English readings — About FitForm
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.
What FitForm League is
FitForm League is a web platform that turns short bursts of exercise into a game for secondary school…
How a school chooses software
Students often assume that schools buy software the way they choose an app: someone sees it, likes it and…
The student who tested the counter
Three weeks after the first version appeared, a student in grade nine sent a message to the team: your…
The rules of a fair game
Any competition between unequal participants faces the same question: should the prize go to the strongest,…
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 smallest useful change
When a team decides a product needs improving, the instinct is to plan a large release. Several months later…
The contingency nobody wrote down
Every plan contains an assumption about what will not go wrong. Most of the time the assumption holds, which…
The shortcut across the grass
Walk through almost any park and you will find a worn line across the grass, cutting the corner that the…
The cost of a small font
A government form was redesigned and the number of errors fell by about a third. No wording changed. The…
The lamp that outlived the plan
A fire station in California has a light bulb that has been burning, almost continuously, since 1901. It is…
The form with one question
A charity's online donation page asked for name, address, telephone number, date of birth and how the donor…
The form that lost half its users
A registration form had seven fields and lost about half the people who started it. Six months and several…
The feature that nobody asked to remove
A team removed a feature used by four per cent of its users. The four per cent complained loudly, the other…
The default that decided
Changing a setting's default from off to on moved about seventy per cent of users, and the setting was one…
The error message that helped
A payment page's error message was changed from 'Transaction failed' to 'Your bank declined this card. Try…
The survey that asked the wrong people
A product team surveyed its users about a proposed change and received an overwhelmingly positive response.…
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…
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,…
Who built this
FitForm League was built by three students in grade eight at Trưng Vương Secondary School in Hanoi, with help…
From one school to a district
A pilot that works in one school proves less than it appears to. The first school has the founders walking…