Reviewing a Food Diary Around Changing Shifts
Dietitian (speaking English) and Shift worker (speaking Yoruba) talk through “Reviewing a Food Diary Around Changing Shifts”. You interpret both ways — English into Yoruba, and Yoruba into English — one segment at a time, exactly as in the CCL test.
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Let's look at your five-day food diary together, Mr Akinyemi. Which entries reflect your usual routine, and which were affected by changes to your shifts?
Model answer and marking points
Ẹ jẹ́ ká jọ wo ìwé àkọsílẹ̀ oúnjẹ yín fún ọjọ́ márùn-ún, Ọ̀gbẹ́ni Akinyemi. Àwọn àkọsílẹ̀ wo ló fi bí ẹ ṣe máa ń jẹun déédéé hàn, àwọn wo sì ni ìyípadà nínú àkókò iṣẹ́ yín ní ipa lórí?
What an examiner checks here:
- Review the food diary together
- Diary covers five days
- Addressed to Mr Akinyemi
- question: which entries reflect the usual routine?
- question: which entries were affected by shift changes?
Easy to miss: Keep both questions distinct: usual routine and the effects of shift changes.
Ní ọjọ́ mẹ́ta àkọ́kọ́, mo jẹun bí mo ṣe máa ń jẹ déédéé. Ní ọjọ́ méjì tó kẹ́yìn, ilé iṣẹ́ mi ní kí n ṣiṣẹ́ láti aago mẹ́wàá alẹ́ sí aago mẹ́fà òwúrọ̀, àkókò oúnjẹ mi sì yí padà.
Model answer and marking points
For the first three days, I ate as I normally do. For the last two days, my workplace asked me to work from ten at night until six in the morning, so my mealtimes changed.
What an examiner checks here:
- First three days: usual eating routine
- Last two days: workplace requested changed working hours
- Shift from 10 pm to 6 am
- Mealtimes changed
Easy to miss: The overnight shift was from 10 pm to 6 am, and affected only the last two days.
I can see tea recorded at midnight and meals at different times. Did you include any milk or sugar, and everything you ate alongside it?
Model answer and marking points
Mo rí i pé ẹ kọ tíì sílẹ̀ ní ọ̀gànjọ́ òru, ẹ sì jẹun ní onírúurú àkókò. Ṣé ẹ tún kọ wàrà tàbí ṣúgà èyíkéyìí tí ẹ fi sí i sílẹ̀, àti gbogbo ohun tí ẹ jẹ pẹ̀lú rẹ̀?
What an examiner checks here:
- Tea recorded at midnight
- Meals recorded at different times
- question: was any milk or sugar included in the record?
- question: was everything eaten with the tea included?
Easy to miss: The question asks whether milk, sugar and accompanying food were recorded.
Mo kọ tíì náà, àmọ́ mo gbàgbé láti kọ wàrà àti ṣúgà tí mo fi sí i. Mo tún jẹ búrẹ́dì díẹ̀; èyí náà ò sí nínú ìwé.
Model answer and marking points
I recorded the tea, but I forgot to write down the milk and sugar I added to it. I also ate a little bread; that is not in the diary either.
What an examiner checks here:
- Tea was recorded
- Milk and sugar were added
- Forgot to record both milk and sugar
- Ate a little bread
- Bread also missing from the diary
Easy to miss: Both the milk and sugar and the small amount of bread were omitted from the diary.
Please add those details if you remember them. The diary helps us understand your routine; it does not mean you have done anything wrong by eating overnight.
Model answer and marking points
Ẹ jọ̀ọ́, ẹ fi àwọn àlàyé yẹn kún un bí ẹ bá rántí wọn. Ìwé àkọsílẹ̀ náà ń ràn wá lọ́wọ́ láti lóye bí ẹ ṣe máa ń jẹun déédéé; kò túmọ̀ sí pé ẹ ti ṣe ohun tí kò tọ́ nípa jíjẹun lóru.
What an examiner checks here:
- Add the details if remembered
- Diary helps us understand the usual routine
- Eating overnight does not mean the person has done anything wrong
Easy to miss: Preserve the reassurance that eating overnight does not mean the person has done anything wrong.
Ó dáa. Mo rò pé ẹ máa bá mi wí nítorí pé mo ń jẹun lóru. Nígbà míì, iṣẹ́ kì í jẹ́ kí n jẹun títí ilẹ̀ fi máa mọ́.
Model answer and marking points
All right. I thought you would tell me off for eating at night. Sometimes work keeps me from eating until dawn.
