How to Describe Being Sick in English

Well, hello.

How are you doing?

I'm doing pretty good, but I've been sick for

a week and it hasn't been very fun.

Nothing serious, just a normal sickness.

So I thought today, since I haven't put an English

lesson here on YouTube for over a week, I should

maybe do an English lesson about describing being sick.

Now, I've done these lessons before, so maybe I should just

say this is a review on how to describe your symptoms,

how your body is reacting when you are sick.

Last Monday, I was feeling under the weather,

so I didn't make an English lesson.

When you say you're feeling under the weather, it

means you're feeling a little bit sick, like you

can sense that you're going to be sick.

So last Monday, I was feeling under the weather.

I certainly wasn't feeling 100%.

In English, when you say you're not

feeling 100%, it means you're feeling, like,

less energetic than you normally are.

Last week, Tuesday, I felt the same.

I thought, you know what?

This isn't getting any better.

I'm certainly not feeling well.

I think I'm getting sick.

On Wednesday, I got a fever.

In fact, I had a fever

on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

It is not fun to be feverish.

When you have a fever, it means your body

temperature is higher than it's supposed to be.

So last Wednesday, actually, we were out after

school Wednesday doing a little bit of Christmas

shopping, and I couldn't do it.

I was starting to feel really, really sick.

So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I had a fever.

You can also say I was running a fever.

It means the same thing.

I was running a fever.

So I took Thursday off work.

I took a sick day last Thursday.

So in English, when you say you take a

sick day, you call your boss and you ask

if you can stay home from work that day.

So I took a sick day Thursday.

But Friday I was still sick, but I

really couldn't afford to take another sick day.

It's kind of hard to explain.

I could have called my boss and asked for

a sick day, and my boss would have said

yes, but it would have just been too difficult.

As a teacher, sometimes it's easier to just go

in to work when you're feeling sick instead.

So on Friday morning, I took some cough medicine or

cold medicine and I went to work for four or

five hours and I got the job done.

And then I came home Friday night or Friday

afternoon and I just went back to sleep.

Saturday, I was starting to feel a little bit better.

I was still kind of sick.

And I was starting to get different symptoms.

I was starting to cough.

My nose was stuffed up.

So I was coughing, my nose was stuffed up,

and I was starting to get a sore throat.

You can still kind of hear it a little bit.

So Friday and into Saturday, starting to cough,

stuffed up, nose, sore throat, basically all the

normal symptoms of having a cold.

But I was starting to feel a bit better

on Saturday, even though I had more symptoms.

Sunday, I started to feel even better.

I slept pretty good on Saturday night.

I think it was the first night

where I slept without having a fever.

That helped a lot.

Uh, and so Sunday I was feeling a bit

better, but still not a hundred percent at all.

So I just slept most of the day and just took it easy.

In English, when you take it easy,

it means you don't do anything.

You rest or you relax.

Uh, and then now it's Monday.

I'm making this on a Monday.

I did go to work today.

I can tell that I'm feeling way better

because I have a sense of humor again.

I was laughing a lot today and cracking

jokes and all the normal things that normal

people do when they're feeling a lot better.

So a week went by and it took

that long for me to feel 100% again. And again.

I'm not like 100% where I'm gonna go walk for an hour

today or go shoot my bow and arrow up in the barn

because I still think I need a couple days to recover fully.

When you recover from something,

it means you get better.

It means that you...

well, you start to feel 100% again.

So anyways, that was just a little review on how to

describe your symptoms if you have a cold or the flu.

Luckily, I didn't get an upset stomach at all.

I didn't have any kind of stomach flu or upset stomach.

It was mostly just all of the normal cold

and flu symptoms that are kind of irritating.

So, anyways, I'm gonna go edit this video.

It's a pretty leisurely thing to do, by the way.

Shooting the video is the hard part.

And then I'm going to put this up so

that you can watch it tomorrow and hopefully review

your English phrases for describing being sick.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I'm Bob, the Canadian.

I teach English here on YouTube.

I'm hope you're having a... I'm hope.

I hope you're having a good day,

and I hope you're not sick.

And if you are, I hope you get well soon. Bye.