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What you’ll practise Hear reported speech and lists in a biography.
Words to know reluctant Not wanting to do something. accomplishment Something you have achieved. surveyor A person who measures land to make maps. Words at this lesson’s level (B1) At B1, you probably know about 93% of the words in this lesson.
Show 2 words that may be new 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 Text and audio from “George Washington: Reluctant”, America's Presidents, VOA Learning English, published 2024-02-09. Public domain.
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Five sentences selected from the report and cut into clips. Explanations and vocabulary are original.
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