Role play: You need a surgery!

Listen for the use of:

• Past simple passive in hypothetical scenarios.
• The 2nd conditional in common procedures.

Did you hear these hypothetical situations in the role play?

• What if I were taken to surgery before the anesthesia kicked in?
• What if I wasn’t woken up after anesthesia?
• What if I were to have a post-surgery infection?

It’s your turn!

Select 2 of the following scenarios and explain what you would do.

• What if you were taken to surgery before the anesthesia kicked in?
• What if you were diagnosed with something serious?

Create your own hypothetical scenario.

What if you had a fatal disease and the only way to survive would be to have a surgery where you have 80% chances to die during the surgery but 20% chances to live after the surgery? Have in mind that if you don’t have the surgery, your probabilities to live are 0%.

Dictionary

Wore off: If a feeling or the effect of something wears off, it gradually disappears.

Be (as) fit as a fiddle: to be very healthy and strong.

In a heartbeat: very quickly, without needing to think about it.

(Back) on your feet: healthy again.

Kick in: to start to have an effect or to happen.