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Back from two weeks in Japan, a young man tells his friend about Tokyo, the bullet train, Kyoto's temples and one painful food mistake.
Write the whole sentence you hear.
Names in this sentence:Japan
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The structures this recording uses most, with the exact words you will hear:
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| Comparative + much / a bit / farIntermediatemuch better, a bit cheaper, far more expensive — how big the difference is |
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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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| 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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| Phrasal verbsIntermediategive up, find out, end up, come up with — a verb + particle with its own meaning |
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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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| 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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| Questions with do / does / didBeginnerdo/does/did + subject + verb — asking a question in the simple tenses |
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