Conversations · Lesson 12

Seeing a doctor: symptoms, questions and advice

きのうから咳せきが出でています。

Show your insurance card and fill in the questionnaire; say what hurts, whether you have a fever or cough, since when; follow the doctor’s questions and advice.

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In this lesson

  1. 01Main dialogue: seeing a local doctor about a cold
  2. 02Reception and the questionnaire
  3. 03What you say: what’s wrong, and since when
  4. 04What the doctor asks and advises (you only need to understand these)
  5. 05Asking the doctor, and when you don’t understand
  6. 06Seeing a doctor in Japan

Practice

  • Match what reception and the doctor say to its meaning
  • How would you reply, and what should you do?
  • Match each symptom to its meaning
  • Which sentence says what you want?
  • Choose the phrase for each blank
  • Change to a polite way of speaking to the doctor
  • Put the dialogue in order

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