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The night shift
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Follow a descriptive story with longer sentences.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
Audio and answer checking: https://joy-english.com/listening-lessons/the-night-shift
Words to know
- shift
- A fixed period of work, for example at night.
- corridor
- A long passage inside a building.
- exhausted
- Extremely tired.
Answer key
- By the time the night shift ended, Grace was completely exhausted.“By the time” means when. In “exhausted” the h is silent and the stress is on the second syllable: “ig-ZAWS-tid”.
- She walked slowly along the empty corridor towards the lift.“Towards” is common in British English. A lift is an elevator.
- Through the window, she noticed the first light of morning.“Through” starts with an unvoiced th and “the” with a voiced th. “First light” is the very beginning of daylight.
- A young doctor was asleep on a bench, still holding a cup of coffee.“Was asleep”: listen for the weak “was”. “Still holding” shows the action continued.
- Grace quietly took the cup and placed a blanket over his shoulders.“Took the cup”: the k of “took” is short. “Placed a” links: “play-sta”.