Phrasal Verbs for Talking About Health and Feeling Unwell [585]

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In this episode, you’ll learn how these expressions are used to describe feeling unwell, changes in your condition, and situations related to getting better or worse. Understanding these patterns will help you follow conversations more easily and respond in a natural way.

This lesson focuses on real usage, so you can recognise these expressions when you hear them and feel comfortable using them yourself.

After listening, you will be able to:

• understand common phrasal verbs used in everyday health conversations
 • describe how you feel in a more natural way
 • follow informal discussions about health more easily
 • speak with more confidence in real-life situations

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Transcript

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Hi there. This is Harry. Welcome back to Advanced English to help you to get a better language, to help you with your business, English skills, goals are, we're here to help. And for those of you and your to one lessons, well, you know Just get in touch www.englishlessonviaskype.com and you can apply for a free trial lesson. And we'd be very happy to hear from you and very happy to help you. And in this advanced English verbs and in particular phrasal conditions, yours and mine. So advanced English, advanced and health conditions. Okay, so there are nineteen in So there's a lot of them. I'll go through them slowly. I'll give you an example. I explain the meaning and let's Okay. Let's go and let's get started. Number one to break out in well We can break out in a cold So what does it mean? Well, if you before you get diagnosis chickenpox, you get So this is called a rash. And this is you break out in a identifies it as chickenpox. Or two days ago he broke out in And then the doctor told me it I was so relieved to break out Or before you had to make a He broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't like making He was very uncomfortable people to make a speech. He broke out in a cold sweat. So to break out in something, to out in a rash. Now you can also say to come out So to break out in and to come exactly the same. So he came out in a rash, or he broke out in a cold sweat. You can't say he came out in a He broke out in a cold sweat. Okay, number two to break out. Now, we're not breaking out in We're just saying to break out. Okay? So a disease can break out. This means when the doctors So at the beginning of Covid, identified that there was some type symptoms in localities. And so by the time they had This illness had broken out So to break out a disease, break Covid broke out in Italy and And then before you knew it, it So Covid broke out, a flu broke We mentioned chicken pox in the So yeah, chicken pox can break So one child gets infected, then the second, then the third, and so on. So to break out. To bring on this is number three phrasal verb to bring on, it cause something else. So for example, his heart attack So if he was working under a lot and he wasn't able to finish his constantly on his back, or he Then you could say his heart attack was brought on by excessive stress. His flu or loss of weight was Or when something causes has been brought on by a panic thinking and thinking or indeed It's not really as bad as you thought it might be, but your panic attacks are brought on by your inability to manage your own stress. That's number three. So number four, to bring someone Well, if somebody faints in the faint during a really, really dizzy because they've got some So you use maybe some cold water bring them round. Or indeed, a doctor might use where they put a strong smell And that brings you around very, So he fell or he fainted, or she very quickly by a little cold water splashed on her face Round number five is to clear Well, when something gets So we go back to our very first the chicken pox, when they had So after two weeks or three weeks, the rash cleared up means it disappeared. Okay. So to clear up means that the infection has gone away and the The spots disappear, or all a few weeks have now cleared up. Thankfully, his temperatures He no longer has a blocked nose, and he's feeling almost one hundred percent. So all the symptoms that he had Number six to carry out. Well, when we're talking about our health, when we talk, talk about and use the phrasal verb to carry out, it's usually the doctor carrying out a very thorough examination. Or the doctor will carry out sure what you have. So he might take some blood tests, a urine sample, whatever it might be, to carry out tests to try and identify exactly what's causing your particular problem. So to carry out. Number seven, to come down with Usually we don't know what it We've come down with. It could be a stomach ache, a stomach upset, a little cold, but we phone into the office and say, look, I can't come into work today and probably not tomorrow either. I've come down with something. I'm not quite sure what it is a But you know these things, they thereabouts, so I should be okay So to come down with something illness, usually not specified, it as a bug, as a virus or with something come round. Well, we used before to bring is exactly the same. So when he fainted, he came When she collapsed from heat or within a few minutes when she able to fan her face. Or indeed, if you have some form the operation, you have to be So you have what we call an anesthetic, and it's usually a general anesthetic. And the general anesthetic may So you eventually come round. So he will be fine. In a few hours. He'll come round slowly and then He'll be a little bit sore, but he should be okay in a day or so. So to come round means to regain Come out of that deep sleep to come round number nine to So when we come through other side, like we can come Okay. But when we're talking about illness means to get through all A couple of days with the rash or the sweats or the temperature. And eventually with some nice sleep, some rest. You eventually come through. I hope you'll come through it So when your mother phones the going to be in attendance for a a very high temperature not The teacher or the director of look, I hope he or she comes and we'll look forward to So to come through something of a serious illness, to come up come up with something. And this is when we do a lot of But in the scientists, the those pharmaceutical companies, ways to cure different diseases, medicine or to try and offset Okay, so they come up with something so we can see an announcement in the magazines, the medical journals that scientists in America have come up with a new cure for meningitis, or they've come up with a new cure for severe headaches that people can suffer from. So they've got a treatment now that migraine sufferers will benefit from. So to come up with something that they've been researching and testing for many, many years. So to come up with something something that eases off and So to ease off means to reduce Okay. So if you wake up with a blinding headache like migraine and you just really don't feel well, so you take a couple of Panadol or whatever medicine you usually take. You go into your room, you lie hours, the pain