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The Lady, or the Tiger?
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Understand formal storytelling language and sentences that begin with a place.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
Audio and answer checking: https://joy-english.com/listening-lessons/the-lady-or-the-tiger
Words to know
- progressive
- New and modern for its time.
- gather
- To come together in one place.
- ceremonial
- Used for special public events.
Answer key
- Some of his ideas were progressive.“Progressive” means new and modern for the time.
- But others caused people to suffer.“Others” means his other ideas. “Caused people to suffer” means made life hard and painful for people.
- All the people would gather in this building.“Would gather” describes something that happened many times in the past.
- The king sat high up on his ceremonial chair.“High up” tells us where he sat. “Ceremonial” describes things used at special events.
- Directly opposite the king were two doors.The place comes first, then the verb “were” and then the subject “two doors”.