Shadowing practice: 10 Everyday Phrases → At a Hospital with Mark Kulek ESL

This clip from Mark Kulek pairs ten short hospital phrases with a patient's replies, so it works as daily english conversation practice: one voice plays the doctor, the other answers back. It sits at A2, and at 119 words per minute it moves faster than most of the catalogue, so the lines arrive close together and reward careful listening as much as speaking.

The scene is a walk through a routine visit: filling out a form, waiting, an examination room, medicine, a pharmacy. Nothing here is written for drama, it is the everyday english a learner needs before an actual appointment, and the American accent throughout gives you one steady voice to model instead of several.

Three lines in this scene carry the real pattern practice, and each is worth more than one pass if you plan to shadow this line for pronunciation.

• "The doctor will see you shortly." A calm, level phrase built on a simple future. Say it flat, the way a receptionist would, without rising pitch at the end.
• "Please follow me to the examination room." A polite instruction that starts with please and ends on the longest word in the line. Slow down on examination rather than rushing past it.
• "You'll need to take this medicine twice a day." The contraction you'll opens the line, and twice a day carries the stress at the end, which is where the useful information sits.

The clip repeats itself on purpose across three parts, so work it in that order rather than jumping around, and use the repeats to improve your english accent on the same words.

• First, listen straight through from "Please fill out this form." to "Get well soon." without pausing, so you hear the doctor's ten phrases at full speed before trying them yourself.
• In part 2, shadow each phrase on its own, starting again with "Please fill out this form." and matching the same flat rhythm as "The doctor will see you shortly."
• In part 3, take both sides: say the doctor's line, then answer as the patient, echoing short replies like "Sure, I'll do it right now." and "Got it." so the exchange feels like real speaking practice, not a list.
• Finish with "You can pick up your prescription at the pharmacy." paired with the patient's "I'll head there next.", since prescription and pharmacy are the two words in the whole clip most worth slowing down for.