Joy English · Level B2 · Healthjoy-english.com
How noise affects our health
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Follow evidence and responses in a short talk.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
Audio and answer checking: https://joy-english.com/listening-lessons/how-noise-affects-our-health
Words to know
- constant
- Continuing all the time.
- exposure
- Being in a situation where something can affect you.
- surface
- The top or outside layer of something.
Answer key
- Constant traffic noise does more than make us annoyed.“Does more than” — “than” is weak: “th’n”.
- Studies link long-term exposure to poor sleep and higher stress.“Long-term” can be written with or without a hyphen.
- Even when we are asleep, the body reacts to sudden sounds.The ts sound of “reacts” runs into “to”.
- Some cities now plant trees along busy roads to reduce noise.The stress falls on “busy” and “roads”.
- Others use quieter road surfaces and lower speed limits.“Quieter” has three syllables.