Health Problems
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Mark: I am just sitting here at a cafe in the Pahar Ganj area of New Delhi with Michael. Michael, you are not feeling very good?
Michael: No, I am certainly not.
Mark: What is the problem?
Michael: Well. I got diagnosed with amoebic dysentery about eight nine weeks ago when I was up in the mountains and I got treated for it then by a very good doctor with antibiotics but I fear that it has not yet gone away as I have had recurring problems.
Mark: You vomited this morning?
Michael: That is right. I got some new pills, that somebody at this very cafe recommended, that I take.
Mark: Ayurvedic?
Michael: No, no. Not those ones. These were some other pills. I forget what they were called. This man said that his sister was a nurse and these were the pills to take and I found them at a chemist, took a couple and I was violently sick this morning not long after taking one of these pills on the street, which was quite interesting.
Mark: Mm. That is terrible. How are you feeling now? Are you feeling a little better?
Michael: Not really I am feeling very weak I have to take some of these… you know… what do you call them…re-hydration salts.
Mark: And you are going to eat some banana and papaya as well?
Michael:Well I have got a papaya juice coming and yeah perhaps I will have some banana. I have heard that that is good for you.
Mark:I hope you feel better soon.
Michael: Thank you very much.
Mark: This man wants to clean your shoes.
Michael:Yes, I…
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hi
first of all
thanks for providing us very useful practical conversations
i’ve been downloading some audio files
but i have to maximize volume to hear it clearly
i hope the authority could improve it
GambattE~
Sorry Coby but these are live recordings from the street and from life. They have already been amplified. I hope you can hear them ok. Are you using headphones? I use headphones when I do the transcriptions.
hello
I have a question.
Why
“I have heard that that is good for you.”
not “I have heard that that is good for me.”?
Please let me know.
Good question Sadatoshi! Michael is using ‘you’ in the sense of ‘everyone’, which is a common way to express how something can be good or bad for “all people”. So when Michael says, “that is good for you,” he is not referring to Mark, but rather ‘all people in general’. He would never say, ‘that is good for me’ unless he was only referring to himself, at the exclusion of others.
Here are some more examples:
Getting exercise is great for you.
Eating fresh food is good for you.
Drinking alcohol in moderation is not so bad for you.
Sleeping too much is not so good for you.
Consuming lots of sugar is bad for you.
Smoking cigarettes is terrible for you.
In these examples, I am not talking about YOU Sadatoshi, I’m talking about EVERYONE!
Again, good question! Thanks for your comment.
Man! You’re a Master! Your answer was perfect and complete! I hope finding more people like you! By the way, I’m from Brazil! I’m trying to understand and speak English like a native but it’s a very hard work, isn’t it?
First thanks for audio and conversation , but in the street the voice isnot clear
Hi Jessi. It’s GOOD that the voice in the street isn’t clear. That makes it excellent for listening practice, because when you speak English with people, it isn’t always done in a quiet room. There is often noise in the background. I think this is a slight problem with most listening material for English learners – the background is quieter than it is in reality.
Thanks for your comment!
You’re absolutely right, Aaron. And that’s the way you should practice listening activities. Otherwise,it sounds artificial.
Hi Aaron!
I agree with you! It’s really GOOD that the voice in the street isn’t clear. Here in Brazil the English classes in schools are always done in a quiet room! There should be more audio done in noisy but natural, backgrounds like this on internet!
hi every one
i am happy to hear this conversation
it is so good
Thanks Manar!
hi
today i read the lesson 1 which i received on my email, the lesson is good and i am following it ,but the problem is with the sound of this conversation as there is so many other sounds like car horns and because of that i couldn’t here few sentenses. otherwise the lesson is really helpful and good.
Hi V….I’m glad you thought the lesson was useful. I think the presence of noise in the background is the price we pay for capturing “real” conversations. We just can’t always record them in silent places, since life is so full of energy and noise. But, at least we are able to hear most of what is there. As you get better at listening, you will be able to distinguish more and more of what is being said, even with lots of background noise.
Thanks for your comment.
Cheers,
Aaron
HI EVERYBODY!!! GOOD CONVERSATION!!! I THINK SO THAT I UNDERSTAND ALL!! BUT I DON’T KNOW I NEED LEARN MORE I’M A STUDENT!!! I’M FROM COLOMBIA!! IF SOMEBODY CAN TEACH ME SOME.. WOULD BE SO SO GOOD FOR ME.. PLEASE SOMEBODY SEND ME SOME PHRASES IN ENGLISH.. WOULD BE SO GOOD,, THANK’S BYE!!!
Hi Caroline!
We also need to learn more, cause perfection comes with practice! I think that if you scan all the English Conversation site you’ll find all phrases in English that you’ll need to improve your English! Try to read along loudly while you listen to the audio!
