B2 · 5 minutes · Health

Explaining a food allergy

A patient tells a doctor about a serious reaction to food.

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What you’ll practise

Understand a conversation about symptoms and emergency plans.

Words to know

allergic: Having a bad reaction to something you eat, touch or breathe in.
reaction: A change in the body caused by something.
emergency: A sudden, dangerous situation that needs action.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 100% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at B2 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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