1⃣ He was planning to watch a soccer game.
2⃣ She just started a new diet.
3⃣ She doesn't like big crowds.
4⃣ He thinks the writer's books are boring.
5⃣ She heard it's going to be cold.
6⃣ She is only interested in famous artists.

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🅱 -
🅰 really - like - her
🅱 -
🅰 very - intelligent - too
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🅰 -
🅱 he's - not - friendly

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🔵 appearance
ظاهر، قیافه، سر و وضع
🔵 family background
سابقه‌ی خانوادگی
🔵 sense of humor
شوخ طبعى
🔵 sensitivity
حساسيت
🔵 social skills
مهارتهای اجتماعی
🔵 refuse
رد کردن، نپذيرفتن، قبول نکردن
🔵 craft fair
نمایشگاه صنایع دستی
🔵 premiere
(تئاتر، سینما) نمایش اول، نمایش شب اول
🔵 opening
افتتاح، گشايش
🔵 stockbroker
کارگزار بورس،دلال سهام، فروشنده‌ی سهام،
🔵 curly
فرفری، پرپیچ و تاب
🔵 type
تیپ، نوع
🔵 participate
شرکت کردن
🔵 autograph
امضا کردن، امضا
🔵 talented
با استعداد
🔵 director
(سینما و تئاتر و غیره) کارگردان
🔵 exhibition
نمايش، ارائه، نمايشگاه
🔵 festival
جشنواره، جشن
🔵 book signing
مراسم امضای کتاب
🔵 get into a fight
درگیر دعوا شدن، وارد دعوا شدن

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Speaking - #Lesson_1- Seeing a Specialist

مکالمه - درس اول - به ملاقات یک متخصص رفتن

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✳️ Seeing a Specialist

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👉 First, listen to the audio as many times as you can then write down its script or talk about it or give a summary on VOICE. Then, your summaries and voices will be corrected in details in an appropriate time.

🌟 On today's lesson, we are going to the doctor to see a specialist. Let's go!

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Vocabulary Explanation - Lesson 1- Seeing a Specialist

توضیح لغات درس - درس اول - به ملاقات یک متخصص رفتن

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✳️ Seeing a Specialist

📝🔊 This podcast is called “Seeing a Specialist.” A “specialist” is usually a doctor that is an expert in one particular area of medicine. So, it could be a cardiologist, someone who's an expert with the heart. It could be a pediatrician, someone who works especially with young children. Well, [there are] many different types of specialties and specialists in medicine.
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🔰see: دیدن، رفتن، ملاقات کردن
🔰specialist: is a doctor that is an expert in one particular area of medicine: متخصص
🔰expert: متخصص، کارشناس، ماهر
🔰particular: ویژه، خاص
🔰area: حوزه، رشته، زمینه
🔰medicine: پزشکی
🔰cardiologist: someone who's an expert with the heart: متخصص قلب
🔰pediatrician: someone who works especially with young children: پزشک/متخصص کودکان/اطفال

✳️ I went to see my doctor because I had a nagging pain in my leg. After he examined me and did some routine tests, he suggested that I go see a specialist. I made an appointment with Dr. Slope.

📝🔊 And, in today's podcast, the story begins by me saying that I went to my doctor because I had a nagging pain in my leg. A “nagging pain” or a “nagging paint”—in my dialect in Minnesota here in the United States, I say “nagging,” [a long “a” sound] but the more common pronunciation, the more standard pronunciation is probably “nagging.” “Nagging, nagging”—see, it’s hard for me to say it!—is “nagging.” And we say that we have a nagging pain, we mean that it is a pain that is bothering us for a long time, that isn't serious in the sense that you have to go to the hospital, but it bothers you, it hurts you enough so that you may want to go to the doctor. The word “nagging” comes from a verb, “to nag,” which means to bother. We usually use the verb, however, as something that someone does to someone else. “His wife is always nagging him about something,” means she's always telling him to do something, always asking him to do something, over and over again, so much that it begins to bother him. So, that is the word “nagging.”
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🔰nagging pain: is a pain that is bothering us for a long time: a pain that continues to hurt and that won’t go away: درد آزاردهنده/عذاب‌آور
🔰to nag: to bother: آزار/عذاب دادن، اذیت کردن؛ نق زدن به، سر کسی غر زدن
🔰common: رایج، عمومی
🔰pronunciation: تلفظ
🔰bother: اذیت کردن
🔰serious: شدید، جدی
🔰sense: معنی، مفهوم، حس

