INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH STORY ❤️The Unexpected First Date❤️Level 3 B1 | BRITISH ENGLISH WITH SUBTITLES
Hello and welcome to Lovely English Stories - learn English through story! Enjoy this intermediate B1 English story for learning English. In this short British English story, we will read about two strangers who find themselves on a sudden first date ❤️! This intermediate level 3 English story with subtitles will help you improve your English listening skills, English reading practise, and speaking practise with modern, original English stories and British English vocabulary!
This story is for English intermediate level learners. It is a B1 Level 2 / 3 English story in British English and the narrator has a British accent.
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🤔 Useful English vocabulary with their meanings taken from the short English story 🤔
Unexpected (adjective) – Something that is not expected or that is a surprise
Colleague(s) (noun) – Someone who you work with.
Frustrated (adjective) - Feeling annoyed that you cannot do something.
Stressed (adjective) – To be worried.
Patiently (adverb) – Taken from the adjective patient.
Fancy – Can mean many different things depending on the content. You can fancy a person (if you find them attractive) however, in this story, fancy means something which is special or important. Kate’s new job is fancy because it is working for a big company in a “fancy” building.
To limp (verb) – To walk with difficulty.
Handsome (adjective) – An attractive person.
Thump (noun) – A loud noise.
Silly (adjective) – A feeling you have if you are embarrassed.
Ego (noun) – What you think of yourself or someone else. E.g. “He’s got such a big ego – he loves himself!”
Stranger (noun) – Someone you don’t know.
📝 Popular English sayings and phrases used in this intermediate English story 📝
No worries! – Used to tell someone else not to worry.
Could murder – You usually say this when you really want to eat something “I’m so hungry, I could murder some fish and chips!”
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🎵 Background music: (pianomoment)
⭐ Images all from Canva
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:15 Story begins
07:06 Outro
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