Beginner
Present simple · everyday words · short sentences
A1 · 01
My Morning
Wake up, drink hot tea, and catch the bus on a calm, happy morning.
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A1 · 02
My Family
Meet a warm family of five, a playful dog, and lazy Sundays in the park.
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A1 · 03
My Favourite Food
Cheesy homemade pizza turns every Friday night into the best day of the week.
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A1 · 04
My Room
A small, sunny room with books, pictures, and a soft bed by the window.
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A1 · 05
My Best Friend
Two friends who walk to school, share their lunch, and laugh through every day.
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A1 · 06
My Cat
A small grey cat named Luna who naps in the sun and rules the whole house.
Read →Elementary
Past & future · common connectors · simple narratives
A2 · 01
The Lost Umbrella
Mia leaves her grandmother's special red umbrella on the bus. Will a kind stranger help?
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A2 · 02
My First Train Trip
A nervous traveller takes the train alone for the first time and finds mountains and kindness.
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A2 · 03
The Garden on the Balcony
Daniel misses his old garden, so he tries to grow tomatoes and flowers on a tiny city balcony.
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A2 · 04
The Saturday Market
Lena gets to buy dinner all by herself at the busy, colourful Saturday market in town.
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A2 · 05
The New Neighbour
A homemade chocolate cake turns the shy new boy next door into a brand-new friend.
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A2 · 06
A Day at the Beach
Sandcastles, sandwiches, and learning to float — a family's perfect summer day by the sea.
Read →Intermediate
Wider tenses · opinions & feelings · real plots
B1 · 01
The Wrong Message
Maya sends a secret text to the wrong person — and her worst mistake becomes her best afternoon.
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B1 · 02
The Umbrella Man
A busy commuter finally stops to learn why an old man waits at the bus stop every day.
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B1 · 03
The Night Shift Decision
A tired nurse must choose between her own chance at a day job and a colleague who needs it more.
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B1 · 04
The Coat in the Charity Shop
A broke student buys a five-pound coat and finds cash and a letter hidden in its pocket.
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B1 · 05
The Late Bloomer
At thirty-five, Priya has never ridden a bicycle. This week, with a patient friend, she finally tries.
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B1 · 06
The Borrowed Drill
Marcus borrows a tool from a lonely neighbour and discovers something better than a working drill.
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B1 · 07
The Surprise That Almost Wasn't
Three weeks of secret planning nearly collapse when the birthday girl tries to cancel her own party.
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B1 · 08
The Burnt Dinner
Daniel sets off the smoke alarm cooking for his girlfriend's parents — and disaster turns strangers into friends.
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B1 · 09
The Phone on the Bench
Maya loses her phone with the only photos of her late grandmother. Then a stranger sends a message.
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B1 · 10
A Dog Named Shadow
Everyone told Daniel to pick an easy dog. He chose the frightened one hiding in the corner instead.
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B1 · 11
The Delayed Train
A three-hour delay ruins Priya's plans — until a bag of sweets and a stranger's guitar change everything.
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B1 · 12
The Message from an Old Friend
One playful text about a broken school window reunites two childhood friends after fifteen silent years.
Read →Upper-Intermediate
Full tense range · idioms · mature themes
B2 · 01
The Promotion She Didn't Want
A dream job lands in her lap — so why does saying yes feel like losing herself?
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B2 · 02
The Found Wallet
Jobless and broke, he finds a wallet full of cash and no one watching. What now?
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B2 · 03
The Long Way Home
Four years of silence, then her estranged father's letter arrives. Is it too late to mend things?
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B2 · 04
The Village That Watched Her Leave
A scholarship offers her the world, but the village that raised her fears losing her forever.
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B2 · 05
The Reference
Asked to vouch for the employee who once let her down, a manager weighs honesty against mercy.
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B2 · 06
The Piano Upstairs
A grieving man is carried through his evenings by a stranger's piano — until the music stops.
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B2 · 07
The Wrong Funeral
He steps out of the rain into a stranger's funeral — too polite to leave. Then the eulogy undoes him.
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B2 · 08
Notes on the Fridge
Two flatmates on opposite shifts, never awake at the same time. Their whole friendship lives on the fridge.
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B2 · 09
The Lost Property Office
An old clerk invents lives for lost objects — and guards one child's toy rabbit for eleven years.
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B2 · 10
The Café Cat
A failing café, hijacked by a stray cat that despises everyone. Somehow, business has never been better.
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B2 · 11
The Morning Swim
Every dawn: the cold sea and one old woman in a red cap. Then one morning she isn't there.
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B2 · 12
The Substitute
One day, one impossible class, one boy who won't lower his hood — and a notebook he's shown no one.
Read →Advanced
Sophisticated lexis · figurative language · literary fiction
C1 · 01
The Restorer
A grieving art restorer uncovers an angel's true face — and learns no truth was ever clean.
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C1 · 02
The Frequency
A lonely radio operator listens nightly for his drowned daughter, until a stranger's voice answers.
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C1 · 03
The Understudy
After nine years in the wings, a soprano's one chance arrives — and she gives it away.
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C1 · 04
The Demolition
A celebrated architect watches his first house fall and meets the child who lived inside it.
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C1 · 05
The Lighthouse Keeper
On his last night before automation, the final keeper learns what a machine can never inherit.
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C1 · 06
The Cartographer
Hired to map a valley before it is flooded, he meets the woman who knows all it cannot hold.
Read →Proficiency
Near-native register · rare vocabulary · dense, literary prose
C2 · 01
The Archivist
A city's last archivist can no longer tell which memories are his and which belong to the boxes.
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C2 · 02
The Forger's Confession
A master forger argues his flawless Vermeers were never lies, only love arriving late at beauty's door.
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C2 · 03
The Untranslatable
At her dying mother's bedside, a veteran translator meets the one word she can never carry across.
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C2 · 04
The Self I Was Promised
At sixty, a man's lifelong diary introduces him, page by page, to a stranger who shares his name.
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C2 · 05
The Horologist
A clockmaker spends a year fighting a clock that stopped at the hour of a man's death — and loses, rightly.
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C2 · 06
The Perfumer
A widower asks her to bottle his dead wife's scent; she learns what longing can and cannot distil.
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