Oral Practice

 

Giving and Rejecting Advice. Visiting a Doctor.

 

Patterns

Giving advice	Rejecting advice
1. Why don’t you do it?	I’m afraid I can’t do that, I have no time.
2. What about doing it?	I don’t think it’s a good idea.No, that’s impossible.
	Accepting advice What a good idea! That’s a good idea! Thanks, I’ll do it. Yes, all right.

 

Here are some symptoms that people complain of when they go to see a doctor:

I’ve got a temperature I’m running a high temperature

I’ve got a sore throat I don’t feel(am not feeling) very well

I’m constipated I keep feeling dizzy

I feel sick I’ve got a diarrhoea

My arm hurts I’ve got a pain in my (leg, arm, chest..)

I’ve got a stomach (back, tooth, ear, head) ache

(there are only 5 aches, the rest are pains!)

 

This is what the doctor might tell you to do:

Keep warm Go straight to bed

Stay in bed for a couple of days Take one/two tablets after your meals

Don’t eat any rich food Take this prescription to the chemist

Take the medicine before you go to bed

 

Exercise 1. Learn the dialogue by heart and make up a dialogue of

your own using the patterns.

 

Receptionist: Good morning. What can I do for you?

Paula: Good morning. I’d like an appointment with the dentist, please.

Receptionist: Yes, certainly. What’s the matter? Is it urgent?

Paula: I’m afraid it is. I’ve got a terrible toothache. I’ve been having

it for two days. It’s very nasty. And I had my regular check up

only three weeks ago.

Receptionist: Well, Dr.Brown can see you today at 10.30. Is that OK?

Paula: Yes, that’s fine.

Receptionist: What’s your name and address?

 

Exercise 2. Pair work

 

1. You are a doctor. Your partner is a patient who is ill. Find out the information you need to complete the form and tell your partner what to do using the patterns.

 

Medical Record Card

name of patient __________________________________

date of visit __________________________________

symptoms __________________________________

recommended treatment __________________________

________________________________________________

 

6. Pretend that you are ill. Decide what symptoms you have and how long you have had them. Your partner is a doctor. Answer his questions and make sure you understand what you have to do.

 

3. You meet your friend who doesn’t look well. Ask him/her what the matter is and give advice using the patterns.

 

4. Talk to your partner about his/her health and tell him/her about yours.

 

Exercise 3. In pairs guess the meanings of these common idioms and

discuss the situations when you can use them.

 

1. He wouldn’t hurt a fly.

2. People should not break the laws: ill-gotten, ill-spent.

3. When he returned from the hospital he was ‘skin and bones’.

4. The moment he saw her after all those twenty years he understood that the heart once truly loved never forgets.

 

 

Chapter 2

The Age of Steel

 

Unit 1

Text 1