🇬🇧🇨🇳 tablet - 药片 : English Lesson

Meaning of "tablet" ("药片"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A tablet is a small, hard piece of medicine that you usually swallow with water. Doctors give tablets to help your body feel better when you are sick or in pain. Tablets can be different colors and shapes, like circles or ovals, but they are all made to give you the right amount of medicine in one little piece.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The tablet tasted so bad my taste buds wrote a complaint letter.

The doctor said, “Take one tablet a day,” not “Throw it dramatically across the room.”

The tablet didn’t want to go down, so I gave it a water slide made of three giant gulps.

I tried to negotiate with the tablet: “You cure my cough, I stop making that weird sneeze noise.”

Some tablets are made to dissolve slowly in your body, but mine dissolved instantly in my mouth and launched a full-scale “Yuck!” explosion.

Anna has a bad headache. Her mum gives a small white tablet. One tablet is on the cup. Anna takes the tablet in her hand. She puts the tablet in her mouth and drinks water. The tablet goes down. The headache goes away and Anna smiles. She is very happy.

This word is at the A1 level, which means it is one of the first words you learn when starting English. It’s commonly used in everyday conversations and helps you communicate basic ideas like greetings, family, or daily activities.

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