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Back Injury from Workplace Lifting
Physiotherapist (speaking English) and 病人 (speaking Cantonese) talk through “Back Injury from Workplace Lifting”. You interpret both ways — English into Cantonese, and Cantonese into English — one segment at a time, exactly as in the CCL test.
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Mr Cheung, could you tell me exactly how you injured your back last Thursday while lifting heavy boxes at the Bondi construction site?
嗰日我喺Bondi個地盤度搬緊啲重箱,忽然間腰部『卡』一聲咁痛,而家企都企唔穩。
On a scale of one to ten, how severe is the pain right now, and has it stopped you from working these past three days?
痛到七八分咁滯,尤其係瞓覺翻身嗰陣,呢三日我都冇返工,連瞓都瞓得唔安樂。
I'll refer you to a specialist at Prince of Wales Hospital if the pain doesn't improve within the next fortnight.
咁我要照MRI係咪要等好耐㗎?定係好快就有得照呀?
The MRI scan is usually scheduled within about two weeks, though urgent cases like yours can often be seen much sooner.
咁我份工點算呀?老闆問我幾時番得工,我聽講可以claim icare,係咪要自己出錢先呀?
You can lodge a claim with icare NSW for your workplace injury, and you won't need to pay anything upfront for the physiotherapy sessions.
咁醫生你會唔會出張假紙俾我呀?要休息幾多日先夠㗎?
I'll give you a medical certificate covering one week off work, and you shouldn't sit for more than thirty minutes at a time each day.
多謝晒醫生,咁我會小心啲,唔會坐太耐,如果痛加劇我即刻返嚟搵你。
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- Medical certificate講「醫生證明」或者「病假證明」都得。
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Practice dialogue written to the CCL specification (two speakers, segments of 35 words or fewer, about 300 words). It is a practice text, not a NAATI test paper, and the AI score is this site's estimate, not a NAATI result. All Cantonese dialogues · All languages