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High 1 · Reading series

Learn English through short readings

Twelve units and sixty short readings. Listen first, then read. Hover over an underlined word for dictionary help and pronunciation.

Unit 1 · New Places, New Routines

  1. The Train I Almost Missed
  2. The Seat I Chose
  3. A Club Without a Name
  4. The Second Draft of My Goal
  5. Lunch with a New Classmate

Unit 2 · Learning to Ask Better Questions

  1. A Mistake in the Lab Notes
  2. Why Our Survey Failed
  3. The Source Behind the Number
  4. Explaining It to Someone Else
  5. The Question We Kept

Unit 3 · Friendship, Boundaries & Self

  1. A Message I Did Not Send
  2. The Friend Who Changed Clubs
  3. One Hour without Plans
  4. What I Could Say No To
  5. After the Team Meeting

Unit 4 · Digital Life & AI

  1. The Feed That Knew Too Much
  2. A Summary with a Missing Voice
  3. The Photo Before It Spread
  4. Captions for Everyone
  5. What the AI Could Not Notice

Unit 5 · Science Around Us

  1. The Warm Map of Our Street
  2. A Battery's Long Journey
  3. Bread That Rose Overnight
  4. The River in a Satellite Image
  5. A Sky with Fewer Stars

Unit 6 · Living with the Environment

  1. The Tree We Almost Removed
  2. What the River Carried
  3. The Lunch We Did Not Waste
  4. A Map for the Next Heavy Rain
  5. The Jacket We Repaired

Unit 7 · Health, Body & Mind

  1. The Sleep Log Surprise
  2. My Knee after Practice
  3. A Quiet Visit to the Counselor
  4. The Rest Stop in Summer
  5. A Break That Made Space

Unit 8 · Society & Money

  1. The Price of a Secondhand Book
  2. A Budget for Our Festival
  3. The Library's New Hours
  4. A Voice in the Student Council
  5. The Station Anyone Can Use

Unit 9 · Words Across Cultures

  1. The Phrase That Sounded Too Direct
  2. Two Ways to Tell the Same Story
  3. A Festival Seen by a Visitor
  4. My Grandmother's Untranslated Word
  5. Listening to an Accent

Unit 10 · Media & Creativity

  1. The Photo I Left Out
  2. Ten Seconds of Video
  3. A Comic without a Villain
  4. The Song We Could Not Translate
  5. The Museum Label We Rewrote

Unit 11 · Connections Beyond Town

  1. The Label on My Sneakers
  2. A Letter Across Time Zones
  3. Birds Counted by Strangers
  4. A Question about Clean Water
  5. A Map of Shared Weather

Unit 12 · Choices after Today

  1. A Day at the Workshop
  2. The Path That Was Not Straight
  3. An Interview with My Future Self
  4. The Smallest Useful Step
  5. The Sentence I Can Now Read