Después de un día en el sol Jack y Sofía hablan de un día pasado con amigos. Pero no estaban juntos. Al enterarse de que Jack ha pasado todo el día en una terraza de Gracia tomando Estrellas Dam, se enfada.
¿Por qué? Porque este diálogo en inglés trata del cuerpo y los médicos y Jack dijo que estaba enfermo – así que Sofía quiere saber cómo es posible que fuera a tomar tantas cervezas si estaba enfermo.
En este diálogo aprendemos un montón de palabras relacionadas con el cuerpo y los médicos porque Jack nos habla de un tío que conoció en una sala de espera. Este tío había sufrido varias heridas; pero como vemos en la historia que Jack nos cuenta, no habia perdido su sentido del humor.
El diálogo tiene muchos usos del presente perfecto continuo y es una forma muy interesante de ver esto tiempo verbal en contexto.
Fragmento de la transcripción del dialogo
Jack: That’s because I’ve been out drinking the past few nights. Anti-inflamatories give you a real bad stomach.
Sofia: And I bet you haven’t been doing those exercises the physiotherapist told you to do, either, have you? Did you see the doctor last week?
Jack: No, I really couldn’t be bothered…I’ve been spending far too much time in that waiting room. And it always scares me. You’ve been waiting there for half an hour because you want to get well, but in that time you’ve caught a cold or the flu from all the ill people sneezing and coughing around you. And you see some strange things. I saw this guy in a wheel chair the other day waiting to see the nurse and his whole body was covered in bandages from head to toe – like he’d been fighting in a war or something, and he turns to me and says “what’s wrong with you?” And I say… “Trapped nerve in the shoulder…with a lot of complications in the back. And you?” And the guy looks out at me from between all the bandages and says…
“Insomnia.”
Pause
“I’m fucking with you…” he said, “…what do you think’s wrong with me? I fell off a ladder, broke lots of bones;” And we both laughed. “When they did the x-ray they couldn’t believe it,” he said, “I’ve been having operations for the past three weeks… it’s been sending me crazy. The surgeon said if he has to do any more surgery on me he’s gonna scream. He’s been working overtime five days in a row because of me.”
