English readings at level B1
300 original readings written by the FitForm team, graded B1 → C2 and sorted by topic. Reading is free and needs no account; exercises, vocabulary review and essay marking need a FitForm login.
The ten-minute rule
When a task feels too big, most people do not start it at all. Psychologists have a simple trick for this,…
The bus that decides
When a school asks why some students stop coming, the answers people expect are about motivation or family…
The warm-up is not wasted
Almost every student who has been told to warm up has quietly wondered whether it is really necessary. Five…
The water bottle experiment
A class in Da Nang tried a small experiment for three weeks. Every student brought a one-litre bottle to…
Learning a sport at fifteen
There is a quiet belief among teenagers that if you have not started a sport by about ten, it is too late.…
Why ice floats
Almost every substance becomes denser as it cools. Water does too, until it reaches about four degrees above…
The canteen queue
Every school canteen has the same problem. Everybody arrives at once, the queue reaches the door, and by the…
The queue at the wrong door
Some doors are pushed when they should be pulled. This happens so often that designers have a name for it: a…
The money in the jar
A simple experiment has been repeated in many countries. People are given a sum of money and asked to divide…
The first rule of first aid
Every first aid course begins with the same instruction, and students are always slightly disappointed by it.…
The map of the school day
A class in Hue was asked to draw a map of their own day: not a timetable, but a line showing how awake they…
The queue for the microscope
A science teacher in Hai Phong had one working microscope and thirty-two students. The usual arrangement was…
The bread that waits
Bread made in twenty minutes and bread made over twelve hours use the same four ingredients. The difference…
The weight of the backpack
A survey of secondary school students found that the average bag weighed about twelve per cent of the…
The form with one question
A charity's online donation page asked for name, address, telephone number, date of birth and how the donor…
Your first session
You do not need special clothes, a gym or a coach to start. You need a tablet or a laptop with a camera, a…
Sixty active minutes
Health organisations advise young people to be physically active for about sixty minutes a day. Most students…
A camera is not a recorder
When students hear that an app uses the camera, the first question is always the same: where do the pictures…
The class that came back
In the first week, class 7S trained every day. In the second week, half the class stopped. This is normal,…
Learning English like training
Many students study English the way some people exercise: nothing for three weeks, then five hours before a…
Who built this
FitForm League was built by three students in grade eight at Trưng Vương Secondary School in Hanoi, with help…