B2 · 5 minutes · History

The history of chocolate

Part of a lecture about how a sweet food developed over time.

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What you’ll practise

Follow the stages of a historical development.

Words to know

bean: A seed from a plant, used as food.
spicy: With a strong, hot flavour.
explorer: A person who travels to unknown places.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 95% of the words in this lesson.

Show 2 words that may be new

sixteenth above B2Look up
nineteenth above B2Look up

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

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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