B1 · 5 minutes · Science

Why we get goosebumps

A short talk about the small bumps that appear on our skin.

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What you’ll practise

Follow a short explanation of a body reaction.

Words to know

frightened: Afraid.
upright: Standing straight up.
enemy: A person or animal that wants to hurt you.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 93% of the words in this lesson.

Show 2 words that may be new

furry above B2Look up
reaction 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.

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