How to Talk to a Doctor in English? - Basic English Phrases

welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is alicia and this week we are talking about how to talk to a doctor in english this week's lesson is going to be very vocabulary focused so i'm going to number one introduce key vocabulary words some verbs and some nouns that you can use to explain your condition then we're going to practice uh some phrases you can use to explain your condition and finally we're going to talk about treatment how to understand your doctor's recommendations so those are our three main points for today as we join as you join rather please send us a message in the chat to say hello i see lots of people on youtube hello there everybody on youtube i i'm okay i don't need i got thank you though uh i see a couple people on youtube i can see a couple people on facebook too diana and nini hello i see a couple people on facebook hi there youtube is there uh as well i don't see names just yet because we're getting a few things set up but we're going to start in about 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with vocabulary words for this lesson so i've divided i've made this list into like a group of verbs primarily and then some nouns some nouns you'll need to know so let's begin with this one right here this verb i think is probably um i would say this is one point i hope you remember from this lesson sometimes i hear many learners say like i have a pain or they say like i have a hurt or something like that this verb this word to hurt we should use as a verb use it as a verb i'll explain examples over here to hurt and to injure have the same meaning but injure sounds more formal so when i uh let's say for example i hit my arm against the board really hard to describe that i would say i hurt my arm i hurt my arm in everyday speech if i use injure it sounds more serious and it sounds more formal we use injure this is pronounced injure we use injure for more like uh sports accidents like the athlete injured his leg for example so for your everyday little accidents or for something small use hurt as a verb as a verb so we're going to talk about some examples a bit later so hurt or injure so this is very general this can be any kind of accident anything so just a general accident some kind of general problem this next pair however this is more specific this pair this is to break again a verb to break and to fracture to fracture so break and fracture these words they mean the same thing yes uh but these words are used for your bones your bones so if you don't know the word uh bone it it's the part of your body like maybe you know the word skeleton i don't know inside your body the structure of your body so inside it the hard thing inside your body if you have an injury if you hurt a bone you might break your bone so imagine this is like my arm my wrist i might break a bone that's to break or to fracture they are used in the same way to break a bone or to fracture a bone so we use these two verbs with bones we don't use like i don't know stomach or something like that with this we use this for bones to break bones to fracture bones so again same meaning you will hear people use both of these words i feel break is a little more common in past tense broke past participle broken broken okay let's go then to the next verb to itch to itch please be careful with this verb this is different from the verb to scratch to scratch so what is the difference here to itch we use this in a sentence like my arm itches my arm itches so that means my arm has an itchy feeling itchy is like uh i want to scratch it so to scratch is this motion this is scratching to scratch something but to itch is the feeling we use a verb to describe that feeling yes we can use itchy as an adjective itchy as in my arm is itchy yes that's okay or my arm itches we use it as a verb as well so please be careful of the difference between this verb and this verb to itch describes your condition my arm itches to scratch is this motion i scratch my arm so don't don't get those mixed up onward uh let's go on then to a few nouns i want to talk about some nouns and we're going to practice using these in the second part of today's lesson so the first one is spot spot spot is a very general word again a noun we use to talk about any like dark area on your skin so if there's i'm not going to draw with my my marker if i if i had like a red mark on my on my body i could say this is a spot a spot so usually a spot is like just a circle just a simple circle a spot it can be big it can be small a spot that is the noun the word we use to describe this again i will give more examples later so i have a spot on my arm i have a spot on my face a spot is the word we use let's compare this to this word rash rash is the pronunciation a rash is different is quite different from a spot a rash is usually like something red and something that itches well sometimes it itches a bit and it's usually kind of large so if a spot is a small place on my arm here a rash imagine the same like red color all over my arm and it's it's like this kind of pattern a rash is maybe like looks more like this all over and it maybe itches a bit we use rash to describe that condition so i have a rash on my arm or this rash itches or this rash is itchy we can use all of those to describe that it's a spot one point rash is like this kind of larger area usually like in a red color okay let's continue to this word burn burn i've marked this burn is used as both a noun and as a verb a noun and a verb uh oh leah oh nice question leah i'll get to you uh i'll come back to you leah thanks for that leah is our illustrator okay burn uh is a noun or a verb burn is the injury you get so i used it as a verb earlier injure is an injury you get from touching something hot so if you touch a stove like a hot stove you touch it you get burned that's using it as a verb or i have a burn on my hand so i touch a hot stove i