The Flatmates episode 18 (including Video/ Vocabulary)

Episode 18: Emergency
Alice:	Oh it's so quiet tonight! You could hear a pin drop. Gives me a chance to catch up on my reading.
Man:	Quick, quick! Get a doctor!
Alice:	She's just gone for a break. What's the matter?
Man:	I don't know. It's my son. He's stopped breathing.
Alice:	Oh no! Wait a minute, I'll just phone for the doctor.
Man:	There's no time. You have to give him mouth to mouth.
Alice:	But I haven't done it before!
Man:	You haven't done it before?
Alice:	No, not for real. Wait while I find the phone.
Man:	No! No, you must do it now!

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Vocabulary:

emergency (n.) - an unexpected and usually dangerous situation that calls for immediate action

you can hear a pin drop (idiom) -  it is very quiet

to catch up on something  (phr.) - to do something which you have not had time to do recently

give a chance (phr.) - give an opportunity to do something, an amount of time or a situation in which something can be done

 get a doctor (phr.) - chose a doctor for advice or help

gone for a break (phr.) - take a break, top doing whatever we are doing for a short period of time

breathe (v) -  to move air into and out of your lungs, to inhale and exhale, to take air into your lungs through your mouth or nose, to send air out from your lungs through your mouth or nose

wait a minute/moment/second (phr.) - used to tell someone to stop and wait briefly

mouth-to-mouth  (n) - a shortened version of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation - trying to help someone when s/he has stopped breathing by breathing into her/his mouth


mouth–to–mouth resuscitation (n) - a method of helping a person who is not breathing to start breathing again by blowing air into the person's mouth and lungs —called also mouth-to-mouth

 for real (phr.) - true and genuine, honest and serious

before (adv.) -  at an earlier time, to or toward the place where someone is going, in advance