B1 · 5 minutes · Short stories

The lost dog

Someone finds a dog in the street and tries to find its owner.

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What you’ll practise

Follow a short story with a happy ending.

Words to know

collar: A band worn around an animal’s neck.
poster: A large printed notice on a wall.
knock: To hit a door to show you are there.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 97% of the words in this lesson.

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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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