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High 2 · 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 · Questions Behind Familiar Places

  1. The Timetable Nobody Questioned
  2. The Empty Seat in the Debate
  3. A Rule That Made Sense Yesterday
  4. The Survey after the Survey
  5. A Map Drawn by Walking

Unit 2 · Evidence and Uncertainty

  1. The Graph with Two Stories
  2. What Our Experiment Could Not Show
  3. The Headline and the Original Study
  4. A Witness with a Different View
  5. The Useful Word “Maybe”

Unit 3 · Relationships and Identity

  1. A Friend Who Needed Silence
  2. The Group Chat after Midnight
  3. A Name I Learned to Say
  4. An Apology with No Excuse
  5. Who Speaks for Our Class?

Unit 4 · Data, AI, and Digital Choices

  1. The Recommendation I Almost Trusted
  2. A Photograph without Permission
  3. The AI Draft and the Missing Source
  4. The Price of a Free App
  5. One Day without a Score

Unit 5 · Science as a Way of Seeing

  1. The Plastic in the Sand Sample
  2. A Quiet Sensor on the Bridge
  3. Why the Bread Changed Shape
  4. The Moon in a Phone Picture
  5. A Small Error in a Big Model

Unit 6 · Climate and Shared Spaces

  1. The Shade beside the Bus Stop
  2. The River after Heavy Rain
  3. Repair Before Replacing
  4. A Garden That Held the Water
  5. The Energy We Could Actually Save

Unit 7 · Health and Human Limits

  1. When Rest Became Part of Training
  2. A Rumor about a New Treatment
  3. The Day I Asked for Help
  4. Reading a Food Label Carefully
  5. The Habit That Did Not Fit Everyone

Unit 8 · Work, Money, and Fairness

  1. The True Cost of a Cheap Shirt
  2. A Part-Time Job and an Exam Week
  3. Where Our Festival Budget Went
  4. A Design That Left Someone Out
  5. The Library Open for One More Hour

Unit 9 · Language across Cultures

  1. The Question That Sounded Rude
  2. A Word with No Easy Translation
  3. Subtitles for a Local Story
  4. The Accent I Stopped Correcting
  5. Two Versions of the Same Memory

Unit 10 · Media, Art, and Expression

  1. The Image Cropped Too Closely
  2. A Song with a Borrowed Beat
  3. The Museum Label We Questioned
  4. An Ending the Audience Chose
  5. A Poster with Too Many Facts

Unit 11 · Connections beyond Borders

  1. The Package's Long Route
  2. Weather Shared across an Ocean
  3. A Bird Counted by Many People
  4. A Letter to a Partner School
  5. The Water in a Product's Story

Unit 12 · Decisions with No Simple Answer

  1. The Path I Did Not Expect
  2. Who Benefits from the New Plan?
  3. A Promise We Could Measure
  4. The Question I Changed
  5. A Sentence with More Than One Door