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A young woman moving abroad sells her guitar online, and the older man who comes to haggle turns out to have a surprising reason for wanting it.
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The structures this recording uses most, with the exact words you will hear:
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| Present perfectIntermediatehave/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now |
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| Relative clausesIntermediatewho / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing |
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| Deduction: must / can'tIntermediatemust be / can't be — being sure something is or is not true |
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| ComparativesBeginner-er than / more … than — comparing two things |
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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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| Present continuous for future plansBeginneram/is/are + -ing + a future time — something already arranged |
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| Requests, offers and permissionBeginnerCould you…? Would you mind…? Can I…? Would you like…? — asking politely |
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| Present continuousBeginneram/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now |
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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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| Question tagsIntermediate…, isn't it? / …, don't you? — a short question at the end to check or agree |
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| Verb + to-infinitiveIntermediatedecide / manage / seem / try + to-verb — verbs followed by to |
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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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| 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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| Ability with “can / could”Beginnercan/could + verb — what someone is able to do, or could do in the past |
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| Imperatives: Let's / Don'tBeginnerLet's + verb, Don't + verb — suggesting or telling someone what to do |
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| Questions with do / does / didBeginnerdo/does/did + subject + verb — asking a question in the simple tenses |
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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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