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SICKNESS vocabulary! Learn English!


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recently I got sick now
did I have a cold or did I have the flu
both put you in bed and out of work for
a few days maybe a week but there is a
difference with a cold usually it’s a
few days
it hits you fast and it leaves in a few
days the flu however it’s the longer one
it’s the more serious one usually it’s
like a week where you’re in bed you’re
sweating you have a fever everything’s
terrible and you also might hear the
expression man flu
what’s man flu this comes from the
stereotype that men handle colds much
worse than women do we complain a lot
more we exaggerate the symptoms a lot
more usually I don’t like to promote
stereotypes but in this case this is me
when I have a cold
goodbye mother you’ve always been good
to me tell everyone I love them I’m
dying now so if you know a guy who’s
like this exaggerate a cold you can say
you’ve just got man flu have some water
and a sleep you’ll be fine and these are
some ways you can say I’m sick so two
very common ways to say I’m sick are I’m
sick or I’m ill both mean you have a
cold the flu whatever but there is a
very British way of saying that and
that’s I’m poorly Americans Canadians
probably Australians too they don’t use
I’m poorly British people we do other
expressions are I’m a little bit under
the weather that just means it’s normal
you have a cold you have the flu
whatever but if you want to be really
dramatic about it and who doesn’t want
to do that you can say these I’m sick as
a dog I feel like death warmed up mate I
feel like or if you want to be
super dramatic
I’m at death’s door when you’re very
sick say that one I’m at death’s
or so when I’m ill and I don’t know
whether it’s because I was ill recently
or maybe I’m just fat now my face does
this in that situation you say my face
is puffy so not only when you’re sick
but if you wake up too early and your
face is like like a little chubby
hamster you can say my face is puffy
puffy is the adjective to mean like a
little fat hamster a puffy face is a
symptom a sign of being ill what are
some other symptoms when your nose is
doing this thing with green stuff you
would say my nose is runny or I have a
runny nose and if you have a runny nose
probably you can’t breathe either in
that case you say my nose is blocked or
stuffy or bummed up those are quite
neutral expressions they’re not formal
expressions a formal expression is
congested may dose is very congested you
don’t say that to friends you would say
that to your doctor or the pharmacist
hey pharmacist I need some medicine or
medicine do you need I don’t know my
nose is congested I have congestion so
pronunciation repeat these with me my
nose is runny my nose is blocked my nose
is stuffy for this one you commonly you
wouldn’t say my nose is bum dub you
would say I’m all bummed up hello why do
you sound weird
I’m all bummed up that’s how we would
say it usually and the last one
congested but remember you can say I
have a runny nose I have a blocked nose
I have a stuffy nose I have a bummed up
nose again not very common I’m all
burned up also a really common mistake I
hear
I think it’s maybe only Spanish but in
Spanish you say I have mucus which in
English sounds so gross do you have a
cold yes I have mucus so yes you do have
mucus but don’t say it in English it
sounds really gross and say one of these
instead other things which happen with
your nose maybe if you chew that is
called a sneeze and when someone sneezes
it’s very common for the other person to
say bless you or god bless you now this
is like Christmas in England it really
doesn’t have anything to do with
religion it’s just a polite thing to say
when someone sneezes and the
pronunciation is like this not bless you
need you connect the words with a sound
bless you bless you say it with me
bless you or god bless you also about
the mucous thing yes this is called
mucous but that is what you say to your
doctor or your pharmacist but informally
we call it snot it sounds gross and it
is gross but the word is snot informally
so if you’re with other people and you
need to get rid of this hmm
I’m not gonna actually do it now cuz
that’s gross that sound was sexy though
you can say I need to blow my nose
moving down from the nose takes us to
the throat I know this is a difficult
word to pronounce so let’s practice
throat throat first get the sound
then bring your tongue down and back for
the throat throat in faster throat
throat so if your throat is red and it
really hurts to swallow or eat food you
have a sore throat your throat is sore
sore just means it hurts and often with
a sore throat you might have a a cough
if you have a sore throat and a cough
probably your voice sound like this and
if your voice sounds like this you say
my voice is hoarse yes the same
pronunciation as horse horse your voice
is hoarse same pronunciation different
spelling if your head is like
boom-boom-boom
you say I’ve got a headache headache the
pronunciation mistake I hear with this
is head h it’s not that it’s headache
imagine it’s like a k headache now not
only your head but maybe all over your
body if it hurts just everywhere then
you would say I feel achy again this
just means it hurts everywhere in your
muscles joints may be everywhere hurts
if you feel like this you just want to
sleep all the time in this case you feel
tired be careful of the pronunciation
it’s not tie-red new it’s tired tired
say it with me
tired usually from illness or stress you
work too much it’s common to say I feel
rundown
I feel very rundown and the more formal
version you would say to your doctor
I feel fatigued these are not informal
they’re all fine but this one is the
medical term for this moving further
down the body now if the problem is in
this area your tummy or your stomach you
would say I’ve got a tummy ache or I’ve
got a stomach ache no tummy ache is what
kids say or if you really want sympathy
you might say Oh God tummy ache make me
some soup but as adults we say I’ve got
a stomach ache pronunciation is kind of
easy
stomachache stomachache I’ve got a
stomach ache a stomach ache might lead
to this is a fart butt is a verb it’s
also a noun
this is a fart and he just farted it’s a
regular verb if you’re poo is purple
definitely go see a doctor but if you
have a stomachache and your poo is like
water this is called I’ve got diarrhea
there are two spellings for this that’s
the American one that’s the English one
but it doesn’t really matter everyone
uses this one anyway it’s fine when was
the last time you had diarrhea let me
know in the comments the final symptoms
involve this your temperature is very
very high you’re in bed and water is
coming out of you from everywhere first
of all the water that’s coming out of
your head is called sweat that’s a verb
and a noun you can say this like
I’m sweaty that’s an adjective I’m
really sweaty use it like a verb I’m
sweating so much and to talk about this
the high temperature you’d say I’ve got
a fever I’ve got a fever I’m sweaty and
gross if your friend is ill you want to
ask do you have medicine are you eating
medicine that’s not the question to ask
we don’t say to eat a pill or to eat
medicine we say to take medicine to take
a pill so the question should be are
you’re ill that sucks you taking
anything and your answer should be yeah
I’m taking aspirin very simple I’m
taking name of medicine I’m taking
ibuprofen I’m taking paracetamol I’m
taking aspirin if you have a medicine
which lasts like a week you have to take
one pill every day you would say I’m on
name of medicine for example I’m on
antibiotics let me know your experiences
with colds or the flu in the comments
below tell me about your symptoms don’t
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