English Listening Lesson: HOSPITALS

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- Let's introduce the surgeon, Mr. Bean.

We're gonna do a listening bingo.

So this is a listening activity

that we're gonna do together.

And I just need a quick drink.

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♪ Open your ears ♪

♪ Open your mind ♪

♪ It's time for a listening exercise ♪

♪ Maybe a dictation but without intimidation ♪

♪ Maybe a listening bingo ♪

♪ That can open a new window ♪

- Listening bingo

♪ Discover your new listening skills ♪

♪ So listen with me ♪

- Okay, let's develop your listening skills.

So what we're gonna do

is we'll listen to a doctor talking about his role

in the hospital, okay?

As you listen, answer this question.

How many kinds of doctor are mentioned?

So to mention is to say, right?

To talk about.

How many kinds of doctors are mentioned?

Are you ready?

Let's listen very, very carefully.

It's quite short, but here we go.

- [Doctor] What's the role of a doctor in the hospital?

That's not an easy question

because there are many types of doctors.

One of the most common is what we call in the UK a GP,

a general practitioner.

And actually, this doctor doesn't work in the hospital.

He or she works in the community

offering primary healthcare.

They will see patients for checkups or special problems.

They have to recognize the symptoms, make a diagnosis,

and in many cases, prescribe medicine.

Sometimes, they might refer a patient to a specialist

if they need more specific treatment.

Now in the hospital, there is a wide range of doctors,

including pediatrics, who treat children,

oncologists, who deal with cancers,

pathologists, who study the cause and effect of diseases,

surgeons, who carry out operations, and many, many more.

Basically, a doctor's role

is to make sure patients that are sick,

physically or mentally, get the treatment they need

to get well.

And doctors should also provide advice

on preventing sickness and disease.

In a nutshell, that's it.

- Right, how many kinds of doctor are mentioned?

Carolina Suvoda, thank you very much

for your comment from Spain.

Hello, neighbor.

Brian, you say you don't go to the GPs, right?

Just go to the hospitals.

I know a lot of Asian countries where that's the case.

There's no GP. It goes straight to hospital.

Let's see.

Where are we?

Let's have a look.

Vicky says five, Eva says five.

Daniela, two, Sarah, MM,

Nora Nwe, GP, pediatrics, oncologist,

pathologist, four, interesting.

Tran says five, Cezary says five.

Milda says, is that a new avatar?

No, you say five.

GP, pediatrics, oncologists, pathologists,

and surgeons, wow.

Artyom has got the same.

Aziz says seven, Mashhura says seven.

Raihan says six, five, okay.

Right, very, very interesting.

Okay, let's see.

Amarilys, you've got, okay, almost, almost, almost.

Sibel, GP, pediatricians, oncologist,

petologist, ooh, what's a petologist?

Interesting, surgeons.

Right, let's find the answer.

The answer actually is, let me bring it up for you.

The answer was five.

The GP, general practitioner, pediatrics,

so this is, sorry, this is in plural, right?

Pediatrics, so you can practice your pronunciation.

Oncologists.

Let me emphasize, just to help you.

You are not gonna use these words, I know,

but just in case you are in the business.

Oncologists, pathologist,

surgeons.

There's the stress.

General practitioner.

Great way of showing the stress.

There are five.

Pediatrics, oncologists,

pathologists, surgeons.

In the plural, great, good.

Look at me, perfectionist.

There are five different kinds of doctors mentioned.

Now, that's the first activity.

The second activity is I want you to listen again,

and I want you to mark the boxes

that contain the exact words you hear.

Let's put them up here.

Okay, mark the boxes that contain the exact words.

So not similar words, but the exact words, right?

So if you hear difficulty question, it doesn't count.

If you hear difficult question, then yes, you mark it.

And when you get like maybe three in a row, bum, bum, bum.

If you hear these three, just in your head, mark it,

and then in the chat,

type bingo and the words.

And it's the first person to type bingo

and the three words in the chat.

It can be this way, it can be this way.

Sorry, it can be diagonal, it can be, oh. (laughing)

It can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.

Me and maths.

Horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.

Okay, just give me a quick thumbs up

when you are ready to listen again.

Hazera, the meaning of in a nutshell means overall

in some or in short, right?

When you have a lot of ideas in a short sentence,

in a nutshell means in some, in short, or overall, right?

Right, okay.

Listen, Isadul, you can't do bingo yet.

We've not begun yet.

Right, I've got the thumbs up.

Excellent. Let's listen again.

Here we go.

- [Doctor] What's the role of a doctor in the hospital?

That's not an easy question

because there are many types of doctors.

One of the most common is what we call in the UK a GP,

a general practitioner.

And actually, this doctor doesn't work in the hospital.

He or she works in the community

offering primary healthcare.

They will see patients for checkups or special problems.

They have to recognize the symptoms, make a diagnosis,

and in many cases, prescribe medicine.

Sometimes, they might refer a patient to a specialist

if they need more specific treatment.

Now in the hospital, there is a wide range of doctors,

including pediatrics, who treat children,

oncologists, who deal with cancers,

pathologists, who study the cause and effect of diseases,

surgeons, who carry out operations, and many, many more.

Basically, a doctor's role

is to make sure patients that are sick,

physically or mentally, get the treatment they need

to get well.

And doctors should also provide advice

on preventing sickness and disease.

In a nutshell, that's it.

- Excellent, great.

We've got, let's see, Artyon got bingo.

Right, Vicky was the second.

Who else? Anybody else?

MM, general practitioners prescribe medicine

preventing sickness, yeah.

Alexander as well.

Great, good.

I realized after doing this

that it wasn't a very good exercise

because as soon as you know that this one is true,

the only possible answer then

is for all of these to be true, right?

