A2 · 4 minutes · Stories for children

A snowman for Grandpa

A winter story about children playing outside with their grandfather.

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What you’ll practise

Follow a short story in the past tense.

Words to know

carrot: A long orange vegetable.
scarf: A long piece of cloth you wear around your neck.
melt: To change from solid to liquid because of heat.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 92% of the words in this lesson.

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snowman above B2Look up

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

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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