A2 · 5 minutes · Sport

Speed walking

Anna and her old friend Penelope go speed walking, just like when they were children.

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What you’ll practise

Understand clauses with “because”, “if” and advice with “should”.

Words to know

speed walking: Walking very fast as a sport.
trainer: A person who helps people exercise.
application: A form you fill out to ask for a job or a place.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 93% 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

Dialogue and audio from “Lesson 15: Before and After”, 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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