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Health Dialogue Role-Play Guide

The document provides expressions and phrases related to health and illness, including common symptoms and advice for seeking medical help. It includes role-play scenarios for patients and doctors to practice discussing symptoms and treatments. Additionally, it offers guidance on home remedies and medication prescriptions for various ailments.

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Health Dialogue Role-Play Guide

The document provides expressions and phrases related to health and illness, including common symptoms and advice for seeking medical help. It includes role-play scenarios for patients and doctors to practice discussing symptoms and treatments. Additionally, it offers guidance on home remedies and medication prescriptions for various ailments.

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HEALTH AND ILLNESS

To feel under the weather = to feel slightly ill


To be as fit as a fiddle = to be healthy
To phone in sick = to call work / school and say you’re ill
To suffer from a disease
To have a relapse of an illness
To be a hypochondriac or a cyberchondriac
To have / undergo an operation
To donate organs / To be a donor

Work with your partner. Role-play the dialogue, substituting the different
expressions below. Then reverse roles.
I have a bad sore throat.
I have a terrible cough.
How are you feeling today? I have a migraine headache. I have
What seems to be the problem a stomachache.
What’s bothering you? I have a rash on my arm.
What’s the matter? I have a slight fever.
It hurts when I swallow.
I’ll have a look at your throat. I have a bad cold.
Let me look at your arm. I’ll I feel nauseated.
examine your ears. I am vomiting.
It’s very itchy.
I have the chills.

Take one pill three times a day for seven


days.
When did it start?
Take the cough syrup before bedtime every
How long have you had it?
night for a week.
How long has it been bothering
Use these drops twice a day for ten days.
you?
Apply the cream to your rash twice a day
until it disappears.

Three days ago.


Do you have any other symptoms?
It started last week. Since Monday.
Does anything else hurt?
About three days.
Is anything else bothering you?

I’m going to give you a prescription for an


antibiotic.
I’ll write you a prescription for some cough
syrup. Here’s a prescription for a painkiller.
Here’s a prescription for some ointment.

You’ll probably start to feel better in a couple of


days.
You’ll probably start to feel better by the end of
the week. You’ll probably start to feel better in
three or four days.
It will probably clear up in a few days.
ASK FOR ADVICE
As a patient, explain your symptoms and ask for advice. As a
doctor, try to give some home remedy as well.

you have a cough you feel sick

you have a sore throat you have chills

you have a sunburn you have a headache

you have a flu your back aches

you feel dizzy you have a rash

you have fainted you have a temperature

you have diarrhoea you have a sprained ankle

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