37. Going to the Pharmacy

medicine

antibiotics

bottle

prescription

pills

refill

insurance card

pharmacist

full

empty

hours

over-the-counter

drop off

pick up

need

37. Going to the Pharmacy: Story

There’s a boy named Fred. He gets sick and turns into a porcupine. (2) He takes (3) some over-the-counter medicine.

Fred takes the full bottle of pills. When the bottle is empty Fred is still (4) a porcupine.

Fred goes to the doctor. The doctor tells Fred he needs to take some special medicine. The doctor gives him (5) a prescription for antibiotics.

Fred goes to the pharmacy near his (6) home. The pharmacist asks for Fred’s insurance card. He fills Fred’s prescription. He tells Fred there will be (7) no refills.

Fred picks up the bottle of antibiotic pills and carries them home. (8) Over two weeks, (9) he takes all the pills.  They don’t work (10)—he is still a porcupine.

Fred goes to Saint Louis, Missouri.  He goes up (11) The Gateway Arch. There he meets (12) a Native American Indian woman named (13) Sacagawea.

Sacagawea says she can give him the medicine he needs. She drops off the pills at Fred’s house (14) the next day. (15)

He takes her pills and turns back into (16) a boy. Fred is very happy!

1. ….(oops)
2. se enferma y se vuelve en puercoespín
3. toma
   
4. todavía
5. le da
6. cerca de
7. habrá
8. los lleva a casa
9. Sobre dos semanas
10. no sirven
11. sube
12. conoce
13. una indígena llamada
14. en la casa de Fred
15. día siguiente
16. se vuelve en

37. Going to the Pharmacy: Reading

FFred Flintstone lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He goes to Las Vegas High School. He is a normal boy and likes (1) his family and his school. (2)

FFred goes downtown (3) to Fremont Street with some of his friends to hang out. (4)

While they are there, (5) a bear hits (6) Fred on the head with a pinecone. (7) That night, Fred turns into a porcupine! (8)

 The next day, (9) Fred doesn’t go to school—he goes to the doctor’s. The doctor thinks (10) Fred has an exotic 

ddisease (11) and gives him a prescription for some antibiotic pills.

FFred goes to the pharmacy to get his prescription filled. (12) The pharmacist is very busy. (13)

FFred drops off the prescription and comes back (14) in an hour to pick up the antibiotics. He brings (15) his           insurance card to pay (16) for the medicine.

TThe pharmacist tells him he needs to take (17) two pills every four hours with food. (18)

FFred follows (19) the pharmacist’s instructions perfectly. But the pills don’t work. (20) Fred is still (21) a porcupine.

Fred goes to Saint Louis, Missouri to visit his sister. (22) She is happy to see him but surprised that he’s now a porcupine.

They go visit the famous Gateway Arch. (23) While (24) they are visiting the monument, Fred meets (25) a beautiful Indian princess (26) named Sacagawea.

FFred tells her that he is really (27) a boy and not a porcupine.

SSacagawea says she knows an old Indian remedy (28) that will help him. (29) She gives him a bottle filled with bbrown liquid made from (30) pinecones and insects.

FFred drinks (31) the medicine and is instantly cured. (32) Fred is very happy. He thanks Sacagawea for her help aand asks her (33) to refill the bottle in case (34) he has another problem like this again. (35)

1. quiere a
2. su escuela
3. Hay
4. pasar un rato
5. Mientras están allí
6. oso le pega
7. cono del pino
8. se vuelve en puercoespín
9. El día siguiente
10. cree/piensa
11. tiene una enfermedad exótica
12. llenado
13. ocupado
14. vuelve
15. trae
16. pagar
17. tomar
18. con comida
19. sigue
20. no sirven
21. todavía
22. a su hermana
23. Arco de Gateway
24. Mientras
25. conoce
26. hermosa princesa india
27. en verdad
28. un remedio viejo indio
29. le ayudará
30. líquido moreno hecho de
31. bebe/toma
32. se cura instantemente
33. le pide
34. en caso de que
35. como ése otra vez