A1 · 4 minutes · Free time

A surprise on Sunday

Anna feels bored on a Sunday afternoon, so she goes out and finds a very unusual party.

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What you’ll practise

Hear how speakers talk about likes, feelings and surprises.

Words to know

bored: Tired because nothing is interesting.
puppet: A doll that a person moves to tell a story.
unusual: Not common; surprising.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 84% of the words in this lesson.

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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 13: Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare!”, 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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