Welcome to Learn English Through Stories: Build Your Vocabulary, Speaking Practice, Short Stories for Intermediate ESL Students (B2). This book transforms language learning by immersing you in real-life stories that make learning vocabulary and speaking relatable and memorable. By connecting new words and phrases to engaging narratives, you’ll find it easier to understand and retain them, enhancing your fluency and confidence in speaking English.

Book Structure
Inside, you’ll find 8 lessons, each containing 16 tasks (READ MORE ABOUT THE TASKS HERE) designed to improve your vocabulary and speaking skills. An Answer Key at the end of the book helps you check your progress. Additionally, our website, STORIESWITHVOCAB.COM, offers tips and tricks on how to approach each task for students, and guidance for teachers on how to maximize their students’ progress.

Build Your Vocabulary
Our approach focuses on building your vocabulary through context-rich stories. Each of the eight lessons in this book includes vocabulary sets taken directly from the story. You will find a variety of tasks based on this vocabulary, helping you review the new words multiple times.

Speaking Practice
Speaking practice is integrated into every lesson with a variety of tasks. Before reading each story, you’ll engage with pre-discussion questions that activate your prior knowledge. After the story, you’ll delve into discussion questions that encourage deeper understanding and conversation. Additionally, you will find here storytelling and speaking tasks that are designed to boost your vocabulary memorization.

Short Stories for Intermediate ESL Students
This book is tailored for B2 level ESL students.

For Students and Teachers
Are you an ESL student eager to enhance your English vocabulary and speaking skills? Or a teacher looking for innovative methods to engage your students? This book is designed with you in mind.

The Inspiration Behind the Book
Our journey to creating this book began with a powerful idea: learning a language should be fun and immersive. Traditional methods often fall short in helping students achieve fluency and confidence. This book bridges that gap by using real-life stories at the heart of each lesson. These stories make vocabulary easier to remember and use in real conversations.

A Unique Approach to Learning
What sets this book apart is its approach to language learning. Each of the eight lessons is centered around a compelling story, providing a foundation for vocabulary sets, speaking, and conversation tasks. By connecting new words and phrases to the context of a story, you’ll find it easier to understand and remember them. This method has been tested and refined with hundreds of students to ensure its effectiveness.

Why Choose This Book?

• Engaging Stories: Real-life stories make vocabulary and grammar more relatable and easier to remember.
• Comprehensive Lessons: Each lesson is packed with tasks that build your vocabulary, speaking, and conversation skills.
• Proven Method: Our unique approach has been tested and refined with hundreds of students to ensure it’s effective.
• Supportive Resources: Access additional tips and guidance on our website to enhance your learning experience.

Transform Your English Learning Experience
Learning to speak a new language should be an exciting journey, not a chore. By putting real-life stories, vocabulary learning, speaking, and engaging conversations at the center of our approach, we hope to change your perception of language learning. This isn’t just another textbook; it’s a new way of thinking about and engaging with English.

LIST OF STORIES:

LESSON 1 The Female Factory Workers That Glowed in the Dark 

LESSON 2 The Miraculous Landing on the Hudson River

LESSON 3 The 20-Year-Old on a Mission to Walk on Mars         

LESSON 4 The Canadian Chef That Enraged Vegans         

LESSON 5 The Turn of Fate         

LESSON 6 The Man Who Injects Himself With Snake Venom

LESSON 7 The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombings     

LESSON 8 The Monks Who Turned Themselves into Mummies