节目资讯
刊物:大家说英语
日期:2013-08-02
难易度:High
关键字:bone, while, appointment, attack, nurse, sprain, emergency room [ER],
panic
Welcome to Let's Talk in English.
Thank you for joining us here at LTE TV.
My name is Katie, one of your Let's Talk teachers.
And we hope that you're ready to learn some English with us today.
Today's topic is still HEALTH.
And we have part 2 of our lesson called Susie's Accident.
Susie's Accident.
Now Nathan, have you broken a bone before?
Well, when I was little, I did break my collarbone right here.
Yeah, it kind of hurt.
Hello, friends.
My name is Nathan, and I am glad to be teaching you today.
Now we need to look at our Let's Begin reading from our LTE magazine.
You can read it with Katie right now.
Let's began!
Susie didn't break any bones.
She just sprained her wrist.
It will hurt for a while.
She didn't go to the emergency room, just a clinic.
She didn't need an appointment.
Carol went to the ER once because she thought she was having a heart attack.
Actually, it was only a panic attack.
A nurse helped her.
Well, this lesson should be interesting too.
Let's get started with Conversation A.
(Music).
Hello, Carol.
Susie, I heard about your accident yesterday.
I'm sorry.
Me, too.
I shouldn't have tried to run down the stairs!
Susie, if you need to go home, please do.
You don't have to work today.
Thanks, Carol.
I might leave early.
My wrist still hurts.
And it will hurt for a while.
Did you break any bones?
No, but I sprained my wrist.
Mark, Carol and Susie are in Conversation A.
They are talking about Susie's Accident that she had yesterday.
And Susie says she should not have tried to run down the stairs.
That's a good piece of advice for anyone, I think.
That's very true.
We should be careful when we are on the stairs.
I have fallen down some stairs before and it hurts.
Well, friends, in our conversation, Susie says that her wrist also still hurts.
Then Carol tells Susie, "It will hurt for a while." And that's one of today's
key words.
Thank you, Nathan.
That is a key word.
while.
while.
The word "while" is talking about an amount of time.
If we say that we will do something for a while, we usually mean a long time.
Right.
And Carol says Susie's wrist will hurt for a while.
She means it will probably hurt for a week or even a couple of weeks.
That's right.
Now let's use this word in a sentence.
It takes me a while to get to work.
I have to be on the train for about thirty minutes.
Now, later in the conversation, Mark asks Susie if she broke any bones.
And that is another key word for today.
Well, let's learn about it.
bone.
bone.
Bones are inside of your body.
They make up your body.
We have bones in our fingers, toes, arms and legs.
We have bones everywhere.
If you break a bone, you have to go to the doctor.
Doctors have to fix your bones.
When I was little, I broke my arm right here.
And I had to go to the hospital so that the doctor could fix it.
But it usually takes a while for a broken bone to get better.
So Katie, how long did it take for your broken arm to get better?
Well, it took about eight weeks.
It was a long time.
Well, Susie's wrist wasn't broken.
That's a good thing.
Yesterday she thought it might be broken.
But it was just sprained.
And the word "sprained" means that you hurt part of your body, usually where two
bones come together.
It means that it hurts to move your... that part of your body, but the bone is
not broken.
That's right.
Well, OK, friends.
We should learn more about these things and about Susie in Conversation B.
(Music).
So Ken took you to the emergency room?
No, we didn't go to the ER.
We went to a clinic.
Did you need to make an appointment?
No, you can just walk in.
Then you wait for a doctor to see you.
I went to the ER once.
Why did you go to the ER?
I thought I was having a heart attack!
If you remember from yesterday, Ken took Susie to the clinic.
That is easier than going to the emergency room.
Have you ever gone to the emergency room, Nathan?
Actually, I have not been to the emergency room before.
I have never had a big emergency that needed dealing with quickly.
But I have had friends who have gone to the emergency room.
Many people do.
Now, then Carol asks a question.
She asks, "Did you need to make an appointment?" And that is a key word for
today.
appointment.
appointment.
If you make an appointment, you schedule a time to go somewhere or do something.
We usually have to make an appointment to go to the doctor because doctors are
busy and do not have a lot of time to see people.
Sometimes we also make appointments when we want to meet with other people, too.
Everyone is busy.
So it's important to make appointments when you need to see other people.
That's right.
But you don't have to make an appointment at the clinic or the emergency room.
But if you go to the emergency room, you do have to wait until a doctor is ready
to see you.
Carol has been to the emergency room.
She thought she was having a heart attack.
Well, there's another key word to look at there.
attack.
attack.
An attack is a quick and short time that you are sick.
You don't know that it is going to happen.
That's right.
An attack is usually a surprise.
And a heart attack is bad.
That is when your heart starts to hurt very suddenly and quickly.
If you have a heart attack, you need to go to the emergency room very quickly.
That's right.
But you can have attacks of other kinds too.
You could have a coughing attack when you cough a lot.
Or you can have a sneezing attack where you sneeze a lot.
But Carol thought she was having a heart attack.
And those hurt a lot.
Poor Carol.
But Katie, I wonder if she really did have a heart attack because that is really
not good.
That really would not be good.
I also hope that Carol was not having a heart attack.
We don't want that to happen to Carol.
Well, friends, I guess that we should go to Conversation C.
We can find out more right there.
(Music).
Were you really having a heart attack?
No. It was actually a panic attack.
But it felt like a heart attack!
I would have been scared.
I was!
But a nurse helped me and explained what was happening.
She was very calm.
A nurse?
Why not a doctor?
All the doctors were busy with real emergencies!
Well, Mark asks Carol the question we all want to know:
Were you really having a heart attack?
And we find out Carol wasn't having a heart attack.
Whew!
That's good.
But she says she was having a panic attack.
Let's look at the word:
panic.
Panic is a sudden feeling of fear.
It's not a good feeling.
So if you ever feel panicked, try to calm down.
That's right.
Panic attacks are never fun, and they can feel like a heart attack.
That's why Carol went to the emergency room.
And Carol says that she was scared, but a nurse helped her.
And that's our next key word.
nurse.
nurse.
A nurse is someone who works in a hospital.
Nurses usually help the doctors and they take care of people who are in the
hospitals.
Nurses also spend a lot of time with the people who are in hospitals.
They give people medicine, they calm people down, and they make people feel
better when they can.
And it's important for a nurse to stay calm.
Like Carol said, the nurse helped her and explained what was happening.
That's very important.
Well, Mark asked why a nurse helped and not a doctor.
And Carol says all the doctors were busy with real emergencies.
OK, friends, I think now we need to review today's key words.
Here is your first key word.
(Music).
bone.
bone.
There are 26 bones in your foot.
while.
while.
It always takes me a while to wake up.
appointment.
appointment.
Make an appointment to see the boss.
attack.
attack.
Grandpa had a heart attack.
nurse.
nurse.
The nurses at this hospital are great.
Good job, friends.
I hope that you enjoyed practicing our key words.
And I hope that you have enjoyed today's lesson so far.
We are going to take a short break now.
But we'll be rightback.