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hi everybody my name is alicia in this

lesson i’m going to talk about

expressions you can use

with the doctor these are some

expressions that you can use when you

need to visit the doctor

and explain a problem with your body or

maybe

explain something that happened to

someone else let’s get started

okay the first expression is a very

basic

expression my body part

hurts my body part hurts sometimes

i hear learners use a pattern like i

have a pain in my

body part but this one is much more

natural

so examples of this might be things like

my head hurts or my stomach

hurts so using hurt

that kind of expresses a very basic type

pain so this is probably the quickest

and easiest way to explain that a

specific

body part does not feel good so you can

use

any body part my leg hurts my nose hurts

my ears hurt so just keep in mind

if you’re using the plural form of a

noun as i just did with ears

you don’t need to put an s at the end of

hurt

so my head hurts head is singular but

my ears hurt so ears that’s two

ears hurt so please keep that in mind

when you’re using this pattern

my body part hurts the next pattern

is there’s a spot on my

body part so here a couple points

this there’s is there is there

is there’s a spot on my body part

spot refers to something that’s new

usually we go to the doctor for

something new and it’s usually

something that’s like a dark color so we

use the word

spot to talk about that you could say

dark spot

for example with this pattern there’s a

spot

on my leg or there’s a spot

on my neck so include the part of your

body

where you notice the new spot we can use

the word

spot to describe that kind of shape so

it’s usually a circular shape

a spot there’s a spot on my body part

okay the next pattern is i think

i broke my body part i think i broke

my body part this is a pattern we use

specifically

for cases where we think in this case we

think

we broke a bone a bone

so we don’t use this to talk about pain

necessarily we use this to talk

specifically about a bone in our body

being broken so i think i broke my

body part the body part you use here

should be a body part with a bone so

for example with this pattern i think i

broke

my arm i think i broke my

finger so we would not say for example i

think i broke

my stomach because there are no bones in

the stomach

we use parts of the body which have

bones in these patterns i think i broke

my arm i think i broke my leg

i think you broke my nose so you can use

different parts of the body with bones

in this pattern

and you can use i think to express

kind of your guess i’ve included this

here

just to explain maybe quickly what your

gut

feeling is so your gut feeling means

your instinct the first thing that you

think of

so if you want to say uh your guest for

some reason to your doctor you can say i

think i broke my

finger i think i broke my arm okay

let’s look at the next pattern the next

pattern i have two verbs here

i have i fell down past tense

or i crashed and then we include a sport

or an activity

in the ing form so for example

i fell down skateboarding

or i crashed snowboarding so what’s the

difference between

fell down and crashed so to fall down it

sounds much

lighter than crashed so to fall down

it’s like we’re doing something that’s a

typical action

and we maybe make a mistake when we’re

walking

and our body falls so i fell down

the stairs perhaps or i fell down

because i stood up too quickly so i fell

down skateboarding

this might be it might depend on your

level of skateboarding but to fall down

sounds

kind of light not so serious but it

could be serious depending on the

situation

crash however sounds quite strong quite

intense

i crashed snowboarding it sounds like

your whole body

was maybe very violently moved or tossed

in some way i crashed snowboarding so

this is the same verb we use for car

accidents like car crashes so your body

you imagine your

body crashed maybe into something like

the ground

or into another object i crashed

snowboarding

so you can use this pattern to explain

the reason

for your pain or the reason for your

injury for example

i think i broke my arm i crashed

snowboarding

so that might be a way to describe to

your doctor

what happened so why do you think your

arm is broken

because i crashed snowboarding

okay let’s continue on to the next

pattern the next pattern is

person was in a car accident

person was in a car accident so here

you can use yourself if you need to like

i was in a car accident

or if you need to report about someone

else like you saw another person

who was involved in a car accident or

maybe

you need to talk about a family member

or a colleague that was

in a car accident you can use this

pattern to do that

for example my roommate was in a car

accident my roommate was in a car

accident or

if you’re replying to a question about

someone

like hey how’s your co-worker was he

okay we didn’t see him yesterday you

might reply oh

he was in a car accident so you can use

or she or they if you need to use they

to talk about more than one person

please make sure you change

was to were they were in a car accident

so this is a pattern you can use to talk

about

car accidents or other vehicle accidents

too so you could change car to like

boating accident or boat accident

if you if you need to but in i think

most cases perhaps we use car accident

okay let’s continue to the next pattern

the next pattern

is i’m having trouble something

i’m having trouble something so

we end this expression with another

verb in the ing form for example

i’m having trouble seeing i’m having

trouble

hearing i’m having trouble sleeping and

so on

so this means that this activity

this action is difficult for the speaker

here

i’m having trouble we’re using this

progressive form

to mean this is happening now my

condition

this is the condition now i’m having

trouble sleeping i’m having trouble

sleeping now

in my life so whatever action is

difficult

for you you can use it at the end of

this pattern

in the ing verb form for example some

more examples

