Hello, hello our dear listener and welcome into IELTSpeaking part 2.
Describe a person you know who has chosen a career in the medical field, like a doctor or a nurse.
You should say who this person is, what do they do, why they chose this career in the how you feel about this person.
Woah! What a topic, it's a new topic dear listener, we've never had this before.
A person who has chosen a career in the medical field.
So any doctor, any nurse, maybe a dentist.
A dentist is a doctor, right?
I guess it depends who you ask.
Yeah, so like if you don't have such a person, you should imagine this person, right?
Lie, or you can steal Rory's ideas.
So pretty much say what Rory is going to say right now.
Rory, give us your story.
Let's go! Oh wow, I actually know the perfect person for this.
My friend Steve is a nurse and has been for the better part of a decade.
If not longer, now I'm thinking about it actually.
We've been friends since high school, but of course his career has been shorter.
He's been a nurse since he started doing a course for it at university, and arguably before since he worked in a nursing home, which is sort of like nursing in a hospital, at least it is in my opinion.
He doesn't do that now though, he's just been promoted to a position in something called the High Dependency Unit.
Which I think means he deals with patients who are extremely ill and need a lot of care for a really prolonged period of time.
Usually I don't ask my friends why they chose their careers, it's just never come up in the course of our friendships.
It's probably not any of my business to be honest.
But I do know that Steve chose to do this because he spent time looking after his grandfather when Steve was a teenager, not when his grandfather was a teenager.
And that got him interested in nursing and looking after people.
And apparently he's quite good at it.
Which is enough to encourage anyone to keep going in any line of work to be honest with you.
He and I are friends so obviously I'm very happy to know him.
Though I always worry about my friends who are doctors and nurses, they always seem really overworked and lacking in support from the people in charge.
I know I wouldn't want to do that work but I'm glad there are people like Steve who do this kind of work.
If I didn't know him I'd definitely be poorer for it, he seems to be quite a jovial person even when it comes to his work which could be quite a harrowing experience at times especially if you're dealing with people in critical care.
So good for him. And I'm glad that I know him.
And do you often meet this person?
Not as much these days because I'm all over the place.
So yes here the topic is quite specific.
We talk about a person who is a doctor or a nurse.
So somebody in the medical field.
So we don't really need too many specific words about medicine but still you know some.
And it's funny because Rory told us about his friend Steve and Steve is a man.
And Rory says that Steve is a nurse.
And really we use a nurse because this is another word.
Like a nurse is usually a woman right.
Not in my country a nurse can be a man or a woman.
Ah really oh wow. Yeah really interesting.
So he is a nurse. He works in a hospital, he's a doctor.
It's nice to know what doctor.
So if you can google the name of the doctor.
For example what are common doctors.
Oh a surgeon. An osteopathic doctor.
A cardiologist. Cardiologist, there we go.
I think an osteopath deals with breakages and bones.
And a cardiologist deals with problems with the circulatory system.
Especially the heart.
Heart yeah, cardiologist right.
What do you call a doctor who deals with the allergies.
Very common thing today.
Oh my god. Well I would call them an allergen specialist.
But I imagine they have a different name.
Immunologist. Oh an immunologist.
Ah yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah and the doctor who deals with our digestive organs.
Our stomach, bowels.
So gastrowant. Well again I'd call them a gastrointestinal specialist.
What would it be? An entorologist maybe?
Gastroenterologist.
Gastroenterologist.
Yeah. Right dear listener so the point is just learn one name of a doctor okay.
You can lie right. Or if you really have a friend who is a doctor just find out so what they call themselves.
Learn this in English and say it okay.
This is super specific band 9 vocab.
Steve is a nurse. And he has been a nurse for a long time.
He works in a hospital right where doctors usually work in hospitals right.
Medical centers in a medical center.
In a clinic. In a clinic okay.
So present perfect.
He's been a nurse since 2002.
He has been a gastroenterologist since 2002.
A very nice structure to use.
He did a course. He studied for it at university.
And do doctors and nurses have to study for a long time in your country?
I think so. I think being a nurse is like a four or a five year course.
Oh really? Yeah and then if you want to be a nurse practitioner which kind of bridges the gap between a doctor and a nurse then it's another several years.
I have a few friends who do this they're extremely intelligent.
Or you can also say I he's been working as a doctor.
He's been working as a gastroenterologist or as a nurse.
He was promoted to.
Right so he used to be a doctor and then recently he has been promoted to I don't know to the like to the main surgeon.
