A1 · 4 minutes · Games

A spy mission

Anna and her co-workers play a spy game at work, using secret names.

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What you’ll practise

Hear the present perfect and “still” in a fun mission.

Words to know

agent: A spy, or a person who works for an organisation.
air duct: A metal pipe that carries air through a building.
code: A secret system of letters or numbers.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 70% of the words in this lesson.

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reporting A2Look up
duty B1Look up
crack 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

Dialogue and audio from “Lesson 49: Operation Spy!”, Let's Learn English Level 1, 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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