hi everyone and welcome to love English so it's that time of the year when
people start to feel a little bit unwell we thought we would look at some helpful
vocabulary to look at illnesses and going to the doctors that's right yes so
today we're going to be looking at this vocabulary so I have a question for you
guys do you like Leila's costume I have a feeling that you might so today Leila
is going to be the nurse I am and I'm going to be the patient so the person
who is not well okay so the first thing we want to teach you is names for basic
illnesses and the first one is when your nose goes red and runny and you have to
sneeze a lot thank you for the demonstration then you have a cold
yes and when we have a cold we also have a runny nose as Leila said so when you
have a runny nose something is coming from the nose and you need a tissue
better tissue than a hand and with a cold we might also get a sore throat a sore
throat this means to have pain here and you can't talk very well sometimes say that
so that vocabulary is to have a cold that's a collocation have a cold have a sore
throat have a runny nose that's right and another thing that we get this time
of year is a cough well yeah thank you Leila for the demonstration, these are working well now a cough might keep you awake at night because
you'll be coughing so it's not a very nice thing to have a cough and it can go
with a sore throat yeah yeah so the verbs as I said before these
collocations the verb with the noun is I have got or have a cold a sore throat or
a cough and also to catch so quick demonstration of catch ready there we go
we just passed me a call I did sorry actually it was a pen but the point is
that's what we would describe when you pick up another
phrasal verb there you can pick up a cold from somewhere someone someone else
yeah yeah so we're going to do a little bit of acting now guys to put these
words into context for you so prepare yourselves. Come in Sabra here again I
thought I only saw you last week I'm not well again dr. Walters right what seems
to be the problem? i have a sore throat and I have a cold and I have a cough oh okay yes
that was a cough haha wow that's a lot so now who do you think you caught that
from I think it was my students they are all coughing in class with out a
tissue I think I got it from them okay typical students partying too hard
eating too much junk food you're not looking after yourselves
okay so Sabra do you have any other symptoms?
a lot doctor really yeah have a headache and i have a tummy ache and my
whole body's aching wow, in fact i think I'm getting the flu
hold on a minute Sabra the students are not ready for all that vocabulary I
think you're fine what you've just got a little cold no medicine today I'm afraid
orange juice and a little bit of bed rest will do you just fine
is this NHS cuts again oh no Sabrah you'll be fine off you go
Sabrah you'll be fine do you know what if I die someone's gonna feel guilty I
think I can live with myself. So we apologize for our acting there this is
why we're teachers okay the vocabulary that we looked at
there was I've got a cold I've got a sore throat and I caught a
cold from my students and so to catch a cold means that we got
it from somewhere or some one it's usually how we pick up these viruses
another good phrasal verb guys pick up it means the same in this context as
catch that's right yeah this is why you need to sneeze and cough
into your tissues boys and girls okay and so then I moved on to saying that I had a
headache I had a tummy ache so pain here or pain
here for headache also if you have a stomach ache you might have something
else wrong but we won't go into that too much today lesson and then I said I
thought I was getting the flu now the flu is a virus and with the flu we feel
ill in all of our body so we feel our body is aching so the pronunciation that
is ache not H and this is where our body hurts it's painful yeah and then we can
have a headache stomach ache we can have all kinds of symptoms we have with the
flu and usually you're quite unwell and you need to stay in bed for you know at
least two or three days with maybe more and also with the flu you might have a
temperature or a fever so in this case when you or your body is
trying to fight the virus off then your temperature will raise and yes that can
make you feel even more unwell even sick that's right so there are some images of
the illnesses there you can have a look lovely yeah it's a nice cheerful topic
today everybody you're welcome
So Sabra if you really are feeling ill
can I check your temperature okay right mm-hmm
all right that seems to be okay let me listen to your heart rate okay yes
doctor okay oh oh your hearts racing a little
bit there Sabra I told you I was ill are you thinking of Chris Hemsworth again?No
I have heard that Brad Pitt is single again well that's fair enough
thank you for that as well okay
so now just moving on we're gonna
have a look at some more expressions that you can use to explain how we
feel ill yep some health idioms and some phrasal verbs connected to health so the
first one we're going to look at is when we say we're feeling poorly oh yes this
is another way to say we're feeling unwell and children will often say this
they say I'm feeling poorly it's not really something that adults say but
adults will say about children or maybe in a more formal context yes I may be a
doctor or a nurse could say it like are you feeling a bit poorly yeah that's
that another great idiom that we often use connected to weather but referring
to feeling unwell is I'm feeling under the weather yeah alright we love using
idioms like this so when you say you're feeling under the weather it's referring
to the fact that you feel a little bit unwell or just not a hundred percent
yeah you'd be like one bit under the weather today and I'm not feeling quite
myself yeah yeah and when we feel that we're starting to get ill we can say
that we're coming down with something so this is at the beginning of getting ill
so we maybe we have a headache or our body starts to ache you might feel
tired we can say well I think I'm coming down with the flu
meaning you you think you're getting ill yeah you think you're getting it yeah
that's right okay well I think that is enough of talking about illnesses for
today you're probably sick of hearing about being sick and Sabrah I've heard
there's some cake upstairs cake upstairs right well sabra seems to have it
recovered so I'm going to say goodbye and thank you very much for watching I
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