B1 · 5 minutes · Short stories

The Furnished Room

A young man searches New York for the woman he loves and rents a small room for the night. A story by O. Henry, adapted for learners.

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What you’ll practise

Hear relative clauses and descriptions of a room.

Words to know

furnished: With furniture already in it.
ragged: Old and torn.
hall: A long, narrow space inside a building.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 97% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at B1 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 Furnished Room” by O. Henry, 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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