Learning path
B2 Upper intermediate
Understand most TV and videos, and talk with native speakers without much effort. Do the stories in order: each one adds its new words and 1 grammar pattern to your Word Bank.
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Fridtjof NansenFrom the Arctic Ice to a Passport for Refugees
Alan TuringThe Codebreaker Who Imagined the Computer
Ada LovelaceShe Saw the Future of Computers… 100 Years Early
Nellie BlyShe Went Undercover in an Asylum… Then Raced Around the World
Frederick DouglassHe Was Forbidden to Read… So He Taught Himself
Edward JennerThey Said Milkmaids Never Caught Smallpox… So a Doctor Tested It
Louis PasteurA Boy Was Bitten by a Mad Dog… and Pasteur Took a Huge Risk
Nikola TeslaHe Arrived With Almost Nothing… Then Lit Up a World's Fair
Zheng HeHe Led Huge Fleets Across the Ocean… Decades Before Columbus
Ibn BattutaHe Left Home for a Pilgrimage… and Travelled for 29 Years
Mary ShelleyA Ghost Story Challenge on a Stormy Night… Then Came Frankenstein
Leonardo da VinciHe Wrote Backwards and Dreamed of Flying… 400 Years Too Early
Nicholas WintonHe Saved 669 Children… Then Kept Quiet for Almost 50 Years
Arthur AsheHe Couldn't Play on His City's Best Courts… Then Won Wimbledon
Srinivasa RamanujanA Clerk in India Wrote a Letter… and Cambridge Wrote Back
Althea GibsonShe Learned Tennis on a Closed Street… Then Won Wimbledon
Christopher ReeveHe Played Superman… Then Showed a Different Type of Strength
Rosalind FranklinHer Photo Showed the Secret of Life… Others Got the Prize
Marie CurieShe Drove X-Ray Cars to the Front Line in the First World War
J. R. R. TolkienHe Invented Languages for Fun… Then Built a Whole World
Satyajit RayAlmost No Money for His First Film… Then an Honorary Oscar
Grace HopperA Real Bug in the Computer… Then She Taught Computers Words
Tu YouyouA 1,600-Year-Old Book Held the Clue… and Her Discovery Saved Millions
Joseph ListerMany People Died After Surgery… Until He Made Hospitals Clean
Albert EinsteinA Patent Clerk's Miracle Year Changed Physics Forever
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