Speaking
Read Aloud — practice #ra-005
Look at the text below. In 35 seconds, you must read this text aloud as naturally and clearly as possible. You have 40 seconds to read aloud.
Read this aloud
Untimed practiceThe development of vaccines ranks among the most significant achievements in the history of medicine. By training the immune system to recognise a harmful organism in advance, vaccination prevents illness before it can take hold. Widespread immunisation programmes have dramatically reduced diseases that once claimed millions of lives, demonstrating how scientific cooperation across nations can protect entire populations from infection.
Your turn
Record yourself, play it back, then reveal the model answer to compare.
This practice is self-marked
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