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Learn English Fast - How To Talk About Your HEALTH in English ✔
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Apr 9, 2025
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hi this is Jan at learn English with be Global and today we're going to learn
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about how to talk about our General Health how do you say dot dot dot in
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English when you're talking about your health whether our health is good or bad
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we need to know how to express ourselves and of course this can be a challenge
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when you're trying to do that in a different language even words or actions um that
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are simple to explain in your native language are sometimes hard to express
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in a different language so this video is designed to help you know how to tell
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your friends or even a medical person uh
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what you're feeling uh healthwise we'll start by looking at
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some verbs that are related to the mouth and
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breathing okay so let's start with
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breathe breathing is inhaling and
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exhaling so let's say you're having a hard time
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breathing um that is you're not getting a comfortable amount of air into your
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lungs so here are the lungs that's what
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we uh we call l u n g s most people have
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two of them so in English we call those lungs it's uh around Christmas time here
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so I gave our our guy a little Santa hat okay so he will help us uh describe some
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things in English so if you're having a hard time breathing um maybe this is because
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you're panicking uh or um because you're allergic to something and it's making it
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hard for you for the air to get through your
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mouth and your nose um and for whatever reason and out
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again right so for whatever reason um it's a scary thing uh to feel like you
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can't breathe so you want to be able to express that so you might say I'm having
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a hard time breathing uh in fact just generally if
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you go to some medical facility uh in the US really probably anywhere but in
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the US if you tell them you're having a hard time breathing um they will try to make sure
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you're examined right away so this is a good this is a good word right oh what
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if you're not sick or panicking uh but you have a hard time
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breathing how do you express that for example maybe you're running to catch a
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bus uh and after you sat down on the bus you're breathing hard
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like you say I'm trying to catch my breath my
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breath so breath is a noun
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breath when you're breathing heavily we
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say you're trying to catch your breath catch your breath uh or you might say
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okay let me catch my breath um when you hear someone say that or you say it
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yourself you are meaning let me come back to breathing at
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a normal pace so remember breathe is the verb
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breathe ver so to pronounce the e wres you have
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to smile breathe like that breathe the verb the past tense past tense is
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breathed breathed uh if you hear someone say he
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breathed his last means he died um but breath the
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noun um without the e at the end uh is
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uh it sounds different right it sounds very different breathe and
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breath um and even though uh it may sound strange breaths
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breaths is the plural of breath maybe you've seen in the movies
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someone's having a baby and there's a helper there saying take short
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breaths like that um the one last comment about breathe
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and breath uh you must pronounce the [Music]
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th clearly in these words um you got to show your tongue between your
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teeth practice this you can't be lazy with this word uh so you you repeat
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after me breathe breath so you see your tongue in between
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the teeth on both of those words
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great our next word is yawn now to Yawn is to do
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this right uh it's a lot easier word than breathe you might say to your friend I
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saw you yawning in class yesterday did you get enough sleep so that's that's just yawn that's
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how you describe that the next word related to the mouth
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and breathing is cough and remember the GH sound here is really sounds like an
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F what's a cough example of a cough is like that it's cough um it's one of
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those um or like many of the verbs we're looking at it's regular uh I
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coughed she oh I'm sorry I coughed she
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coughed he was coughing they coughed he
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coughs so it's not too scary of a verb there of course there are all kinds of
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coughs though right if you have to explain it to a doctor or a
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friend uh so here's an example if you're really sick in your lungs remember we talked
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about our lungs you say I have a heavy cough or maybe you just have a a normal
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cough that's associated with a a cold uh you might say I keep coughing in
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class I need to get some cough drops uh that is to say you need
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something to suck on like that uh to keep your throat uh from causing you to
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cough and this is when I say your throat that's your throat
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here so T HR o a t and that's just this
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this area this area back here I mean there's a lot back here of course but we say what's my my throat is where you
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feel like you're G to cough uh cough can also be a noun too so it can be a verb
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or a
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noun all right so when it's a noun it's very common to
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say I have a cough instead of saying I keep
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coughing when you say I have a cough it it means you've been coughing
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consistently uh for a few days even though it sounds like you just have one cough this means you have been coughing
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a lot I have a cough um if you um it's
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not the same as if you just uh started coughing because you're temporary trying
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to clear your throat we would say clear your throat
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like that's clearing your throat like that um that's not a uh
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that's not what you mean when you say I have a cough or if you're choking if you're
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like something stuck in there that's choking that's not the same if you have
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a cough it means you've just been you've just been coughing for a few days and and you're sick um and someone might say
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to you yeah you've had that cough for two weeks um you should probably go to a
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doctor so that is cough well we all sneeze right a chew
