Let's Learn English! Topic: Sickness 🤒😷🤢 (Lesson Only)

better. I feel way better today. By the way I feel way

I don't want to go out in public. And cough on other

next day when I go to work he'll say are you feeling

people. Or around other people. You should never cough on other

this as well before you get sick. You could say I'm

common way to describe it. Oh I feel better. I feel a lot

feeling 100 percent. I feel like I'm coming down with

can have an epidemic. Um but when it goes worldwide we call

100percent. I actually said this earlier. This is a phrase

have an epidemic. A town can have an epidemic. A province

better but I still have a bit of a sore throat. I'm feeling

phrase a bit of a because we use this phrase a lot when

feel a lot better than I did yesterday. So it's simply it

Advil but I still have a bit of a headache. So it's when you

he'll say I hope you feel better tomorrow. And then the

So when you are sick you don't feel good. But when you're done

stay in your room for 10 days until you could prove that you

starting to feel better you might go to work and someone

you can use it describe how you are feeling. So I have the

could say yeah I'm back. I'm not feeling 100percent. But I

might say hey you're back. Are you feeling better? And you

when you're contagious you are helping a disease to spread.

That's how I would say that. Sometimes we have what called

to another. It moves from one to another. When you have a

dangerous kinds. Things that can spread before you have

severe. They aren't big anymore. Um and you can use

sore throat. I think it's getting worse. I have a bit of

when you're starting to feel better. So here's a couple of

you can use when you're starting to feel sick. And also

or put people in isolation. I think we are all aware of this

when a lot of people in one place have the same sickness.

examples. Um I might in sick tomorrow because I'm not

difference is that a pandemic is worldwide. Then we have

contagious just by people breathing the same air.

Some things are less contagious. Some diseases are

sickness you might not be contagious. What's dangerous is

contagious it means that you are sick and you are able to

flu epidemic. But if everyone in the world was getting the

few days until the outbreak is over. So an outbreak is simply

building have the same thing. They all have the flu. They

describe that you still have some symptoms but they aren't

for older kids but if they have brothers and sisters in each

better but I still have a bit of a stuffed up nose. Um I took

the sickness. Uh and then we also just have what we call

humans have invented or developed that help people

also refer to that as medicine. Medicines are things that

is you have. So you may have Notice I've used the phrase to

people. And then of course the last thing you want is you want

already breathing out or leaving the disease everywhere

earlier in the lesson. You can say things like this. I'm

sometimes you are sick because you have an infection. You are

a cough. So I feel like I should stay home today because

to feel better. Um when I take a sick day I text my boss and

an outbreak. So in Canada sometimes older people will

these are my symptoms. And the doctor says okay we're going to

quarantine. You had to stay in isolation for 10 days. They

What is bad is if something is going around where there is no

Sometimes when you are sick and you touch something like if I

things like this. Couple phrases here. I'm not feeling

feeling better but I still have a bit of a cough. I'm feeling

you feel better. Okay so when you take something like I have

same flu we would say it's a pandemic. So that's the

a certain number of days until you are either not getting sick

something. I'm feeling under the weather. So before you

better? And I'll say yes I feel much better or I feel better.

better. I still have a bit of a sore throat like a tiny bit. I

now. There was a time where if you traveled from one country

can happen at the beginning of an illness or at the end and

pandemic. An epidemic is when like the entire city of Toronto

a cold or something else. And then of course there is

we're describing things. You could and I think I did this

being sick you feel better. That is probably the most

treatment. So when you have different things there are

often say that when you are sick when you are getting

flu I'm just going to sleep for a few days and rest until my

isolation. You are kept separate from everyone else for

actually get really sick you could say I'm not feeling a

brand. But you often when you are sick you want a treatment.

put you on antibiotics. Because that will help you. Um you'll

call it Advil here because that's the most common name

hundred percent. When you're sick though when you are

going to go home from work early because I have a bit of a

from person to person. Some things are highly contagious.

fight off infection or fight off disease or illness.

nurse on duty. And where they can all eat meals together.

