Learning notes
- Level: Easy
- Learn when to go to a chemist
- Learn how to talk to ask for medicine at a pharmacy
Episode 1：Ziad 打喷嚏醒来，他需要去药店买药。
Meet Leila & Ziad 共六集，这一视频系列旨在帮助您学习英语。跟随这对年轻夫妇的脚步，看他们在澳大利亚安家落户。观看视频，随后尝试完成下方的练习。
Learning activites:
- Download the printable worksheet
- Test yourself with the interactives below:
Question 1 of 3
Question 2 of 3
Question 3 of 3
Naomi: Naomi here from the Department of Oz-Speak.
Visiting a pharmacy for advice.
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Ziad: Leila.
Leila Habibi. I think I'm sick.
Leila: No, you're not.
Ziad: I think I have a fever.
Leila: You have hay fever. Hay fever!
Ziad: How can you be so sure?
Leila: Because last month you sneezed we went to see a doctor
And what did they tell you?
Ziad: Hay fever.
Leila: And what did the weather person on TV say about this week?
Ziad: Hay fever.
Leila: Are you starting to see a pattern?
Uncle Rami: Yallah, breakfast is ready.
Leila: Fabulous. This looks so good.
Uncle Rami: Ahh big breakfast. Aussie classic.
-Ziad
Leila: He's not feeling well.
Uncle Rami: What's the matter with you?
Leila: He has hay fever.
He wants to see a doctor.
Uncle Rami: Why?
You don't need to see a doctor for hay fever.
You go to the pharmacy and buy antihistamines.
Ziad: Anti-who? Hey I'm not anti anybody.
Uncle Rami: An-ti-hista-mines.
Very easy.
No prescription, just over-the-counter.
Ziad: Sounds good.
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Chemist: Can I help you, sir?
Ziad: Ah yes. I'm looking for a pharmacy.
Chemist: We are a pharmacy.
Ziad: The sign says chemist.
Chemist: A pharmacy is a chemist, same thing.
Ziad: And a chemist is also a person?
Chemist: Yes, I am a person.
Ziad: Yes, you are a person.
Chemist: Is there something in particular that you're looking for?
Ziad: Ah yes... Anti...
Chemist: Antihistamine?
Ziad: Yes, antihistamine.
Chemist: Yes. We have those.
Will you be paying with cash or card today?
Ziad: Cash.
Cash, always cash.
Thank you mate.
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Naomi: For common illnesses, such as hay fever
you can buy over-the-counter medicines at a pharmacy.
As Ziad discovered, pharmacies are also called chemists.
The word chemist can be used to describe a person.
Oh, sorry.
Hay fever. Oh, thank you.
Oh could you go to the pharmacy for me to get me some of those antihistamon?Antiwhostaho? Antihistory.
No one can say that word.
Something for the hay fever?
Thank you.
Credits
Produced by SBS in partnership with Melbourne Polytechnic (RTO Provider No. 3075)
Video production company: Studio Gilay
Director: James Hackett
Writers: Anthony Salame, Shiyan Zheng, James Hackett
Producer: Chloe Marshall
EAL framework units
'Visiting a pharmacy' video and activities can be used to support the following 22484VIC Certificate I EAL (Access) units:
- VU22591 – Participate in short simple exchanges.
- VU22592 – Participate and respond to short simple verbal instructions and information.
- VU22594 – Read and write short simple information and instructional texts.
- VU22597 – Locate health and medical information.
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