Engelske setninger på B2
Disse setningene er hentet fra nylige B2-diktater (Øvre middels). Lytt til hver av dem, og sjekk dem ord for ord i hele diktatet.
9 engelske setninger på 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 engelske setninger på 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 engelske setninger på 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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