, and the moral — as in all good folk tales — is left for you to weigh. Nine words that carry the story are glossed…
C2 · PROFICIENCY Reading practice · ~3,200 words · 16-min read This is an original story for proficient readers. It is written in near-native English, with idiom, irony, and shifts of register — the narrator’s polished magazine prose sits alongside the blunt speech of the people she meets. Ten less common words are glossed below;…
C2 · PROFICIENCY Reading practice · ~3,200 words · 16-min read This is an original short story for proficiency-level readers. The language is unrestrained — literary narration, colloquial dialogue, formal letters, and a fair amount of idiom. Ten expressions that do particular work in the story are glossed below; each one reappears at least twice,…
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,…