What an examiner checks here:
- Agrees
- Expected to be told off for eating at night
- Work sometimes prevents eating
- Cannot eat until dawn on those occasions
Easy to miss: Work sometimes prevents eating until dawn; this is not a deliberate choice to avoid food.
For our discussion, could you describe your breaks and where you keep food at work? We can note practical difficulties without deciding on a treatment plan today.
Model answer and marking points
Fún ìjíròrò wa, ṣé ẹ lè ṣàlàyé àwọn àkókò ìsinmi yín àti ibi tí ẹ ti ń tọ́jú oúnjẹ sí níbi iṣẹ́? A lè kọ àwọn ìṣòro tó ń dojú kọ yín sílẹ̀ láì pinnu ètò ìtọ́jú lónìí.
What an examiner checks here:
- question: describe work breaks?
- question: where is food kept at work?
- Practical difficulties can be noted
- No treatment plan needs to be decided today
Easy to miss: Documenting practical difficulties does not mean deciding on a treatment plan today.
Fìríìjì wà níbi iṣẹ́, ṣùgbọ́n àkókò tí a máa ń sinmi kì í ṣe déédéé. Nígbà tí mo bá délé, ebi kì í pa mí mọ́ rárá.
Model answer and marking points
There is a fridge at work, but our break times are irregular. By the time I get home, I am no longer hungry at all.
What an examiner checks here:
- Fridge available at work
- Break times are irregular
- No longer hungry on arriving home
- Complete lack of hunger at that time
Easy to miss: A fridge is available; the problem stated is irregular breaks.
You can mark missed breaks and changes in appetite in the diary. Bring it to this Wagga Wagga clinic so we can review those details together.
Model answer and marking points
Ẹ lè ṣàmì sí àwọn ìsinmi tí ẹ kò rí gbà àti àwọn ìyípadà nínú bí ebi ṣe ń pa yín nínú ìwé àkọsílẹ̀ náà. Ẹ mú un wá sí ilé ìwòsàn yìí ní Wagga Wagga kí a lè jọ ṣàyẹ̀wò àwọn àlàyé yẹn.
What an examiner checks here:
- Record missed breaks in the diary
- Record changes in appetite
- Bring the diary to this clinic
- Clinic is in Wagga Wagga
- Review those details together
Easy to miss: Record changes in appetite as well as missed breaks, and retain the Wagga Wagga location.
Màá kọ àwọn àlàyé yẹn sí i, màá sì mú ìwé náà wá. Ẹ jọ̀ọ́, ọjọ́ wo ni mo máa padà wá? Mo fẹ́ bá ilé iṣẹ́ mi ṣètò àkókò iṣẹ́ mi.
Model answer and marking points
I will add those details and bring the diary. Please, what day should I come back? I want to arrange my working hours with my workplace.
What an examiner checks here:
- Will add the details
- Will bring the diary
- question: what day should I return?
- Wants to arrange working hours with the workplace
Easy to miss: The return date is a question, and the reason is to coordinate working hours.
Your follow-up is booked for 20 November. Please bring the diary even if some entries are incomplete, and let reception know if your roster changes.
Model answer and marking points
A ti ṣètò ìpàdé àtẹ̀lé yín fún ọjọ́ ogún oṣù kọkànlá. Ẹ jọ̀ọ́, ẹ mú ìwé àkọsílẹ̀ náà wá kódà bí àwọn àkọsílẹ̀ kan kò bá pé, ẹ sì jẹ́ kí àwọn òṣìṣẹ́ ibi ìforúkọsílẹ̀ mọ̀ bí ètò àkókò iṣẹ́ yín bá yí padà.
What an examiner checks here:
- Follow-up already booked
- Appointment on 20 November
- Bring the diary even if some entries are incomplete
- Notify reception if the work roster changes
Easy to miss: The appointment is 20 November, and incomplete entries are not a reason to leave the diary behind.
Ẹ ṣé. Màá wá ní ọjọ́ ogún oṣù kọkànlá, màá sì mú ìwé náà wá, bó tilẹ̀ jẹ́ pé mi ò rántí gbogbo rẹ̀. Màá pe ibi ìforúkọsílẹ̀ tí àkókò iṣẹ́ mi bá yí padà.
Model answer and marking points
Thank you. I will come on 20 November and bring the diary, even though I do not remember everything. I will call reception if my working hours change.
What an examiner checks here:
- Thanks the clinician
- Will attend on 20 November
- Will bring the diary
- Does not remember everything
- Will call reception if working hours change
Easy to miss: Calling reception is conditional on a change in working hours.
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