15 PHRASAL VERBS about sickness in English

Hi there. Welcome back to engVid, with me, Benjamin, your teacher for today. Today we

are going to be looking at phrasal verbs to talk about health, illnesses, and sicknesses;

helping you to talk about those things, whether you're coming to the U.K. for a visit or whether

you're doing an IELTS speaking, or you just want to be better generally at English with

more phrasal verbs at your disposal.

We are going to start today by playing an anagram game, just to get your mind thinking

so that I know you're concentrating for the full duration of the video. A random muddle

of letters that you must take letters from to create your own words. For example, let's

start with: "I" and then you need to create another word from the letters, so maybe you

want to start your next word with a "t", then you'll probably want a vowel, so maybe "a",

oh, there's a "p": "I tap". Okay? I want you to have a go at this. You've got 30 seconds.

Try and cross each letter off in your own mind after you use it, because each letter

written there can only be used once. Give it a go. You have 20 seconds left. And 10.

Wrapping it up now, trying to create some sort of phrase. Five, four, three, two, one.

What did you come up with, something good? Was it about health? Which is today's lesson.

I'll show you what I came up with. Not: "I tap", but: "I p..." No, I don't relieve myself,

but I use another "e" there, then another "e". Redeem yourself, Benjamin. Thank you.

"I peel o", I have another "l" there, "old sc-", and I have an "a" here, a "b" there,

an "s" there: "scab". If you fall over and hurt yourself, you might bleed. Your then

skin heals itself and you will have what is called a scab, first word in today's health

lesson. Let's learn some phrasal verbs.

Well done, you made it back to the second part of the lesson. So, we have one, two,

three, four, five, six, seven phrasal verbs here, and a few more over there. I'm going

to be putting this into the context of my impending, that means about to happen... "Impending",

I'll write that down for you. My impending trip to India. I'm going there on Saturday.

So: "come down with". So, "come" just means, you know, going somewhere, but if you come

down... "Down" and "up" often reflect emotions in English. If you come down with something,

it means you're coming... You're picking up some kind of illness, you become unwell. So:

"you come down with" means you get... You get sick. I hope that I don't come down with

anything when I am there. So after the "with" you list a general category or you specify

what you are coming down with; a bug, an allergy. Okay.

"To be blocked up", the blockage is referring to the nose. Okay? Because if you pick up

a cold, then you will suddenly have lots of stuff in your nose, so you don't want to be

blocked up. Okay? "To be blocked up". I don't imagine that I will be blocked up, because

"blocked up" we think of more with colds, with being in a colder place. I'm not expecting

to be blocked up when I am in India.

"Throw up", possibly or "bring something up". So, "throw" and "up", this is a movement coming

from your stomach up, up, up, and throw. "Throw up" is to be sick, hopefully not projectile

vomiting. I better write that down as well. "Pro-... Projectile" means throwing quite

a long way. It may be that I throw up if I get a stomach bug. "To bring something up",

so you're bringing... It's like you're bringing a nice flower to give to someone, but you're

not bringing up something very nice at all; in fact it's quite unpleasant. "Bring something

up", you're bringing your food up.

"To swell up", so this we can use to talk about the sea as well. Okay? When there are

big waves, you say: "There's a big swell", it means something getting bigger. To get

bigger. If I got bitten by a snake whilst I was in India, that part of my body would

swell up. In the past tense, you would say it... Something is swollen. Swollen up. Okay.

But, because I have strong body, my body has defences and my body is going to "fight off"

any illnesses. Okay? My immune system... The immune system is your body's defence. Your

body's defence. My body is going to fight off any illnesses.

You could also "shake off". Okay? Shake. Dogs shake to get dry. Okay? So, if you shake off

a bug, you're saying: "Illness, no, no, no, no. No, thank you. I'm okay. No bug for me.

No disease for me."

"To get over something", okay? So here is... Here is my something, I'm going to get over

it. The something... Oh my goodness me, would you see that? A misspelling. Bad Benjamin.

Note for you to check out my video on praise and criticism. Slap on the wrist, Benjamin.

"Swollen" has a double "l". Right. "Get over something", so the something would be a disease

if I became... Or an illness, a sickness. If I got unwell whilst I was in India, I would

need to get over it, I would need to get better; recover.

"To break out into", so you could... "To break" means, you know, to smash something. If I

was to break out into a dance, it means everything is still, and then I break the stillness by

suddenly dancing. But if I break out into an illness, suddenly spots would start appearing

on my face. "To break out" means to... Well, to... To change... To change for the worse,

really. It's a bad change.

"To put on weight". We know what weight is, it's something heavy. If I was to put on weight,

if I was to eat lots and lots and lots of curries when I was in India, then weight on

me, I go: "[Razzes]". Okay? I would put on weight. Weight would get on me.

"To pack up". "To pack up", so when you're leaving... Yup. If you're leaving a place,

you pack your suitcase. You put your clothes in your bag and off you go. It's the same

with your body. If your body is tired and is fed up, it goes: "That will be enough,

thanks, Benjamin. I'm going to pack up now." Okay? "I've had enough." So: "to pack up"

means sort of give up, break. If your body packs up, it stops working properly.

"To pass out". So, "out", we have this idea, the preposition takes us away from something.

Yup. The way out is through the exit. "To pass out" means if you... If you pass on something,

you say: "No thank you, I'm fine. I'll pass." If you pass out, you say: "Thanks, but I'm

just going to sort of fall asleep and fall over on the floor." Okay? Pass out: "Ooo,

bonk". It means... It's not fully unconscious, but it means to... Maybe to momentarily lose

conscious in a sort of non-serious way.

"To come around". This actually happened to me when I was in India 10 years ago. I hadn't

drunk very much water and I passed out. I then came around, I then sort of woke up again.

I came around, I look around. Okay? And, so "come around" means to wake up again after

passing out, so I'll just put: "Wake".

"To patch someone up". So, if your clothes have a hole in... Most of mine do. Today's

shirt doesn't seem to have one. If my shirt had a patch, I would put something on top

of it, like to cover up the hole. It's the same with your body. Yeah. After I had passed

out, I had hurt my chin. So the doctor needed to patch me up, put something there, to put

maybe a plaster to connect the skin together again, to heal it, to help it. Okay? Let's

think of: "Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's

horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again." Well, if they knew

how to patch him up, they would have been able to put him back together again.

Rather sad, this one: "pass away". Okay? So, again, the idea of: "No, that's enough", away,

off you go. This is a way of saying "to die". So, just put that there to end on a nice cheery note.

Okay. Thank you so much for watching today's video. My name's Benjamin. I love engVid;

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