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The Ambitious Guest A happy family lives alone in a mountain pass. One evening, a young traveller with big dreams joins them by the fire. A story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, adapted for learners.
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What you’ll practise Hear descriptions of a home and a family.
Words to know ambitious Wanting very much to succeed. company Being together with other people. shy Nervous with other people. Words at this lesson’s level (B2) At B2, you probably know about 100% of the words in this lesson.
The other words of this lesson are at B2 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 “The Ambitious Guest” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, adapted for VOA Learning English American Stories. Public domain.
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Five sentences selected from the opening and cut into clips. Explanations and vocabulary are original.
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