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SICKNESS vocabulary!

This week we’re doing Cygnus vocabulary.

Recently, I got sick. Now did I have a cold? Or did I have the flu? Both, put you in bed and out of work for a few days. Maybe a week. But, there is a difference with a cold. usually, it’s a few days. it hits you fast and it leaves in a few days. The flu however it’s the longer one it’s the more serious one. Usually it’s like a week. Where you’re in bed, you’re sweating. You have a fever.

Everything’s terrible and you also might hear the expression man flu. What’s man flu? this comes from the stereotype that men handle colds much worse than women. do we complain a lot more? we exaggerate the symptoms a lot more? Usually, I don’t like to promote stereotypes. But in this case. this is me. when I have a cold goodbye mother. You’ve always been good to me. Tell everyone I love them. I’m dying. now. So, if you know a guy. who’s like this exaggerate a cold you can say.

You’ve just got man flu. Have some water and a sleep. You’ll be fine and these are some ways you can say. I’m sick. So, two very common ways to say I’m sick are I’m sick or I’m ill. Both mean you have a cold. The flu. whatever, but, there is a very British way of saying that and that’s I’m poorly. Americans Canadians probably Australians too they don’t use. I’m poorly. British people we do other expressions are I’m a little bit under the weather. that just means it’s normal you have a cold you have the flu. whatever, but, if you want to be really dramatic about it. and who doesn’t want to do that?

You can say these, I’m sick as a dog. I feel like death. warmed up mate. I feel like or if you want to be super dramatic. I’m at death’s door. When you’re very sick. Say that one, I’m at death’s or so when I’m ill and I don’t know whether it’s because I was ill recently or maybe I’m just fat. Now, my face does this in that situation. You say my face is puffy. so, not only when you’re sick. But, if you wake up too early and your face is like like a little chubby hamster you can say my face is puffy.

Puffy is the adjective to mean like a little fat hamster a puffy face is a symptom a sign of being ill. What are some other symptoms, when your nose is doing this thing with green stuff. You would say my nose is runny. Or I have a runny nose. and if you have a runny nose. Probably you can’t breathe either. In that case you say my nose is blocked or stuffy or bummed up. Those are quite neutral expressions. They’re not formal expressions. A formal expression is congested may dose is very congested.

You don’t say that to friends you would say that to your doctor or the pharmacist. Hey pharmacist I need some medicine or medicine. Do you need I don’t know my nose is congested. I have congestion. So, pronunciation, repeat these with me. My nose is runny. My nose is blocked. my nose is stuffy. For this one you commonly you wouldn’t say my nose is bum dub. You would say I’m all bummed up. Hello, why do you sound weird? I’m all bummed up. That’s how we would say it usually, and the last one congested.

But, remember you can say I have a runny nose. I have a blocked nose. I have a stuffy nose. I have a bummed up nose. Again, not very common. I’m all burned up. also, a really common mistake I hear. I think it’s maybe only Spanish. But in Spanish you say I have mucus which in English sounds so gross. Do you have a cold yes? I have mucus. So, yes you do have mucus. But, don’t say it in English. It sounds really gross and say one of these instead other things which happen with your nose.

Maybe, if you chew that, is called a sneeze. and when someone sneezes. It’s very common for the other person to say bless you or god bless you. now, this is like Christmas in England. It really doesn’t have anything to do with religion. It’s just a polite thing to say when someone sneezes and the pronunciation is like this not bless you need you connect the words with a sound. Bless you. bless you. Say it with me bless you or god bless you. Also about the mucous thing. yes this is called mucous.

But that is what you say to your doctor or your pharmacist. but ,informally we call it snot. It sounds gross and it is gross. but, the word is snot. informally, so, if you’re with other people and you need to get rid of this. Hmm I’m not gonna actually do it now. cuz, that’s gross. that sound was sexy though. You can say I need to blow my nose moving down from the nose. takes us to the throat. I know this is a difficult word to pronounce. So, let’s practice throat, throat first get the sound then bring your tongue down and back for the throat. throat in faster throat, throat.

So, if your throat is red and it really hurts to swallow or eat food you have a sore throat. your throat is sore. sore just means it hurts and often with a sore throat you might have a a cough. If you have a sore throat and a cough. probably your voice sound like this. And if your voice sounds like this. you say my voice is hoarse. Yes, the same pronunciation as horse. Horse your voice is hoarse. Same pronunciation. Different spelling. if your head is like boom-boom-boom. you say I’ve got a headache. headache. The pronunciation mistake I hear with this is head h it’s not that it’s headache. Imagine it’s like a k headache. Now, not only your head. But, maybe all over your body.

If it hurts just everywhere. Then you would say I feel achy again. This just means it hurts everywhere in your muscles joints. May be everywhere hurts if you feel like this you just want to sleep all the time. In this case you feel tired. be careful of the pronunciation. it’s not tie-red. new it’s tired. tired. Say it with me. Tired. Usually from illness or stress you work too much it’s common to say I feel rundown. I feel very rundown. And the more formal version you would say to your doctor I feel fatigued. These are not informal. they’re all fine. But, this one is the medical term for this.

Moving further down the body. Now, if the problem is in this area. Your tummy or your stomach. You would say I’ve got a tummy ache. or I’ve got a stomach ache. No tummy ache is what kids say, or if you really want sympathy you might say Oh God tummy ache. make me some soup. But, as adults we say I’ve got a stomach ache. Pronunciation is kind of easy stomachache. Stomachache. I’ve got a stomach ache. a stomach ache, might lead to this is a fart butt is a verb it’s also a noun this is a fart. and he just farted. It’s a regular verb. if you’re poo is purple.

Definitely go see a doctor. but, if you have a stomachache and your poo is like water this is called I’ve got diarrhea. there are two spellings for this. That’s the American one. that’s the English one. but, it doesn’t really matter. Everyone uses this one, anyway. it’s fine when was the last time you had diarrhea? Let me know in the comments. the final symptoms involve this your temperature is very, very high. You’re in bed and water is coming out of you from everywhere first of all the water that’s coming out of your head is called sweat.

That’s a verb and a noun. You can say this like I’m sweaty that’s an adjective. I’m really sweaty. Use it like a verb. I’m sweating so much and to talk about this the high temperature you’d say I’ve got a fever. I’ve got a fever. I’m sweaty and gross. If your friend is ill, you want to ask do you have medicine. are you eating medicine? that’s not the question to ask. We don’t say to eat a pill or to eat medicine. We say to take medicine.

To take a pill. So, the question should be are. You’re ill. That sucks. you taking anything and your answer should be yeah. I’m taking aspirin. very simple. I’m taking name of medicine. I’m taking ibuprofen. I’m taking paracetamol. I’m taking aspirin. if you have a medicine which lasts like a week. You have to take one pill every day. You would say I’m on name of medicine. For example, I’m on antibiotics. Let me know your experiences with colds or the flu in the comments below. Tell me about your symptoms. Don’t be afraid to be disgusting.