B2 · 5 minutes · History

The history of the bicycle

Part of a lecture about how a common machine developed.

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What you’ll practise

Follow the stages of a historical development in a lecture.

Words to know

pedal: The part you push with your foot to make a bicycle move.
enormous: Very large.
lane: A part of a road for one kind of traffic.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 96% of the words in this lesson.

Show 2 words that may be new

nineteenth above B2Look up
tyres 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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