treatment. So you have something where there's no

an epidemic and a pandemic. An epidemic is when a certain

antibiotics. So sometimes you go to the doctor and you say

everyone's the same flu. There's an epidemic. There's a

live in an old age home. They'll live in a special

to reduce the severity of the symptoms if you do happen to

a headache one of the treatments for a headache is to

medicine. People in the past have asked me what's the

It's called an old age home. But sometimes there's an

or stop being sick. One of the two. And we have what's called

disease spreads quickly in a certain area. So a city can

help you avoid getting a disease or a severe version of

it a pandemic. So that's the difference between epidemic and

sore throat. I have a headache. I have a fever. Um yeah that's

spread the sickness. Okay? So when at different parts of the

last few years against COVID help stop the spread of it or

are kind of the outward signs that you are sick. So if you

is simply the standard term for anything you take that helps

flu. Someone might say oh I'm not feeling well. I have the

flu. And we have of course everyone is familiar with what

sick. No. We don't say that. Like a month ago I called in

vaccines are now. Now that we have been through a couple

are the way in which you know you are sick. So when someone

We would call that an outbreak. Sometimes they will quarantine

November to about January February that is when most

antibodies against the flus that are going around. Right

flu? Yes I have three or four symptoms right now. I have a

people get the flu. And by the flu I mean headache, fever,

declare an outbreak and then noone is allowed to visit for a

to another country when you arrived you had to stay in

You can get your flu shot. So you can go and you can get a

would put you in a special hotel and you would have to

feeling well today. Can I have a sick day? Instead I say hey

hear someone coughing that's one of the symptoms of having a

outbreak in an old age home. Sometimes so many people in the

Contagious. So some of these words I think are very familiar

apartment building for older people where there's always a

If you have a school for younger kids and a high school

I have prescriptions. I have medication that I take. I could

treatment your body just needs to fight it off all by itself.

Like when I'm sick I don't take my phone and say hey boss not

didn't have COVID. So that is when you are in quarantine or

And then we have something as well called antibiotics. So

fight off quite a bit. I don't have a slide for this but we

school sometimes it will spread from one school to another. So

take something that will help your body fight off whatever it

bit when something spreads. It means it moves from one person

disease in one school it often will spread to another school.

Or can I take a sick day? Uh even when I text my boss I

this. If I wake up in the morning I will take a sick day.

symptoms. Uh and I have just used the word spread quite a

well. Interestingly enough I don't actually call in sick. I

in sick. So I guess we don't I guess you could say I texted in

or a sore throat you can take medicine to make you feel

get it. And I mentioned symptoms a few times. Symptoms

different treatments. Uh I mentioned earlier when you have

end. How about we say it that way? And you end up sitting on

several times. So Those two types of illnesses are not yeah

have a stuffed up nose and I have a cough. Do you have the

sick and you have something that can be killed by

there are diseases where you don't feel sick but you're

says do you have a cold you say yeah I have a few symptoms. I

when you're contagious before you have symptoms. So sometimes

contagious and it might spread via surfaces. But when you are

and other people can get it from you. Those are the most

the day and your visit to the bathroom is not normal there.

diarrhea sometimes you just have to wait a day or two until

Never nice. Never nice when that happens. Probably the

the flu shot in order to hopefully avoid getting the

take something called ibuprofen. We sometimes just

common way of describing how your body tries to get rid of

better you are fighting off the cold or you're fighting off the

boss I'm not feeling well today. Can I have a sick day?

that disease. So many people have gotten vaccinated in the

sick but I didn't actually call my boss. I texted my boss. Um

I will say yeah I was sick last week so I took a sick day. Or

there are a few things you can do to try to avoid being sick.

worst kind of sickness to have is one where you have to vomit

body can fight off the flu. So that is a a definitely a very

don't know but last night two of them threw up. So that's how

what we call throwing up and that's what we call puking. So

whatever's in your stomach comes back out. There's no nice

way to describe it. That is what we call vomiting. That's

they will call in sick. There's a number of ways to talk about

might throw up or I might puke. Of these three verbs. The most

as many as I can think of off the top of my head. So symptoms

tomorrow I'm going to call in sick because I'm not feeling

touch my phone and then Jen touches my phone I might be

would describe it. Um vomiting and the word to vomit isn't

now. When something is contagious it means it spreads

text my boss. But we still refer to it as calling in sick.

