B2 · 5 minutes · Health

Managing diabetes

A patient talks to a nurse after a new diagnosis.

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What you’ll practise

Understand questions and advice about a long-term condition.

Words to know

diagnose: To identify an illness.
diet: The food a person usually eats.
level: An amount that can be measured.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 95% of the words in this lesson.

Show 2 words that may be new

diagnosed above B2Look up
diabetes above B2Look up

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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