B2 · 5 minutes · Short stories

The lighthouse keeper

An old man works through a dangerous night by the sea.

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What you’ll practise

Follow a dramatic story with past perfect and past continuous.

Words to know

lighthouse: A tower with a strong light that warns ships.
stormy: With strong wind and rain.
lamp: A device that gives light.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

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

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fishermen 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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