B1 · 5 minutes · History

Theodore Roosevelt: Energetic

Theodore Roosevelt was full of energy. He loved nature and changed the role of the president. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Hear the past perfect and relative clauses.

Words to know

historian: A person who studies history.
define: To show clearly what something is.
official: A person with an important job in an organisation.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

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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

Text and audio from “Theodore Roosevelt: Energetic”, America's Presidents, VOA Learning English, published 2023-08-19. Kelly Jean Kelly wrote this story for Learning English. Public domain.

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