How to Explain Your PhysicalMental Condition in English
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this week’s lesson
we are going to talk about how to
explain
your condition how to explain your
condition i am going to talk about your
mental
condition so that means how to express
your feelings how to express your
emotions
and we’re also going to talk about your
physical
condition too finally we are going to
talk
about expressing a timeline as well so
when did you start to feel this way when
did your symptoms begin
so i hope that this is a helpful lesson
for expressing
of course your body’s situation but also
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okay so today’s topic today’s topic is
explaining your condition i made today’s
lesson
um very very i think uh focused on basic
sentence structures and we’ll talk about
the grammar
of some of the sentences today uh so i
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today we have some very simple
sentence patterns to practice today
mental so your mind
physical your body and timeline
how to express when you started
feeling something yeah okay so
let’s get started let’s talk about
mental stuff
first mental stuff so your mind okay
so how to explain your
mental condition this means how you feel
your emotions uh your
maybe good feelings and your not so good
feelings so
how do we talk about this i have
two patterns here
these covered these include um this
these are the maybe most common ways we
express
our mental condition so you can
send this at your current mental
condition in the live chat if you like
first i feel plus
adjective i feel adjective
we use this pattern for our basic
emotions
happy sad angry and so on
for those super basic feelings we can
use
this pattern for example i feel great
i feel sad i feel angry
i feel bad i feel sleepy
and so on those very very basic uh
emotions those very basic feelings we
can use
i feel plus adjective to describe
that okay uh javier says i
feel great or i’m feeling great both are
fine
both are fine if you want to emphasize
i mean so if you want to use feeling i’m
feeling great or i’m feeling sad that
means
that shows uh more strongly that your
feeling your emotion is temporary
right if you want it to sound more like
uh constant like you’re always
feeling this way you can use i feel
great
i feel great it sounds more like you’re
um
like that’s part of your personality
maybe
okay uh i feel anxious says nohorah nice
one
okay yeah i feel great and i’m feeling
great both are correct both are
grammatically correct the difference is
in the temporary feeling with i’m
feeling
okay um good
uh what about the word perception uh we
don’t really use the word perception
when we talk about
our own mental or physical condition
yeah so perception means how we
understand
a situation so we don’t really uh use
perception when we talk about our our
personal feelings or our personal
emotions okay great some good examples
are coming in
i feel afraid says hi daliana
p darling sorry i hope i said that
correctly i feel happy i feel
down i feel nervous good good good okay
very nice
so we have this for our basic emotions
great job nice ones everybody
now let’s talk about this second pattern
pattern two here
very similar right i’m adjective
i’m adjective so please note this right
here this
i’m sometimes learners remove this they
say
i adjective not correct don’t forget
please don’t forget this
m i’m adjective i’m adjective
so in this part i included
adjectives that maybe we don’t use for
super super basic emotions you can say
i’m great i’m sad i’m angry i’m bad
that’s fine you can use those words
those adjectives in this pattern too
that’s okay
however when we use adjectives that are
a little more a little more uh like
higher than just the basic
emotion or they describe our condition
not just an emotion but also like our
uh our thoughts the type of thoughts we
have
we use this pattern more for example
i’m confused i’m confused so i don’t
know what’s what’s happening i’m
confused
i’m confused or i’m upset
upset i’m upset i’m thrilled so that’s a
positive one
i’m excited or i’m tired
so we use we tend to use this pattern
not i feel you might hear some people
yes you might hear some people say
i feel upset it’s okay it’s okay to say
that or like
i feel thrilled maybe but
typically we use this i’m adjective
pattern for these
what does thrilled mean oh thrilled
means
like you’re really really excited
usually
about an opportunity like you got a
great new job
or you received an award you’re excited
and happy i’m thrilled about something
i’m thrilled about this job or i’m
thrilled to announce
something okay good some other examples
are coming people write let’s see no
no sorry on youtube says i’m
disappointed good example good example
uh i’m anxious i’m bored good i’m
thrilled
i’m scared to death of heights okay good
uh on facebook
hello everybody i feel tired says van
okay i feel
very happy when i listen to you cool
great great great
nice examples everybody okay
perfect so let’s go now
to a couple of very useful
expressions that you can use um
when you feel you feel down
and maybe you want to be alone
for a while like you want to
think on your own or you need some
personal time
how do you express that how do you
explain
when you feel a little sad or a little
down
but it’s just a short time right it’s
easy to say i’m great i’m happy i’m in a
good