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that's a a sneeze uh so another word to
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describe uh your health uh uh is
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sneeze sneeze you can say I think I might be
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allergic to your cat I sneeze a lot when I'm around
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her um we don't say I have a sneeze like I was saying I have a cough we just say
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I keep sneezing so that's a different way uh to describe that at least in uh
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the US in English um you might say I keep sneezing I'm sick or I'm allergic to your cat or
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that cat so our next term related to the
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mouth and breathing is sigh which
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is sighing is just Breathing heavily
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once and for various reasons right um maybe sadness or
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tiredness or relief um those are some emotions
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connected with this action the verb sigh is pronounced
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without the GH sound it's just sigh that's it uh you don't usually hear
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someone say sigh um maybe you'll read it um it's just one of
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those nonverbal uh breathing things that don't really need a lot of
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interpretation uh you might read heavy sigh uh that usually implies some kind
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of extra strong emotion if you put heavy in front of it uh either positive or
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negative usually kind of negative usually frustrated or sad um if a friend
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of yours um had a medical problem that worried
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you when you found out that he was okay uh you might say I breathed a sigh of
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relief when I found out he was okay um that's how you might use that word sigh
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so that's sigh what about hiccup so hiccup is the inv
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voluntary breathing spasm that happens sometimes uh hiccup is
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like you know like that if you have that how do you describe that in
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English you might say I think I swallowed too much air so now I have the
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hiccups how do you stop the hiccups uh do you know there's actually
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a website for 200 150 cures for the hiccups from all over
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the world um there's some medical and not so medical uh ways to cure the
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hiccup but the hiccups but the concern of this video is uh how you would
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describe in English what's happening to you when you have the
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hiccups or other things right so when you describe the noun hiccup
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you're always um put the definite article
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the uh in front of it
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the hicups and usually it is plural
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right because it's you have more than one hiccups to usually right so you
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would say to describe that you would say I have the hiccups or you have the
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hiccups um or you might ask do you have the hiccups okay the
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hiccups um now it's it's used as a verb such as did you just
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hiccup that's different the verb it doesn't need the definite
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article and it doesn't necessarily need um uh the S to make it
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plural um or we could just say we could say if
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it's a verb she just
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hiccuped uh past tense right she just hiccuped so you don't need the definite
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article with that or I keep
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hiccuping I can't stop pick uping so
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that is how you say hiccup our next word is
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snore snort uh that's the snorting or
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grunting sound some people make when they
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sleep you know that it's really attractive um maybe you want to describe
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the loud sleeping of your roommates or someone
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an example of using that verb would be I'm having a hard time sleeping because
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my roommate snores all
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night that's an S um when you use snore as a noun you would uh use a definite
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article in front of it for example um I I can hear the okay so this
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is the verb snores right to the noun I
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can hear the
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snoring through the door uh so the is
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identifying the noun okay well let's take a couple other take a look at a
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couple other words uh that are connected with your General Health uh but that
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have to do with digestion and your and eating all right
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in your stomach let's look at the word chew suppose you go to the dentist
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that's the doctor that looks at your teeth right and you tell him or her
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you have a pain in your mouth right uh so you could tell him it hurts when I
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chew on my right side uh to chew is to work your teeth
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together like that to make the food small in your mouth so it's easy to
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swallow um so it would be correct for you to tell the dentist or or the
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doctor I first discovered the pain in my mouth uh when I was
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chewing Pizza my pizza uh we also say bite
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bite bite uh but it's h a bit more precise um you can bite something um and
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not have it go down your throat right and just bite chewing usually has to do
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with going down your throat um for example uh if a dog bites you um you can
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tell the doctor I got bit by a dog uh uh you you wouldn't say I got chewed by a
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dog unless you know it was a really hungry dog and and he ate you he probably just just bit you right uh so
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uh bit it's the past tense of bite as you
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know so uh so those are two different things that have to do with um uh your
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mouth and chewing digestion things like that so to chew denotes a continuous
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action and if you put your teeth together just once it's
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bite so our next word that pertains to
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eating and digestion is an important in one it's swallow or to
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swallow to swallow is the verb I've already used that a couple
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times before in this video and maybe you've picked up on what it means in the
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context um to swallow is this okay uh so now you know it it is to
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cause food or drink to go down your throat it's the
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it's the muscle it's the muscle that moves that right that's you know that but this is how you say it in English to
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swallow uh so many times we can tell if we're getting a cold getting a little
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sick if it hurts when we swallow right that's that's not good the back of
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your throat is red or some other not maybe not not red maybe another bad
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color another color that's not good or maybe it might even hurt our ear when we
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swallow right because of the connection it's very it can be very painful so you
