Call for help — at the emergency room
Short urgent lines build to longer calm ones — the shape of an emergency itself.
New core words in this lesson
biteblowboneburnchestconscioushospitalmedicalmusclenervepainsafeseriousshocksuddenwound
Read the sentences below, then practice the whole lesson with audio.
- 1Call for help — quick!
- 2There was a sudden pain in my chest.
- 3We got him to the hospital in ten minutes.
- 4The wound isn't deep — that's good news.
- 5Is anything broken? — The bone's fine.
- 6He's conscious now and asking for water.
- 7It looks serious, but she's in good medical hands.
- 8The burn on her arm needs cold water now.
- 9A dog bite? Let me see it.
- 10My muscles hurt, but nothing worse than that.
- 11The shock was worse than the pain itself.
- 12Every nerve in me said: don't look down.
- 13They kept him in for the night — just to be safe.
- 14One blow to the head, and everything went white.
- 15She opened her eyes — and we all started breathing again.
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