Warm-Up Questions

Answer these questions. They will help you understand the conversation.

Collocations

As an advanced English learner, you already understand lots of vocabulary. However, to improve your fluency, you should notice and try to use phrases fluent speakers commonly say, also known as collocations.

Here’s a list of terms used in the news to talk about the pandemic. Look up unfamiliar words in Visuwords, a very cool visual dictionary for learning about words by their relationships to others.

Future Perfect

Practice

Let’s Listen…

Listen as many times as you like and take notes.

Listen again while reading the transcript. Look for all the uses of past tense modals.

Pronunciation Game

Listen one more time. Can you understand the speakers better?

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