B1 · 5 minutes · Science

Why we hiccup

A short talk about a sudden sound the body makes.

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What you’ll practise

Follow a short explanation of a body reaction.

Words to know

muscle: A part of the body that helps you move.
lungs: The organs in your chest that you breathe with.
fizzy: With small bubbles of gas.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 91% of the words in this lesson.

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hiccup above B2Look up
throat B2Look up
hiccups 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.

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