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Keesh Keesh is a young boy in a cold northern village. When the village leaders treat his family unfairly, he goes hunting alone. A story by Jack London, adapted for learners.
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What you’ll practise Follow a story with past actions and inverted sentences.
Words to know hunt To chase and catch animals for food. spear A long stick with a sharp point. no one but Nobody except. Words at this lesson’s level (B1) At B1, you probably know about 97% of the words in this lesson.
The other words of this lesson are at B1 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 “Keesh” by Jack London, adapted for VOA Learning English American Stories. Public domain.
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Five sentences selected from the opening and cut into clips. Explanations and vocabulary are original.
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