Taxi Language/Dialogue 10

Taxi Language Dialogue 10 Dialogue 9 Dialogue 10: The hospital + A diseasethumb|Dialogue 101 DOCTOR #D8D8D8 Patient’s name and surname? 2 MAX #BBFF99 Anna Constantinescu.3 DOCTOR #D8D8D8 Can you spell the surname, please?4MAX #BBFF99 C O N S T A N T I N E S C U.5 DOCTOR #D8D8D8 Are you her husband?6 MAX #BBFF99 Well... I... How can I tell you...yes...yes... I’m her husband. 7 DOCTOR #D8D8D8 Then, I inform you that your wife has had a heart attack. Now she’s in a stable condition. Fortunately, the ambulance arrived just in time. You’d better take care of her. Is there any family history involving heart diseases? The mother? The father?8MAX #BBFF99 Well...In the family well...I...mmm...Yes yes...Her mother had a similar disease.9DOCTOR #D8D8D8 I suspected as much. Do you eat a lot of fried food at home?11MAX #BBFF99 Yes...too many, I always tell her: Anna, don’t cook so much fried food, but she loves it! You know. She doesn’t listen to me.12DOCTOR #D8D8D8 Then, fried food is over. From now on, only salads.13MAX #BBFF99 Don’t worry, doctor. We’ll do as you say. We’ll be strict.14DOCTOR #D8D8D8 Very good, I like that.15DOCTOR #D8D8D8 How old is Anna?16MAX #BBFF99 She is...is...31, doctor.17DOCTOR #D8D8D8 This girl is too young to suffer this illness.18DOCTOR #D8D8D8 Date of birth?19MAX #BBFF99 April, the seventh...1984.20DOCTOR #D8D8D8 April, the seventh, nineteen eighty-four...But, listen, that would mean she is 32.21MAX #BBFF99 Oh yes, yes, thirty-two, I’m so absent-minded.22ANNA #E6CCFF mmm uhhh... mmmm.23DOCTOR #D8D8D8 She seems to have recovered her consciousness. Kiss her, man! Love always helps ill people! It’s scientifically proven!24MAX #BBFF99 Don’t you think it’s too early, doctor?25DOCTOR #D8D8D8 She’s had a heart attack, not a respiratory insufficiency!26NURSE #E6E6E6 Doctor...27DOCTOR #D8D8D8 I’ve told you many times not to interrupt me while I’m visiting my patients.28NURSE #E6E6E6 It’s a phone call from the police. Is this patient Anna Constantinescu?29DOCTOR #D8D8D8 Yes, she is. What’s the matter?30NURSE #E6E6E6 Anna’s son, who’s only 9, has reported to the police that his mother is missing.31DOCTOR #D8D8D8 If you’ve forgotten your son, you’re not only absent-minded. You really have a serious memory problem. Text thumb|Max's text 10 When the doctor asks Max if he is Anna’s husband, he doesn’t know what to say. To make things easier, he says he is. But the conversation is getting more and more difficult. Max has got himself in a mess. #BBFF99 thumb|Anna's text 10 Anna has had a heart attack. Thanks to the quick intervention of the ambulance, she hasn’t died. Heart attacks are very dangerous and they kill many people each year. The best way to avoid a heart attack is eating a lot of fruit and vegetables, doing a moderate amount of exercise , sleeping well, avoiding stress and not abusing alcohol. #E6CCFF Vocabulary +Max's vocabularyDoctors wear white coats. background-color: #BBFF99;; Doctor white coat|100pxThe doctor asks many questions. Too many questions. Max doesn’t know what to answer. background-color: #BBFF99;; Draw Boy questioning|100pxThe doctor is an old man. He’s bold, he's only got some white hair behind his ears. He must be about sixty. Surely, he will retire soon. background-color: #BBFF99;; Draw elder| 100px +Anna's vocabularyAnna is lying on the bed. background-color: #E6CCFF;; Draw girl ill|100px Max fears the moment when Anna wakes up. background-color: #E6CCFF;; wake up|100px Humans kiss to show we love each other. background-color: #E6CCFF;; Draw kiss|100px When humans make love, we must protect ourselves to avoid diseases and unwanted pregnancy. background-color: #E6CCFF;; Draw Condom|100px The police has phoned the hospital. They’re looking for Anna. background-color: #E6CCFF;; Draw Police|100px Song Artist: Bruce Springsteen Title: The River Link: Song Lyrics: Interesting words are highlighted with bold letters The River background-color: #BBFF99;; I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young They bring you up to do like your daddy done Me and Mary we met in high school when she was just seventeen We'd ride out of this valley down to where the fields were green We'd go down to the river And into the river we'd dive Oh down to the river we'd ride Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle No flowers no wedding dress That night we went down to the river And into the river we'd dive Oh down to the river we did ride I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy Now all them things that seemed so important Well mister they vanished right into the air Now I just act like I don't remember Mary acts like she don't care But I remember us riding in my brother's car Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir At night on them banks I'd lie awake And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse Is a dream a lie if it don't come true Or is it something worse that sends me down to the river though I know the river is dry That sends me down to the river tonight Down to the river my baby and I Oh down to the river we ride Execrcises Max ____ to the doctor about being Anna's husband. |type="()"} +lies -lie -lying {Max says that Anna's mother had a similar... |type="()"} -hairstyle +disease -house {Anna survived the ________ thanks to the rapid response of the ambulance. |type="()"} -stroke -car accident +heart attack {If it ____ for the stressful situation that Max ____ caused, Anna wouldn't ____ had a heart attack. |type="()"} -was,has,had +weren't, had, have -hadn't been,was, has {Anna is 31 years old. |type="()"} -true +false {Euclidi, who is only _ years old, reported her mother to be missing. |type="()"} -11 -7 +9