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🇪🇸 Spanish · Fluency Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 24 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Better Safe Than Sorry

Three in the morning in A and E, and Sarah is on triage when Curro brings in the groom from his second stag night, thirteen days before the wedding. Speak the language of an emergency - what's happened, who's hurt, from one to ten, it's a sprain, it's not broken, ice and rest, we'll see - and tell someone off when the bride arrives.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

It's Thursday, June 7th, 2029, three in the morning, in A and E. They are short of nurses this week, so Sarah is covering night shifts here, on triage, deciding who goes first. The waiting room is full - a cut finger, a fever, a man who swallowed something he shouldn't have. Then the doors open, and in comes Curro, holding up Pablo, who is wearing a plastic crown and only one shoe. Pablo's stag night was two weeks ago. The wedding is in thirteen days. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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de guardiadeh GWAHR-dee-ahon duty
¡Menos mal que estás de guardia!MEH-nohs mahl keh ehs-TAHS deh GWAHR-dee-ahThank goodness you're on duty!
¿Qué ha pasado?keh ah pah-SAH-dohWhat's happened?
¿Quién es el herido?kee-EHN ehs ehl eh-REE-dohWho's hurt?
el tobilloehl toh-BEE-yohthe ankle
Me he torcido el tobillo.meh eh tohr-SEE-doh ehl toh-BEE-yohI've twisted my ankle.
bailando encima de una mesabah-ee-LAHN-doh ehn-SEE-mah deh OO-nah MEH-sahdancing on top of a table
una despedidaOO-nah dehs-peh-DEE-daha stag night, a farewell
en su despedidaehn soo dehs-peh-DEE-dahat his stag night
¿Otra despedida?OH-trah dehs-peh-DEE-dahAnother stag night?

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