mood but here are two expressions
you can use to express that down
feeling for a short period first
i need some space i need
some space so space here
space means space away
from other people space away from other
people so
like i have too much going on
now please please give me some room
please give me some room i need
some space or this one you might hear
this one
i need some time to myself
right now or i need some time for myself
right now you might hear two you might
hear four i feel
two is a little more common i need some
time to myself right now like
i need some time to myself right now i
need to think
so if you want to express you want to
communicate to someone
i just need a moment i need some time
just for me you can use these
expressions
i need some space or i need some time
for myself right now
okay uh rogue swift writes down in the
dumps yeah i feel
down in the dump so if you want to
express that your mood is very
low you can say i’m down in the dumps
okay
abu sudais on facebook says i’m under
the weather i’m under the weather yes
you can use that to talk about feeling
sick great job okay others
i don’t see other questions very nice
javier
some room equals some space uh we
generally in this we don’t say i need
some room
you i guess maybe somebody says that
but we usually say i need some space
right now
okay good so this is our mental
condition
portion for today
all right um let’s see
so many things are coming in oh my gosh
i need some time to myself right now i
need some time to myself
very nice okay oh everybody’s writing it
in the comment section cool okay
maybe taking some notes i need some time
for myself to think about it says
lacpatom on facebook
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about
physical condition now how do we explain
our physical condition so physical
condition
means your body’s condition your body
parts so when you go to the doctor you
go to the hospital or
you’re talking to your friend how do you
explain your physical condition
let’s go first one very basic
sentence structure again my body part
hurts my body part hurts
for example my arm hurts my back
hurts my neck hurts my stomach hurts
my leg my finger my head my foot
hurts so any bond part choose your body
part
and say my body part hurts
point when speaking do not forget this s
sometimes i hear learners say my arm
hurt
nope my arm hurts it hurts my body part
hurts don’t forget that some
learners ask too for example they say a
sentence like
my arm has a pain my arm has a pain
we understand what you mean your
sentence is grammatically correct but
it’s not
natural i highly i strongly recommend
my arm hurts my arm hurts okay
all right so let’s you can send me you
can send some examples in the chat if
you want i hope
you are feeling healthy but okay
alorata says my whole body hurts oh no
i don’t oh no my leg hurts my biceps
my biceps oh good point if you want to
talk about
two parts like both arms or a bunch of
muscles
no s this this pattern is for one part
of your body
only if you want to say my legs
so plural my legs hurt no s here yeah
so this is for one one body part only
a little little grammar reminder okay
so my something hurts okay
um yes ahmed has a really good point on
the youtube in the youtube chat i would
point my finger to that place that hurts
if i don’t know the term
excellent so if you don’t know like the
word for
this bone right here maybe you had a bad
accident and this bone
hurts you could say this hurts
this hurts in that case yeah my
collarbone this is called your
collarbone
okay all right other ones let’s go
to the next part okay everybody
everybody has some good ones all right
let’s go to this next one
i have a body part ache
i have a body part egg for example
i have a headache i have a stomach ache
i have a back ache i have an
earache ear starts with a vowel sound
yeah i have an
ear egg what’s the difference between
ache and hurt
many people ask ache this thing right
here a
a c h e ache means like a
long like it’s lasting a long time
so a stomach ache for example you eat
something kind of weird
well your stomach feels bad
for a long time i have a stomachache
same thing with your head
i have a headache so your head hurts
usually a little bit maybe maybe a lot
for a long time that’s an ache yeah it
doesn’t go away
sometimes you feel like if for example
you pinch
a part of your body out it hurts for
just a moment
yeah we don’t say ache for that ache
is something that we feel for a long
time
that’s fake okay nose ache
i guess you can have a nose ache okay
let’s go to the next one i have a
stomach ache i have a back egg good
good i have an eye ache very nice okay
everybody is doing great
with the body condition expressions yes
no email rights uh a persistent
pain a persistent so it’s constant like
always there
okay all right good good good good
let’s go to the next one i have
a noun phrase noun phrase so if
you know the name of your condition
you can use this pattern i have a cough
right cough i have a sore
throat i have a runny nose
i have a rash a rash is usually like a
red color on your skin some strange red
color maybe
itchy maybe kind of itchy on your skin
if you know
the name the noun phrase for your
condition
you can use this pattern i have a cough
i have a fever as well someone wrote
that before
okay okay good lots of people say i have
i have a knee ache i have a headache i
have an ear egg
ah no hollow kai on facebook says i
