Intermediate Stories

If your English is good enough to allow you to speak with and understand native English speakers who do NOT know your language, you're at a great place to continue learning on your own. You can already understand anyone who is willing to slow down and explain things that you don't know, and you can do it all without the help of a translator. These stories assume that you know the most common, everyday words in English and start adding more vocabulary and expressions. Get ready - your English ability is about to explode.

The Prisoner of the Monkeys

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • The Story: The Prisoner of the Monkeys. A silly jungle rescue story.
  • Worksheet: Practice with new words.
  • Picture Review: A visual review of vocabulary. Great to use as a game.
  • Riddle Review: A riddle to solve using vocab from Prisoner of the Monkeys and Cinderella.
  • Essential Antonyms - Activity

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • Worksheet 1: This exercise provides you with many useful, all-around words that you will want to have in your vocabulary. Do you know all of these antonyms?
  • Worksheet 2: Review the new words.
  • Worksheet 3: Quiz yourself on the new words.
  • The Lost Treasure

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • The Story: The Lost Treasure. A story where you decide what to do next!
  • Worksheet: Practice with new words.

    Sir Gabriel and the King's Riddle

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • Self Study: Get a natural feel for the meaning of the new words and expressions by studying these example sentences.
  • The Story: Sir Gabriel and the King's Riddle. One knight's adventure to solve a crazy riddle.
  • Worksheet: Practice with new words.

    The Terrible Punishment

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • Self Study: Get a natural feel for the meaning of the new words and expressions by studying these example sentences.
  • The Story: The Terrible Punishment. A funny short story with an unexpected ending.
  • Worksheet: Practice with new words.

    Sweet As Salt

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • Self Study: Get a natural feel for the meaning of the new words and expressions by studying these example sentences.
  • The Story: Sweet As Salt. A short April Fool's Day story with a funny ending.
  • Worksheet: Practice with new words.

    How the Zebra Got her Stripes

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • Self Study: Get a natural feel for the meaning of the new words and expressions by studying these example sentences.
  • The Story: How the Zebra Got her Stripes. A just-so story about our friend the zebra.
  • Worksheet: Practice with new words.

    Happily Ever After

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • The Story: Happily Ever After. An adventure with many endings where YOU choose what happens next.
  • Worksheet: Practice with new words.

    One of Us

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • Self Study: Get a natural feel for the meaning of the new words and expressions by studying these example sentences.
  • The Story: One of Us. A ghost story about a haunted hotel.
  • Worksheet: Practice with new words.

    More Antonyms - Activity

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • Worksheet: This activity provides some higher-level antonyms, many of which appear in stories you have already read or will read.
  • Picture Review: A visual repetition of the new word pairs.
  • Snow White and the 7 Dwarves

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • The Story: Snow White and the 7 Dwarves. A classic fairy tale with some text missing.
  • Worksheet: Practice with new words.
  • Review: Practice using vocab from Snow White and Happily Ever After.

    The Babysitter

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • The Story: The Babysitter. A babysitting nightmare.

    The Little Mermaid

  • Teacher's Notes, New Words, and Answers
  • The Story: The Little Mermaid. The popular fairy tale - full of great vocab and expressions.
  • Worksheet: Practice with new words.

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