LESSON 6

LESSON 6

OFFERING SOMETHING

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                                        OFFERING SOMETHING

In hospital every patient need a different and various meals. It depends on her/his disease. Hospital patients are served breakfast ( buffet), morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner. Breakfast is served at 7 o’clock am. The morning snack is served at 9 am or harder out together with breakfast.

    Lunch is usually served for starters and gruel type soup contains flour is usually served to patient on     diet.
    Dinner consist of meat dish with garnishing and salad or sweet dish with stewed fruit.
    Dinner is usually served at 9 o’clock pm. There are some useful expression can be used at her/his work.

Taken from:English For Nurse, By:  Abu Nawas,dkk (2009,31 )

WORD LIST
Food and Drink in Hospital


     Breakfast
-    Coffee, cocoa, milk
-    White bread
-    Porridge
-    Butter
-    Jam
-    Cheese
-    Honey
-    Fried Rice


     Morning Snack
-    Coffee or Milk
-    Sour milk and yogurt
-    Sweet white bread
-    Croissant
-    Fruit


     Lunch
-    Soup
-    Meat dish and rice
-    Vegetables
-    Potatoes
-    Fish
-    Chicken



     Dinner
-    Meat dish with garnishing
-    Salad
-    Sweet dish with stewed dish
-    Slice sausage
-    Salad and bread
 

EXERCISE 1

Answer thsese questions below based on the text !

1.    How to choose the right meals for the patient?
2.    When the breakfast is served?
3.    For whom is the gruel type soup contain flour served?
4.    When the dinner is served?


Useful expressions of offering something

     Would you like to eat ... Mr.Jhon?
     What would you like to drink?
     I have coffee tea and milk
     I’d like to have plain rice
     Please don’t drink, eat or smoke after midnight
     You must have an empty stomach tomorrow morning
     Can I help you?
     Let me shave your moustache
     Let me cut your nails
     Do you want me to comb your hair?
     This position is not comfort for me
     Do you want anything else
     Why don’t you eat Madame?
     I have no appetite today
     I don’t eat fork
     I am vegetarian, please don’t give me meat
     Please, chew it well




Example

Nurse         : did you sleep well last night ?
Patient     : yes, I did, but now I’m hungry, nurse.
Nurse:        : what do you want to eat, Mrs.Robert?
Patient    : I’d like to have a hot soup with meat in it.
Nurse        : oh I’m sorry; you are not allowed to consume meat.
Patient    : oh that’s ok, just soup with carrot and potatoes. I
Nurse        : And what would you like to drink?
Patient    : I think it would be nice to drink a glass of avocado juice.
Nurse        : Ok! Please wait a minute. I’ll take it.
Patient    : You are very kind, nurse.
Nurse        : Thank you.     

EXERCISE 2

1.    Make conversation about offering something!
2.    Arrange the menu for your patient, which food are good for him/her abd give your suggestion/recommendation!

Disease                      Food                       Drink                                Recommendation

Typhoid               -    Porridge         -    mineral water             -    don’t eat hot and spicy food
                           -    Soup                                                     -    total bed rest
                           -    cereal   

               
Hypertension            ...                              ...                                         ....

 
Diabetes Mellitus      ...                              ...                                         ...


Obesity                    ...                              ...                                          ...

DHF                       ...                               ...                                         ...


       
STRUCTURE: POLITE REQUEST

Polite request is a format sentence which is used for asking someone to do something politely.


    Polite request

       - Will you + V 1 ...?
       -  Would you like to + V 1 ... ?
       - Would you mind + V ing ...?

Ex: would you like to eat, Mrs. Robert?


    Negative request

     - Would you mind + not + V ing ... ?
     - Would you like + not to + V 1 ... ?

Ex:  would you mind opening the window?

EXERCISE 3

Make polite request by using these sentences!

1.    The doctor asks the nurse to inject the patient.
2.    The nurse asked the patient to sit down.
3.    A patient asks the nurse to take her medicine.
4.    Fiya has apothecary give her antibiotic.
5.    Her doctor had her come to the hospital.