Week 3 · Jokes: “I quit my job”
Joke or real? Listen for the turn: "I can't keep this up", "You should've seen your face". And "should've" sounds just like "should of", but it is always "should have".
Read the sentences below, then practice the whole lesson with audio.
- 1Kai, sit down. I've got some big news.
- 2I quit my job this morning.
- 3What? Are you serious? What happened?
- 4I finally told my boss what I think of him.
- 5Oh no. What are you going to do about rent?
- 6I was hoping I could move in with you.
- 7My place is tiny, but I guess we could figure something out.
- 8Stop, stop. I can't keep this up. I didn't quit.
- 9Are you kidding me? I was really worried about you!
- 10You should've seen your face!
- 11Wow. You're hilarious.
- 12Here's the real news. I got promoted.
- 13Seriously? No more jokes?
- 14No more jokes. Dinner's on me tonight.
- 15Good, because I'm ordering the most expensive thing on the menu.
FAQ
- How does this dictation practice work?
- Play a sentence, type exactly what you hear, then press check — Dictation Trainer shows word-level feedback: which words you misheard, misspelled, confused for a homophone, or missed.
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- No account needed to start: you can practice 3 full lessons free — audio, typing, and word-by-word feedback — without signing up. Create a free account to keep going: 100 Echoes (about 10 more lessons), plus saved progress, streaks, and a mistakes notebook.
- What level is this lesson?
- This lesson is graded B1 on the CEFR scale and has 15 sentences. Dictation Trainer lessons start at A1 and climb as the library grows.