Speaking Test 1

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 Speaking Test 7 – Medicine

Time allowed: 20 minutes

ROLE PLAYER’S CARD NO.1

Setting: LEO Hospital

Patient: You are 43 and have recently undergone endoscopic sinus surgery –
FESS (Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery). After a week’s stay at the hospital,
you are now going to your home. You do not know what precautions you will
have to take to recover fully. You are worried whether you will have to take the
antibiotics for long period of time. You are a smoker and would like to know
whether you can continue smoking or you will have to quit etc.

Task:

 Explain to the doctor what you are very concerned about (try to know
what you shall do if it bleeds in future etc).
 Ask your doctor what you can do to stop development of any kind of
infection in future etc.
 Ask your doctor if you can indulge in any physical activities or not
(like jogging, running etc).
 Ask your doctor how much time it will take for you to recover and
what you can do to recover etc.
 Ask your doctor whether you will have to come for the check up
monthly or quarterly etc.
 Ask your doctor if you can continue smoking or whether you will have
to quit that.

CANDIDATE’S CARD NO. 1

Setting: LEO Hospital

Doctor: There is a patient who has recently undergone FESS (Functional

Endoscopic Sinus Surgery). After a week’s stay at the hospital, the patient
is finally going home but he / she is worried and wants to know what
precautions he / she has to take to stop any kind of infection or recover fully.
The patient is a smoker and wants to know whether he / she can continue
smoking after a week or two or whether he / she has to quit smoking etc.

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 Speaking Test 7 – Medicine

Task:

 Try to calm down the patient by saying that there will be no complications
of any kind after the operation and that nosebleed occurs only in 1-2% of
the patients.
 Explain to the patient what precautions he / she will have to take to avoid
any kind of infection or any sort of trouble etc (explain that he may have to
avoid indulging in any physical activities like running etc, blow the nose
gently after nasal irrigation, avoid heavy nasal blowing for 10+ days after
the operation, avoid smoky or dusty atmospheres, avoid hot baths or
showers etc).
 Explain to the patient why he / she will have to quit smoking for at least
a couple of weeks or months (as this may lead to more number of chances
of infection).
 Advice the patient to take the medicine on time too.

END OF SPEAKING TEST

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