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Welcome to Six Minute English, the program where we explore an interesting topic and bring you six items of useful vocabulary.
I'm Neil.
And I'm Dan.
Now, Dan, have you ever wanted to become invisible?
Oh, impossible to see.
Of course, who hasn't?
Well, how about this?
Most of us think we are, in fact, invisible, at least some of the time.
We'll be looking at the invisibility cloak illusion in this program, fascinating.
And in that phrase, we heard our first three words.
Invisibility, the state of being invisible.
A cloak is a long piece of material worn like a coat around the shoulders.
And the third word in that phrase, an illusion, is something that seems real, but isn't.
Okay, question time.
Which of these stories features an invisibility cloak?
Is it A, the Hobbit?
B, Harry Potter?
Or C, the Invisible Man?