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 wakes up sneezing and needs to go to a pharmacy for medication.
is a 6 part video series to help you learn English. Follow a young couple as they get set up in Australia. and then do the learning activities below.
Learning activites:
- 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
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.
