Sample Role-play

CANDIDATE'S ROLE

You are at the doctor's surgery.

The examiner is a doctor.

You have problems with sleeping.

Ask for advice: often tired / don't sleep too much; lots of work ( can't reduce work); describe job / no energy for exercise; medicine?; should do what?; recommend?; What type?;

can't swim

The examiner begins:

“ Hello, how can I help you?”

QUESTIONS

1.What do you do to relax after work?

2.When and why did you last go to see a doctor?

3.What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing regular exercises?

4.What do you think about Polish people's lifestyles?

EXAMINER'S ROLE

The examiner is a doctor.

You are the patient.

Stomachache

Food home-made (say what)

Antibiotic / start two days ago

New antibiotic OK - how often / how long?

Ask for sick leave

Start by saying:

“Hello a doctor I feel a terrible?”

QUESTIONS

1.What do you do to keep in good condition?

2.When were you last ill? What did you do to feel better?

3.What are the advantages and disadvantages of taking sick leave?

4.What do you think about the Polish Health Service ?

What do you do to relax after work?

• Generally I don't relax too often but if I had some time for me I would take up martial arts. Well I have trained regularly bodybuilding for two months with my personal trainer and when I have only some free time usually I go to the swimming pool with my girlfriend or my friends. That's all.

When and why did you last go to see a doctor?

• I don't remember exactly when I last time to see a doctor. I'm thinking that was on December in 2006 when I came back home from Afghanistan and I had a broken leg. Exactly it's happened 29 December 2006 at about 9 o'clock p.m. on path near my home.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing regular exercises?

• In my judgment the main advantages of regular doing exercises are:

firstly - protection from heart attack and other diseases;

secondly - our body becomes resistant to various illnesses, in effect we feel healthier and stronger;

what's more - we lack of sleeping problem;

• however no matter what age you are:

we can catch a cold, and we are more prone to injuries;

next, we can break or twist the leg;

all in all doing regular exercises brings more benefits to our health than not doing them.

What do you think about Polish people's lifestyles?

• I have only one judgment on this subject. Our lifestyles is horrible. Generally we as a nation eat too much junk food as the effect we have indigestion, this is firstly, secondly we work too much and too long as the effect we suffer from unsleeping, very often we have headache or other pains. Generally we feel lousy.

What do you do to keep in good condition?

• Seriously, nothing special...

When were you last ill? What did you do to feel better?

• I don't remember exactly when I was last ill, but last time I went to a doctor when I broke my right leg. It was in 2006. After surgery I must very regularly swim in the swimming pool and ride many kilometres on my bicycle.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of taking sick leave?

• I don't have any idea but I think that too often taking sick leave influence well on health, I think, but there are disadvantages too...

What do you think about Polish Health Service?

• The Polish Health Service is a very special kind of work, because every day not limit time, throughout...

WORDS:

• to have a headache - mieć ból głowy

• to have a stomach ache - mieć ból żołądka

• to have a bad cough - mieć ciężki kaszel

• to have a migraine - mieć migrenę

• to have a broken leg - mieć złamaną nogę

• to have a twisted ankle - mieć skręconą kostkę

• to have a sprained ankle - mieć zwichniętą kostkę

• to have a toothache - mieć ból zęba

• to have a sore throat - mieć ból gardła

• to have a pain in back - mieć ból w plecach

• to have a cough - mieć kaszel

• to have a flu - mieć grypę

• to have a fever - mieć dreszcze

• to have a temperature - mieć temperaturę

• to have chest pains - mieć bóle w piersiach

• to have an earache - mieć ból ucha

• to have a pain in a side - mieć ból w boku

• to have a rash on the chest - mieć wysypkę na klatce

• to have spots - mieć krosty

• to have a bruise - mieć siniaka

• to have a black eye - mieć podbite oko

• to have a lump - mieć guza

• to have an indigestion - mieć nietrawność

• to have painful joints - mieć ból stawów

• to have blisters - mieć pęcherzyki bąble

• to have a sunburn - mieć oparzenie słoneczne

• to have a heart attack - mieć atak serca

• to have a sunstroke - mieć porażenie słoneczne

• to be hard of hearing - być słabego słuchu

• to be deaf - być głuchym

• to be blind - być ślepym

• to be stung - być użądlonym

• to be seasick - mieć chorobę morską

• to be depressed - być zdesperowanym

• to be constipated - być cierpiącym na zaparcie

• to be tired all the time - być zmęczonym cały czas

• to be allergic to… - być alergikiem na...

