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The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky A Texas town marshal returns home by train with his new wife. He is nervous about what the town will say. A story by Stephen Crane, adapted for learners.
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What you’ll practise Understand descriptions of people on a journey.
Words to know bride A woman on her wedding day or just after it. respectfully In a polite way that shows respect. nervousness The feeling of being nervous. Words at this lesson’s level (B1) At B1, you probably know about 96% of the words in this lesson.
Show 1 word that may be new 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 “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” by Stephen Crane, 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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