The document provides basic English phrases for communication at a drugstore, focusing on common requests and instructions for medication. It covers inquiries about prescriptions, types of medications for various ailments, and specific dosages and usage instructions. Additionally, it includes warnings about potential side effects and precautions when taking medicines.

2. Basic English for
Communication
At the Drugstore

3. Can you prepare this
prescription?

4. Give me something
against a cold

5. Do you have
something for a
toothache?

6. I need something
to kill my
headache.

7. I’ve got a bad cold and a sore
throat. Can you give me
something for it?

8. Does it have any inside
effects?

9. How do I take this medicine?

10. This
cream
should
help.

11. I’m going to
write you a
prescription

12. I’ll prescribe
some sleeping
pills for you

13. This
medicine will
relieve your
pain

14. This medicine is for
external use only

15. This gargle will
relieve your
sore throat

16. I need to have this
prescription filled

17. Do you have a
prescription,
sir?

18. Try these
tables. Take
2 every 3
hours

19. Not to be taken more than
four times within a 24 hour
period.

20. Do not eat for half an
hour before or after
taking this medicine

21. One tablet
each time,
three times
daily

22. How many tablets do I have
to take each time?

23. Take it before going
to bed

24. Take before eating

25. This medication
should be taken with
meals

26. The instructions on it
tell you how to take
it. Make sure you
read them carefully

27. Please take the medicine according to
the instruction

28. Take it in the
morning: two
teaspoons a day

29. Are you allergic to any medication?

30. Do not operate heavy
machinery while taking
this medication

31. Do not drive after
taking this
medication