i’m having trouble walking maybe my leg

hurts

or i’m having trouble focusing

i’m having trouble focusing so maybe

it’s difficult for me to think

clearly i’m having trouble focusing so

you can use actions or you can use

something relating to like your mental

situation

inside your mind too so when you explain

to your doctor

you can use these sorts of patterns to

describe things that are difficult for

you

at the moment having trouble sleeping

that’s a very common one

okay let’s move on to the next one the

next one

is i burned my body part

i burned my body part here we’re using

the past

tense burned this is the past tense of

the verb

to burn so to burn something means to

make it too hot

too hot and to injure that thing in this

case we are injuring

a part of the body with heat so i burned

my body part

please note that in english we have a

couple of different words relating to

burns especially with the skin if you’re

talking about like fire

so something very hot for example you’re

cooking

with fire or you’re cooking with an

electric stove and you touch it

we use the verb burn in that case

if however you’re talking about sunlight

like going to the beach or going out in

the sun

and your skin becomes red we use sunburn

sunburn and the pattern we use for that

is my

body part got sunburned

so my arm got sunburned or my face got

sunburned my shoulders got

sunburned we use sunburn to talk about

sunlight burns from the sunlight we use

burn to talk about fire and heat another

point to note is that in english we have

different verbs for burn and different

and like to express when our skin just

changes color

slightly so for some people some people

want

their skin color to change a little bit

in the sunlight to get

darker we call that tutan tutan that’s

the verb we use or to get

a tan so in some languages getting a tan

is the same as getting a sunburn

but in english we have two different

verbs to tan

or to get a tan and to get sunburned so

sunburn is bad in english

and to get a tan can be a good thing for

many people

so please keep those points in mind but

for this lesson i want to focus

on burns like from heat

from like a fire or something else very

hot

i burned my body part some examples of

this

are i burned my hand or i

burned my arm so we use the verb

burn to talk about heat source related

injuries

okay on to the next part the next one is

my body part itches my body part itches

please be careful do not use the word

scratches

here to scratch refers to

this motion this motion to itch

refers to the feeling the sensation

like ah my arm itches i want to

scratch my arm so scratch

refers to this motion itching or

to itch refers to the condition the

feeling it

itches it itches so please be careful

don’t confuse

itch and scratch my body part

itches my body part itches so i want to

scratch it in other words

for example my head itches or

this bite on my leg itches or

this rash itches so there are a couple

of new vocabulary words here

i’ve included this bite on my

leg itches so imagine a spider

or a bug bit you so bit

is the past tense of the verb bite so

maybe it itches after or rather the bug

bite itches

after the bite happens you can describe

that with this pattern

this bite on my leg itches

or this rash itches a rash

is typically a red area of the skin it’s

not a

burn it’s something from maybe a bug

bite or maybe from a plant

or some other kind of allergic reaction

related thing and it’s often red and

it’s kind of strange looking we call

that a rash

a rash this is different from a spot a

spot

tends to be something in a circular it’s

shaped like a circle

it’s a circular shape a rash tends to

not

have a circular shape it kind of spreads

along the skin

so a rash is often very itchy

or this rash itches is a way you might

express

that so please keep in mind itch and

scratch are different

again so i want to scratch this part of

my body or

this itches this itches okay

let’s move on to the last part of this

lesson the last part

these last two patterns are to express

the

time period or the point at which the

problem

started so the doctor will often ask

when did it start or when did you notice

the problem

here are a couple ways that you can

explain that

first the problem started

time period and sometimes ago the

problem started time period ago

for example the problem started

two weeks ago or it started

yesterday here you’ll notice i’ve used

so it means the problem the problem

very natural to use it so like my head

really

hurts it started yesterday

where it refers to my head hurting

so this problem it started yesterday or

the problem started yesterday

so we used this two weeks ago in this

case we’re using a go

because we’re talking about this time

period sometime

in the past it was a long time in the

past here you do not need to use a go it

started

yesterday so it’s a specific point in

time it started yesterday

so this is a couple around yeah these

are two patterns to describe

a point in time at which the problem

started

if you want to be more specific like a

specific

day or a specific date you can use this

pattern

the problem started on date or the

problem started

day the problem started on day for

example

the problem started on monday or you may

hear the problem started monday

it started on the third the third where

the third means the third of the month

the current month

it started on the third or it started on

monday

you can also drop on here it started

monday so if you want to use a specific

day

or a specific day of the month you can

use this pattern

these might be good for specific time

periods

so these are good expressions to use to

explain when an issue

started okay so this is a quick list

of some expressions that you can use

when you need to visit a doctor or a

hospital or a clinic

and so on so i hope that these are

helpful for you

of course if you have any questions or

comments or if you want to practice

making some example sentences with these

expressions

please feel free to do so in the comment

section of this video

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