B2 · 5 minutes · Health

Going home after an operation

A nurse gives a patient instructions before he leaves hospital.

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What you’ll practise

Understand detailed advice and warnings in a medical setting.

Words to know

operation: Medical treatment in which a doctor cuts into the body.
stitches: Short pieces of thread used to close a cut.
strenuous: Needing a lot of effort or energy.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 96% 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.

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