When were you last ill?

When were you last ill? Mikor voltál utoljára beteg? – Az alábbi angol szöveggel szeretnék segítséget nyújtani az idősebb, gyakorlottabb nyelvtanulóknak – így akár iskolásoknak vagy felnőtteknek a nyelvvizsgához, beszélgetésekhez – a betegségek témaköréhez.

Last winter I had a bad cold. I got up in the morning with a splitting headache and dizziness. It hurt when I swallowed and I felt sore all over. I couldn’t help sneezing and my nose was running. I was shivering, coughing and I felt sick. I got worse and worse. I had a high temperature so I decided to see the GP.

 I went to the local health centre and I waited for an hour in the waiting room because it was full of patients. When the assistant shouted, ’next please’, I entered the consulting room. The doctor examined me. He told me to strip to the waist. He felt my pulse, looked at my tongue and throat, took my blood pressure, listened to my heart and lungs. He diagnosed my illness and told me that I had all the sypmtoms of influenza. He gave me a penicillin injection and sent me to the laboratory for a blood test. He prescribed some medicine for me.

My mother went to the chemist’s and bought the medicine. I had to stay in bed for a few days, drink a lot of hot tea with lemon and keep warm. I had to take some antifebrile to keep the fever down, some menthol drops for my nose and a mixture for my throat.

Some three or four days passed when I started to feel a little bit better, my temperature dropped and the dizziness disappeared. In the meantime I was worried about school. How would I be able to make up for the loss of time? I read a lot and listened to music. Every day I had visitors.

After following the doctor’s advice and taking the medicine in the prescribed way, I soon recovered.

splitting                        hasogató

headache                      fejfájás

dizziness                      szédülés

swallow                        nyelni

sneezing                      tüsszentés

running nose             orrfolyás

shivering                    reszketés

coughing                     köhögés

sick                                beteg

high temperature     magas láz

patient                         páciens

consulting room        rendelő

examine                       megvizsgál

strip to the waist      derékig levetkőzni

pulse                             pulzus

tongue                           nyelv

throat                            torok

blood pressure            vérnyomás

heart                              szív

lung                               tüdő

laboratory                    labor

blood test                     vérvizsgálat

prescribe                     felír

prescription               recept

medicine                    gyógyszer

chemist’s                   gyógyszertár

stay in bed                ágyban maradni

drink hot tea            forró teát inni

antifebrile                lázcsillapító

menthol drops          mentolos cukorka

recover                       meggyógyul

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