A1 · 4 minutes · Hobbies

An acting class

Anna takes an acting class to keep her New Year's resolution.

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What you’ll practise

Hear adverbs that describe how people do things.

Words to know

resolution: A promise to yourself, often for the new year.
woods: An area with many trees.
costume: Clothes an actor wears to play a character.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 79% of the words in this lesson.

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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 40: The Woods Are Alive”, 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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