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Joy English · Level A2 · Free timejoy-english.com

An afternoon at the museum

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Understand the order of events in a short account.

Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.

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Words to know

exhibition
A public display of objects or pictures.
entrance
A place where you go into a building.
crowded
Full of people.

Answer key

  1. We visited the city museum on a rainy afternoon.“Visited” places the event in the past.
  2. The entrance was crowded, but the rooms upstairs were quiet.“But” contrasts the two parts of the museum.
  3. I liked the exhibition about everyday life a hundred years ago.“Ago” measures time back from the present.
  4. My friend spent more time looking at the old maps.Use “spent time” followed by an activity ending in “-ing”.
  5. We left when the museum was about to close.“About to close” means it would close very soon.

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