A1 · 4 minutes · Directions

Looking for the gym

Anna wants to exercise, but she cannot find the gym. Listen for the places in her building.

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What you’ll practise

Follow simple directions with “across from” and “next to”.

Words to know

work out: To exercise, for example at a gym.
across from: On the other side of a street, room or hall.
lounge: A room where people sit and relax.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 75% of the words in this lesson.

Show 5 words that may be new

gym B1Look up
next A2Look up
mailroom above B2Look up
lobby B2Look up
garage A2Look 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 6: Where Is the Gym?”, 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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