Intro
1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.
2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Most people only visit the doctor when there’s something wrong with them. A hypochondriac visits the doctor every time he sneezes. And a true hypochondriac never visits the doctor at all. What’s the point? He already knows there’s no cure for whatever it is he’s got. Find out who spends more time at the doctor’s office, Jeff or Amy.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Amy: Man, I feel so great. I just went to the doctor, and you know…
Jeff: Yuck.
Amy: What, you don’t like going to the doctor?
Jeff: No.
Amy: Man, I love it. I just…It makes me feel so good to just go and know that someone’s checking me out, just, you know, making sure everything’s alright. Like, I didn’t really have a serious problem or anything, but I get bad headaches, and I thought, you know, I’ll just go talk to a doctor. Just make sure…you know, I mean I could have a brain tumor or some crazy disease. And I just like the doctor to say, “You know what, you’re fine. You don’t have to worry.”
Jeff: I understand that, but I have a hard time reaching that point.
Amy: Where you’ll actually make the appointment and go to the doctor.
Jeff: Yeah, it’s just so built up in my head that I automatically assume I’m dying, and I figure, what’s the use? So I don’t go.
Amy: I see. But don’t you think…I mean there’s something sort of soothing just about the doctor’s office. There’s the nice receptionist who seems to really care for you, and the doctor in his nice clean white coat who’s just kind of a reassuring presence, I think.
Jeff: I can see that. But it’s also extremely scary.
Amy: I see. So you’d rather just take a couple aspirin and…
Jeff: Live in fear. Pretty much.
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Discussion
Amy just visited the doctor because she was getting bad headaches. She likes going to the doctor even when there isn’t something seriously wrong with her, just to get checked out and to make sure everything is OK. She typically enjoys being at the doctor’s office and finds doctors to be reassuring.
Jeff disagrees. He hates going to the doctor. If he thinks there might be something wrong with his health, he would rather not find out about it from a doctor. Visiting the doctor is too scary and unpleasant for Jeff.
Do you enjoy going to the doctor? Do you think you are a hypochondriac at all?
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