B1-1 I can produce simple connected text on topics, which are familiar, or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Spoken interaction for pleasure

AT THE DOCTOR'S

TASK 1

Your teacher will play a recording* of the dialogue between a doctor and his patient. After listening to the dialogue the teacher will ask you and another student to create a new dialogue based on the same structure as the first one. She will also give you some guidelines to do the task.

Doctor:	Hello, what's the matter?
Patient:	Good morning. I have a terrible ache in my lower back.
Doctor:	How long has your back been bothering you?
Patient:	I've been having pain for about the last two weeks.
Doctor:	Do you have any history of back problems?
Patient:	No, this is the first time.
Doctor:	Are you taking any medicine at the moment?
Patient:	No, just an aspirin from time to time to kill the pain.
Doctor:	OK. Let's have a look at your back. Please take off your shirt ....

Dialogue guidelines:

A patient visits his doctor

A. Greets and asks what the problem is

B. He greets and tells about his pain

A. He asks how long he’s been suffering from it

B. He replies

A. He asks more about the health problem

B. He replies

A. He asks if he’s taking medicine

B. He answers

A. He says he wants to check him up