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Clearing out her late grandfather's attic, a young woman finds a dusty old painting and hopes it might be worth a fortune.
Write the whole sentence you hear.
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The structures this recording uses most, with the exact words you will hear:
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| Past perfectIntermediatehad + past participle — an action finished before another past moment |
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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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| Past continuousIntermediatewas/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past |
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| SuperlativesBeginnerthe -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group |
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| Verb + -ingIntermediateenjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form |
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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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| Preposition + -ingIntermediateby / without / before / after + -ing — a verb after a preposition takes -ing |
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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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| Past simple (irregular verbs)Beginnerwent, saw, took… — a finished action in the past, with an irregular verb |
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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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| There is / there areBeginnerthere is/are + noun — saying that something exists or is somewhere |
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| Reflexive pronounsBeginnermyself, yourself, themselves, by myself, each other — the same person as the subject |
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