OET Listening 🎧 Part A Episode 0401 | Melissa Gordon

 

PLAY THE AUDIO ABOVE

Extract 1: Questions 1 to 12
You hear a doctor talking to a patient. For questions 1 to 12, complete the following notes with a word or short phrase. You now have thirty seconds to look at notes.

Patient : Melissa Gordon

Medical history:

• works as a (1)________

• has occasional (2)_______

• is allergic to (3)________ 

• has a (4)______ diet

• non-smoker

• this will be her second child

• needed (5)_______ treatment before first pregnancy

• first baby presented as (6)________

• (7)_______ required during intervention 

• after giving birth, had problems with (8)_______

• helped by midwife

Baby's father:

• family history of (9)_________

• child from previous marriage has (10)________

Points raised

• not keen on amniocentesis

• enquired about the possibility of (11)_______testing

• provided her with a leaflet on preparing (12)_______for new baby

ANSWER KEY : Scroll down

ANSWER KEY

1. (COMPUTER) PROGRAMMER

2. ASTHMA (ATTACKS)

3. PENICILLIN

4. VEGETARIAN

5. FERTILITY

6. BREECH

7. FORCEPS/FORCIPES

8. BREASTFEEDING

9. EPILEPSY

10. DOWN SYNDROME/Ds/ONS /DOWN'S

(SYNDROME)

11. CVS/CHRONIC VILLIOUS SAMPLING

12. SIBLING(S)/BROTHERS AND/OR SISTERS