Learning path
B1 Intermediate
Follow the main points of clear speech about familiar topics and tell a story. Do the stories in order: each one adds its new words and 1 grammar pattern to your Word Bank.
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Wangari MaathaiThe Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees
Temple GrandinShe Thinks in Pictures
Ludwig van BeethovenThe Music He Couldn't Hear
Stephen HawkingDoctors Gave Him Two Years… He Lived 55 More
Charles DarwinA Five-Year Voyage, Some Small Birds… and an Idea That Changed Biology
Rachel CarsonWhat If Spring Had No Birds?
Ernest ShackletonHis Ship Was Crushed by Ice… Then He Brought Every Man Home
Ray CharlesHe Lost His Sight at Seven… Then Invented a New Sound
Katherine JohnsonShe Counted Everything… Then an Astronaut Asked for Her
Kalpana ChawlaShe Watched Planes Over Her Small Town… Then Flew Into Space
Hedy LamarrA Film Star by Day… an Inventor by Night
George Washington CarverFarmers Had Tired Soil… He Gave Them Peanuts
Johannes GutenbergBooks Were Copied by Hand… Then a Machine Changed Everything
Roberto ClementeA Baseball Star Got on an Old Plane… to Help Strangers
Clara BartonShe Was Too Shy to Speak… Then Took Bandages to the Battlefield
Jonas SalkHe Made a Vaccine for Polio… and Didn't Try to Get Rich From It
Mary SeacoleThey Said No to Her… So She Went to the War Anyway
Soichiro HondaHe Failed Again and Again… Then Built a World Brand
Maya AngelouShe Didn't Speak for Five Years… Then Her Voice Reached the World
Charles DickensAt 12 He Worked in a Factory… Then Wrote About Poor Children
Gertrude EderlePeople Said Women Were Too Weak… She Swam the English Channel
Anne SullivanFrom a Poorhouse, Nearly Blind… to Helen Keller's Teacher
Irena SendlerShe Hid Children's Names in Jars Under a Tree
Jacques CousteauHe Wanted to Breathe Underwater… So He Helped Invent a Way
Ludwig GuttmannDoctors Said Nothing Could Help… He Gave Them Sport
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