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The Fall of the House of Usher A man visits an old friend who lives in a dark and frightening house. Something is very wrong there. A famous story by Edgar Allan Poe, adapted for learners.
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What you’ll practise Follow formal descriptions and relative clauses.
Words to know owner The person who owns something. heaven In many religions, a place of goodness after death. noticeable Easy to see. 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 Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, 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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