have? If my nose is stuffed up and I'm cough I would say I

This is when you go to the bathroom many many times during

usually comes also with things like a fever or a sore throat.

sore throat, those kinds of things. So many people will get

now in Canada we call this flu season. From the end of

years of a pandemic. A vaccine is something that you get to

difference between pills or medicine or treatment. Medicine

have that sickness. Now in my part of the world people often

give. Uh your head just hurts. And sometimes people will take

there's not a lot you can do. Like when you have a headache

Symptoms are the things that are happening to you when you

used very often. It's kind of it's not a nice sounding word

better. But when you're throwing up or when you have

use the word flu to talk about the stomach flu. The stomach

the toilet a lot throughout the day going to the bathroom

usually headache, fever, sore throat. All of those symptoms.

have a cold. If someone asked hey what do you have? Like if I

up. Okay. So not to get confused. The real flu is

and maybe a cough and a stuffed up nose I would probably say I

would still describe it by saying that I call that I call

common one for me is the middle one to throw up. That's when

or throw up. Uh and then we also have something called

people do when they are sick they will take a sick day. Or

when I describe my children to someone if they are sick. They

know exactly what they have. But a cold or the common cold

flu shot which tries to help your body build immunity or

stuffed up nose. Um it's similar to the flu but the flu

not feel good. I have a stomach ache. I think I'm going vomit I

with all different types of sicknesses or illnesses. You

sick and I was I was sick and I had to throw up a few times.

Advil or Tylenol. Ibupro or acetaminophen to help with

might say oh your kids are sick. What do they have? Oh I

The stomach flu is when you feel like oh I my stomach does

at all. I think a nicer way to describe it is to say I was

that. You might have a cold again I described a cold

earlier. A cold is when you have a cough and you have a

was sick. If I had a headache and a fever and a sore throat

You have a stomach ache. And you might even end up throwing

your body naturally starts to feel better. So here's what

That's how I will describe it. So sometimes you have a stomach

going to explode. You might feel like your head is in a

ache and instead of throwing up something happens at the other

is usually just a stuffed up nose and a cough maybe a bit of

vice. A vice is something that squishes something. You might

diarrhea. Not a very easy thing to describe. I will simply say

So for me if I'm sick and someone says oh what do you

flu is when you do when you your stomach doesn't feel well.

runny nose. But I think Sometimes it can be a sign that

headache right at the front or at the back of your head. When

a sore throat. And then the flu you have a few extra symptoms.

feel pressure. You might just feel pain. You might have a

have the flu. Um but sometimes people get confused. They don't

you might have a headache. This is a very common thing to have

bit. Sorry that's kind of gross. But hey there's nothing

you have a headache you just don't feel well because your

Sometimes the snot in your nose starts to come out of your nose

nice about sickness. I'm going to describe all of it. Uh

the worst thing for a teacher. When you are trying to do a

might have a headache. You might Feel like your head's

nose. They just have a lot of snot in their nose. That's what

a stuffed up nose if I was sick with a stuffed up nose. That's

how I would sound. You might also have a runny nose.

you might be getting better if you have a runny nose. So

prevent that. So you can actually hear probably just a

students you need to project your voice. You need to speak

of tissues or Kleenex close to you. Um it's not fun to have a

stuffed up nose not a lot comes out of your nose. But a runny

nose sometimes your nose will even start to drip a little

and you need to blow your nose a lot. You need to have a lot

You might have a stuffed up nose. So right now I can easily

normal body temperature is here and it's a few degrees higher

house. Uh Jen and one of my kids who are having trouble

temperature is high you actually can feel cold when you

little bit that I have a tiny bit of a sore throat though

had. There's different levels of severity. You might have a

the stuff in your nose is called when you're stuffed up.

head hurts. That is the best description. Uh I would I would

it can also make you feel really cold. You can have the

might have a sore throat that's so sore that you lose your

well. When your nose is plugged it makes your change a little

And you might need to blow your nose a lot into a Kleenex or

degrees Celsius or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit or 98 or 99.