have a burn on my hand that's as a noun or i burned my hand so past tense burned past tense burned uh leah's question thanks for that leah leah asked about this word sorry it's really hard to see i'll write it again it's not clear leah asked in the youtube chat what do you call the blue spots that come out when you bump into furniture nice one those are called bruises bruises so singular bruise bruise so that's like when you are yeah exactly when you you can't see my feet but if you're walking into your sofa and your toe hits the corner of your sofa and it really hurts and then your your foot changes color like blue or black or green that's called a bruise b-r-u-i-s-e bruise bruise in the plural bruises i have bruises on my legs or i have a bruise on my arm we can use this as a verb too i bruised my arm i bruised my arm um daniel in the youtube chat oh sorry no daniel you're on facebook rash and something allergic can be the same thing yes yes so if you have an allergy like a food allergy or an allergy to cats this is another good word allergy an allergy uh you may get a rash a rash yes so you can have a rash as a reaction a reaction okay uh let's continue let's continue to the next one the next one is chills chills i've put this together with fever chills and fever so maybe many of you know fever so a fever means your body's temperature is high your body's temperature is very high so like in the u.s we use like 98 about 98 degrees fahrenheit what is it in celsius 36 degrees i think is regular temperature so a fever means your body temperature is high maybe you sweat you feel really hot chills on the other hand chills this is a noun i'll mark this here chills a noun refer that's the feeling what you have uh like you're sick yes and you feel really cold so maybe you have a fever sometimes but you feel cold so it's not cold in the room but you are sick you feel cold we use chills with an s not this is not the plural form we say i have chills i have chills um you could say i don't know i we usually use it with this s we don't usually say i have a chill we don't say that we usually say i have the chills i have the chills i'll talk about this again a bit later all right so fever as i said refers to high body temperature high body temperature finally the last word on this list is pain i included pain here because it's a good general word i talked about hurt as a verb up here this is just a very general verb to describe uh pain or discomfort in your body pain however is used to talk about just a a feeling an un something that does not feel good in your body so i have pain in my arm i want to point out though like you can use that pattern i have pain in my arm i have pain in my body part but this is not as natural as hurt hurt instead i'll introduce some examples later we use pain in front of the body part that is not happy in front of the body part that is injured for example i have stomach pain or i have lower back pain so i'll share some examples of that in the future but these are the uh key vocabulary words i want to talk about today uh yes waffle on facebook chills means you feel very cold you feel very cold maybe it's not very cold but because you are sick you feel cold so we'll practice some example sentences with these vocabulary words in just a moment okay so with that let's take a quick break we don't have that camera today okay we don't have that camera so i will just show you a few examples of the free stuff as always i don't think i have a hospital the hospital one i believe that we have a hospital pdf uh from this but i'm not sure if i have this one printed out so i will show you some other good things you can find from the link below the video on youtube or above the video on facebook so if you have not checked this out yet today's topic is about doctors and hospitals and health and so on but whoa that's zoomed in okay but if you know that you have a gap in your vocabulary somewhere else you can check out one of these pdfs that you can find from the link below the video on youtube above the video facebook if you're watching on instagram please check youtube or facebook there are many different topics this is the food one on the back you can find lots of different phrases and vocabulary words that are specific to going to restaurants so there's this one another good one here is traveling going to the airport so vocabulary for the airport and then practice q a here in the middle for like immigration and passport control sections so if you know you have a gap in your vocabulary or there's something you want to refresh yourself on you can take a look at these pdfs which you can get for free from englishclass101.com so check these out if you have an account i saw this question last week if you have an account on the website you can just go to the website and download these from the link if you do not have an account you can make one for free and download these there too so please check the link below the video or above the video to get these and download them okie dokie let's continue on then to the next part of today's lesson yeah so you can find that someone asked below if you're watching on youtube check the description box on youtube if you're watching on facebook check the description above or if you're watching live on the chat it's that it's above the chat box on facebook there okay let's continue on if you're just joining we're talking about talking to a doctor with some key vocabulary words today if you have not already please make sure to like and share the video so other learners can find today's lesson okay let's continue on then i want to talk about phrases you can use to describe the details of your condition so we talked about all of these words over here let's use them in sentences and your task now is to send a comment so in the chat send a comment and describe your last illness or injury so last here means your most recent one so were you sick or did something happen to your body recently