A2 · 5 minutes · Entertainment

Superpowers that do not work

Anna's friends tell stories about her day as a superhero. It did not go as planned.

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What you’ll practise

Hear the past perfect continuous and strong predictions.

Words to know

superpower: A special power, like flying.
burn: To be on fire.
lightning: A bright flash of light in the sky during a storm.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 94% of the words in this lesson.

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superpowers above B2Look up

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 25: Only Human”, 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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