📝🔊 So, after the doctor examined me - and the verb “to examine” is the verb we use to…what doctors do to you, they examine you. When you go to a hospital or to the doctor's office, there's usually an “exam room” or an “examination room.” This is not “exam,” like a test, but it's exam, here, means to look at, to examine. You go into the examination room and the doctor examines you. In this case, my doctor ran some routine tests. A “test” could be a “blood test,” where they take some of your blood and they send it to a laboratory to check for certain things. The verb we use for medical tests is usually to “run.” “I'm going to run some test on you” or “he ran some tests on me.” It means he performed or he did some of these tests. When we say something is a “routine test,” we mean it's a normal, regular test that the doctor runs many, many different times with different patients, not a special test. Routine tests may be…a blood test, that sort of thing.
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🔰to examine/exam: what doctors do to you, test, look at:معاینه/آزمایش/امتحان کردن
🔰exam/examination room: اتاق معاینه
🔰routine test: normal/ regular test like blood test not special one: آزمایش معمولی/عادی
🔰to run a test: to perform or do some tests: to have medical test done to a patient:آزمایش انجام دادن
🔰laboratory: آزمایشگاه

📝🔊 Well, the doctor suggested that I go see a specialist, and we already know what a specialist is, someone who is an expert in a particular area of medicine. Usually in the United States, to become a doctor, first you have to go through four years of a regular bachelor's degree. In some countries, you can start training to become a doctor as soon as you graduate from high school, but that's not true in the US. In the United States, you have to have a bachelor's degree, a four-year bachelor's degree usually in some science area, but it's not required. Then, you have to go to a separate school, to graduate school, to medical school, and that can last anywhere between four and six years. If you want to become a specialist, you have to study even more and work even more, so it could be two or three more years before you become a specialist. So, from the time you leave high school until you can become a specialist, it could be as much as ten years. You could be in your late 20's if you started right away. (No, you'd be older than that, wouldn't you?) No, you'd be in your late 20's if you started college when you were 18.
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🔰suggest: پیشنهاد کردن، توصیه کردن، نظردادن
🔰go through: گذراندن، پشت سر گذاشتن
🔰bachelor's degree: مدرک کارشناسی/لیسانس
🔰training: آموزش، کارآموزی
🔰graduate: فارغ التحصیل شدن
🔰science: علم
🔰required:ضروری، لازم
🔰separate school: (in Canada) a school for pupils belonging to a religious minority: مدرسه‌ای برای دانش‌آموزان یک اقلیت مذهبی (کاتولیک)
🔰last: طول کشيدن
🔰late: اواخر
🔰right away: بى درنگ، فورا
🔰college: کالج، دانشگاه

📝🔊 Anyway, in this case, going back to the story, I said I made an appointment with Dr. Slope. “I made an appointment.” Of course, we use the verb to “make” an appointment when we are trying to schedule or arrange a time to see our doctor. Again, here in the United States, the medical system, it depends on how much money you have, honestly. We have a private medical system and we have a public medical system. The better private medical systems, of course, offer a much better range of services, more things that you can see...rather, uh, get from the hospital and the doctor.
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🔰anyway:بگذریم، خب، خب دیگه
🔰go back: برگشتن
🔰make an appointment: try to schedule or arrange a time to see a (doctor): قرار ملاقات گذاشتن
🔰schedule: زمان‌بندی/برنامه‌ریزی کردن
🔰arrange: ترتیب دادن، مقرر داشتن
🔰depend on: بستگی داشتن به
🔰honestly: راستی، واقعا، به خدا
🔰private:خصوصی، غیردولتی

✳️ Dr. Slope: Good morning! How are you today?

