B1 · 5 minutes · Everyday objects

How a pencil is made

A short talk about an everyday object and how it is produced.

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What you’ll practise

Understand a process described in a short talk.

Words to know

graphite: A soft grey material used in pencils.
clay: Soft earth that becomes hard when it is heated.
eraser: A small object for removing pencil marks.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 90% 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

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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