Week 24
dictionary:

Below are the sentences for week 24. Click the audio player on the left to listen. Press pause after each sentence and repeat.

Read about auxilary (helping) verbs by clicking HERE. See video at the bottom of the page.

Lesson 1 sentences

  1. Do you eat fruit?
  2. Which fruit do you like?
  3. Do you eat vegetables?
  4. Which vegetables do you like?
  5. Do you drink water?
  6. How many glasses of water do you have every day?
  7. Do you take exercise?
  8. How often do you take exercise?
  9. What type of exercise do you do?
  10. Do you get lots of sleep?
  11. How many hours of sleep do you get?

The Fatt family

  1. This is the Fatt family. They live in Leeds.
  2. Pat is the Mother.
  3. She is married to Mick.
  4. He has two daughters called Sharon and Tracy.
  5. The family are fat.
  6. Pat never goes running. She doesn’t like it.
  7. Mick never walks. He is lazy.
  8. Sharon drives everywhere and sits down all day.
  9. Pat and Mick do not work. They only watch television.
  10. The dog is very hungry. The family eat all the food.
  11. They drink fizzy drinks and lots of alcohol.
  12. They never drink water.

Lesson 2 sentences

  1. My head hurts.
  2. My neck hurts.
  3. My shoulder hurts.
  4. My back hurts.
  5. My elbow hurts.
  6. My arm hurts.
  7. My leg hurts.
  8. My knee hurts.
  9. My foot hurts.
  10. My toe hurts.
  11. My finger hurts.
  12. My hand hurts.
  13. My stomach hurts.

At the doctors

Doctor                 How can I help you?
Patient                 I have got a bad back doctor.

Doctor                 Hello, what’s the problem?
Patient                 It’s my stomach. It hurts.

Doctor                 Take a seat. How can I help you?
Patient                 I have hurt my elbow.

Doctor                 Can you tell me where it hurts?
Patient                 It hurts here – my back.

Doctor                 What is wrong?
Patient                 My legs and knees hurt.

What to say when you don’t understand.

  • Pardon?
  • Sorry, I don’t understand.
  • Can you speak slowly please?
  • Can you repeat that please?
  • Can you write it down please?
  • Can you translate into ____________ please?

At the chemist

Chemist Can I help you?

Patient Yes please – have you got anything for colds?

Chemist Yes. Take Lemsip. Take one in water, every 4 hours.

Patient Have you got anything for headaches please?

Chemist Yes, we’ve got these tablets – paracetamol.  Take 2 every 4 hours.

Patient Have you got anything for a bad cough?

Chemist Take this medicine.  Take one teaspoon every 3 hours.

Video on helping verbs

Video on body parts

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