A1 · 4 minutes · Life

Dreams and chances

Anna looks back at her year in Washington and talks to a friend about dreams.

Loading your practice…

What you’ll practise

Hear the present perfect and talk about dreams.

Words to know

chance: A possibility; taking a chance means trying something risky.
come true: To become real.
proud: Pleased about someone's success.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 91% of the words in this lesson.

Show 1 word that may be new

third A2Look 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 52: Taking Chances”, Let's Learn English Level 1, VOA Learning English. Public domain.

View the source · Licence terms

Five lines selected and cut into sentence clips. Explanations and vocabulary are original.

Levels are suggestions. Found a mistake? Tell us through the Contact page.