📝🔊 Well, the examination with the doctor begins by the doctor coming in and saying, “Good morning! How are you today? How are you feeling?” A doctor could say a lot of things here, like, “What seems to be the problem?” or “Why have you come to see us today?” But here, he begins with just “How are you today?”
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🔰How are you feeling? امروز چطوری؟
🔰What seems to be the problem? مشکلت چیه؟

✳️ Simon: I'm fine, Dr. Slope. My GP, Dr. Harding, referred me to you. He thought that you might be able to diagnose the problem with my leg.

📝🔊 Simon, that's me in the story, Simon says “I'm fine, Dr. Slope. My GP, Dr. Harding, referred me to you.” My GP—the letter G and the letter P, capital letter GP—means my “general practitioner.” And “practitioner” is “practitioner.” And a general practitioner is a doctor who is not a specialist. He is or she is what you could call a generalist, somebody who knows a little bit about lots of different things and a general practitioner is usually the first and main doctor that you have, the one that you go see for all of your problems. If he doesn't know the answer or can't help you, he will send you to a specialist. So, a general practitioner is sometimes called also, a “primary physician;” that is, the person who you see the most, your main doctor.
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🔰GP: general practitioner: is a doctor who is not a specialist: generalist: somebody who knows a little bit about lots of different things and a general practitioner is usually the first and main doctor that you have: primary physician: پزشک عمومى
🔰capital letter: حرف بزرگ
🔰main: اصلی

📝🔊 Well, in the story, the GP, Dr. Harding, refers Simon to the specialist. To “refer” means to tell someone that they should go see someone else. In the medical system in the United States, you can't just call up the specialist because you think you should go see a specialist. Usually, you have to talk to your general practitioner and if then he or she thinks you should see a specialist, they refer you to the specialist. They give you a piece of paper or they tell you to call back at the doctor's office and ask for the particular specialist. That is the use of the verb here, to “refer.” We can use that verb in other senses, too: “I refer you to today's newspaper.” It means I am recommending or I am telling you you should look at today's newspaper. You could use “refer” in other areas, too: “I was referred to you by your friend, John,” means your friend John said I should talk to you.
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🔰refer to: to tell someone that they should go see someone else: you have to talk to your general practitioner and if then he or she thinks you should see a specialist: ارجاع دادن به، فرستادن پیش/به
🔰call up: زنگ زدن، تلفن کردن
🔰call back: دوباره تلفن کردن
🔰refer: recommend, to tell: پیشنهاد کردن، گفتن

📝🔊 Dr. Slope looks at Simon. Simon says that he was hoping that Dr. Slope would be able to diagnose the problem. To “diagnose,” the verb, is to figure out what's wrong with you. It's a verb we usually use for medicine, for doctors. The doctor diagnoses the patient. The doctor figures out what's wrong with the person. The “patient,” of course, is the person who is sick, the person who is seeing the doctor. The noun for diagnose is “diagnosis,” with an –sis at the end, and that is what the doctor tells you that you have, what problem you have. So, someone may say, “What's the diagnosis?” they mean, “What is the problem?” That would be the noun. You can use that verb “diagnose” outside of medicine. It is sometimes used, for example, if you have a problem with your computer, and the IT, the technical people may come in and “diagnose” the problem on your computer, figure out or find out what is wrong with your computer.
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🔰diagnose (v.): to figure out what's wrong with you: to find the problem: تشخیص دادن بیماری
🔰patient: is the person who is sick, the person who is seeing the doctor: بیمار، مریض
🔰What’s wrong with you: مشکلت چیه؟، چته؟
🔰diagnosis (n.): is what the doctor tells you that you have, what problem you have: تشخیص بیماری