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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Ichabod Crane, a thin and nervous schoolteacher, falls in love in a quiet valley full of ghost stories. A famous story by Washington Irving, adapted for learners.
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What you’ll practise Hear descriptions and formal word order.
Words to know legend An old story that many people tell. valley Low land between hills or mountains. enemy A person who is against you. 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 Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving, 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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