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Ward Five
A2 · Elementary · fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story
An elementary story about five days in hospital. Igor is twenty-three, wakes at night with a pain on his right side, argues against calling an ambulance, and is in an operating theatre by lunchtime. Learn the vocabulary of A&E, wards and recovery through a four-bed room, a chess set, and a mother who brings soup in a jar.
Characters
- Igor (Игорь) — Bed by the door
- Nikolai Ivanovich (Николай Иванович) — Bed by the window
- The nurse (Медсестра) — Thirty-seven point eight
- Igor's mother (Мама) — Four hours away by train
Vocabulary from this story
- больница — hospital
- палата — ward
- врач — doctor
- медсестра — nurse
- скорая — ambulance
- операция — operation
- кровать — bed
- коридор — corridor
- каталка — trolley
- справка — certificate
- анализ — test
- лекарство — medicine