Engelse zinnen B2
Deze zinnen komen uit de nieuwste dictees op B2 (Hoger gemiddeld). Luister naar elke zin en doe daarna het hele dictee voor een correctie woord voor woord.
9 Engelse zinnen B2: The Canopy Repair
- Norwick's Saturday umbrella clinic drew a queue after a week of sideways rain.
- Volunteers expected broken ribs, but one visitor arrived with an umbrella stitched from two different canopies.
- It had belonged to her late mother, and its mismatched panels were deliberate, not damage.
- She had planned to replace it until a technician noticed that one seam was still sound.
- Using thread salvaged from another broken canopy, the team repaired the torn edge without hiding either color.
- After watching, several shoppers chose repairs over discounts on new umbrellas at a nearby stall.
- By noon, volunteers had fixed thirty-one umbrellas, including five whose handles needed custom wooden sleeves.
- Clinic records showed that most failures began where canopy fabric met the ribs, not at the handles.
- That detail prompted organizers to offer reinforced seam checks at the next monthly clinic.
10 Engelse zinnen B2: A Receiver at Supper
- The film A Receiver at Supper follows an inventor whose kettle alarm becomes entangled in family life.
- Her first prototype mistakes a washing machine's vibrations for a boiling kettle, ruining Sunday soup.
- Her father, a night baker, sleeps through ordinary alarms after his shifts, giving her invention personal stakes.
- The device sends a light to a receiver, so it cannot help if either part is misplaced.
- Bright daylight can also hide the flash, a practical weakness the film does not conceal.
- Instead of presenting a polished success story, the director lets failed tests reshape their relationship.
- During one late test, her father covers the receiver with a tea towel, expecting a louder warning.
- That small gesture shows how easily a thoughtful design can fail to match someone's habits.
- The middle section occasionally overexplains the circuitry, although its domestic humor keeps the pace warm.
- Viewers drawn to intimate family dramas and inventive everyday details will enjoy its understated payoff.
10 Engelse zinnen B2: The Map Behind the Wall
- By the time the repair crew reached the archive, rain had darkened the lowest shelves.
- Water ran from a loose joint in the upstairs drainpipe, then seeped through a crack in the brickwork.
- At first, the clerk assumed the damp had ruined only a stack of obsolete forms.
- Years earlier, a caretaker had painted over that same stain whenever winter storms returned.
- When the crew removed a warped panel, they uncovered a tin case wedged behind it.
- Inside lay a survey map showing a passage sealed during renovations decades before.
- The crack traced the old passage, which connected the archive to a forgotten street entrance.
- Because the map recorded a public right of way, the town could not simply close it.
- The clerk had been preparing to discard those forms, which documented the passage's closure.
- After the pipe was repaired, she filed the map among records that could reopen the dispute.
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Elke groep zinnen komt uit een dictee op dat niveau. Hier luister je; in het volledige dictee schrijf je elke zin en wordt hij woord voor woord nagekeken. Ben je beginner, begin dan met Engelse zinnen op A1.
Met welk niveau begin ik?
Met het niveau waarop je na twee of drie keer luisteren het meeste van elke zin opschrijft. Twijfel je, doe dan de gratis niveautest van vijf minuten.
Kan ik hier Engelse zinnen vertalen?
Nee, deze pagina is om te luisteren en te schrijven in het Engels, niet om te vertalen. Een zin direct in het Engels begrijpen is juist wat je luistervaardigheid traint.