for example uh last february i broke my wrist last february i broke my wrist that is true last february i broke my wrist snowboarding so describe your last illness or injury with a comment try to use today's vocabulary i'll try to check throughout the lesson so let's take a look first let's use the verbs hurt well let's use hurt here it's more natural i talked about hurt to describe um just a general injury so i hurt my leg i hurt my leg just means like i did something to my leg maybe i don't know what like i have a mysterious injury a mysterious pain maybe i ran into a table or something you can't see the two um but if i want to just generally describe something i use hurt i hurt my leg i hurt my arm or i hurt my head somehow we can also use this pattern my leg hurts my leg hurts so what's the difference here in this sentence my subject is i me so that means me i'm responsible for my injury i did something and now my leg is not happy at all in this example though my leg hurts maybe i don't know what happened maybe i i woke up this morning and my leg hurts i don't know why what happened so this is the difference here if you are responsible or someone else is responsible you can use this pattern if you don't really know like ah for example my stomach hurts so i didn't do anything but my stomach hurts you can use this pattern of course you can't change the subject like you could say like he hurt my leg or like he broke my arm you can do that yes so please keep in mind you can change the subject uh to make more to give more information okay uh javier why did you not add or use headache in your vocabulary because i believe many students watching today's lesson maybe know the word headache already okay let's move on to this one i broke my arm i talked about broke or fracture uh fracture this word they mean the same thing so break in past tense is broke fracture in past tense is fractured just a d at the end fractured fractured so i broke my arm or in my example i broke my wrist i broke my wrist or i broke my nose or like he broke my nose he punched me and he broke my nose so to break is present tense uh broke is past tense i broke my arm we talked about this verb itches itches so you'll notice here we use the body part just before the verb and make sure you conjugate so change itch to itches it itches my nose itches my arm itches my leg itches my ear itches whatever itches itches i saw somebody wrote like my leg itches or something like that it's gone now that's okay i saw it okay um so let's continue though let's practice using some of these uh nouns i talked about earlier though i talked about spot rash burn and chills okay so first i talked about spot remember a spot is like a mark like this usually kind of a round mark a spot so i could say there's a spot on my shoulder there's a spot on my shoulder so that means again one like round place a spot on my shoulder i could use this there's a rash on my leg or there's a rash on my shoulder again so a couple points here things not to miss this and this these are things that learners often miss i'm using the reduced forms here so not there there's spot or something make sure this there's a is clearly pronounced so this theirs is there is there is and this ah spot so in this example sentence this is one spot one only if you want to talk about more maybe you have two or three you can say there are spots use the plural there are spots on my shoulder there are spots on my shoulder same thing here there's a rash on my leg there's a rash on my leg so rash i suppose you could use the plural you could say i have rashes or there are rashes on my legs uh if you need to but if the rash if it's like really big usually we just say i have a huge rash i have a big rash on my body so we use rash and spot in this way good nice examples there is a spot on my shoulder says someone uh i have some spots on my hand good yeah johan on youtube used a different pattern used i have you can use the i have pattern i have a spot on my hand i have a rash on my leg perfect nice nice okay uh let's continue to some other ones uh okay let's continue to this one i have a burn on my hand i have a burn so i talked about burn as a noun or as a verb this is using it as a noun i have a burn on my hand or i burned my hand just as with this pattern we would use burn in the place of broke here so past tense burned past tense burnt okay on to this one i have chills or you will also hear i have the chills i have the chills that describes that like cold feeling it's not cold but your body feels cold i have the chills i have the chills someone says after a bruise on my leg what word can i use when my leg expands outward nice question the verb we use there is to swell i will add that here after bruise to swell to swell means to become bigger to become bigger so we would say like my leg swelled so in past tense we take an e-d ending for this verb sorry swell s-w-e-l-l to swell means to get bigger uh we also use the word swollen this is an adjective form my leg is swollen my leg is swollen my arm is swollen my tongue is swollen this is kind of a gross lesson okay uh good i have to continue because time is going quickly thanks for that question though um where was i i have the chills yes when you feel cold last two here i want to point out this verb this expression is i'm running a degree fever so sometimes we'll use just this pattern i'm running a fever which means i have a fever but you will hear this running used to talk about that i'm running a fever my son is running a fever means he has a fever so it doesn't have any relationship to jogging or running it means it's happening now yes someone says swell also means it's going good that is correct but this is also a different meaning okay so to run a fever means to have a fever often we will include the degree for the fever so i'm running a 101 degree fever if you use fahrenheit something like that you can include that or just say i'm running a fever or i