• to be blind - być niewidomym

• to be handicapped - być niepełnosprawnym (np. bez nogi)

• to be overweight - być ciężkim

• lose energy - tracić energię

• lose appetite - tracić apetyt

• lose voice - tracić głos

• lose eagerness to any activities - tracić chęć do bycia aktywnym

• lose weight - gubić wagę

• suffer from chickenpox - cierpieć na ospę wietrzną

• suffer from mumps - cierpieć z powodu świnki

• suffer from pneumonia - cierpieć na zapalenie płuc

• suffer from rheumatism - cierpieć na reumatyzm

• suffer from an ulcer - cierpieć z powodu wrzodu

• suffer from a virus - cierpieć z powodu wirusa

• suffer from a bug - cierpieć z powodu wirusa

• suffer from breakdown - cierpieć z powodu załamania

• suffer from measles - cierpieć na odrę

• suffer from german measles - cierpieć na różyczkę

• suffer from ear inflammation - cierpieć na zapalenie ucha

• suffer from cancer - cierpieć na raka

• suffer from brain haemorrhage - cierpieć z powodu wylewu krwi do mózgu

• suffer from migraine - cierpieć z powodu migreny

• suffer from hangover - cierpieć z powodu kaca

• feel sick - mieć nudności

• feel dizzy - mieć zawroyu głowy

• feel breathless - mieć duszność

• feel shivery - czuć jak przechodzą dreszcze

• feel faint - czuć się jakby miało się za moment zemndleć

• feel bad - czuć się źle

• feel lousy - czuć się kiepsko, wszawo

• to fall ill - zapaść w chorobę

• to faint - mdleć

• to catch a cold - złapać przeziębienie

• to sunburn - poparzyć się na słońcu

• to extract the tooth - usuwać ząb

• to drill the tooth - borować ząb

• to prescribe - przepisywać (np.receptę)

• to bleed - krawawić

• to hurt - ranić

• to injure - ranić, kaleczyć

• to get food poisoning - zatrucie pokarmowe

• to get a hangover - kac

• a rush - wysypka

• an anaemia - anemia

• a heart attack - atak serca

• a bronchitis - zapalenie oskrzeli

• an indigestion - niestrawność

• an influenza = a flu - grypa

• a cold - przeziębienie

• a mumps - świnka

• a measles - odra

• an appendicitis - zapalenie wyrostka robaczkowego

• sinusitis - zapalenie zatok

• a fever - gorączka dreszcze

• a hay fever - katar sienny

• a cancer - rak, nowotwór

• a fracture - złamanie, pęknięcie

• a malaria - malaria

• a diarrhoea - biegunka

• an infectious disease - choroba zakaźna

• a non-infectious disease - choroba niezakaźna

• an eating disorder - zaburzenie pokarmowe

• an allergy to…. - alergia na...

• an infection - infekcja, zakarzenie

• symptoms - objawy

• a temperature - temperatura

• a runny nose - katar

• an examination - badanie, inspekcja

• a prescription - recepta

• a bandage - bandaż

• eye drops - krople do oczu

• a wheelchair - wózek inwalidzki

• a syringe - strzykawka

• an abdomen - brzuch

• a face - twarz

• an ankle - kostka (u nogi)

• a finger - palec

• a wrist -nadgarstek

• skin - skóra

• an arm - ramię

• a shoulder - ramię (bark)

• a breast - pierś

• back - plecy

• a cheek - policzek

• an ear - ucho

• lungs - płuca

• a brain - mózg

• a stomach - żołądek

• a kidney - nerka

• a liver - wątroba

• muscles - mięśnie

• an injury - rana, ubytek

• a cut - rana cięta

• a hurt - rana

• a wound - rana postrzałowa

• mineral supplements - dodatki

• a check-up - badanie lekarskie

• junk food - niezdrowa żywność

• sleeping pills - tabletki nasenne

• a pain killer - śrokek przeciwbólowy

• an ointment - maść

• a pill - tabletka

• a drug - lekarstwo

• a vaccine - szczepionka

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