A2 · 4 minutes · Health

A sore throat

A customer asks a pharmacist for advice about a common illness.

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What you’ll practise

Understand simple health advice.

Words to know

sore throat: Pain in the throat, often with a cold.
fever: A body temperature that is higher than normal.
symptom: A sign of an illness.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 87% of the words in this lesson.

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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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