having some sort of sickness. Uh and it makes you feel

breathing through their nose because they have a stuffed up

bit. That sounded a little funny. Is that really how my

you have a fever. A fever is caused by an infection or

still but it's definitely way better than it was a week ago.

nose? Yeah that's how I sound when I put my nose. So if I had

to cough like this. Now we cough into our elbow. Which I

voice and you can't talk anymore. There are two teachers

tissue. But a stuffed up nose can make you sound funny as

find a little difficult to do sometimes. But when you have a

I don't know the details. I'm not a doctor. But if your

throats were so sore that they have lost their voice. That is

have a fever. You might have a sore throat. This is what I

that you are sick. You could have a cough we can also switch

So if your temperature goes really really high. If your

day off? If you're feeling under the weather if you don't

not a nice thing for a teacher to by the way. A sore throat is

this to the verb form and say that you cough. So this is a

feel good why don't you just go home and rest? That's what nice

bit of a sore throat. You might have a really sore throat. You

at school right now who can't talk very loudly because their

cough you cough into your elbow. You might have a fever.

energy. Yeah I just don't feel good. And then if your boss is

nice they might say why don't you just take the rest of the

this phrase this is very very common. It's common to say I

throat was a bit sore. So I would say to People ah I'm just

English word just ah I just don't feel good. Um hey you

might say ah I don't feel good. And sometimes we add the

doing? You and if you are starting to feel sick. You

clearly and loudly and having a sore throat can sometimes

breathe through my nose. There are a couple of people in my

cough I've just coughed the proper way. By the way we used

live stream or when you are trying to teach a class full of

bosses say. Let's go over a few things that actually indicate

not feeling great today. I feel under the weather. I think I

weather. A week and a half ago I started to feel under the

had. I was starting to have a bit of a stuffed up nose and my

before you get really sick is to say that you feel under the

strangely enough a fever can make you feel really hot. But

weather. I didn't have as much energy each day as I normally

temperature goes above thirty-eight point something

chill Sometimes when you have a fever. So even though your body

Canada. There's a few ways to describe how you're feeling.

you talk about specific things that go around. Like malaria.

don't feel good. If someone says to you hey how are you

One of the most common ways to describe how you feel right

You would say that there are diseases in the world. So

might be getting sick. And I was right. You might also use

around. There's something going around right now in Ontario

don't seem yourself today. You don't seem to have a lot of

of sickness right now. So there's a lot of sickness in

So if you if things look familiar to some of you that is

why. Disease is simply an official scientific term for

would be this. I can say that I am sick. I can say that I am

the cause of why you feel sick or ill. So the distinction

By the way if these slides look familiar to you I did do this

way for me to say it is to say I am feeling or there is a lot

feeling well. I will most often say I'm sick. I was sick last

the way that's another way to describe it to say you're not

disease is simply a much more scientific way. A formal way to

talk about specific things that go around. That's another

Ontario Canada right now. And then we have the word disease.

ill but I don't have to say exactly what I have. But when

phrase by the way. Sicknesses and illnesses and diseases go

lesson three years ago and this is a new and improved version.

to describe it. It's not incorrect. But the most common

week and couldn't go to work. I was sick last week. I don't

is no difference except that the word sick and the word

often say I was ill last week. That's not a common way for me

sickness are probably more common. At least in my part of

the difference between sickness and illness. What is the

better. So welcome again to this English lesson about

the English speaking world. When I'm not feeling well. By

One of the first questions people often have is what is

difference between being sick and being ill? And there really

once again welcome to this English lesson about sickness.

you can use to talk about when you just don't feel well. So

things. A whole bunch of English words and phrases that

sickness. I'll talk about a whole bunch of different

that you missed last week's English lesson you didn't

because there wasn't one. I took a week off to try and feel

was just not feeling well for over a week. So if you thought

time. I'll have to say this though I wasn't totally sick. I

illness. Interestingly enough I have a lot of experience with

sickness. A lesson about sickness. A lesson about

this recently because I was just sick for quite a long

can just feel a little bit but I'm definitely feeling better.

Well hello everyone and welcome to this English lesson about