A2 · 5 minutes · Weather

Snowed in

A big storm traps Anna and Pete at work, and they did not plan for it.

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What you’ll practise

Understand the past perfect and questions about things.

Words to know

stuff: Things, often used in informal speech.
blizzard: A very strong snowstorm.
bring: To take something with you.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 97% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at A2 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

Dialogue and audio from “Lesson 11: The Big Snow”, Let's Learn English Level 2, 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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