A2 · 5 minutes · Family

A parenting experiment

Anna and Pete pretend a bag of flour is a baby for a week. Who will be the better parent?

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What you’ll practise

Recognise reflexive pronouns such as “itself” and “ourselves”.

Words to know

experience: Something that has happened to you.
research: Careful study to find facts.
shortly: Soon.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 100% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at A2 or below.

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 17: Flour Baby, Part 1”, 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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