Acute Conjunctivitis: Childcare Worker Consultation
GP (speaking English) and Patient (speaking Cantonese) talk through “Acute Conjunctivitis: Childcare Worker Consultation”. You interpret both ways — English into Cantonese, and Cantonese into English — one segment at a time, exactly as in the CCL test.
English → 粵語
Your turn: interpret it aloud in the other language.
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Full transcript with model answers
Under each segment: a model interpretation, the information points an examiner checks, and the easiest thing to miss. Try the segment yourself first, then open it. The model is one good way to say it; other wordings that keep every point score just as well.
Thanks for coming in today, Ms. Wong. You said your left eye's been red and sticky since Monday morning — can you describe it further for me?
Model answer and marking points
黃女士，多謝你今日過嚟。你話你隻左眼由星期一朝早開始又紅又黐，你可唔可以再詳細講下俾我聽？
What an examiner checks here:
- Ms Wong thanked for attending today
- Left eye affected
- Red and sticky
- Symptoms since Monday morning
- question: describe the symptoms further
Easy to miss: Keep Monday morning as the onset; do not change it to yesterday morning.
係啊醫生，尋日朝早開始，隻左眼又紅又痕，仲成日流啲黃色嘅分泌物出嚟，早上瞓醒嗰陣仲成隻眼黐埋晒，好唔舒服。
Model answer and marking points
Yes, doctor. Since yesterday morning, my left eye has been red and itchy, and yellow discharge keeps coming out. When I wake up in the morning, my eye is completely stuck shut. It's very uncomfortable.
What an examiner checks here:
- Symptoms began yesterday morning
- Left eye red and itchy
- Frequent yellow discharge
- Eye completely stuck shut on waking
- Very uncomfortable
Easy to miss: Preserve yesterday morning even though the previous segment says Monday morning.
Your turn — don't read the rest yet. Hear this dialogue at native speed and interpret each segment aloud; AI marks what you kept, left out or changed, segment by segment. Your first two full dialogues are marked free.
Interpret it aloud now →Your eye looks inflamed with a yellow discharge, and there's no pain when I press near the eyelid. This looks like bacterial conjunctivitis, not viral.
Model answer and marking points
你隻眼睇落有發炎，仲有黃色分泌物，我撳眼皮附近嗰陣你亦都冇痛。睇嚟係細菌性結膜炎，唔係病毒性嘅。
What an examiner checks here:
- Eye looks inflamed
- Yellow discharge present
- No pain when pressing near the eyelid
- Appears to be bacterial conjunctivitis
- Not viral conjunctivitis
Easy to miss: Preserve both the absence of pain and the distinction between bacterial and viral conjunctivitis.
咁會唔會傳染㗎？我屋企仲有阿媽同兩個細路仔同我一齊住，佢哋會唔會中招㗎？
Model answer and marking points
Is it contagious? My mum and my two children live with me. Could they catch it too?
What an examiner checks here:
- question: is it contagious
- Mother lives with the patient
- Two children live with the patient
- question: could these family members catch it
Easy to miss: Include both the mother and the two children living with the patient.
Yes, it can spread through close contact or shared towels. If your family avoids sharing towels or pillows and washes hands often, the risk stays low.
Model answer and marking points
會㗎，可以透過密切接觸或者共用毛巾傳染。如果你屋企人唔共用毛巾同枕頭，又經常洗手，感染風險就會維持喺低水平。
What an examiner checks here:
- Can spread through close contact
- Can spread through shared towels
- Family should avoid sharing towels and pillows
- Family should wash hands often
- Risk remains low if these precautions are followed
Easy to miss: Low risk with precautions does not mean there is no risk.
咁即係要點醫呢？要唔要食藥定係點呀？
Model answer and marking points
So how do we treat it? Do I need to take medicine, or what?
What an examiner checks here:
- question: how is it treated
- question: is oral medicine needed
- question: is another form of treatment needed
Easy to miss: Keep the question about taking medicine rather than turning it into a request for eye drops.
I'll prescribe antibiotic eye drops — use one drop in the affected eye four times a day for five days, even if it improves sooner.
Model answer and marking points
我會開抗生素眼藥水俾你，喺有事嗰隻眼每次滴一滴，每日四次，連續滴五日，就算早啲好轉都要滴足。
What an examiner checks here:
- Antibiotic eye drops prescribed
- One drop per application
- Apply to the affected eye
- Four times a day
- Continue for five days
- Complete treatment even if symptoms improve sooner
Easy to miss: Do not confuse one drop four times daily with four drops at once.
我係做幼兒園老師㗎，咁我幾時先可以返工呀？
Model answer and marking points
I'm a kindergarten teacher. When can I go back to work?
What an examiner checks here:
- Patient is a kindergarten teacher
- question: when can the patient return to work
- Return concerns work with young children
Easy to miss: Preserve the patient's occupation as a kindergarten teacher.
For childcare work, you shouldn't return until the discharge has completely stopped, not just after a set number of hours — that could still be several days.
Model answer and marking points
你做幼兒工作，要等到分泌物完全冇晒先可以返工，唔係過咗指定幾多個鐘就得，可能仲要等幾日。
What an examiner checks here:
- Advice applies to childcare work
- Must not return until discharge has completely stopped
- A fixed number of hours alone is insufficient
- May still take several days
Easy to miss: Return to work depends on discharge stopping completely, not on a fixed waiting period.
咁我可唔可以去屋企附近隨便一間藥房攞藥呀？使唔使帶埋Medicare咭呀？
Model answer and marking points
Can I get the medicine from any pharmacy near my home? Do I need to bring my Medicare card as well?
What an examiner checks here:
- question: can any pharmacy near home supply the medicine
- question: is a Medicare card needed
- Patient asks about collecting the medicine
Easy to miss: Retain both questions, including whether the Medicare card is needed.
Any pharmacy can fill this prescription — just bring your Medicare card. Come back in one week if the redness or discharge hasn't cleared up.
Model answer and marking points
任何一間藥房都可以照呢張處方配藥，帶埋你張Medicare卡就得。如果一個星期後隻眼仲紅或者仲有分泌物，就返嚟覆診。
What an examiner checks here:
- Any pharmacy can fill the prescription
- Bring the Medicare card
- Return in one week if symptoms have not cleared
- Persistent redness is a reason to return
- Persistent discharge is a reason to return
Easy to miss: The follow-up is conditional on redness or discharge persisting, not an unconditional appointment.
明白晒喇，多謝醫生解釋得咁清楚，我會叫屋企人小心啲，都會跟足鐘數食藥同滴眼藥水。
Model answer and marking points
I understand now. Thank you for explaining everything so clearly, doctor. I'll tell my family to be more careful, and I'll take the medicine and use the eye drops exactly on schedule.
What an examiner checks here:
- Patient understands the explanation
- Thanks doctor for explaining clearly
- Will tell family to be more careful
- Will take medicine on schedule
- Will use eye drops on schedule
Easy to miss: Keep both taking medicine and using eye drops, even though only eye drops were prescribed.
Terms in this dialogue that cost marks
CCL is marked on information transferred. These Australian terms have no direct word in most test languages — get one wrong and the segment's information is gone.
- Medicare直接講「Medicare」呢個英文詞就得，因為係專有名詞，廣東話冇對應詞。
- Medicare card講「Medicare卡」就得，保留Medicare呢個專有名詞。
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