Listening: A Day in the Life of an Ancient Doctor

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B2 | Listening from video | 11 min

Watch the video (0:07 - 4:15). You can watch more than once, then answer the questions.

What is wrong with the laborer at the temple construction site?

____ He was stung by a scorpion.____ He has a badly broken arm.____ He has a sore lump under his arm.

How does Peseshet say the spell for the scorpion sting?

____ She speaks as if she were the goddess Serqet.____ She asks the boy's mother to say it with her.____ She whispers it quietly to the goddess Hathor.

Peseshet says that a barley seedling means the baby will be a girl.

____ True____ False____ Not Given

Isesi is older than Peseshet.

____ True____ False____ Not Given

Why was Akhethetep allowed to study at the House of Life?

____ He passed a very difficult exam.____ He was chosen by the doctor-priest Isesi.____ His mother is a scribe, like her father.

ONE WORD from the video.

The male doctors refuse to take orders from a ____ .

ONE WORD from the video.

The body's vessels carry blood, air, urine and even bad ____ .

What do the old texts advise for the woman's tumor?

____ Cut it out with a knife.____ Do nothing at all.____ Say a spell to the gods.

ONE WORD from the video.

The yearly flood of the Nile will soon bring a whole new crop of ____ .

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