B1 · 5 minutes · Health

Describing symptoms

A doctor asks a patient questions about how she feels.

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What you’ll practise

Understand questions about health and how long a problem has lasted.

Words to know

symptom: A sign of an illness, such as a cough or fever.
unwell: Ill; not feeling healthy.
dizzy: Feeling that you might fall, or that things are spinning.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 100% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at B1 or below.

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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