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What Is the US House of Representatives? The House of Representatives is one part of the U.S. Congress. The country's founders wanted it to stay close to ordinary people. A VOA Learning English report.
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What you’ll practise Understand obligations and conditions in explanations of government.
Words to know representative A person chosen to speak and act for others. religion A belief in a god or gods. office Here, an important official job. 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 Text and audio from “What Is the US House of Representatives?”, U.S. History, VOA Learning English, published 2018-12-16. Kelly Jean Kelly wrote this story for Learning English. Public domain.
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