A2 · 5 minutes · Work

Gossip at work

Anna's boss calls a meeting, and everyone guesses what it is about. Is it good news or bad news?

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What you’ll practise

Hear the present perfect and guesses with “must”.

Words to know

meeting: A time when people come together to talk about something.
detective: A person whose job is to find out who did a crime.
fire: To end someone's job.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 97% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at A2 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 1: Budget Cuts”, 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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