Engelska meningar B2
Meningarna kommer från de senaste diktaminan på B2 (Övre mellannivå). Lyssna på var och en och gör sedan hela diktamen för rättning ord för ord.
9 engelska meningar 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 engelska meningar 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 engelska meningar 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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Varje grupp meningar kommer från en diktamen på sin nivå. Här lyssnar du; i hela diktamen skriver du varje mening och får den rättad ord för ord. Är du nybörjare, börja med engelska meningar på A1.
Vilken nivå ska jag börja på?
Den där du får ner det mesta av varje mening efter två eller tre lyssningar. Är du osäker, gör det gratis nivåtestet på fem minuter.
Kan jag översätta meningarna till svenska här?
Nej, sidan är till för att lyssna och skriva på engelska, inte för översättning. Att förstå meningen direkt på engelska är just det som tränar hörförståelsen.