Episode 18: Emergency
Alice: Oh it's so quiet tonight! You could hear a pin drop. Gives me a chance to catch up on my reading.
Man: Quick, quick! Get a doctor!
Alice: She's just gone for a break. What's the matter?
Man: I don't know. It's my son. He's stopped breathing.
Alice: Oh no! Wait a minute, I'll just phone for the doctor.
Man: There's no time. You have to give him mouth to mouth.
Alice: But I haven't done it before!
Man: You haven't done it before?
Alice: No, not for real. Wait while I find the phone.
Man: No! No, you must do it now!
Vocabulary:
You can hear a pin drop (idiom): It is very quiet
To catch up on something: To do something which you have not had time to do recently
Mouth-to-mouth: A shortened version of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation -trying to help someone when s/he has stopped breathing by breathing into her/his mouth
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