hi there this video is going to show you how to speak more naturally in English
which will help any English learner and also how to do this in exams so the
information in this presentation is going to help you to do better in any
English speaking exam especially the IELTS we're going to do that by showing
you how to use advanced English vocabulary such as phrasal verbs and
idioms it's important that you learn new vocabulary in context so we're going to
do this in the context of a very common IELTS speaking topic namely the health
topic now in this lesson I am going to challenge you I'm not just going to give
you information so your first challenge is to look at the meanings listed here
always busy always willing or keen to do something makes me feel crazy and to
have a dance and what I want you to do is then to look at the next slide which
is our first answer to an IELTS health topic question and I want you to see if
you can work out which idioms and which less common word match the meanings
listed here so here's our sample answer to the question what things do you do to
look after your health well I'm an office worker and sitting still all day
drives me nuts so when I'm not in the office I'm always on the go and I'm
always up for almost any type of exercise really I play squash and
football and unusually game for a bit of a boogie on a Saturday night so we were
looking for always busy always willing or team to do something makes me feel
crazy and to have advance here again on the screen is the answer and it's going
to be there for another 2 or 3 seconds to try and help you see if you can work
out the matches between the idioms and the less common word and the
meanings that were listed on this slide so there again is what you were looking
for there again is the answer now let's see if you got this right
if something drives you nuts it makes you feel crazy
or mad if you're always on the go then you're always busy or active if you're
always up for something then you always want or are willing to do that thing and
the expression always game for something means exactly the same thing too bougie
is a slang word meaning to dance apologies for that particular dancing so
another challenge this time I have listed for you two idioms one less
common word and four phrasal verbs that you are going to see in the next answer
which is an answer to an IELTS part two or long term question and I want you to
see from the context if you can work out what these words mean for that reason
I'm going to read this answer twice once quickly and second time more slowly to
give you a bit more time to try and solve this exercise so talk about a time
when you were ill well I remember a time when I became really rather ill quite
quickly ah it didn't seem to be any kind of serious issue to start with ah I just
felt a bit under the weather it just seemed to be a bit of a sniffle I was
bummed up and had a bit of a scratchy throat
but I didn't think anything more of it I remember I went out dancing with my
friend but then I started to feel really ropey and the next thing I knew I'd
passed out I think my friend fourth it was just drunk because she turned down
an offer by the nightclub staff to call an ambulance
and plunked me down on her couch instead I had a ray
ding fever and I ended up having to spend a couple of nights in hospital so
here we have it we also incidentally have some collocations which are when
words are joined together rather appear together very often much more often than
by chance so here is the answer again well I remember a time when I became
really rather ill quite quickly it didn't seem to be any kind of serious
issue to start with I just felt a bit under the weather it just seemed to be a
bit of a sniffle I was bummed up and had a bit of a scratchy throat but I didn't
think anything more of it I remember I went out dancing with my friend but then
I started to feel really ropey and the next thing I knew I'd passed out I think
my friend thought I was just drunk because she turned down an offer by the
nightclub staff to call an ambulance and plunk me down on her couch instead I had
a raging fever and they ended up having to spend a couple of nights in hospital
so here are the meanings of these expressions to feel under the weather or
to feel ropey means to feel ill then we have three collocations a serious issue
this means the same thing as a big problem or a major problem
so the adjective serious collocates of issue the adjective major collocates
with problem scratchy throat scratchy is an adjective which describes that
feeling when your throat feels very dry so it collocates with throat when we
talk about an illness it goes together with throats raging fever here the
adjective raging means very high and it collocates with the noun fever when we
talk about illness it means that you have a very high temperature
phrasal verb bummed up means that you can't breathe through your nose
so you probably speak a bit like this when you have a cold if you are passed
out then you've lost consciousness so that's often what happens if you drink
too much or if you've had a really bad bang to the head
if you turn something down then you do not accept an offer of something for
example a drink or a slice of cake if something ends up in a certain way then
that is what happened in the end the less common word plonked means to put
something or in this case someone down without being very careful about it so
this is the simple past tense from the verb to plunk okay so I'm gonna leave
you with some other useful phrasal verbs that you can use to talk about illness
to throw up to get over an illness means to recover from an illness we also news
get over to mean to feel better if you've been upset I was upset when I
broke up with my girlfriend but I got over it
now for example to come down with an illness and to pick up an illness both
mean the same thing to catch an illness so I hope this video has been useful if
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also find lots of other videos useful videos about the IELTS exam in my
playlist linked at the top here where the is so I hope it's been useful look
out for my next video when I'll teach you more advanced English vocabulary I
think I'm gonna do it about the common IELTS topic of sport if you prefer to
see a different topic then please post in the comment section below this video
also if you have any questions at all please post in the comments section
below this video thank you and I hope you enjoy the rest
of your day good bye