A1 · 4 minutes · History

Learning about a president

Anna learns about Abraham Lincoln at a famous theatre in Washington.

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What you’ll practise

Follow past and present sentences about history.

Words to know

childhood: The time when you are a child.
silly: Not serious.
remember: To keep someone or something in your mind.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

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

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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 29: A Long Time Ago”, Let's Learn English Level 1, 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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