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How tea spread
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Follow a short history told in the past tense.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- medicine
- Something you take to treat an illness.
- trader
- A person who buys and sells goods.
- except
- Not including.
Answer key
- Tea was first drunk in China thousands of years ago.“Was first drunk” is a passive; “drunk” is the past participle of “drink”.
- At first, people used it mainly as a medicine.“Mainly” means mostly.
- Traders later carried it to other countries.“Carried it” links: “carri-dit”.
- In Britain, it arrived in the seventeenth century.“Seventeenth” or “17th” are both accepted.
- Today, more tea is drunk than any other drink except water.“Than any other” runs together.