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Title: Lost Letters of Paris

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)

Story:

Elena Moreau never meant to come back to Paris, and she certainly never meant to find the letter she had once overlooked—the letter that could have changed everything. Five years ago, Julien Beaumont had asked her to meet him at a café at midnight. She never came. Now, standing at that very café, she sees the impossible—Julien is still there. But time has passed, and love that was once certain is now tangled in regrets, unspoken words, and the painful question: is it too late? As old emotions resurface and the weight of the past threatens to pull them apart once more, Elena and Julien must decide—does love wait, or does it fade? With emotions raw and hearts uncertain, they sit down at a table where a love story was once abandoned… and maybe, just maybe, is about to begin again.



Vocabulary:

  1. Unspoken – something felt but never said aloud.
  2. Tangled – complicated and difficult to understand.
  3. Resurface – to appear again after being hidden or forgotten.
  4. Hesitant – unsure or uncertain about making a decision.
  5. Flicker – a brief or faint emotion or expression.



Grammar Focus:

  • Past Perfect Tense:
  • “She had spent years trying to forget him, but seeing him now, she knew she never truly had.”
  • Describes an action completed before another past event.
  • Modal Verbs for Uncertainty & Possibility:
  • “Maybe if she had read the letter, everything would have been different.”
  • Expresses speculation about the past.
  • Conditional Sentences (Type 3):
  • “If she had arrived that night, she wouldn’t have spent five years wondering.”
  • Talks about a hypothetical past event that didn’t happen.

 

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