A2 · 5 minutes · Hobbies

Birds and a secret briefcase

Anna goes bird watching in the park, but a mysterious briefcase takes her attention.

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What you’ll practise

Understand “was supposed to” and polite offers.

Words to know

bird-watching: Watching wild birds as a hobby.
briefcase: A flat bag for carrying papers.
top-secret: Very secret.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 89% 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 28: For the Birds”, Let's Learn English Level 2, 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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