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!
