Hi guys and welcome back to Love English. So, it's that time of year again at least
it is in the northern hemisphere. It is definitely winter time and unfortunately
the winter is the perfect time to get sick!..
..to become ill, to catch a cold meaning to get a cold. So today's lesson
is going to be focusing on that phrasal verbs ( your favorite subject) but phrasal
verbs connected to sickness ,feeling unwell and getting better! Don't forget
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comment and share! Ten phrasal verbs and adjectives connected to illness!
So before you even get ill you could describe yourself in two ways I'm
feeling or I am worn out now often before we become ill our
immune system the system that fights the illness is weak that's often because the
weather in England is always bad but particularly in the wintertime that can
make your immune system weak you can also be really tired another way
of saying this is I'm worn out now you can see that we've used the verb to be
it's an adjective it looks like a phrasal verb but it's actually an
adjective I'm worn out you can also say similar meaning I'm run down another
adjective when you say on run down it's a bit more serious than just tie it it
implies that you're feeling quite weak and perhaps you feel that your body is
not at its strongest so you can say I'm worn out tired or I'm run down tired and
feeling a little bit weak almost starting to feel unwell if you are
feeling a little bit unwell you may say that I've picked something up now this
doesn't mean that you pick literally something up it means that you have
caught an illness you've caught a virus or you can catch a cold
remember catch court court don't forget your irregular verbs so if
you say I've picked up something I think I've picked up a cold I think I picked
up fever I think I've picked something up it means that you think you have
caught an illness now next you can use this phrasal verb often in the
continuous form but also in the present I've come down with a cold or should
have a tissue I've come down with a cold look - oh I think I'm coming
with something meaning you're starting to feel unwell you're becoming sick so
come down with something I'm coming down with something
I think I'm coming down with the flu poor you so once you are sick your body
reacts by trying to fight that illness or cold fever whatever it is your body
wants to get rid of it having a fever is another way of burning the illness the
virus off fight I keep saying that so fight off means to try to well literally
you can understand this phrasal verb to fight something off and you're talking
about the illness here so when you are trying to fight something off I'm
fighting off a cold I'm fighting off a virus it means that your body is
reacting in the correct way your immune system is trying to make yourself better
and remove the virus from your system so to fight a virus a cold off once your
body is really in the process of fighting off this virus this illness
then you might say either in the present continuous I'm getting over I'm getting
over this cold I'm getting over the flu or of course you can say I got over the
flu or I've just got over the flu to get over something can be used to talk about
illnesses as well as breaking up in relationships so when you say you got
over an illness it means that you recovered or present continuous I'm
getting over a cold it means you're in the process of recovering now once you
have been ill so you've just recovered you've just got over a cold you often
feel a bit weak you don't feel great and what we would often say is you need to
build your strength up makes sense doesn't it to make yourself stronger
ways that you could build up your energy build up your
strengths are to have lots of fruit have vitamins get lots of rest don't over
work so to build yourself up to make yourself stronger again after you have
been ill now when you are sick if you are really sick very often you are
actually sick like to vomit I don't know why but we do seem to have quite a few
phrasal verbs to talk about vomiting so to start with it's quite neutral to
throw up I threw up what I was sick a bit more formal a bit more polite you
can bring something up so again there's lots of ups and you can kind of
understand why so I brought up my dinner it didn't agree with me I think there
was something bad in my food I brought it up so again meaning to be sick a bit
more informal slang to chuck up all meaning the same just different levels
of formality so I chucked up I threw up and I brought something up you're
referring specifically to what you ate really lovely so I hope none of you have
been throwing up lately not nice I hate being sick now I'm gonna share one
particular phrasal verb with you that you might have heard in the news lately
if you've been watching the British news there's been an outbreak of Aussie flu
there's also been apparently a Japanese flu going around I'm assuming they
originated in those countries now an outbreak of certain virus you can see
there that we've got the noun and outbreak however many phrasal verbs have
both the verb and noun form in this case we could also say ozzie flu has broken
out around the UK I think it's probably used more formally with the noun so
that's what you're more likely to hear in the news so an outbreak or to break
out this means there's kind of been an
uncontrolled spread of a virus of an illness so you often hear about this in
the news it can be very serious like the Aussie flu now my last two phrasal verbs
I've left at the end but they are incredibly important and important not
to confuse to pass out and to pass away now when you do become very very ill you
might pass out this means to become unconscious so often when you're very
weak extremely tired very sick you might pass out to faint and to become
unconscious when you wake up we have another phrasal verb to come around this
means to regain your consciousness to wake up from passing out from fainting
now the reason I tell you how important this is I once knew somebody that got
pass out and pass away confused pass away it means to die now we use pass
away not in this case as a more informal way of speaking but a gentler way of
speaking to say somebody died somebody's dead this word is incredibly strong and
so we prefer to say I'm sorry to hear your dog passed away it's important to
know these phrasal verbs they are commonly used we often avoid the word
die death dead in English to soften it and to be more gentle when we are
talking about death so that brings me to the end of my lesson as always it is so
important to use these phrasal verbs in context to practice you
whether you are speaking with your friends or indeed writing make sure to
share some of your comments tell me have you had a cold recently have you picked
anything up are you getting over an illness I hope not but if you are if you
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