A1 · 4 minutes · Health

A visit to the doctor

Anna feels sick and cannot go to work. She talks to her boss and a doctor.

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What you’ll practise

Understand past-tense sentences about health.

Words to know

paint: To put colour on a wall or a picture.
sick: Not well; ill.
a couple of: Two or a few.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 94% of the words in this lesson.

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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

Dialogue and audio from “Lesson 27: I Can't Come In”, Let's Learn English Level 1, VOA Learning English. Public domain.

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Five lines selected and cut into sentence clips. Explanations and vocabulary are original.

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