have a fever finally there's pain in my lower back there's pain in my lower back this is a kind of basic pattern you can use if you want to there's pain in my lower back there's pain in my stomach there's pain in my arm someone asked earlier what's the difference between pain and ache pain is the more general word ache is used for like a low constant pain so for example when your stomach doesn't feel good it's like there's just this kind of um constant uncomfortable feeling when we think of pain often it's like a quick like stabbing motion like a knife pain almost ah like chest pain is like a knife maybe but if you feel an ache it's like a long constant feeling it doesn't stop like a head ache or maybe you have a back ache it's always going it's constant we use pain a little bit more often for like quick things or sometimes we feel it like sharp sharp pain so that's the difference between pain and ache gen very generally speaking very generally speaking okay i have to go quickly to our last points for today just a couple expressions for treatment for treatment so treatment treatment this is a noun this means how to fix your illness how to fix your inju industry injury how to fix your injury is a treatment so medicine so a key point here is the verb take take we use the verb take i've got this note here we use the verb take for pills or for liquid so that means medicine you have to swallow we use take some languages use drink maybe some use eat we use take so take this medicine with every meal take this medicine with every meal this is a common treatment plan so that means when you eat breakfast take the medicine when you eat lunch take the medicine when you eat dinner take the medicine every meal so a meal is the breakfast lunch dinner so take this medicine with every meal or just the doctor may say take this with every meal another expression you might hear is take this once a day take this twice a day or take this three times a day whatever so once one time twice two times three times and so on so these are common uh treatment plans for medicine you may also hear something like this take two of these in the morning take two of these in the morning two of these means of these pills so usually a doctor will give it to you or a pharmacist will give you medicine and say take two of these pills of these pills in the morning okay another expression you might hear is come back in a week for a checkup or come back in a month for a checkup come back means come back to the hospital come back to the doctor's office for a checkup so checkup means checking your condition come back in a week for a checkup or come back and see me for a checkup why don't you use thrice instead of three times because it's extremely old-fashioned it sounds totally old-fashioned we don't use thrice in everyday english now okay can i use i am suffering from a fever you can but it sounds way too formal i am suffering from a fever sounds very formal instead use i have a fever or i'm running a fever that sounds much more natural okay last last last point sorry everybody um is this uh i want to mention this verb here apply apply so these are key verbs for medicine and for treatment apply to apply past tense applied applied and past participle applied apply is used for like lotions and cream so if you have a spot or a rash or a burn you may receive as medicine a lotion or a cream or something we don't use take we use take for things we drink or eat for lotions and creams we use apply for example apply this cream every morning or apply this cream twice a day apply this cream at night so please use the verb apply when you're talking about those kinds of treatments so those are a couple points to take away so in recap for today i would recommend you practice using hurt as a verb to describe your injuries to describe your illnesses uh and these are i think some good patterns to get you started talking about that so if you know like right now ah there's something like i need to explain to a doctor or maybe you just want to describe a recent injury like a bruise like i have one on my leg because i ran into my sofa something like that just think about how you might explain that in english and also think about these two verbs for medicine okay we have to finish for today though so that was a lot wow that was a lot of vocabulary but i hope that that's helpful for you and i hope that it's a little more information so you can describe things um more clearly angel says is the word painkillers old-fashioned no painkiller is normal usually we say like medicine is different from painkiller because painkiller has a specific job to stop pain to kill pain maybe other medicines just maybe uh there's no pain but they have to fix like a virus or a bacteria so there's no pain but they have to fix it so painkillers have a specific purpose to kill pain okay um what do i need to do next week next week's lesson next week will be uh how to talk about your favorite music i asked you on instagram what you wanted to talk about and some of you said music like pop star is your favorite pop stars your favorite music and so on so next week i want to talk about of course your favorite artists and your favorite bands but also talking about going to concerts and seeing live performances and so on so please join us that will be wednesday june 19th at 10 p.m eastern standard time yes june 19th okay uh so if you don't know your local time please google it and join us live then and don't forget if you haven't make sure to grab your free stuff from the link below the video on youtube above the video on facebook uh you can get all of this stuff for free at englishclass101.com so thank you so much for joining us this week i hope that it was helpful thank you very much for liking and sharing the video too we really appreciate it enjoy the rest of your week have a nice weekend and i will see you next time bye you

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Published: Wed Jun 12 2019