Hi. I'm Gill at www.engvid.com, and the lesson today
is on the subject of "Physical and Mental Health". Okay? So, physical, your body;
and mental, your mind. Okay. And health, how you're feeling,
whether it's good or bad. Okay. For physical health people talk about that
a lot, but for mental health people maybe don't talk about that so much because
it's maybe more embarrassing sometimes. But it's important
to know these words. And you probably know the basic ones, like:
"feeling well", "feeling ill" or "sick", but it's good to have other words as well to
describe different ways that you're feeling. Especially if you're going to see the doctor,
you need to be able to explain as clearly as possible how you're feeling
so that the doctor can help you. Or if you're just talking to a friend, it's
important to be able to explain how you're feeling. Okay. So, we'll start with the physical health,
then, and looking at the positive ways. If you're feeling really well,
the ways of saying that. Okay? So: "feeling well", obviously. "I'm feeling well.",
"I'm feeling good." "Feeling good" is a little bit more colloquial,
more informal, but you'd say that to your friends. -"How are you?" -"Oh, I'm good. I'm
feeling good." Okay? "In the pink", I think maybe this is a little
bit old, old-fashioned, but people sometimes say: "Oh, I'm in the pink." And I think it refers to pink cheeks on your
face, so maybe you have to be a white person, really, to be able to say this. If you have pink cheeks it suggests that you're
healthy, you can see the blood in your face, so that suggests oxygen
and good health. So: "in the pink", that's what it means, even
if people don't use it very much anymore. Okay? Just a straightforward one, if you
say: "I'm in the best of health", "I'm very lucky. I'm in
the best of health." If someone has a lot of energy,
and this one is an idiom, if they say they're
full of beans: "Oh, I'm feeling full of beans
today", it doesn't mean... It doesn't mean that literally they have eaten
a lot of beans, but it probably comes from the fact that beans are a very healthy food,
and they give you energy, and maybe protein. I don't know all the ingredients, but if someone
is full of beans it means they're jumping around, and lots
of energy, and... So you might say: "Oh, he's full of beans
today", but it doesn't mean he's been eating beans literally; it's an idiom. Okay? Another one that people use is a
little bit old-fashioned again: "full of the joys of spring", the season, spring, because it's the
time when everything starts growing and new life and everything,
and joy means happiness. So if you're full of the
joys of spring, if you say: "I'm full of the joys
of spring today", it may be because the sun's shining and you're
feeling healthy, you're feeling good, happy, lots of energy. So that's the joys of spring. And finally for this section: "I'm
feeling on top of the world." So right up there on top of
the world, another idiom. It doesn't literally mean... You'd have to be up on the Arctic to be on
top of the world, which wouldn't really be a very comfortable place, but: "on top of
the world" just means you're really... You feel you're on
top of everything. You're in control of everything
and you're feeling good. Okay? Right, well, those are all the positive words we
have in this lesson, and all the rest are negative. We have negative for the physical health and
negative for mental health, because probably we take mental health for granted and if we're
in good mental health we don't really need to say much about it. So, anyway, if you have to go to the doctor
because you're not feeling well, these are the kinds of words
you could use. Okay. "Not feeling well",
"I'm not feeling well." And then the doctor says:
"Well, what exactly is it?" So that's why we need
a few other words. "I'm feeling ill.",
"I'm feeling sick." Sick, sometimes you feel like being sick,
vomiting, but also in a more general way, if you feel sick it doesn't literally
mean you're going to vomit. It's just generally not
feeling very good. Okay. "Tired", if you have no
energy: "I'm feeling tired." Or: "I've been feeling tired for
the whole... A whole week.", "Worn out" is another
meaning for tired. "Worn out" is more colloquial. "Worn out", it's
like with clothes. If you get a hole in your elbow
of your shirt, it's worn. So, if you physically are feeling worn out
and tired, it's like a hole in your shirt. You know, you just
need to recover. "Worn out", "exhausted", that's a
more extreme word for being tired. "I'm feeling exhausted." Or: "I've been
