A1 · 4 minutes · Stories for children

Rain

A child loves water and enjoys playing outside, even in the rain.

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What you’ll practise

Recognise weather words and actions happening now.

Words to know

rain: Water that falls from clouds.
enjoy: To like doing something.
fix: To make something right or neat again.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 95% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at A1 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

“Rain”, text by Letta Machoga, translation by Lorato Trok, illustration by Marleen Visser, African Storybook (africanstorybook.org), CC BY. Synthetic narration by Joy English.

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

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