Dialogue 4.

Complete the open dialogue and dramatize it. Work in pairs.

Use the vocabulary of the unit

Patient: Good morning, doctor.

Doctor: Good morning, take a seat, please. What's the matter?

P.: ________________

D.: Do you feel any pain anywhere?

P.: ________________

D.: And how is your appetite?

P.: ________________

D.: You probably have the flu. What was your temperature this morning?

P.: ________________

D.: Let me check your temperature again. Your pulse is very irregular. What about your heart?

P.: ________________

D.: Well, it's good. I think there's nothing to worry about. It's a bad cold. You'd better stay in bed for two or three days. I'll write you a prescription. Take it to a chemist's.

P.: ________________

D.: Three times a day before meal.

P.: ________________

D.: You are welcome. If you are not better in three days, keep in bed and send for me. Good-bye.

Dialogue5. Complete the open dialogue and learn it by heart

1. Did you call the doctor in?

2. Yes. Good afternoon, doctor.

1. What do you complain of?

2. Oh, doctor, I'm sore all over. I…

1. When did you fall ill?

2. Yesterday. I sneezed and …

1. What was your temperature this morning?

2. …

1. Open your mouth. Put out your tongue.

2. …

1. Do you have a stomachache?

2. …

1. Does it hurt when I press here?

2. …

1. Let me listen to your heart and lungs. Is it difficult to breathe?

2. …

1. Well, you have all the symptoms of the flu.

2. …

1. Yes, the flu is catching.

2. …

1. Well, the usual things, of course. Stay in bed, keep yourself warm, drink a lot of hot tea with honey or raspberry jam. And I'll prescribe some pills to beat down the temperature. And this mixture is for your throat. Gargle every 2 hours.

Exercises

1. Filling gaps. (Cloze technique) Going to the doctor

Yesterday ___ went t___ the docto_’__ office. ___ gave m___ name t___ the

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reception_____ and sa___ down. Sin___ I wa___ bored, ___ began read_____ an

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ol___ magazine. Th___ nurse call____ my nam___ and ___ followed he___

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into th___ doctor’s offi____. I sa___ down o___ the examinat_____ table

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an___ she to____ my blo____ pressure. Sh___ recorded th___ result, to____

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me th____ my blo____ pressure wa___ normal, an___ left th___ room.

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Th___ doctor ca____ in, an___ asked m___ how ___ was feel_____ . He

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re____ my cha____ and___ told hi___ I ha___ a fev____, headache, an___

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sore thr_____ . He to____ my tempera______ and sa____ that___ had th___

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flu . H___ told m___ to dri____ plenty o___ fluids, re____ in be___, and t___

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call hi___ if. didn’t fe____ better i___ two da____. I le____ the off_____

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and follo_____ his adv_____ .

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Going to the dentist

This morn___ I we___ to th___ dentist. ___entered th___ office, an___ the receptio___ looked u___ at m___. ___ gave he___ my na___ and th___ sat do___.

I fou___ ___copy o___ «People» maga______ with___ picture o___ Madonna o___ the cov___. Just a___ ___started t___ red abo___ Madonna, th___ nurse call___ me. «yo___ can g___ in no___,» she sa___. ___had wan___ to fin___ the arti___, but th___ wasn’t eno___ time.

___went i___ to se___ the dent___. He look___ in m___ mouth an___ poked a___ my tee___. He frow___. «You ha___ three cavi___. You’ll ha___ to co___ back an___ get filli___.» ___said «O___ » and we___ back ou___ to th___ waitng ro___. ___finished th___ article abo___ Madonna, th___ left.