Podcast 145 - B1 The Jogger

Stories and tales at B1 level English

Story starts at 5:15

Park at sunrise

This is a story that I hope will bring you a few surprises. As you listen, at the end of the story, I'll tell you what inspired me to write it. It's a B1-level story with lots of very useful B1 language in there for you. And as usual, I'll start with an explanation of a few of the key words of the story. The story is called The Jogger. A jogger course is somebody who runs for exercise. Here we go...

Okay, so as I said, I'll start off with some vocabulary. There are lots of words here, actually, but I'm just going to bring out some of the words which refer to a park or what we can find in a park.

For example, on the trees, there are branches, which are the wooden parts or tree-like arms, which come away from the tree. And attached to the branches, you have little green things which are the leaves, one leaf, and the plural is leaves.

Two nice romantic words, which also come in the story, sunrise. So that's the idea of the sun coming up in the morning. The sunrise and the opposite of that is when the sun goes down in the evening, we call that sunset.

And there are other words here as well that we can find in some parks. For example, silence, which is the noun of the adjective silent.

And sometimes in parks, like in the one that I'm describing, there is a waterfall, which is a stream, which comes down over rocks and makes this beautiful rushing water sound called a waterfall.

And then you find these man-made constructions in a park as well which push water up into the air, and we call those fountains.

When we're talking about water, for example, in this park that I'm describing in the story, there is a lake where you have a lot of water, and perhaps you have ducks and things on the lake and the water is deep, which means it goes down a long way, deep.

And then there's the word cool, which we use when we're referring to, well... when it's hot, and we find a place which is colder, and that's nice because it's colder, we say it is cool.

And then talking about the sun, the light that comes from the sun, we call the sunshine.

There's the verb to shine, the sun shines.

Okay, so that's all the vocabulary that I'm going to explain to you. Listen, as you go through. There lots of other interesting words there too.

As a listening task, I think it's interesting to listen carefully to the character of Alfred and discover who he is and what he's doing there in the park.

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