A2 · 5 minutes · Animals

A day of pet contests

Anna talks about a pet show she visited, and Ashley wishes she had been there too.

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What you’ll practise

Understand “would have” and “could have” for the past.

Words to know

contest: A competition.
matching: The same or very similar in colour or style.
take care of: To look after someone.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 97% of the words in this lesson.

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These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Dialogue and audio from “Lesson 9: Pets Are Family, Too!”, Let's Learn English Level 2, VOA Learning English. Public domain.

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Five lines selected and cut into sentence clips. Explanations and vocabulary are original.

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