A1 · 4 minutes · Work

Lending and borrowing

Anna needs things for a project, so she asks her co-workers to help.

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What you’ll practise

Understand the difference between “lend” and “borrow”.

Words to know

lend: To give something to someone for a short time.
borrow: To take something from someone for a short time.
stapler: A small tool that joins pieces of paper with metal pins.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 87% 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

Dialogue and audio from “Lesson 46: May I Borrow That?”, Let's Learn English Level 1, VOA Learning English. Public domain.

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