I hope you enjoy and learn a lot!
thanx, after visiting many websites i found this one better as u r sending the lessons on email, because of the poor english i am facing many problems in my office, and there is no one with whom i can practice speaking english so cant improve english, if i speak wrong then there should be someone who will correct my sentence, anyways with a spare time in office i read this lessons and trying to improve. thanx once again
Well, just ask if you have any more questions. Thanks V!
Hi,
Thank you for the lesson, which is very useful and hillarious as well.
The poor guy surely will think twice before taking any pills next time. Whatever country he stays.
Keep teaching!
thank alot
but I can not good leisten becouse noise
I have read firt portion of first lesson and have understood fully, thank you
Thank you so much,
i m very keen to learn english and i m waiting for you 2nd lession.
this site would be helpful for me.
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Avi
Thank you,
im waiting for you second lession.
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anu
this is very simple and good conversation for a new comer like me.
rgds
pradeep
Hi
Thanks a lot for this lesson, it was a useful one.
But my question is that if I answered the activities in section B from the first time I heard the audio, did I get the benefit from the lesson or I should hear it many times, and is so , how many times you think it is enough?
Again , thank you very much for your help.
Regards
Ali
Hi Ali
It is important to enjoy what you are doing. If you enjoy listening again and doing the listening activity again, then do it again. If you just feel like reading the notes and thinking about them, then do that.
It uis important to work at your own pace and to enjoy it. When you are ready, move to the next lesson.
Hello sir, I liked your programme . It helped me . Thank you.
Hi Anwar
I am glad you enjoyed the lesson.
If you want to make any suggestions about the site, please let us know.
Are you Egyptian? Anwar is an Egyptian name, right? I remember Anwar Sadat.
cheers Mark
Thanks for this lesson. I liked conversation reagrding health problem. I want daily one lesson like this. I heard this audio conversation three times.
Thanks again.
indu
I am taking your lessons regularly and it is proving to be quite useful as I can now make out the words which are pronounced differently otherwise. thank u making this great site for us. May god bless you..
very nice as i can consider it as a novice conversations that i heard it but i really want certain practices that learn me to speak english smooth and quickly ..thank you
thank,this dialogue was very useful for me, i will keep in touch learning English
hector
Hi.
Thanks a lot for your lesson. I like this programme. I will follow furthe more.
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I am from Iraq.
I am ready to chat with you in order to improve my English.
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Hello
Firstly thanks for giving good stuff and exercise to improve English. This is highly helpful.
I practiced to listen couple of to identify the phrases you have mentioned the exercise. thank you.
I have question at one point in the conservation where it said “I was violently sick this morning NOT long after taking one of these pills on the street”. Can’t we just say without NOT in this particular sentence. What is the difference with and without NOT.
thanks
revathi
Hi Revathi
“I was violently sick not long after taking one of those pills.” is the only way to say it.
“not” is a part of “not long after”
If you take out “not” you will change the meaning to “long after”
Mark
Thank you.
hello
thank you
thank you
Thanks.I found that this listening exercise is really helpful in improving my english conversation.
Its really nice to follow the lesson.
Thank you and look forward for the next lesson.
hi.please send lesson#2 again.thank you.
very useful lesson
Thank you
Thanks a lot for lessons…I am looking forward for the next one…actually i can’t control speaking pace…can you help with this..once again thank you
Sorry but it is a real conversation so it is pretty fast. Can you slow it down on your player?
Hello,
The conversation that you gave us was very good but i one question to ask you, why i didn’t hear the whole conversation just heard it only more than half them?
Thx
thanks for your lesson conversation,but the sound is very slaw and i could not hear very well,and i not understand very well
I like this . i think it can be devolep my language capacity.
SO thx ,,,,,,,
Thanks you very much, this programme is very useful and practical to learn english. Thank you =)
I think this kind of conversations are very useful and challenging because whenever you are listening to other different sound like car horns you may get distracted. However, that also makes you be really concentrated on what you are doing. At the very begining it was difficult to understand but later I got use to the noises.
THANKS VERY MUCH
i think is good…but in the conversation have others sound like noise,car and etc..hope u can do better for the conversation
02 February 2010 .
Hi Sir ,
I say thank si much , today i read and listen the lesson 1
that i received on my e-mail , the lesson is good and i pay -
attention ti follow these articles .As i got better at listening
I will be able to learn more so , this visiting many website , I
found this fluently .
Thank you for the lesson which is very useful and hilarious as well.
Keep Teaching .
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I want to say I’m keen on learning English and I’ve a yearning to improve this language. That in why I’ll be happy to get these lessons.
