Dear all,
My doctor students requested for Wednesday's lesson for me to teach "take" and "get" amongst other requests. "Get" has a lot of uses even you don't include phrasal verbs.
Which word meanings to include?
The lesson time is 1 1/2 hours. I would really like to do the roleplays (with a little variation) from last lesson when her husband took the patient part.
The other requests are:
I will write in Japanese below..
「鼻水の薬をでします」
IÂ’m going to prescribe you a medicine for a running nose
「熱や痛みの薬を出します」
IÂ’m going to prescribe you a medicine for fever and pain.
「点鼻薬、点眼薬を出します」
I going to prescribe you nose drops or eye drops.
「吸入をしてください」
Please inhale.
「１日に3回飲んでください」
Please take this three times a day.
「３日に一回使ってください」
Please take this once every three days.
「薬を飲み終わったら、また来てください」
When you run out of this medicine, please come and see me.
「薬が効かないときは、早めに来てください」
If this medicine doesn’t work, please come and see me immediately.
③ "Would you～"
④ "Shall I～"
etc.
Note online communication is difficult with the student.
Last edited by cloa; 10-Mar-2019 at 06:37. Reason: More details
American Accent Training: Grammar by Ann Cook has a good section on the word get. I see you're from Australia, so might be put off by American accent in the title, but note the word grammar in the title also. Lots of good information on general grammar and usage in this book. It's written as a self-learning guide, so should be easy to adapt to your needs. Not much in there on take. I can see that a doctor would want especially a good understanding of the usage of take.
Thanks for your reply but the question is how much less than everything even if I exclude technical usages, phrasal verbs and idiomatic usage of the words it still maybe 20 meanings for take and get- don't have the time to do it. She is a doctor in Japan.Originally Posted by J&K Tutoring
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That's a sentence that's easy to understand. Simpler is better.
Which meanings of "give", "take" and "get" should I give priority to teaching?
If you're old enough to teach, you're old enough to decide! It's not quite clear if you are face to face with this student or are doing the lessons on-line.
I think it would be useful to at least show your student all the many ways we use these words and then you can focus the lesson according to your (and her) priorities and time constraints. Dictionaries list definitions more or less from most to least used. You might point out usages that are perhaps not be so common in everyday usage, but might pop up in her professional life. Create an exercise where the student must match sentences containing the target word(s) with the correct meaning. Adult students should be motivated to do a bit of extra work outside of your lessons.
In person. This is just a small part of what I am teaching- mostly it is medical English- hard to judge beyond a few of them which are the priority. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/take- definitely not in order of usefulness however the only one I could find with example sentences next to meanings. To get is not as hard to find a reasonable list:
To Contract
Get = contract, take, be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness.
- He got a horrible disease while he was traveling.
- She got pneumonia and had to go to the hospital.
- She got a cold from Tom.
- Unfortunately, I got ill from drinking the water while on vacation.
To Induce
Get = induce, stimulate, cause, make someone do, cause to do; cause to act in a certain way, always followed by an object.
- My children finally got me to buy a computer.
- My wife got me to pay attention to the speaker.
- The class got the teacher to postpone the test.
- I wish I could get them to take me seriously!
To Arrive
Get = arrive, reach a destination.
- She got home at 7 o'clock.
- She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight.
- I got to work late because of the weather.
- I won't be able to get there until later.
To Acquire
Get = acquire, buy, come into the possession of something.
- She got a lot of paintings from her uncle.
- They got a new pet.
- Get your results the next day.
- I got my computer at the Apple store.
To Become
Get = become, to change into a state, often used with adjectives.
- He got annoyed when he heard the bad news.
- It must be getting more serious.
- Janice has gotten much more open in her attitudes.
- Please don't get angry with me!
To Receive
Get = receive a present, obtain attention.
- I got some clothes for Christmas.
- His movie got a good review.
- I got some books from my girlfriend.
- What would you like to get for your birthday?
To Bring
Get = bring, fetch, go and bring or take back.
- Get me those books over there, please.
- Could you get the wine?
- Let me get the shovel and we'll go to work.
- I'll just get my phone and then we can leave.
To Experience
Get = experience, undergo, of mental or physical states or experiences.
- He got an idea.
- She gets vertigo when she looks out the window.
- They get nauseous when they drive.
- Peter got frightened by what he thought was a ghost.
To Make
Get = make, score, achieve a point or goal.
- Nicklaus got a 70 on that extremely difficult golf course.
- The Brazilian team got 4 goals.
- She got 29 points that day.
- Anthony got 12 rebounds during the game.
To Pay Back
Get = pay back, take vengeance on or get even
- We'll get them!
- That'll get him good!
- This time I got him.
- Just wait until I get you!
All of them. They all matter.
If you're asking where to start, then give and take, in their sense as opposites, might be as good a place as any.
Are these the students who go to New York?
I'm not a teacher. I speak American English. I've tutored writing at the University of Southern Maine and have done a good deal of copy editing and writing, occasionally for publication.
Yes, she might- difficult to find enough vacation time.
means you don't understand the word priority and a few of the meanings- there is a some archaic and technical ones.All of them. They all matter.
Perhaps you should brush up on your own use of English (and manners) before you try teaching it someone else. You are clearly inexperienced in teaching, so I suggest you listen carefully to people's advice here.
Just teach the three or four most common ones, plus any other more specific ones you think your student may need for her work. Don't forget to think about use as well as meaning. You should look at the ways these verb collocate with other words and also at how these verbs fit into various common verb patterns.
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