A1 · 4 minutes · Jobs and abilities

Talking about skills

Anna and Pete talk about what they can do and which jobs might suit them.

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What you’ll practise

Hear “can” and “good at” when people talk about abilities.

Words to know

skill: Something you can do well.
race car: A fast car built for races.
fall asleep: To start sleeping.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 91% 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

Dialogue and audio from “Lesson 20: What Can You Do?”, 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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