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i want to share you ? i want to improve my language . i think this website will help me
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hi every body
thank your for sharing this lesson but i couldn’t
download the file because of timeout.
what should i do now?
thank you – zhila
Hi Zhila,
Audio files are generally pretty large. About the only thing you can do if the download stalls or times out is to keep trying. I wish there were another way to get you the file, but I’m afraid there isn’t. Sorry.
i’m very alive because can be joint with you
now, i’m need same teks information about health because now, i’m continuing my study in a university!! i hope,you can give me that well pasility of english
before i wanna introduct my self to you!! have you to lombok city???
i’m from lombok,but now i’m in yogjakarta city to continu yg study!!
i hope we can make well comunication!!
Jogjakarta is beautiful but I have never been to Lombok. I want to sail from Bali to Lombok and on to Flores.
Thanks for the lesson is soo good for me.
hi there,
thanks alot, for your website. it’s very helpful for me to improve myself in english, we also need more emails, which it help us
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What mean “This man wants to clean your shoes” ?
Thank you !
The conversation was recorded in India in Delhi. There was a man there. He was shoe shiner. He wanted to shine the shoes of one of the speakers. (shine shoes=clean shoes)
very useful lesson thak you so much
its very useful to improve my english level.. i think it may useful in future speech .. it ll help while i ll speak in english
thanks
Dears teachers,
This the first homework I do with you so don’t hesitate to tell what I can do if this way is not the good way. But I understand the general meaning of the conversation or of this text.
After listening the whole recording in section B, I have heard these words and ticked them in order: “am sitting”; “with Michael”; “are feeling good”; “are not feeling good”; “up in the mountains”; “vomited”; “that is terrible”; “I am feeling very weak”; “some papaya”; “some banana”; “I hope you feel better soon”. Now I will try to repeat each phrase in order to improve my pronounciation which is very very bad as usual.
Thanks for this first lesson. See you soon!
Excuse me!
In the first comment I would like to say in the beginning: “This is the first homework…” and “don’t hesitate to tell me what…”.
I am in a hurry to get ready for my physiotherapy’s session. But I will be care the next time.
Sincerely yours!
I liked this lesson, it’s a very smart conversation, because Michael talks to Mike about his awful disease, and the speakers mention unusually words as “amoebic dysentery” and “Ayurvedic” that make you search and it’s good for us because our vocabulary becomes richest with new words. And I like so much the natural speakers like them. God Job !
Hello Mark and Aaron,
Thank you for the course. Ididn’t finish to learn lesson 1(listening activities) this is why I’ didn’t make comment.
Good luck and have fun!
Sincerely,
BERT KAK
Hi,
I like the first lesson but I do not like the picture at the right side !!!!! I really feel like vomiting too…
regards
Cloclo
thank you every one. this is may first lesson. i hope became a ferind you
I loves his ascent ;D. Perhaps oneday, I could speak like him. By the way, thanks mark for sending the lesson to me. Can’t wait to see my progress. Cheers ^_^
hi, thank you for sending me the lesson, i find it pretty practical. these are conversations we meet in our daily lives. i have learned a lot. thank you very much.
Good day, Mark and Aaron!
I want to thank you for your exellent work, it was really great to find such accurate (and what is also very important – available) lessons. =)
And speaking about the dialogue, I understood that Michael took some pills, which were advised to him by one man and because of this pills he got sick even more. It just seemed to me strange – to take some unknown pills..
Thank you for attention!
HoneyBunny
thanks to both of you..great work.. i know that my English will going better or improve soon..the way you teach us is very helpful.. i like these lesson because im not only learn how to mention correctly each words but i learn it with phrases, sentence and with correct grammar..also thanks for the transcription..i love it!!
nice story dude ,thanks to both of you great job ,i don’t know how to
thank you
can u send other story my Gmail inbox
Hi!
Nice to meet all of you!
This is my first lesson. I’m very happy to make friend with you. :T
This audio is very nice! that’s so funny and good. I can study how to speak to the other in daily life.
Thanks
Yen
Thanks very much first to let me join this English Cnversations. Second, the topic you have selected is very common to the society. I think tis practice will help me in speaking and writting good English. Please correct me.
Thanks.
Frdrick
Hi!
Thanks very much. I think it si very good practice story.
Thanks
Sami
thanks a lot 4 that good effort–but i want to ask 2 questions;-
1* when i downloawded the conversation , it ’s downloaded as a mp3 not written . i want to read it to illustrate.
2* What about (tages), how can i get use of it!
please answer…
Yeah ilike your job… It’s nice to whose is learning… So how can i pss to next lesson?? i am a bit lost!
i tell my best regards to all this website stuff thanks for making the best ways to learning the language i hop you make attempt to make the best and best lessons
hey it is agreat deal to emprove my english language so .i would like to say thankes more and more,sesen with all my best wishes
it s good…to listening and clearly understad so..
thank u ….
I didnt know anything about India, I´m very very happy about the pronunciation places people etc, thank you for the opportunity, it´s a very beutiful country. Natural talking is a fantastic way to study english.