A1 · 4 minutes · Sports

How baseball works

Anna explains the rules of baseball to young viewers on her show.

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What you’ll practise

Understand simple explanations of a sport.

Words to know

pitcher: The player who throws the ball in baseball.
base: One of the four places a runner must reach in baseball.
team: A group of people who play or work together.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 90% of the words in this lesson.

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pitcher's B2Look up
mound above B2Look 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 33: Learning America's Sport”, Let's Learn English Level 1, VOA Learning English. Public domain.

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