Dreaded school PE lessons in Scotland
B2 English listening practice · Scottish English · Curated for upper-intermediate learners
About this clip
A 1:42 video in English at B2 level, suitable for upper-intermediate learners. The speech is at a natural pace around 221 words per minute, rated 4.8/5, hard listening difficulty by Reelang’s algorithm.
What this clip covers:
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From BBC Scotland - Comedy↗ on YouTube.Watch original
Vocabulary frequency
How common is the vocabulary in this B2 English listening practice listening practice?
89.2%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common English words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday English.
General English frequency
84.7%
Top 1,000
89.2%
Top 2,000
95.9%
Top 5,000
Spoken English frequency
92.4%
Top 1,000
95.8%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-English data than in general usage, so it may feel closer to everyday conversation.
Words above this video’s level
Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s B2 level.
hula
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
dance associated with Hawaii
windbag
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
talkative person, often insincere
grit
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
perseverance, resilience
outdoors
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
outside, not indoors
pe
5×
Rare / outside top 5,000
(acronym) physical education — school subject
put as much effort into doing PE as she does into getting out of doing PE
1×
works harder to avoid than to participate
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
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