feeling exhausted." Just generally you can say: "I'm not
in the best of health at the moment." That's a sort of general... And then somebody would say:
"Well, what exactly is wrong?" This is a very general thing. "I'm not in the best of health", without
actually saying exactly what it is. "Out of sorts" is a more colloquial, casual
way of saying you're not really feeling well. "I'm feeling out of sorts." And where we had: "on top of the world",
here we have: "under the weather", it's as if the weather, it's
probably bad weather-rain, cold, horrible weather-and
you're under it. "Under the weather". So it's getting a bit... It's weighing down on you and
you're feeling: "Oh, dear." So that's physical, mostly physical
words for not feeling well. Okay, so let's move on now to the
negative words for mental health. Okay? So, if you're not feeling yourself or you
say: "I'm not feeling myself", it doesn't mean literally you're
not feeling yourself. It means you don't feel right. Something feels wrong. So: "I'm not feeling
myself at the moment." That sort of thing. You know something isn't right,
but you don't know what it is. Okay? "I feel as if I'm losing it", meaning you're
losing some sort of control of your life or things in your work,
you're losing it. Okay? That's a very
colloquial term. Similar: "losing your grip",
"I'm losing my grip." This is your grip when
you hold something. So, that's the grip. If you're losing your grip, you're not
really holding things together properly. You're not in control of the things you need
to do in your life and your work, and so on. "I'm losing my grip." "I'm out of my mind." Out, literally... Not literally, but it's as if this is your mind
inside your head but you're somewhere else. You don't feel that you and your
mind are working together properly. I think... I can't think: How else
do I explain that? But you can sometimes say:
"I'm going out of my mind.", "I'm going out of my mind." I think there's a song
with those words in it. Okay, going out of my mind. Similarly: "losing my mind",
"I'm losing my mind." or: "I think I'm
losing my mind." It means, you know, your concentration isn't
working properly, you're having strange thoughts, all sorts of things
are happening. You don't feel in control
of your thoughts. "Losing my mind". If you've been upset by something that's
happened and you can't come to terms with it. Okay. That sort of thing. Then we have: "going nuts", which is a rather
casual, informal, jokey kind of thing to say. "Nuts", "Oh, he's
nuts, that guy." You've heard of the film, The Nutty
Professor, "nutty" also means a bit strange. Strange person, strange in
the head we say sometimes. So, "going nuts"... If you're going nuts... If you are nuts,
you're already nuts. If you're going nuts, you're
gradually becoming nuts. Okay. Okay, more serious
now: "worried". To worry is always to have things
on your mind, always thinking. "Oh, I'm worrying all the time." Or: "He's such a worrier. That man is such a worrier.
Worrier." Not warrior, "worrier", "i-e-r". Some people just do
worry all the time. They get one worry out of the way, one issue
and then they replace it with another worry or issue. So some people are just like that.
Okay. And "anxious" is another... "Anxious" is another
word for "worry". Someone who's always anxious, they're always
thinking and thinking things are going to go wrong. Okay. "Depressed" is a medical condition,
really, used by doctors. "Feeling low" is another
way of saying that. "Feeling low". Okay. Your feelings are low. You... Depression tends to go on for a
period of time, so that's important. If you're feeling depressed, that's what you say
to the doctor and then they can do something to help. Okay. Finally: "in a state", if you're in a
state that's a little bit more nervous. You're feeling nervous
and you can't relax. "Nervous" and you can't relax. So if you say: "Oh, I'm in
a state at the moment." Or: "I'm in a bit of a state at the
moment because something's happened, I've lost my car", or something. Just to be in a state because, you know, you
can't relax until things get sorted out. Okay. Oh, "going nuts", another one
for that is: "going crazy". "Crazy" is another sort of jokey
word, casual, informal word. You might know a song called: "Crazy",
okay, which I'm not going to sing you'll be glad to hear. Okay, so there we are,
lots of new words for you. So if you'd like to go to the website,
www.engivd.com, there is a quiz there to test you on some of these. Okay? And come back again soon. So, see you then. Bye.
