A1 · 4 minutes · Stories for children

A very tall man

A man is so tall that nothing at home fits him. What does he do?

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What you’ll practise

Recognise “too” and “very” with simple adjectives.

Words to know

too: More than is good or needed.
bicycle: A vehicle with two wheels that you ride.
fork: A tool you use to eat food.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 96% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at A1 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

“A very tall man”, text by Cornelius Gulere, illustration by Catherine Groenewald, African Storybook (africanstorybook.org), CC BY. Synthetic narration by Joy English.

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Five sentences selected; read with a synthetic voice (Kokoro-82M). Illustrations are not used. Explanations and vocabulary are original.

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