"At the Hospital!" - English Listening Lesson (with pronunciation explanation & transcript)

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This is an English lesson designed to help you practice and improve your English listening skills. This listening lesson is about visiting someone in the hospital. After the story, there is also a short pronunciation lesson. This week we look at when the word 'and' is not stressed in a sentence.

On my website, you will find listening comprehension questions to test your listening skills, and also definitions to some of the vocabulary used in the story:
http://www.englishteachermelanie.com/2010/07/listening-lesson-9-at-hospital.html




I am Canadian and I speak with an American accent. This listening lesson is a good example of spoken American English.

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[TheBestSea]

I have many doctors inside my family and surroundings. I think hospitals are not as terrible as they are in common imagination. I’d like to suggest to myself and other people not to blame doctors in all our troubles with the bodies and take the responsibility of our health. We can do many useful things to avoid being in hospitals during the major portion of the lives.

[TeacherMelanie]

@TheBestSea Kate, I think this is so true! In Canada, because everyone thinks the health care is "free," [our taxes pay for it!] people go to the doctor or the hospital for the silliest reasons! People need to educate themselves and take better care of their bodies. Thanks for watching!.

[JacqueMelvin]

excellent lesson Melanie

[TeacherMelanie]

@adrianogazzo Thank you for such a detailed & informative answer! That's interesting that at some point in history someone decided to change the spelling of the name! We have the same pronunciation rule in English, but with many exceptions! A lot of my Brazilian students struggle with the /s/ sound - especially at the beginning of a word. All the best with your English studies = )

[adrianogazzo]

@TeacherMelanie (*...) They gave the following Portuguese name: "Estados Unidos do Brazil" (just like th english meaning United States of Brazil)

But after some time, another leaders had changed to "República federativa do Brasil" with S, and we have this name until now.

For the whole Brazilian People, Brasil is writen WITH S, but we also are accostumed to deal with the international commonly used manner.

Thanks for asking!! Regards.

[adrianogazzo]

@TeacherMelanie That wasavery good question for portuguese non-native of...

Get ready for the true reason: Phonetics... yeah! In Portuguese grammar there's a rule which says: The Consonant letter "S" between two vowels is able to represent an / z / sound.

Our Country's Name comes from a Tree called "Pau-Brasil"(something like Ember-wood in english, or 'bâton lumineux' in french) that we used to have a lot of by the year of 1500 DC. 300 years after, They gave the.... To Be continued

[TeacherMelanie]

@adrianogazzo I'm not quite sure why we change the spelling in English! It's strange. You write 'Brasil' in Portuguese, and in English I write 'Brazil'!

[adrianogazzo]

@TeacherMelanie Hugs from Brasil(or Brazil - wich is commonly used)!

[TeacherMelanie]

@adrianogazzo Thank you for your kind words : )

[adrianogazzo]

Great lesson, Melanie!! As usual, off course! I love your accent, your rythm and your entonation. Best wishes!

May God always bless you and your relatives with health, love, peace and protection.

Adriano.