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An ESOL crisis in Scotland – and what to do about it
Contact us Back to Menu ↩ Evidencing the ESOL Crisis: Towards a Vision for ESOL in Scotland Francesca Stella and Meg Wishart, University of Glasgow
October 29, 2026
This B1-B2 listening, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation worksheet practises related to Santa’s Elves (Managing William’s syndrome).
Level: B1-B2
Sector: medicine, nursing, care, other
Medical Area: symptoms, diseases and conditions, other
Skill focus: listening, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation
Part 1: Vocabulary
Review the terms in the vocabulary list. The stressed syllables are in bold.
acrophobia
attention seeking behaviour
hyperacusis
pastoral care
pulmonary stenosis
supravalvular aortic stenosis (SVS)
trait
uninhibited
Contact us Back to Menu ↩ Evidencing the ESOL Crisis: Towards a Vision for ESOL in Scotland Francesca Stella and Meg Wishart, University of Glasgow
Contact us Back to Menu ↩ Train the ear first If you want to learn a language well, start by listening to how it sounds.
Contact us Back to Menu ↩ Four recently published reports look at ESOL from quite different angles but have remarkably similar conclusions. The APPG on
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