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Key Words and Phrases
healthcare setting | medical environment
short of staff | without enough workers
a bit of | some
extremely poor | very bad
help out | assist
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Complete the sentences below with the vocabulary words above.
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The question that I'm answering is have you had a job that required bilingualism?
Now, my answer is yes.
I trained as a physiotherapist and one of my friends recently gave me a call and said, "Can you help out at my practice? Because I'm short of staff." And I said, "Sure. I'll help you out for six months." And that practice had a lot of patients that came in that spoke Chinese. Now, luckily I have a bit of a Chinese background so I was able to communicate in Mandarin Chinese with these patients. Now, if I didn't have that language, I wouldn't be able to treat these patients because they only spoke Chinese and their English is extremely poor. So in a healthcare setting where communication is so important, having that English and Chinese, that bilingualism, was absolutely essential for this job.
