INTRODUCTION

1ST SESSION
Please introduce your self !
 The nurse-patient Conversation
• Greeting
– Hello, Hi, good morning, good day, good afternoon,
good evening
– Good bye; good night; see you; sleep well…

• Asking questions
– Yes/ no question
– Information question
– Choice question
– Attached/ negative/ tag question
 Yes / no question
• A question that can be answered by ‘yes’ and
‘no’ (short or long answered)
• Example:
– Have you taken your medicine?
– Can I ask you something?
– Does it hurt?

Pattern Be / Modals + S + Do + Smthg

 Information question
• A question that asks for information by using a
question word
• Example:
– How are you (today) ?
– What is your (chief) complaint?
– What’s wrong with you?
– What’s the matter with you?
– What’s troubling you?
– What kind of medicine did you consume last night?
– How long have you felt like this?

PATTERN
Interrogative + Be + S
 Information question
– How often do you wake during your sleep?
– How many times a week does your family visit
you?
– How far is your house to the Singaraja hospital?
– When did you check your blood sugar last time?
– Whose medicine is this?
– Where are going to see a doctor?
 Choice question
• Using be, do, have in the first sentence
• Example:
– Is your pain in the left or right of your chest?
– Are you hungry or suffering?
– Do you want to see specialist or general
practitioner (GP)?
 Tag questions
• The statement sentences which a speaker
supposed to or already know the answer
• Example:
– You look very pale, don’t you?
– You feeling well after taking medicine, aren’t you?
 Practise
1. N: good morning (day), Mr. Joni. How are you (today)?
• P: fine thanks

2. N: have you fasting since last night?

• P: yes I have

3. N: good (excellent). Are you ready for the urine and the blood test now?
• P: Of course

4. N: do you want anything for your breakfast afterwards?

• P: yes please. Something light.

5. N: do you mean fruits or cereal?

• P: Just an apple or banana, thanks
• N: No problems (no worries)
 Practise
1. N: hello! Good morning Mr. Brown. Today is a beautiful day isn’t it?
• P: good morning nurse, yes it is but I feel unwell?

2. N: Oh really, may I know what is troubling you?

• P: I think there is something wrong with my stomach. Every time I eat I
feel like vomiting

3. N: did you feel it from yesterday or just today?

• P: I feel it from about two days ago

4. N: Have you taken any medicine?

• P: No, I haven’t, nurse

5. N: OK, Let me examine you Mr. Brown. Please lie down here
• P: Thank you nurse
 Review grammar : nouns
• What’s noun?
• Concrete noun
• Abstract noun
• Common noun
• Proper noun
• Singular noun
• Plurals noun
• Possessive noun
• Not the main subject
• pronoun
 Concrete noun
• Noun that can be experienced with the senses
– A person
– A place
– A thing
• common noun
• proper noun
 Common N vs. Concrete N
Common noun Proper noun
state Alaska
country Indonesia
uncle Uncle Jim
professor Professor Mendoza

Task:
True or false
1. Winter 1. F
2. Doctor 2. F
3. north east 3. T
4. Can I have the car tonight, father? 4. F
 Abstract noun

 An idea, quality, feeling that cannot be experienced

with the sense

FEELING Fear, embarassment

IDEA World peace, hope
QUALITY Courage, cowardice

Task
Felling (F), Idea (I), or Quality (Q)
 emphaty
 F
 collaboration
 L
 motivation  S