A1 · 4 minutes · Stories for children

My trip to the zoo

A child visits the zoo and tells us about the animals.

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What you’ll practise

Hear the past forms “went” and “saw” with animal words.

Words to know

zoo: A place where people can see wild animals.
zebra: An African animal like a horse, with black and white stripes.
even: Used to show that something is surprising.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 89% 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

“My trip to the Zoo”, text by Mmapule Nkuna, illustration by Melany Pietersen, Rob Owen and Catherine Groenewald, African Storybook (africanstorybook.org), CC BY. Synthetic narration by Joy English.

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Five sentences selected; capital letters and final full stops normalised; read with a synthetic voice (Kokoro-82M). Illustrations are not used. Explanations and vocabulary are original.

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