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The Boarded Window In the wild forests of Ohio long ago, an old man lives alone in a small house with one window that is always closed. A story by Ambrose Bierce, adapted for learners.
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What you’ll practise Hear the past perfect passive and descriptions.
Words to know log house A house made from tree trunks. beard Hair that grows on a man's chin and cheeks. 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 Boarded Window” by Ambrose Bierce, 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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