It has to be, that has to be the answer

'cause it's bingo, you can't go any other way.

So I have to construct my bingos in a better way.

But that was it, excellent.

General practitioner, prescribe medicine,

preventing sickness.

Excellent, good.

Now, what I'll do, I'll just play it one more time,

and as you listen, I will indicate the right answer

so you can all of you hear when the right answer comes.

More listening practice, the better.

The more you listen, the better for you.

Okay, let's do it.

- [Doctor] What's the role of a doctor in the hospital?

That's not an easy question

because there are many types of doctors.

One of the most common is what we call in the UK a GP,

a general practitioner.

And actually, this doctor doesn't work in the hospital.

He or she works in the community

offering primary healthcare.

They will see patients for checkups or special problems.

They have to recognize the symptoms, make a diagnosis,

and in many cases, prescribe medicine.

Sometimes, they might refer a patient to a specialist

if they need more specific treatment.

Now in the hospital, there is a wide range of doctors,

including pediatrics, who treat children,

oncologists, who deal with cancers,

pathologists, who study the cause and effect of diseases,

surgeons, who carry out operations, and many, many more.

Basically, a doctor's role

is to make sure patients that are sick,

physically or mentally, get the treatment they need

to get well.

And doctors should also provide advice

on preventing sickness and disease.

In a nutshell, that's it.

- In a nutshell means in short,

but it's a different word, right?

Okay, I hope then you can hear where the answers are coming.

Well done, all of you who got the bingo.

Very, very nice. Well done all of you.

Excellent, good. Let's move on.

What's coming up next?

Well, I'll tell you what, before we move on,

let me go through the script

'cause this will help you just identify

some of the words, right?

I'll go through, I'll play it one more time,

and you can listen and connect the words with the sound,

and I'll just explain any other words at the end as well.

Okay, great.

- [Doctor] What's the role of a doctor in the hospital?

That's not an easy question

because there are many types of doctors.

One of the most common is what we call in the UK a GP,

a general practitioner.

And actually, this doctor doesn't work in the hospital.

He or she works in the community

offering primary healthcare.

They will see patients for checkups or special problems.

They have to recognize the symptoms, make a diagnosis,

and in many cases, prescribe medicine.

Sometimes, they might refer a patient to a specialist

if they need more specific treatment.

Now in the hospital, there is a wide range of doctors,

including pediatrics, who treat children,

oncologists, who deal with cancers,

pathologists, who study the cause and effect of diseases,

surgeons, who carry out operations, and many, many more.

Basically, a doctor's role

is to make sure patients that are sick,

physically or mentally, get the treatment they need

to get well.

And doctors should also provide advice

on preventing sickness and disease.

In a nutshell, that's it.

- Right, okay, good.

I'm gonna come to your question

of pediatrician and pediatrics in a moment.

Okay, so general practitioner,

as we've mentioned, is your local doctor in the community.

We can maybe call that a community doctor.

That's something specific in the UK.

I don't know if in your country you have the same or not.

So they don't work in the hospital.

Primary healthcare, we talked about.

Check-ups, spelling it correctly, we've talked about.

Recognize the symptoms.

So recognize the symptoms.

The symptoms are the signs of sickness.

So if you cough, (imitating coughing)

that's a symptom, right?

It's a sign that there is a sickness, right?

So they have to recognize the signs that you are sick.

Make a diagnosis, which is to identify the sickness.

Whoops, identify the sickness.

So if you cough, (coughs)

that's a symptom.

The diagnosis is you have the flu,

or you have a cold, or you have pneumonia.

That's identifying the sickness.

Prescribe medicine is a good collocation to know.

It just means to give or allocate medicine,

to give medicine.

It's actually not to give the medicine

'cause the pharmacist gives the medicine.

The doctor writes the medicine you should take, right?

So what we say?

To prescribe medicine is to give,

not to give medicine, but to write,

to say which medicine you should have.

What's a good way of defining prescribe?

Let's look it up.

Order, advise, authorize the use of.

Advise and authorize the use of.

To advise and authorize medicine, okay.

Advise and authorize medicine.

Prescribe. Yeah, 'cause they're not giving it, are they?

The pharmacist or the chemist.

The chemist will give it.

So refer a patient to someone is a good one.

So that's just to send them to a specialist.

Specialist, obviously, is a doctor in a special field.

A wide range of doctors, including pediatrics.

Okay, now I'm not a doctor expert

or a health expert,

so I'm not sure what the difference is.

Pediatrics is the branch of medicine with children, right.

So it's pediatrician.

Let's go in. Let's go and check.

It's probably then pediatrician, yes.

Come with me into the world of Cambridge Dictionary.

Pediatrics is the science or study

of medical care for children.

He specializes in pediatrics.

So it's pediatrician. Hmm.

Pediatrician, a doctor who has special training.

There you go. That is the answer.

So thank you all of you for pointing that out.

My mistake, I do apologize.

Pediatrician, oncologists.

I mean, obviously, you don't need to know these,

but it could be worth learning one or two.

If you work in a hospital,

obviously, you probably know this.

Get treatment or get the treatment is a good collocation.

And preventing sickness and disease.

In a nutshell, we said means in short.

There we've got it. Excellent, good.

Right, now...

Vicky, thank you for that.

I know you and several others

were bringing up the pediatrician thing.

To order a medicine might be better.

Kind of, yes.

But again, I think it's the pharmacist

that orders the medicine,

and the doctor that authorizes, if you like, yeah.

What's the meaning of in a nutshell?

In short.

Just meaning a lot of ideas in a short phrase.

So often, at the end of a speech, or the end of a talk,

or the end of a story,

you can put all the ideas into one sentence

and say, in a nutshell, this is the role of a doctor, okay?

Right, excellent, good.

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