begins to ease So you're able to get up. You're able to hold your head You're actually able to even look at the the light, which normally doesn't happen when you have migraines. So it will ease off after a Or you go to the doctor with gives you an injection or some look, try this. I think the pain will ease off If it's no better, then call me So to ease off, to get better, reduce in its strength. Okay. Number twelve. To get over something. Well, we all hope for that. Yes. If we get the flu, we hope to So it's a statement. People can can say. So you tell your friends, oh, Harry's really not so good today. He's been sick, actually, over well, we will hope. Tell him we wish him all the best and we hope that he will get over it, whatever it is, very quickly. Okay, so when we get over Okay. So to get over, to recover, to impact of in terms of the, the that you have. Number thirteen to get round to Okay. Now, this could be simply to get round to eating better, to get round to having a healthier way of living. Okay. So you visit the doctor, he takes a look at you and says, well, come on, you're a little bit overweight. I'll put you on the scales here. But you know, and I know that weight to drop some kilos. You need to have some more How about improving your diet so you'll eventually get round to doing something because the doctor has told you, you look in the mirror, you don't feel so good, you're a little bit sluggish. Maybe you've been celebrating a little too much, a little eating a little bit more than you should. So you'll get round to doing something about it means to improve your way of life, to improve the way you live, to improve the quality of the food and the amount of exercise that you do. Okay, so to get around, finally, to flare up. So in this particular phrasal happens quite suddenly. So the rash that you get can Like two hours ago, nothing Two hours later, red lumps all or, you know, a bad cough or symptoms are, they can happen So to flare up means to happen comes about really quickly. But you could have a medical benign and dormant for a long So you have nothing happens. But then every six months or eight months or nine months, you get a sudden pain like gout is a real problem that some people suffer from. And then you can have a flare up every six or eight months, or you eat some food that you really shouldn't eat, and then you get this pain and within an hour or so, it's quite excruciating or very, very painful. So it can flare up very, very So something that repeats itself And when we're talking about to pass on something. So generally when we're talking on from one person to another. So of a particular illness is You have to be very careful who you talk to and who you meet, because you can pass on the illness by touch, by kissing, by breathing, by whatever manner you can. So the people very close to you have to be very, very careful that they keep themselves and you somewhat isolated, so you don't pass on the symptoms to someone else. Okay. So it's highly contagious. Okay. So contagious means that it can from one person to another quite So we have to be careful not to parts of the illness, to other still talking about pass, we can This is another way to refer to Okay. So he passed out. After half an hour. He stumbled around. He was very, very hardly sat sofa, meaning he fainted. Okay. so to faint, to pass out means And again, like we said in need some water, a cold drink, a wet towel on your face. Some smelling salts will help you to come back and regain your consciousness. But he passed out for a few Oh, I don't know what happened. I was standing there and I was then I suddenly just passed out. And, you know, next minute I woke up and there was a crowd around me. So to pass out means to feel And then, well, you lose As this example says, you walk, very worried and concerned Number seventeen to pick up Okay. So usually when we're referring to to your health is to pick up an illness. So you travel back from some Two days later, you're not You phone the office and tell I don't think I'm going to be I don't feel so well. I must have picked something up This is a very, very well used on the airplane. Because of the air conditioning, the recirculated air, you know, some people are sick, everybody becomes sick. Or I picked something up in the I went away with my wife and maybe in the swimming pool, there's some virus hanging around. But really, I don't feel so good I think I picked something up over the weekend, so you're not quite able to identify it specifically. All you know is that you're not little unwell, but it's while they were traveling, while a hotel, whatever it might be, picked up from the kids. So the kids came home from the sniffing and coughing. So what happens? They pass it on to the parents and they pick up whatever the kids have. Number eighteen. To put something out. Well, this is quite a difficult happened to you, you'll Okay. So when you put something out, Okay. So for example, if you're playing a contact sport like rugby, you might dislocate your shoulder, you put out your shoulder means it pops out the shoulder pops out of the socket or the joint, and it's excruciating. Or you might put out your finger You dislocate it when you try to awkwardly when playing football. And you you put your elbow out the bone is usually around the hip, the elbow, the shoulder. If you put these out, then it's And if you can do it very quickly, somebody can pop it back in. Okay. I often dislocated a finger playing football and somebody would pop it back in, but there would be a lot of pain for a few minutes, and then you need to tape the fingers up and get yourself checked. So to put something out means to dislocate some part, usually Okay, so to put something out. And then finally number nineteen is to put something down to something. Okay, so what does that mean to Well, you want to blame something for you the way you feel. So you wake up in the morning, oh, you're throwing your guts up. You're really sick and nauseous, say, look, I really, really I was out last night. I think the fish I had on the because I've been sick all night So you put it down to. You blame the fish. You blame the meat for your Okay, so you put something down Or indeed, you might have got if sitting in the sun without any creams, or you weren't wearing a I have to be really careful. If I go out in the sun that I the next morning I'm going to stroke that can cause you to be So you can put down your feeling wearing any protection on your too much sun, and you can put it blame that sort of put something poisoning down to the fish. It didn't smell so good at the shouldn't have eaten it. It was probably past its sell by Okay, so we've got nineteen phrasal verbs here, nineteen phrasal verbs connected with your health or your health condition. So they're all useful. Okay. All something that you can use. Like all phrasal verbs, the only Okay? So you need to take some of them And then the next week, take a And if indeed you suffer from we've mentioned, well, here verb that you can use. And if you have any questions, Well, of course, come back to I'm always happy to help you. It's I'm very happy that you've joined me for this particular lesson. Let's look forward to the next lesson me then.