The Hound of the Baskervilles (Level 4)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Level 4) Short description: Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes. (Click CC button to turn...

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A Kiss Before Dying (Level 4)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: A Kiss Before Dying(Level 4) Short description: Upon learning that his girlfriend is pregnant, a young man cold-bloodedly adjusts his plans for marrying into a wealthy industrialist family. Throughout his life he has used his intelligence, striking good looks, and as a last resort, his ruthless and violent strength to achieve his goals. He refuses to be stopped now―especially by something as trivial as a pregnant girlfriend. (Click CC button to turn on/off subtitles. Click the rectangle button...

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Skyjack! (Level 3)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Skyjack!(Level 3) Short description: When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is! And there isn't much time. One man lies dead on the runway....

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The Call of The Wild (Level 3)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: The Call of The Wild(Level 3) Short description: When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow...and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again. (Click CC button to turn on/off subtitles. Click...

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Love Story (Level 3)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Love Story(Level 3) Short description: This is a love story you won't forget. Oliver Barrett meets Jenny Cavilleri. He plays sports, she plays music. He's rich, and she's poor. They argue, and they fight, and they fall in love. So they get married, and make a home together. They work hard, they enjoy life, they make plans for the future. Then they learn that they don't have much time left. Their story has made people laugh, and cry, all over the world. (Click CC button to turn on/off subtitles. Click...

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Robin Hood (Level 2)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Robin Hood(Level 2) Short description: After the cruel sheriff killed Robert’s father and took his lands and property, young Robert decided to live in Sherwood Forest with a couple of his loyal friends. There, in Sherwood Forest, he named himself Robin Hood. John, whose brother was out on a crusade, became an evil King of England. He considered Robin and his company to be outlaws. Robin and friends...

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The Eyes of Montezuma (Level 2)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: The Eyes of Montezuma(Level 2) Short description: Shelley Marn is a Californian student on holiday in Europe. She meets a young English couple, Clare and Nick Harmans. The Harmans ask Shelley to have lunch with them. She agrees but strangely she never arrives. Why? What has happened? (Click CC button to turn on/off subtitles. Click the rectangle button at down-right corner to view fullsc...

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Romeo and Juliet (Level 2)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Romeo and Juliet(Level 2) Short description: There has never been a more tragic story than this one of Romeo and Juliet… It was a love at first sight, boundless and everlasting. And pointless death because of families excessive feud. Montague and Capulet are leaders in the city of Verona but they also blooded enemies. Two old men couldn’t even remember what was the cause of their feud. All members...

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The Visit (Level 2)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: The Visit(Level 2) Short description: Harry watched the ‘thing’ carefully. ‘That,’ he thought, ‘is something very, very strange … something from another world, perhaps. It’s a spaceship … or something like it. I’m going to get out and look at it.’ Harry Evans is a police officer. He is driving along a country road when he sees something. He stops. He hears strange music. Is it a UFO? No one believes...

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Cries from the Heart - Stories from Around the World (Level 2)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Cries from the Heart - Stories from Around the World (Level 2) Short description: From Botswana to New Zealand, from Jamaica to Nigeria, from Uganda to Malaysia, from India to South Africa, these moving stories show us that the human heart is the same in every place. Fear and pain, happiness and sadness belong to us all. These eight stories were winning entries in the 2004 Commonwealth Short Story...

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Death in the Freezer (Level 2)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Death in the Freezer (Level 2) Short description: When Ellen was six, her brother was born. Her parents was very happy to have a son, but she was upset cause all their attention now was fixed on new baby whom called Al. As Ellen grown up, she was in difficult position. Her husband left her with three children and no money. But Al was very successful, he established a rock band that became a quite popular – they made records and earn a lot of money. Soon Al was rich and popular, as a result he has...

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A Ghost in Love and Other Plays (Level 1)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: A Ghost in Love and Other Plays (Level 1) Short description: Do you believe in ghosts? Jerry doesn't. He's a nineteen-year-old American, who just wants a good holiday with his friend, Brad. They are travelling round the north of England by bicycle. But strange things begin to happen in the small hotel where they are staying. First, Brad seems to think that he has been there before. And then a girl...

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The Elephant Man (Level 1)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: The Elephant Man(Level 1) Short description: This is a true and tragic story. He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children ran away from him. People laugh at him, and call him ‘The Elephant Man.’ Then someone speaks to him – and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. (Click CC button to turn on/off subtitles. Click...

