Week 2 · Doctor and pharmacy: what they’ll ask you
How often and how many: "every six hours", "two at a time", "no more than eight a day". Small words like "before", "after" and "not" change the instructions completely.
Read the sentences below, then practice the whole lesson with audio.
- 1Have you been here before?
- 2Fill this out and bring it back when you're done.
- 3So, what's going on today?
- 4How long have you been feeling like this?
- 5Does it hurt when I press here?
- 6On a scale of one to ten, how bad is the pain?
- 7Is there any medicine you can't take?
- 8Are you taking anything for it right now?
- 9Take a deep breath in, and let it out slowly.
- 10It looks like a bad cold, nothing serious.
- 11I'll send a prescription over to your pharmacy.
- 12Is this your first time taking this?
- 13Take two every six hours, but no more than eight a day.
- 14It might make you sleepy, so don't drive after taking it.
- 15Try not to take it on an empty stomach.
FAQ
- How does this dictation practice work?
- Play a sentence, type exactly what you hear, then press check — Dictation Trainer shows word-level feedback: which words you misheard, misspelled, confused for a homophone, or missed.
- Do I need an account, and is it free?
- No account needed to start: you can practice 3 full lessons free — audio, typing, and word-by-word feedback — without signing up. Create a free account to keep going: 100 Echoes (about 10 more lessons), plus saved progress, streaks, and a mistakes notebook.
- What level is this lesson?
- This lesson is graded A2 on the CEFR scale and has 15 sentences. Dictation Trainer lessons start at A1 and climb as the library grows.