A1 · 4 minutes · Everyday problems

Fixing a car

Pete tries to fix his car himself with help from a video. Anna is not sure it will work.

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What you’ll practise

Hear the present continuous for actions happening now.

Words to know

fix: To repair something.
tire: The rubber ring around a car wheel.
extra: More than you need.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 90% 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

Dialogue and audio from “Lesson 47: How Can I help?”, 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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