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  • 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;

  • it's fun. Let's watch some more. See you on the next video. Bye.

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15 PHRASAL VERBS about sickness in English

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sort

US /sɔrt/

UK /sɔ:t/

  • verb
  • To arrange things in a systematic way, typically into groups.
  • To arrange things in groups according to type.
  • To organize things by putting them into groups
  • To deal with things in an organized way
  • noun
  • A category of things or people with a common feature; a type.
  • Group or class of similar things or people
immune

US /ɪˈmjoon/

UK /ɪˈmju:n/

  • adjective
  • Exempt or protected from something undesirable, such as a tax or legal action.
  • Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
  • Protected against a particular disease or condition because of antibodies or vaccination.
expect

US /ɪkˈspɛkt/

UK /ɪk'spekt/

  • verb
  • To believe something is probably going to happen
  • other
  • To anticipate or believe that something will happen or someone will arrive.
  • To believe that something will happen or is likely to happen.
  • To require something from someone as a duty or obligation.
wrap

US /ræp/

UK /ræp/

  • noun
  • Piece of clothing worn loosely on the shoulders
  • Thin bread filled with food and rolled
  • verb
  • To be or move around something
  • To cover something with paper or a cloth e.g. gift
category

US /ˈkætɪˌɡɔri, -ˌɡori/

UK /ˈkætəgəri/

  • noun
  • Groups of things that are similar in some way
  • A group of people or things having something in common
unconscious

US /ʌnˈkɑnʃəs/

UK /ʌnˈkɒnʃəs/

  • adjective
  • Not aware of what is going on around you
  • Not being deliberate or on purpose
  • Not awake and not aware of one's surroundings.
  • Done or existing without one realizing.
  • noun
  • The part of the mind that is inaccessible to conscious thought.
  • other
  • The part of the mind that contains thoughts and feelings that one is not aware of.
disease

US /dɪˈziz/

UK /dɪˈzi:z/

  • noun
  • Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
  • other
  • To affect with disease; to cause disease in.
  • To affect with disease; to corrupt or sicken.
  • other
  • A particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of part or all of an organism.
  • An illness or sickness affecting humans, animals, or plants, often with specific signs or symptoms.
  • A disorder of structure or function in a plant, especially one caused by a pathogen.
  • other
  • A condition or problem that is harmful or damaging to a society or organization.
  • other
  • An illness or sickness affecting humans, animals, or plants, often with specific symptoms and signs.
concentrate

US /ˈkɑnsənˌtret/

UK /'kɒnsntreɪt/

  • verb
  • To cause to be present in large amount or number
  • To pay great attention to a task; focus
  • To remove water from a thing to make it more pure
  • other
  • To focus one's attention or mental effort on a particular object or activity.
  • To focus one's attention or mental effort on a particular object or activity.
  • To gather or accumulate in a particular place or area.
  • other
  • To direct something to a central point or purpose.
  • To direct something, such as effort or attention, toward a specific object or activity.
  • To bring or gather together in a particular place or for a particular purpose.
  • To increase the density or strength of a substance by removing water or other diluents.
  • To increase the strength or density of a substance by removing water or other diluents.
  • noun
  • A substance made by removing water or other diluents; a concentrated form of something.
  • A substance made by removing water or other diluents; a concentrated form of something.
reflect

US /rɪˈflɛkt/

UK /rɪ'flekt/

  • verb
  • To indicate or be a sign of something
  • To bounce back light, heat, sound from a surface
  • To show an image in glass, water, a mirror etc.
  • To think of something seriously and carefully
  • other
  • To show or express something; to be a sign or indication of something.
  • To show or be a sign of a particular situation or feeling.
  • To throw back light, heat, sound, or an image from a surface.
  • other
  • To think deeply or carefully about something.
  • To think deeply or carefully about something.
criticism

US /ˈkrɪtɪˌsɪzəm/

UK /ˈkrɪtɪsɪzəm/

  • other
  • The expression of disapproval of someone or something on the basis of perceived faults or mistakes.
  • The analysis and judgment of the merits and faults of a literary or artistic work.
  • The expression of disapproval of someone or something based on perceived faults or mistakes.
  • The expression of disapproval of someone or something on the basis of perceived faults or mistakes.
  • noun
  • Article or essay that judges quality
  • Negative judgment of something
  • Something negative that you say about something
  • School of thought
  • A detailed analysis and assessment of something, especially a literary, philosophical, or political theory.
  • other
  • A remark or comment expressing disapproval.
  • A remark or comment expressing disapproval.