English Short Stories for Intermediate Learners

About the Stories

A feeling of progress is important when reading in a foreign language. Without this, you have no motivation to keep reading. The stories in English Short Stories for Intermediate Learners have been designed to give you this feeling of progress.

First, each story has been kept short and broken down into chapters. This gives you the satisfaction of being able to finish reading what you have started, and come back the next day wanting more. It also reduces the feeling of: “There is so much I don’t know in English!”

The English in the stories is rich and varied, but still understandable for intermediate learners. Each story is written in a different genre in order to keep you entertained. There are plenty of dialogues, giving you lots of useful spoken English words and phrases to learn. There is also a variety of tenses from one story to the next, so you can practise common verbs in past, present, and future forms. This will make you a more confident user of English, able to understand different situations without getting lost.

English Short Stories for Intermediate Learners supports you with some special learning features. There are regular summaries of the plot to help you follow the story and make sure you have not missed anything important. You will find comprehension questions at the end of each chapter to test your understanding of what has happened in the story and encourage you to read in more detail.

English Short Stories for Intermediate Learners has been created to give you the support you need, so you can focus on reading, learning, and having fun!