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Lesson 18 Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises

Lesson 18

Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises

A. Time: Doctor Johnson's Schedule

Training Focus:

Identifying time

Understanding the various ways of expressing different points and duration of time proves to be one of the difficult areas for students of English as a foreign language. Therefore, drills for improving students' comprehension of the English concept of time are provided in subsequent lessons.

Directions: This drill is for practice in recognizing tine. Listen carefully.   Write down the time you hear as quickly as you can.

Key:

Dr. Johnson is a famous physician in London.   He is often very busy. He usually gets up at 7∶30 and has breakfast at 8∶00. He leaves home for work at 8∶20 and begins to work at 9∶00. He does not stop working until 6∶00 in the afternoon.

This week he has a very tight schedule.

At 10∶15 a. m. on Monday, he has an appointment with Dr. Smith in a local hospital. At 2∶30 p. m. on Tuesday, he pays a home call to a special patient, Mrs. Norris. At 1∶45 p. m. on Wednesday, he has a working luncheon with Mr. Taylor from the local health bureau. At 11∶10 a.m. on Thursday,  he is expected to attend the opening ceremony of a new hospital in London.  At 8∶20 p. m. on Friday, h gives a lecture to the medical students in a medical college. At 9∶06 a. m. on Saturday,  he leaves London by train for Manchester to attend a medical conference. At 7∶48 p. m. on Sunday, he leaves Manchester for London.

B. Difficult Sentences

Directions:   You are going to hear some sentences chosen from the comprehension material in this lesson. Listen carefully and repeat. (see tapescript)

Part Ⅱ At the Doctors Office (Ⅰ)

Part Ⅲ At The Doctors Office (Ⅱ)

Lesson 18

Ex. Ⅰ

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the words you hear on the tape.

Key: (see tapescript)

Ex. Ⅱ

Directions: Answer the question.

Key: (see tapescript)

Tapescript:

At The Doctor's Office (Ⅱ) (52″)

Doctor: You've got a gastric form of flu. That's short for influenza. I'll write you a prescription. Take it to the chemist's and they will make up some medicine for you. You'd better stay-at home in the warm for a day or two.

Patient: Thank you very much, doctor. I'm feeling better already. It wasn't so difficult telling you about my illness.

Doctor: No，language doesn't matter too much to a doctor. After all, vets manage without language at all.

Patient: Please, what a “vets”?

Doctor: Animal doctors. Now I must end this English lesson and see my next patient.  

Lesson 18

Ex. Ⅰ

Directions:  Fill in the blanks with the words you hear on the tape.

Key: (see tapescript)

Ex.  Ⅱ

Directions:  Answer the question.

Key: (see tapescript)

Tapescript:

At the Doctor's Office (Ⅰ) (1′45″)

Doctor: Good morning.  You're a new patient, I think. What's the trouble?

Patient: Sometimes I feel cold and sometimes hot.  I have a headache and a stomachache.

Doctor: Yes, you look a bit off-colour.

Patient: What colour,  please?

Doctor: sorry, what I said was“off-colour.”  It's a phrase we use to describe how someone looks or feels when he or she is unwell. Put this thermometer under your tongue,  and we'll try to be more scientific. When did this start ?

Patient: I felt very tired last night when I went to bed. Then I felt really bad this morning when I woke up.

Doctor: Yes, I see. Now, let's take a look at your temperature. Ah, just as I thought, a hundred and one.

Patient: Oh, a hundred and one? So high?

Doctor: Ah, yes, that must sound strange to you. We often still measure people's temperature on the Fahrenheit scale, where 98.4 degrees is a normal blood temperature. In centigrade, your temperature is 39 degrees, which is a bit high, but not exactly boiling point.

Patient: Oh, it isn't very bad, then.

Doctor: No, it isn't serious.