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Two CET-4 style news reports: thousands of volunteers clean a beach, and a lost dog walks more than 150 kilometres home.
Write the whole sentence you hear.
Names in this sentence:Report One
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The structures this recording uses most, with the exact words you will hear:
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| Present perfect with just / already / yet / everIntermediatehave just / already / never + V3, haven't … yet — how recent a finished action is, or whether it has happened at all |
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| Present perfectIntermediatehave/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now |
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| Passive voiceIntermediatebe + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it |
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| Past perfectIntermediatehad + past participle — an action finished before another past moment |
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| Possibility with “might / may”Intermediatemight/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain |
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| During vs whileIntermediateduring + noun, while + clause — at the same time as |
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| Adjective + prepositionIntermediategood at, interested in, afraid of, worried about — adjectives with a fixed preposition |
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| Present continuousBeginneram/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now |
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| Obligation: must / have to / need toBeginnersaying that something is necessary |
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| Verb + to-infinitiveIntermediatedecide / manage / seem / try + to-verb — verbs followed by to |
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| Phrasal verbsIntermediategive up, find out, end up, come up with — a verb + particle with its own meaning |
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| Questions with do / does / didBeginnerdo/does/did + subject + verb — asking a question in the simple tenses |
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| QuantifiersBeginnera few / a little, much / many, a lot of, plenty of, none of — saying how much or how many |
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| Prepositions of time: at / on / inBeginnerat 7 o'clock, on Monday, in the morning / in 2020 — which word goes with which time |
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| Verb + prepositionIntermediatedepend on, listen to, wait for, deal with — verbs with a fixed preposition |
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| Ability with “can / could”Beginnercan/could + verb — what someone is able to do, or could do in the past |
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| Past simple (irregular verbs)Beginnerwent, saw, took… — a finished action in the past, with an irregular verb |
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