I don't know the names.
Chief surgeon. I guess you would have a head of department as well.
I don't think doctors have such titles in my country.
He deals with patients patients people who are usually ill.
They go to hospital and he deals with patients patients people clients.
Or for example your friend could deal with patients who are extremely ill.
So who are very ill or sick.
Or for example he deals with patients with cancer or patients with allergies.
Right again you need to find out the names for the specific diseases.
So one disease and say it OK as to why my friend chose his career.
Rory told us like I don't ask my friends about it but like it just came up.
And now I know. Well no.
I never explained why I didn't ask them.
I said it just never came up in the course of our friendships.
And it's also not my business but I do know why Steve made this choice.
Ah yeah okay okay. If you don't know this information, you can make it up.
Okay. A good story is that your friend had to take care of the relatives and then they decided to become a doctor.
Or their parents were or are doctors.
And my friend also decided to follow in their footsteps.
Right. To also become a doctor.
So something like this.
You can lie, dellys.
And when we talk about the job, we can talk about the line of work.
For example, how do we use it in a cell?
Well you go into a line of work.
So if you become a teacher, then that would describe the line of work that you went into.
Yeah so you can say that my friend spent time looking after his grandfather who was very ill.
So to look after. And then he got interested in nursing, in gastroenterology, in allergies.
He is good at it. So he is good at helping people, at treating people.
De listener, doctors treat patients.
Treat. They tell them what to do, they take care of them, look after them, they treat patients.
And then if everything is successful, they cure patients.
The patient is cured.
They become healthy.
So they treat people.
You can say that I'm very happy to know him.
It's always nice to have a doctor around here.
And you can say that I always worry about my friends who are doctors and nurses.
Worry because they are always overworked.
They have too much work, they are overworked and they lack support.
So usually doctors lack in support from people in charge, from their bosses.
So they work a lot, they don't get support and they are underpaid.
They could be underpaid.
So they are not paid enough money.
I'm glad that there are people like Steve.
And to finish it off, I think it's a good idea to say something nice about doctors, about people who work in the medical field.
Because really they are doing an amazing job, okay?
Because I had a few issues recently.
And really doctors helped me.
It was in the middle of the night.
And what they do, I don't know.
How they do it, seriously.
It's amazing, right?
So I'm glad that we have people who choose to be doctors and nurses.
Because what they do is amazing.
So yeah. There are bad cases too, but still.
Yeah, what else can you say about doctors?
Anything else? No, not really.
Other than they are invaluable.
Yeah, doctors are invaluable.
Invaluable? Like we really should appreciate what they do.
Invaluable. So thank you doctors, thank you nurses and thank you for listening.
Prepare your talk, okay, about a person in the medical field or still Rory's story.
Okay, do you listen?
Find a doctor or a nurse.
Bye! Describe a person, you know, who has chosen a career in the medical field?
Like a doctor or a nurse?
You should say who this person is, what do they do, why they chose this career in the medical field and explain how you feel about this person.
Oh wow, I actually know the perfect person for this.
My friend Steve is a nurse and has been for the better part of a decade, if not longer.
I'm thinking about it actually.
We've been friends since high school, but of course his career has been shorter.
He's been a nurse since he started doing a course for it at university.
And arguably before since he worked in a nursing home, which is sort of like nursing in a hospital, at least it is in my opinion.
He doesn't do that now though.
He's just been promoted to a position in something called the high dependency unit, which I think means he deals with patients who are extremely ill and need a lot of care for a really prolonged period of time.
Usually I don't ask my friends why they chose their careers.
It's just never come up in the course of our friendships.
It's probably not any of my business to be honest.
But I do know that Steve chose to do this because he spent time looking after his grandfather when Steve was a teenager, not when his grandfather was a teenager.
And that got him interested in nursing and looking after people.
And apparently he's quite good at it, which is enough to encourage anyone to keep going in any line of work, to be honest with you.
He and I are friends, so obviously I'm very happy to know him.
Though I always worry about my friends who are doctors and nurses, they always seem really overworked and lacking in support from the people in charge.
I know I wouldn't want to do that work, but I'm glad there are people like Steve who do do this kind of work.
If I didn't know him, I think I'd definitely be poorer for it.
He seems to be quite a jovial person, even when it comes to his work, which could be quite harrowing experience at times, especially if you're dealing with people in critical care.
So good for him. And I'm glad that I know him.
And do you often meet this person?
Not as much these days, because I'm all over the place.
