Surgery abroad

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: Mike's new teethListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9Who did it?Grammar exercise
10. 10The causative: have and getGrammar rule
11. 11Before the tripGrammar exercise
12. 12Say it naturallySpeaking practice
13. 13The medical trip plannerSpeaking practice
14. 14Let's discussDiscussion
15. 15Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: have something doneGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: advice for a medical travelerDiscussion

Words

• procedure/prəˈsiːdʒər/

  a medical operation or treatment

• cosmetic surgery/kɑːzˌmetɪk ˈsɜːrdʒəri/

  an operation to change the way a person looks

• waiting list/ˈweɪtɪŋ lɪst/

  a list of people who are waiting for something, such as an operation

• complication/ˌkɑːmplɪˈkeɪʃn/

  a new medical problem that appears during an illness or after a treatment

• recovery/rɪˈkʌvəri/

  the process of getting better after an illness, an injury or an operation

• follow-up/ˈfɑːloʊ ʌp/

  a later visit or check to see if a treatment worked (also an adjective: a follow-up appointment)

• accredited/əˈkredɪtɪd/

  officially approved because it meets the right standards

• cover/ˈkʌvər/

  to pay for something, as insurance does

• out of pocket/ˌaʊt əv ˈpɑːkɪt/

  paid with your own money, not by insurance or an employer

• specialist/ˈspeʃəlɪst/

  a doctor who knows a lot about one area of medicine

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about health care.

1. Is it easy to see a doctor or a dentist where you live? How long do you usually wait?
2. Would you ever travel to another country for an operation? Why, or why not?
3. What services do you usually pay someone else to do for you?

Grammar rule

The causative: have and get

have / get + something + past participle

We use it when someone else does a job for us, usually because we pay or ask them:

• She had her watch repaired last week. (A jeweler repaired it.)
• We're getting our kitchen painted. (Painters are doing it.)
• Where do you get your hair cut?

Use any tense of have or get: I have my teeth cleaned twice a year. I'm having my windows washed tomorrow. I've just had my eyes tested.

have + someone + base verb · get + someone + to + verb

I had the mechanic check the brakes. · I got my sister to lend me her car. (get someone to do often means you had to persuade them)

The same pattern also describes bad things that happen to us: He had his wallet stolen on the subway.