Are you sick? Are you coming down with a cold? Sickness is common, and you need to know how to talk about it. English speakers use a lot of different phrasal verbs to talk about different aspect of getting and being sick. In this lesson, I will teach you 15 phrasal verbs that will help you talk about sickness. We will look at the meaning of "throw up", "pass out", "break out into", "pass away", and more. These are common expressions used by native English speakers and will be very useful to you. So click the video to learn some phrasal verbs to add to your conversations!

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Hi there. Welcome back to engVid, with me, Benjamin, your teacher for today. Today we are going to be looking at phrasal verbs to talk about health, illnesses, and sicknesses; helping you to talk about those things, whether you're coming to the U.K. for a visit or whether you're doing an IELTS speaking, or you just want to be better generally at English with more phrasal verbs at your disposal.

We are going to start today by playing an anagram game, just to get your mind thinking so that I know you're concentrating for the full duration of the video. A random muddle of letters that you must take letters from to create your own words. For example, let's start with: "I" and then you need to create another word from the letters, so maybe you want to start your next word with a "t", then you'll probably want a vowel, so maybe "a", oh, there's a "p": "I tap". Okay? I want you to have a go at this. You've got 30 seconds. Try and cross each letter off in your own mind after you use it, because each letter written there can only be used once. Give it a go. You have 20 seconds left. And 10. Wrapping it up now, trying to create some sort of phrase. Five, four, three, two, one. What did you come up with, something good? Was it about health? Which is today's lesson. I'll show you what I came up with. Not: "I tap", but: "I p..." No, I don't relieve myself, but I use another "e" there, then another "e". Redeem yourself, Benjamin. Thank you. "I peel o", I have another "l" there, "old sc-", and I have an "a" here, a "b" there, an "s" there: "scab". If you fall over and hurt yourself, you might bleed. Your then skin heals itself and you will have what is called a scab, first word in today's health lesson. Let's learn some phrasal verbs.

Well done, you made it back to the second part of the lesson. So, we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven phrasal verbs here, and a few more over there. I'm going to be putting this into the context of my impending, that means about to happen... "Impending", I'll write that down for you. My impending trip to India. I'm going there on Saturday.

So: "come down with". So, "come" just means, you know, going somewhere, but if you come down... "Down" and "up" often reflect emotions in English. If you come down with something, it means you're coming... You're picking up some kind of illness, you become unwell. So: "you come down with" means you get... You get sick. I hope that I don't come down with anything when I am there. So after the "with" you list a general category or you specify what you are coming down with; a bug, an allergy. Okay.

"To be blocked up", the blockage is referring to the nose. Okay? Because if you pick up a cold, then you will suddenly have lots of stuff in your nose, so you don't want to be blocked up. Okay? "To be blocked up". I don't imagine that I will be blocked up, because "blocked up" we think of more with colds, with being in a colder place. I'm not expecting to be blocked up when I am in India.

"Throw up", possibly or "bring something up". So, "throw" and "up", this is a movement coming from your stomach up, up, up, and throw. "Throw up" is to be sick, hopefully not projectile vomiting. I better write that down as well. "Pro-... Projectile" means throwing quite a long way. It may be that I throw up if I get a stomach bug. "To bring something up", so you're bringing... It's like you're bringing a nice flower to give to someone, but you're not bringing up something very nice at all; in fact it's quite unpleasant. "Bring something up", you're bringing your food up.

"To swell up", so this we can use to talk about the sea as well. Okay? When there are big waves, you say: "There's a big swell", it means something getting bigger. To get bigger. If I got bitten by a snake whilst I was in India, that part of my body would swell up. In the past tense, you would say it... Something is swollen. Swollen up. Okay.

But, because I have strong body, my body has defences and my body is going to "fight off" any illnesses. Okay? My immune system... The immune system is your body's defence. Your body's defence. My body is going to fight off any illnesses. […]

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