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The Coldest Place on Earth (Level 1)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: The Coldest Place on Earth (Level 1) Short description: In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest...

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Goodbye, Mr Hollywood (Level 1)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Goodbye, Mr Hollywood(Level 1) Short description: Nick Lortz is sitting outside a café in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick 'Mr Hollywood'? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next table...

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The Phantom of the Opera (Level 1)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: The Phantom of the Opera (Level 1) Short description: It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom...

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Love or Money (Level 1)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Love or Money(Level 1) Short description: It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one person can't...

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White Death (Level 1)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: White Death(Level 1) Short description: Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die. She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they work...

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Police TV (Level 0)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Police TV(Level 0) Short description: 'Every day someone steals money from people near the shops. We must stop this,' says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many suspects - who is the robber? (Click CC button to turn on/off subtitles. Click the rectangle button at down-right corner to view fullscreen) Glossary arrest:...

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Red Roses (Level 0)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Red Roses(Level 0) Short description: 'Who is the man with the roses in his hand?' thinks Anna. ‘I want to meet him.' 'Who is the girl with the guitar?' thinks Will. ‘I like her. I want to meet her.' But they do not meet. 'There are lots of men!' says Anna's friend Vicki, but Anna cannot forget Will. And then one rainy day ... (Click CC button to turn on/off subtitles. Click the rectangle...

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Stories To Learn English - Level 6

Pride and Prejudice (Level 6) Short description: 'The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry,' said Elizabeth Bennet. [...] ...

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Stories To Learn English - Level 5

Live And Let Die (Level 5) Short description: In Live and Let Die, Bond finds himself in Jamaica investigating the underworld criminal 'Mr Big', who is suspected of selling antique gold coins to finance Soviet spy operations. As usual, Bond gets caught up in many dangerous situations. [...] Sense and Sensibility (Level 5) Short description: Sometimes the...

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Stories To Learn English - Level 4

A Kiss Before Dying (Level 4) Short description: Upon learning that his girlfriend is pregnant, a young man cold-bloodedly adjusts his plans for marrying into a wealthy industrialist family. Throughout his life he has used his intelligence, striking good looks, and as a last resort, his ruthless and violent strength to achieve his goals. [...] Lorna Doone...

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Stories To Learn English - Level 3

Skyjack! (Level 3) Short description: When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is! [...] The...

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Stories To Learn English - Level 2

World Wonders (Level 2) Short description: What are the most beautiful, the most interesting, the most wonderful things in the world? The Great Pyramid, the Great Wall of China, the Panama Canal - everyone has their favourites. [...] Death in the Freezer (Level 2) Short description: When Ellen was six, her brother was born. Her parents was very happy...

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Stories To Learn English - Level 1

London (Level 1) Short description: Come with us to London - a city as old as the Romans, and as new as the twenty-first century. There are places to go - from Oxford Street to Westminster Abbey, from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to Wimbledon Tennis Club. And things to do - ride on the London Eye, [...] The Phantom of the Opera (Level 1) Short description:...

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Stories To Learn English - Level 0

Drive into Danger (Level 0) Short description: 'I can drive a truck,' says Kim on her first day at work in the office. When Kim's passenger Andy finds something strange under the truck things get dangerous - very dangerous [...] ...

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Stories To Learn English

Stories To Learn English Improve your English with English short stories. This is the fun way :) * Important Note Make sure you start with stories at your level, and go gradually up. Do not start with difficult stories that you can't really understand, OK? Stories To Learn English - Level 0 Stories To Learn English - Level 1 Stories To Learn English - Level 2 Stories To Learn English...

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Why Learn English

1. You can get more knowledge. If you know English well, an incredible amount of resources becomes accessible: books, courses, videos and of course, a great part of the Internet. Most of the blogs and websites are in English. 2. You may get a better job if you know English. Many positions require dealing with clients, service providers or colleagues from other countries. In those cases, your knowledge of English is a critical advantage....

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Your level of English

 Level CEFR Level Equivalent Exam Level Your ability 0 : Beginner 0 IELTS 1-2 TOEIC 0-150 You can speak and understand English in a very limited way. In a few weeks: be able to shop or travel with basic English. You will know the fundamentals of English pronunciation. 1 : Elementary A1 IELTS 2-3 TOEIC 151-300 CAMBRIDGE KET You can understand language used in everyday situations if the speaker speaks slowly and clearly. By the end of this level: make simple sentences...

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