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want to be able to know how to express that correctly if you go to the doctor so we swallow a lot um so if you go to
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the drugstore or the pharmacist um maybe you could or the pharmacy you could ask
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the salesperson um do you have something I could take for my
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throat it hurts when I swallow um they should be able to tell
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you how they can help you of course if it hurts for a while
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when you swallow you'll probably have to actually go to a doctor so they can look
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at the back of your throat and see if there's some kind of
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infection that they need to uh needs a stronger uh response than something you
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would get at the drugstore another verb connected to
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eating and digestion is drumble Rumble uh rumbling
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has to do with your stomach uh maybe you ate something that
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was bad that your stomach begins to make
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sounds uh so you might have to miss class or miss work uh because your
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stomach is upset that's what we would say our stomach is upset um my stomach is
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rumbling uh I think I ate something that made it uh upset I I better stay home so
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that's maybe how you describe that on the phone uh we also use the word
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Grumble now the only difference is the the G there okay uh and we say probably
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more often hopefully uh my stomach is grumbling and that's when we're hungry
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okay uh I want to eat uh so a grumbly
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stomach is hungry and a a rumbly stomach
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probably ate some something uh that wasn't so good that did not agree with
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your body so let's move on to verbs connected
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to the eyes and the face to Blink is
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this like that uh it's to open and shut your
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eyelids um well eyelids and usually uh it's to adjust
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your eyes to what you're seeing or maybe feeling about what you're seeing maybe
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the light maybe when you first wake up you're blinking um and it's not an
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action towards anyone you're just adjusting now that's
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win is done towards someone so that's a wink right so with one eye
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either eye will do do right that's a wink with a W and you don't wink with
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two eyes doesn't make sense now if your eye Winks
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involuntarily we call it a tick or a twitch same kind of thing sometimes when
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we get stressed or nervous um we're not trying to move our
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eye but our nerves uh seem to be moving it forward
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us um so it's just like kind of you know
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so that's a twitch or a tick and you may say I've had this Twitch in my eye and
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I'm not winking at you I just have this twitch or tick nervous tick we would say
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t i c uh so if that lasts for a long time or you feel like it's becoming
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disruptive and you can tell your doctor I have this tick or Twitch in my eye it
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looks like I'm winking uh when I don't intend to wink uh can you give me some
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advice well another General uh medical term you could use to describe uh
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something about your face or eyes uh is you could say you look pale pale is an
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adjective adjective um it just means your skin color um is
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whiter or lighter uh than it should be normally now of course we all have
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different skin tones um but we all need to have a
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certain amount of of blood that is showing underneath our skin underneath
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our cheeks especially when we're feeling good and healthy or um just just when
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we're not feeling weak um if we don't have that color good
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color your your normal healthy color maybe one of your friends would say um
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you you look kind of pale
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pale uh you don't look well maybe maybe you should go to the
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doctor uh we would also say uh you look
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green h green is not the same as pale uh pale is refers more to whs uh uh and
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weakness uh green refers more to if I say you look green you look like you're
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about to vomit you you look like your stomach was rumbling and you don't you don't look good so so that's what we say
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in English I I wonder what they say where you live how you describe that if it's a different color um but these two
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phrases denote different kinds of sickness different times of uh health
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problems that most of us have to to face well let's talk about uh some words that
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are connected to your General Health that have to do just with the whole body
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uh what is if you think you have some kind of flu F you flu right and that's
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short for influenza right we we see this a lot worldwide right so how would you
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uh describe because there are different kinds of flu right how would you describe to
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someone uh who can help you if you feel like you have the flu well let's let's look at your
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vocabulary knowledge um let's pretend you're the pharmacist you're the person
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at the drug store and you're the person who has the authority to uh dispense drugs for
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medical help so
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pharmacist pharmacist okay that's the person at the
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pharmacy or would just be Pharmacy with a Y the drugstore that's where you would
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go so say you're the far pharmacist uh and I come to you and I say I feel
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feverish
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feverish feverish what does that mean now to have a fever just a fever f
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v r that means your body temperature uh is higher than it should
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be what if I also told you the
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pharmacists um I am perspiring I'm sweating and then I'm shivering and my
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whole body aches
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aches um what would you would you know what I was talking
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about okay to perspire or to sweat these are both verbs it just
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means there's temporarily there's extra moisture coming out of your
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skin um it's either due to sickness or maybe you just been exercising and
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you're kind of wet and you know it usually has to do with being warm or hot
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so if I tell you I'm perspiring and I'm
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shivering uh to shivering means my body is kind of shaking invol voluntarily and
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temporarily and it's having a reaction to something well sadly most of us have
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felt this before right at least some of these symptoms um and it's good to know how to
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say them um if you're uh to say them in
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English um if you're in a place where they only speak English well I hope this
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has helped you learn some General Health terms in English and I want to thank you for
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