97 Work in groups of six. Each of you should choose a different picture. Get a piece of paper, write the letter of your picture on it, and do the following: 1 Write three sentences that describe the problem shown in your picture. Speculate on how it might have happened. Then pass the paper to the person on your left. 2 Check the letter on the paper you’ve been given. Write three sentences about what the people in this picture should do about their problem. Then pass the paper on. 3 Again, check the letter. Write three sentences about how the problem in this picture could have been prevented. WRITING 10 By the way: Take your medicine If you stop a British person on the street and ask them where the nearest drugstore is, they will most likely give you a funny look. Medication in general is referred to as drugs in the US but medicine in the UK. The Brits get their medicine from the chemist or pharmacy. There are several other British English/American English differences you should know about if you need medical items. If you cut your finger, for example, you will need a plaster in the UK but a Band Aid in the USA. Band Aid is a brand name but has become a generic term in American English. If you’re looking after a baby, you will need nappies in the UK and diapers in the US. If someone is ill in the States, they will say they are sick, but to be sick in the UK means to vomit. Hopefully you’ll never need to pay a visit to the hospital, but if you do, you could end up in the ER (Emergency Room) in the US and at A and E (Accident and Emergency) in the UK. You may need an injection, which is called getting a shot in the US but a jab in the UK. If you need fluids intravenously, you’ll get a drip in the UK and an IV in the US. Any broken bones will land you in the operating room in America or the operating theatre in the UK. But don’t worry, thanks to the American anesthesiologist or British anaesthetist, you won’t know a thing about it! Make a table with the expressions in American and British English and add the German translations. Then tell a partner a story and use some of the words. Stick to either American or British English. Now pass the papers on one more time and take turns reading out the three sets of sentences. Do you all agree with what has been suggested for each picture? Why?/Why not? SPEAKING 11 A B C D E F Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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