Our BEST Christmas Stories (Level A2-B1)
Get ready for this festive season with our best Christmas stories. These are mostly beginner to intermediate short stories and they are packed with Christmas Vocabulary.
by Thandi Ngwira Gatignol
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As a learner or curious visitor, we always encourage you to play an active role through creativity and adventure. Additionally, you are constantly challenged so that you can continue to improve your speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.
We teach in a colourful and pleasant way through rich stories, vivid emotions and striking imagery. These include comprehensive vocabulary and grammar lessons, short stories, poems, quizzes, varied audio and original video content. You will equally find dozens of creative and original charts to help you understand concepts in a quick and easy-to-remember way.
Let’s have a closer look at what you can get.
Later on, I discovered more short stories in the weekend editions of the Malawi News or Nation newspapers. They were highly entertaining and often morally-based. Above all, they provided us with a lot of vocabulary and useful expressions that enabled us to read more books and improve our English fluency.
Indeed, stories are a great way of learning languages in general. They allow us to discover new words and worlds. In fact, they are a clever way of meeting and studying grammar in context. Besides, they allow students to build their autonomy and self-confidence as their language skills improve.
Our short stories are set in Africa and in the diaspora and are all an interesting read. Some of them also come with vocabulary or grammar charts, a reading comprehension or vocabulary worksheet to facilitate understanding.
We have beginner (A1-A2), intermediate (A2-B1) to advanced levels (B1-B2). You can also buy short stories as a paperback or e-book >here<
Get ready for this festive season with our best Christmas stories. These are mostly beginner to intermediate short stories and they are packed with Christmas Vocabulary.
Discover or rediscover Learn English With Africa’s best short stories in English. Find them at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Have fun reading these beauties!
Wongani is a dreamer and he wants to be an astronaut! Read this beginner short story and learn more about vocabulary for talking about space.
This is an advanced English short story with synonyms and antonyms. The narrator faces a dilemma as far as creating is concerned.
With our thorough lessons, you can learn how to describe yourself, your family, your school, your nearest hospital, your city or village. You can also learn how to talk about a famous historical character or an inspirational person. You can equally describe a poster, an advert, a photograph or a drawing. As a matter of fact, why not also learn how to describe the African continent and its landscape? The vocabulary lessons are numerous and the sky is the limit!
Besides, we even provide you with a variety of situations. Hence, you can be more creative and adventurous. In the end, you can show off your newly acquired skills to your friends, classmates, colleagues, family members or teachers through practice!
Finally, we encourage you to check the pronunciation or meaning of new words in a bilingual or unilingual dictionary for phonetic accuracy. Remember—speaking is as important as writing! Once you have mastered a vocabulary field then you can enjoy our compelling short stories that give you insightful glimpses into African culture and how people live on a day-to-day basis.
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Learn how to describe your natural environment extensively with this exceptional vocabulary. The level is from A2 to B2. Happy learning!
Learn several interesting ways of saying HELLO and GOODBYE in English! This is a beginner level lesson (A1-A2) but even intermediate and advanced learners can also get something from it!
We kill boredom with fascinating situations. Often, you actually forget that you are learning boring grammar information (that you need to know anyway), as you are constantly active. You are invited to think, create, correct, imagine situations so that you see how these grammar tools are actually friendly and easy to use.
Thus, you can learn about the Present Perfect Tense through a short story that is called ‘The Perfect Present’. You can know more about Conditionals by immersing yourself in a short story entitled ‘Unconditional Love’.
You will also find more lessons on BE, HAVE, the Present Continuous tense, Modal Verbs, Reported Speech and many more.
Finally, as with vocabulary lessons, you get to see grammar in action in rivetting and unforgettable short stories .
Omah Lay, Never Forget Hi and welcome! In this new lesson, you will learn how to use the modal verb WILL in order to talk
Understand each CEFR level in your language-learning journey in order to measure your progress. Knowing where you are will help you set realistic goals.
Papa Dorido is a strong-willed man and his wife is yet to discover the measure of his will. This man will go to great lengths to get what he wants!
Learn the rules for the Simple Present Tense in this detailed and thorough lesson. Worksheets and grammar charts are available.
I founded Learn English With Africa in 2015 with the aim of providing authentic learning and teaching materials about Africa. Since then, thousands of people from all over the world have been using this website’s content to perfect their English or learn more about Africa in general.
by Thandi Ngwira Gatignol
Inspired by African Culture from Malawi
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