A1 · 4 minutes · Stories for children

Reading at home

A child wants to read a story aloud, but everyone at home is busy.

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What you’ll practise

Hear family words and simple present sentences.

Words to know

asleep: Sleeping now.
busy: Having a lot to do.
myself: Me, without other people.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 92% 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

“I like to read!”, text and translation by Letta Machoga, illustration by Wiehan de Jager, 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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