Learn the English Phrases SELF-ISOLATE and CONTACT TRACING

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn

the English phrase self-isolate.

When you self-isolate, it means you stay home,

you do not go out, and you do not see other people.

You are in self isolation.

When you are told to self-isolate,

you go into self-isolation.

I am currently in self isolation.

Before you get too worried, I don't have COVID,

I don't feel sick, but I am currently self isolating.

I need to self isolate because there was a student

in one of my classes that has now tested positive for COVID.

So I was sent home a couple of days ago

and told to self-isolate.

I'll tell you a little bit more about that in a moment.

Because the other phrase I wanted

to teach you today is the phrase contact tracing.

Contact tracing is what they do,

what medical people do after they identify someone

who has COVID.

They try to figure out all of the people

that have been in contact with that person.

They do contact tracing.

So when they found out that a student

in one of my classes had COVID,

they did what's called contact tracing,

and a couple of days ago, I got a phone call saying,

you need to self isolate because through contact tracing,

we have identified that you were in the same room

as this person for an extended period of time.

So, to review, I think you get the point.

When you self-isolate, it means you stay home

and you don't go out, because they are worried

you might have COVID.

I don't have COVID, at least I'm pretty sure I don't.

And they tell you to self-isolate

after they do some contact tracing.

So, like I said, I am self-isolating right now

because due to contact tracing, I have to stay home.

Hey, I don't have a comment from a previous video today.

I thought I would read you part of a letter

that I got two days ago, and you'll see

that these terms are actually used in official documents.

This letter was from the Niagara Region Public Health,

and it says this.

Dear staff member, this letter

is to inform you that Niagara Region Public Health

was notified of a COVID-19 confirmed case at your school.

You have been identified as a high risk contact

and will have to self-isolate for 14 days

from the exposure date indicated below.

Date of exposure, March 26th.

So it's been a week already.

And then it continues, sorry if this is boring,

but it continues.

The projected last date for the self-isolation period

is April 9th, 2021, household members

are advised to stay home while you are isolating,

except for essential reasons, i.e. attend work or school,

medical appointments, groceries, et cetera.

You and your household members may return

to regular activities on April 10, 2021.

So, I'm home for a week, I am self-isolating.

I have actually separated myself

from the rest of the family.

The room where I do my live streams

is now the room where I live for a few days.

I have been living there for about three days now,

two or three days, yeah two and a half days.

I have my own bathroom, so I am not using the same bathroom

as Jen and the kids.

But I will say this.

The last time I was in a room

with the person who had COVID was almost a week ago.

I feel fine.

I have scheduled a COVID test for tomorrow,

so I will go tomorrow at four o'clock for a test,

and hopefully that comes back negative.

But overall, I'm not too worried, I'm not too concerned.

When I go to work, I wear a mask all the time.

I stay actually more than two meters away from all students.

The student who I know got COVID,

I was definitely far away from that student on that day.

So I'm not too worried, but we'll see, who knows?

Things could change, I will keep you updated,

check the community page, I'll probably make a post

when I get the results of my test.

But, like I said, I feel pretty good right now.

I don't feel sick at all.

It's been a week, you would think

something would have shown up by now,

but who knows, we'll see.