hi there I'm Drew Badger the world's
first and number one English Fluency
Guide and in this video we will be
talking about seven advanced phrases
plus a few bonus ones that you can use
when you're either making an appointment
or actually at a hospital so when you're
speaking with a doctor and you want to
sound native as well as to be able to
understand the doctor these are some
great phrases that will help you there
are many great expressions you can use
when you're at the hospital to describe
maybe how you feel or a problem you
might be having so what we're going to
do is focus on just phrasal verbs in
this video and so these are things like
pick up and put down where we're
expressing a more complicated idea in a
very simple easy way with two or more
words first here's how to make an
appointment like a native speaker when
you're calling somebody up and it
doesn't matter if it's an appointment
for a hospital visit or you're going to
meet a person it could be a dentist or a
hairdresser anybody else whenever you're
making an appointment for someone like
at a restaurant a great native way to do
this is to say put me down for something
something so put me down for seven
o'clock or put me down at seven o'clock
the other way you can say this also is
to pencil me in for something so to
pencil in the phrasal verb to pencil in
just means to literally write my name
down and it doesn't actually mean pencil
but it just means like to write my name
down for a particular time so when
you're when you're calling somebody oh
I'd like to make an appointment for this
oh can you put me down for seven o'clock
on tuesday the tent or can you pencil me
in on Tuesday the temp either one of
these is fine next when you're actually
leading with the doctor and you don't
really know what the problem is it's
kind of easy if you know okay I was in a
car accident and I hurt my shoulder you
can describe that but in the situations
where you don't really know what the
problem is you're just not really
feeling very well here are two phrasal
verbs you can use the first one is I
think I'm coming down with something the
phrasal verb to come down with if you
think about moving down like I'm
physically moving down like I'm holding
something so I'm coming down with
something like this sickness that I'm
holding that's a part of me right now
it's weighing me down
so it's coming it's kind of pushing me
down and I think I'm coming down with
something so whether you're at the
hospital or you're describing just to
your friends I think I'm coming down
with something maybe I have a cold or a
sickness or something you could also be
feeling a bit run down I'm feeling a bit
run down and this is maybe just talking
about you feeling a little bit tired in
general just like the battery on your
mobile phone it's just running down so
to run meaning that night not only just
running with your physical legs but the
the energy or something is decreasing so
there's an operation happening in the
phone that's using up the energy but I
it's running down so on I'm feeling a
bit run down right now so whenever
you're talking about something we're not
not only that you feel sick but maybe
you're just kind of feeling tired you
have a feeling a bit run down at work so
this means you're really busy and maybe
you're having trouble you know just like
with energy in general next two more
phrasal verbs that are used when you're
typically talking about a blockage of
some point maybe you have like if you
think about the arteries in your like
around your body where all the blood is
flowing if you have a blockage of that
these things get backed up just like
your toilet if you get too much stuff
down in the toilet you have to get the
plunger in there to try to unpack up the
toilet so the toilet you could say it's
backed up or it's blocked up or it's
stopped up so maybe if my my nose as an
example the phrasal verb we use for this
one is my nose is stuffed up you can say
you have a stuffy nose so right now I
may be sniffing a lot and like it's hard
to breathe because I my nose is stuffed
up so if you go to the doctor into you
and you'd say like i like i have a
problem with my nose the more specific
one to say I like I have stuff in my
nose and I'm feeling kind of cold or
congested so congested would be the
longer term the more advanced term for
that but in a casual conversation away
the same thing that a native child would
use its speaking English is my nose is
stuffed up my nose is stuffed up next
you can talk about something acting up
or flaring up acting up or flaring up a
flare if you think about fire maybe you
some some gasoline in it and it goes up
it becomes a much larger fire this is
something that's flaring up or something
that's acting up kind of like maybe
maybe I have bad knees like I personally
have needs that are not very good i just
played you know sports for a long time
and now now i am paying the price for
that but if I go outside and it's maybe
starting to rain my knees can feel that
so as they are my knees are acting up or
I might the pain in my knee is flaring
up so it just means something that's
increasing which is the more advanced
way of expressing this but if we want to
say it in a casual conversation way to
act up or to flare up next when the
doctor is speaking with you that person
might use these next couple of ones that
will just cover and these are just a few
bonus phrasal verbs I thought you might
like to know in this lesson the first
one is to point something out so the
doctor might point out or he might say
oh could you point out where the problem
is so I say oh like I feel maybe some
pain up here in my shoulder or it feels
some pain in my stomach so he say please
tell me where the pain is if he's saying
please tell me where the pain is or if
he says or she says please point out
where the problem area is please point
it out next the doctor will typically
talk about for a shorter term thing or
maybe if it's just a small cut maybe you
have a few stitches or something that's
not a very difficult problem so it's a
slight injury he might fix you up so the
doctor says oh okay I see you you've cut
your arm here we can put two or three
stitches in there and we can fix you up
in no time we can fix you up in no time
so to fix you up just means to repair
you so he's trying to fix something but
the casual conversation a way that a
doctor might use this is to fix someone
up to fix someone up and finally the
last of these bonus ones that a doctor
might use is to carry something out as
an example with the fix-up example that
was more of a quick thing a slight
injury but if you have something maybe
cancer or you have a heart problem
something that really requires intensive
surgery they have to open you up this is
a procedure that a doctor would carry
out so this is typically something that
takes more more time it could be a more
difficult problem that will
ask longer and so we're going to carry
out the treatment over a particular
period of time so we might carry out the
treatment for cancer or something over a
particular length of time like ten
months or a year or something like that
to carry something out to carry
something out well that's it for this
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