B2 · 5 minutes · History

The history of the passport

A short talk about the documents people carry when they travel abroad.

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What you’ll practise

Follow the development of something over time.

Words to know

safe passage: Permission to travel without danger.
standard: The same for everyone; normal.
chip: A very small electronic part that stores information.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 98% of the words in this lesson.

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twentieth 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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