Practice with News Business News at B1
Practice with News Business News at B1 lists 297 business stories rewritten for English learners at the site's Medium level, which it maps to CEFR B1. Each story runs a few hundred words, carries a recording, and is published as well at an Easy A2 and a Difficult B2 version, so the same news can be read at three degrees of difficulty. The list is updated as stories appear, newest first.
100% Free (unlimited): Everything is free and open without an account: the story at all three levels, its recording, the word list with plain-English definitions, the comprehension quiz and the printable worksheet that each story carries.
How It Helps Your Business English
The page holds the site's business stories at Medium level, newest first, each with its date, its topics, a one-line summary and a link to the Easy and Difficult versions. Opening a story gives the text, its word count and reading time, a recording with a player, a ten-word vocabulary list with short definitions, a comprehension quiz and a printable worksheet.
You read a story at the level that suits you and move to the easier or the harder version of the same news when you want a change of pace. You can listen to the recording while you follow the text, check the ten key words against their definitions before you read, answer the quiz to see what you have understood, and print the worksheet to study away from the screen.
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