A1 · 4 minutes · Sightseeing

Symbols of a country

Anna and Dan look for national symbols around Washington, and they learn about history.

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What you’ll practise

Understand short descriptions of famous places.

Words to know

freedom: Being able to live and act as you want.
careful: Paying attention so that nothing bad happens.
bald eagle: A large bird that is a symbol of the United States.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 82% 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 26: This Game Is Fun!”, Let's Learn English Level 1, 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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