B1 · 5 minutes · History

Woodrow Wilson: Idealist

Before he became president, Woodrow Wilson was a teacher and the head of a famous university. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Hear time clauses and the past perfect.

Words to know

reform: A change that improves something.
faculty: The teachers at a university.
alumni: Former students of a school.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 93% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at B1 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 “Woodrow Wilson: Idealist”, America's Presidents, VOA Learning English, published 2023-09-02. Kelly Jean Kelly wrote this story for Learning English. Public domain.

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