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Telling what happened

Anna sees something happen on her way to lunch and tells a reporter about it.

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What you’ll practise

Follow a story told in the past tense.

Words to know

yell: To shout loudly.
police: The people whose job is to keep order and stop crime.
hurt: To injure; to cause pain.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

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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 42: I Was Minding My Own Business”, 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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