A2 · 4 minutes · Health

A bee sting

A customer asks a pharmacist for help after a bee sting.

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What you’ll practise

Understand simple first aid advice.

Words to know

sting: A small wound made by an insect.
swollen: Bigger than normal because of an injury.
itchy: Making you want to scratch your skin.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 85% of the words in this lesson.

Show 5 words that may be new

stung above B2Look up
painful B1Look up
throat B2Look up
swells B1Look up
ambulance B1Look up

These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration with two voices.

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