B1 · 5 minutes · History

James Madison: Scholar

James Madison helped write the U.S. Constitution and became the fourth president. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Understand phrasal verbs and contrasts in a biography.

Words to know

persuade: To make someone agree or believe something.
proposed: Suggested but not yet accepted.
victory: A win.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 92% 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

Text and audio from “James Madison: Scholar”, America's Presidents, VOA Learning English, published 2023-03-18. Kelly Jean Kelly wrote this report for Learning English. Public domain.

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