Name: Learn English | A Real Conversation About Getting Sick
Uploaded: 2017-02-25T15:13:30.000Z
Duration: 20 min 42 s
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This is Jack from ToFluency.com and we are back with another conversation.

And, today, we are going to talk about...

Now, if you don't know who this is, this is my wife, Kate.

We have these conversations in British and American English.

So, we're going to talk about the Flu season, getting sick and also staying healthy.

Well, I think probably a good introduction would be to say that we didn't really think

We have a three year old who is in school and we are just getting sick constantly.

It mainly started when Thomas started daycare.

But, also you started teaching at that time in a middle school.

Thomas brought the germs home and we were just exposed to all these germs.

And, we, I've just been getting sick a lot over the past 2 or 3 years.

And, later on in this conversation, we're going to try and talk about ways to stay healthy

or look at ways that we might be able to stay healthy.

You don't know what those ways are right now.

But, there are a couple of phrases here that I want to introduce.

When, what does it mean to be coming down with something or to be fighting something

I'll say, "Oh, I'm fighting something off at the moment."

Yeah, that's that time where you've been exposed to whatever germ it is, whatever virus

and you feel really tired, really worn down and either you're fighting it off,

which means that your immune system is going to keep you from getting sick or you're coming

Which means that the next day you might wake up with a sore throat or a stuffy nose.

So, it's, its not a situation where you say "I'm sick."

You, it's when it's just starting to happen.

You know, I'm fighting something off at the moment so I feel tired.

And, usually we know when it's happening because we just want to go and lie down

and we just we just want to get away from everything, you know.

You want to just be on your own in bed and just, you know, fight it off, basically.

You want your mom to come with a cup of tea and

Yeah, that's right, Yeah and chicken soup is one of those things

that people have when they are feeling sick.

So, we are constantly fighting things off.

But, we always seem to be in this situation where either Thomas is sick, Emma's sick.

Or, we're feeling under the weather . We're feeling like we're fighting it off.

So, what kind of symptoms do you have when you're fighting something off?

I think, for me, that's probably the biggest one.

Sometimes, I find even though I'm so tired, sometimes I find it hard to get to sleep.

Yeah, it's harder to get to sleep at night.

My gums sometime, sometimes hurt when I'm fighting something off.

They've been hurting this week and it's some kind of inflammation.

And, sometimes, my hands break out as well when I'm fighting something off too.

But, usually it's just that feeling of low energy and feeling like you can't do anything.

And, you don't have any, you don't have any motivation, do you?

Although, usually right before I get sick and this might just be me, but I want to do