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A teenage girl tells how she met her best friend, how a school singing show broke them apart, and how they made up.
Write the whole sentence you hear.
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The structures this recording uses most, with the exact words you will hear:
| Structure | In the recording |
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| Past continuousIntermediatewas/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past |
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| ComparativesBeginner-er than / more … than — comparing two things |
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| SuperlativesBeginnerthe -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group |
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| “Make / let” someone doIntermediatemake/let + person + verb — causing or allowing someone to do something |
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| Spoken sentence framesIntermediateThe thing is…, What I mean is…, It's worth -ing — set phrases that frame a sentence |
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| Adjectives ending in -ed and -ingIntermediatebored vs boring, interested vs interesting — how you feel vs what causes it |
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| For / since / agoBeginnerfor + a period, since + a starting point, a time + ago — how long, from when, how long before now |
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| Adjective + prepositionIntermediategood at, interested in, afraid of, worried about — adjectives with a fixed preposition |
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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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| There is / there areBeginnerthere is/are + noun — saying that something exists or is somewhere |
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