At the product launch: features, prices, and preorders
Launch talks sell with specifics: weights, battery hours, prices, discounts, dates. Every number is a potential question, and so is the order of events — what opens tonight, what ships later, what happens after the presentation. Anchor the sequence.
Read the sentences below, then practice the whole lesson with audio.
- 1Good morning everyone, and thank you for joining our launch event.
- 2Today we are proud to introduce our lightest laptop ever.
- 3The design team spent two years reducing the weight by nearly half.
- 4Despite its size, the battery lasts a full eighteen hours.
- 5The screen folds back completely, turning the laptop into a tablet.
- 6Early reviewers have praised the keyboard as the best in its class.
- 7We listened carefully to feedback from thousands of loyal customers.
- 8The new model ships with a faster processor at the same price.
- 9Preorders open tonight at nine on our official website.
- 10The first five hundred buyers will receive a free carrying case.
- 11Our stores will offer hands-on demonstrations starting next weekend.
- 12A student discount brings the price down by ten percent.
- 13We are also extending the standard warranty to three years.
- 14After the presentation, our engineers will answer questions in the lobby.
- 15Now, let me show you what this machine can really do.
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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- What level is this lesson?
- This lesson is graded B2 on the CEFR scale and has 15 sentences. Dictation Trainer lessons currently run from A1 to B2, with more lessons on the way.