morning and you feel dreadful. You don't

want to get up and you certainly don't

want to go to work.

So you could say I'm unwell, I'm ill, I'm

poorly, I'm under the weather,

I'm sick. You could also say I'm feeling

unwell, or I'm not feeling well, I'm

feeling poorly, I'm feeling ill, I'm

feeling sick. Now I'm feeling sick is a

little bit different to I'm sick. If you

say I'm sick

it suggests that your poorly or

generally unwell, but if you say I'm

feeling sick that may suggest that

you're feeling nauseous and might want

to vomit or throw up

so be aware of that difference

I'm sick in general, I'm feeling sick.

If you're feeling really unwell then

you may feel that you shouldn't go to

work in which case you would have to

call in sick or phone in sick.

Hi yeah it's Anna, i'm not feeling very

well today I don't think i can come in.

Sometimes people pretend to be sick in

order to get a day off work.

This is called pulling a sickie and it's

very naughty.

I've never done it ever ever ever.

Let's talk about the symptoms of

illness so the signs that you're sick.

Firstly you might have a pain in your

head

we call this a headache or if you have a

very serious headache you call it a migraine

If you have a pain in your ear

we call that earache. If you have pain in

your teeth then we call that toothache.

Toothache and if you have toothache you

would normally see the dentist not the

doctor.

Other symptoms in your head might be a

feeling of dizziness.

So you might feel dizzy, this is when you

feel unbalanced. You might even faint which

means you'll become unconscious or lose

consciousness.

Lots of people at this time of year

suffer with a cold or the flu and a cold

has many typical symptoms like...

Has anybody got a tissue.

Oh thank you. Coughing. If when you cough

stuff comes up, out of your throat, this

is called phlegm. Phlegm, and if you go to the

doctor with a serious cough they may ask

you what color is your phlegm. If you have

the flu and you might have the shivers. I

just can't stop shaking. Some people know

their unwell because they have a high

temperature, this means that they're very

very hot, more hot than normal and if you're

running a temperature that's very high

you may have a fever, this of course can

result in sweating.

Some people feel unwell in an emotional

way, so they could have mood swings or

feel very very down. The word for feeling

down is to be depressed. If your mood

changes regularly and we might say your

mood fluctuates or you have mood swings.

If your muscles tense up really tight

and you're not trying to make them tense

then this is called cramp. So you're

getting muscle cramp and some people

talk about getting up abdominal cramps

when they get pain in the muscles in

their tummy.

Sometimes you might have a problem with

flatulence which is also known as wind

or gas.

If the gas can't escape via the mouth or

the bottom then you may have trapped

wind which can be very uncomfortable and

a similar feeling to trapped wind

to feel bloated. If your nose is blocked

up and you have a pain here this is

called congested, to be congested and

people who are congested tend to sound

like this because the air can't pass through the

nose so they sound very nasal. And

it's very hard to understand what they're

saying when they sound nasal. I'm very

congested sorry, excuse me, sorry. If an area of

your body fills with fluid you will have

swelling so if you twist a joint the

joint might swell. So you'd say to the

doctor I have a swollen joint, a swollen

knee. Many people go to the doctor

because they get some form of rash and a

rash is unusual coloring spots on the

skin sometimes they're a bit itchy , sometimes

they're very red and blotchy, sometimes

it weeps and gives off a discharge this

means that fluid comes out of it.

Talking about fluid you may have to say

that you're bleeding in some way, you

might be bleeding from your private

areas, you might be bleeding from the

noses, from the mouth, from the ears; and

when you bleed you bleed blood. One of

the most unpleasant symptoms is to have

diarrhea also known as the runs, this

is when your stools or your poo is very

runny. Sometimes it's like water it's

very very uncomfortable. The opposite to

diarrhea is constipation.

This is when you can't go to the toilet

at all maybe for days and days and days

which is very unhealthy.

So when we're ill what do we do? The first

thing we do is look for sympathy. We tell

the people around us that we're not

feeling very well and hope that they will

look after us or take care of us,

this means they will make us tea bring

us food, and in the UK we tend to bring

grapes when people off unwell, and if

you're really poorly someone might bring

you flowers to cheer you up. A phrase

that we often use when giving sympathy

is oh dear, oh dear, it's just a

sympathetic expression.

Oh dear that's not very good, oh dear

that's not very nice at all, and this is

used for everybody,

men, women and children. Oh dear I'm sorry

to hear you're not well. We would also

wish the person a speedy recovery

so we say I hope you're feeling better

soon, get well soon.

Sometimes you might send a get well card

to wish them a speedy recovery and say

that we're thinking about them, on the

other hand we could be completely

unsympathetic, particularly if someone

who is a little bit under the weather is

putting it on or laying it on thick.

These phrases mean that they're being

melodramatic, they're making out like

their illness is much worse than it

actually is.

For example one phrase that we sometimes

use when we're ill is: oh I'm dying I'm so ill

I'm dying. When in fact they only have a

cold,

I mean come on. There is also a phrase in

the UK we use when a man is being

melodramatic about his cold and that is

the phrase man flu, so if a man has a

cold, a little bit of a sniffle, which

means he's got a runny nose,

we say - you got man flu have you?

Meaning it's not nearly as bad as they're

making out. They're just being melodramatic.

No I don't think Steve's coming tonight

yeah he's got man flu.

Exactly. The next step if you're not

feeling very well is to go to the

pharmacy to buy some medicine. Now the

medicine you can buy at the pharmacy without

a prescription from your doctor is

called over-the-counter medicine and

these are things like pain killers which

include paracetamol, ibuprofen, you can

also buy anti-inflammatories and

decongestants things like that. If you need

a stronger painkillers or another

type of medicine like antibiotics to

fight off an infection then you have to see

your doctor. In the UK we have the family

doctor, the local doctor, which we call a

GP this stands for general practitioner

GP. Of course if your illness is serious

then you may have to take a trip to the

hospital. If it's a real emergency then

you may even have to dial 999 and call

an ambulance. The ambulance will take you

to A and E, this stands for accident and

emergency.

Well that concludes this video I hope

none of you are feeling unwell and if

you are then I do hope that you feel

better soon.

But while resting make the most of these

videos, also why not check out all the

really helpful resources

which i've linked to in the comments box

below these include some facebook groups

including my own, as well as The English

Nook, which is an incredible English group

and an English group run by my good

friend Karim who posts every single day

very helpful posts to help you with your

English language learning, and finally

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