Two Rooms for One Exam
A free A1-level English story for language learners, readable online in English, with an option to listen via the free Storyteller app.
A last-minute room change sends Farah and Dario to different exam rooms, and they find each other just before the test starts.
Both students studied hard the night before. They wanted a good grade on the test. Neither one wanted to be late.
Farah checked the exam schedule on the wall. It listed Room 4 for her math test. She walked there at nine o'clock.
Dario checked the same list. He read Room 9 for the math test. He walked to Room 9 instead.
The school changed the room that morning. The new list hung by the office door. Farah did not see it.
Dario sat down in Room 9. He looked around the empty desks. Only three other students sat there.
"This isn't the whole class," he said. He asked a teacher near the door.
"The math exam moved to Room 4," the teacher said. "Room 9 is for a different test."
Dario grabbed his bag and hurried down the hall. He found Farah outside Room 4.
"I got the old room number," she said. "I didn't check the new list."
"Me too," Dario said. "Let's go in together."
The two friends walked in with two minutes left. They found seats side by side. They opened their test papers.
