B1 · 5 minutes · Health

Trouble sleeping

A patient talks to a nurse about problems at night.

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What you’ll practise

Understand questions and advice about daily habits.

Words to know

caffeine: A substance in coffee and tea that keeps you awake.
regular: Happening at the same time each day.
difference: Here, a change or effect.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 94% of the words in this lesson.

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bedtime 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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