A2 · 4 minutes · Stories for children

The moon and the boat

A gentle bedtime story about a fisherman lost at sea.

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What you’ll practise

Understand a story with past tense verbs.

Words to know

fisherman: A person who catches fish as a job.
shore: The land along the edge of the sea.
path: A narrow way to walk or travel along.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, 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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