haven’t any ache on my body very close
uh i don’t have any aches
i don’t have any aches or i feel good
i have no problems okay all right last
point here
i can’t i can’t something something
with a verb after this for example i
can’t
feel my toes or i can’t feel
my fingers so if you touch a part of
your body
and you can’t have if you can’t feel it
there’s no
sense there you can explain that with i
can’t feel something something
so sometimes like if you sleep in a
strange position
or you sit in a strange position you
can’t
feel you don’t have sense
in your foot maybe or your arm you can
express that here i can’t feel my toes
or i can’t
feel my fingers also i can’t
smell or i can’t taste anything
you can describe it with this pattern i
can’t feel my toes i can’t smell
anything i can’t taste anything
okay all right i have
a fever some people are writing fever
good i have
a fever i have a fever
okay all right that
is everything for physical condition
we’ll go now to timeline points
last we are going to talk about
expressing when
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it’s i hope everyone is healthy i hope
everyone is healthy uh but nice example
sentences very nice examples
okay let’s look now at a timeline
how do we talk about our timeline
for our feelings for our mental
condition or
for our physical condition how do we
describe that
okay uh let’s go a couple questions are
coming in
um i can’t feel my toes i can’t okay
actually
uh oh someone says running nose or runny
nose
runny nose not running you can’t say
my nose is running my nose is running
you might hear
that but in the pattern we talked about
earlier please use
i have a runny nose i have a runny
nose okay let’s go we are running out of
time so let’s go to
timeline how do we talk about when the
feeling
started yeah so for sickness for your
body condition
i started feeling sick on
day i started feeling sick on monday
or i started feeling sick on tuesday i
started feeling sick
on saturday so i started
feeling sick so when did your sickness
when did your symptoms start so symptoms
refers to the uh bad feelings
in your body yeah when did it start okay
all right next one my symptoms
started about number
days ago my symptoms started about
two days ago my symptoms started about
three days ago
or for one day yesterday my symptoms
started about a day ago my symptoms
started about a day ago
okay so these are two ways to describe
when you started feeling a certain way
these are used like i said for your
physical condition
yeah if you want to talk about your
mental condition maybe recently you feel
down or you feel very stressed
or unhappy something like that and you
want to express that you want to
communicate with someone
and talk about what’s happening in your
life maybe you feel down
you can say i’ve been feeling
this way since past
point in time i’ve been feeling this way
since the bus trip maybe you took a trip
somewhere i don’t know
i’ve been feeling this way since we went
out for dinner
or i’ve been feeling this way since
breakfast or i’ve been
feeling this way since we argued okay
so you can choose a past point a past
point so
in these examples i included i chose
events yeah some event where maybe
something happened
like a work meeting maybe you had a lot
of stress at a work meeting
or some discussion or some argument
so there’s some event and from that
event
you started feeling maybe different yeah
i’ve been feeling this way since a point
in time
okay all right
okay uh i don’t see any other questions
yet so
let’s go to the last one here
if you feel like you can make a guess
about your condition you want to make a
guess
about your recovery you can try this
pattern i’ll
be better plus some
time point time period for example
i’ll be better in a week or i’ll be
better in the morning
i just need some sleep or i’ll be better
by tonight i’ll be better after i get
some rest
i’ll be better at some point don’t worry
i’ll be better soon
so you can use this to make a guess
about your recovery yeah
all right some good examples are coming
in then
uh what is way since way since
oh i’ve been feeling this way
this way so this this way
i’ve been feeling this way refers to
i’ve been feeling
this emotion so not not way since those
two don’t go together
uh sorry i didn’t have space on the
board this
way this way means this condition or
in this manner i’ve been feeling in this
manner
is a strange way to say it i’ve been
feeling
this way since past point in time
okay uh i’ll be better next time i’ll be
better in the morning i’ll be better
soon good examples for recovery everyone
uh facebook there’s so much going on uh
i’ve been feeling this way
since we uh meet says abdur very close
since we
met key point past point in time
i’ve been feeling this way since we met
met is the past tense of meat please
make sure to use
past tense there yeah which one is used
for mental conditions we would use
this pattern for mental conditions yeah
so if you
have uh recently you feel down or
stressed or something
you can say i’ve been feeling this way
or i’ve been feeling stressed it’s also
okay
you can replace this way for example
this part
you can say i’ve been feeling stressed
since the meeting
or i’ve been feeling really anxious
since the presentation so you can use
an adjective in this pattern also i’ve
been feeling really
unhappy lately you can use this too
okay others i don’t see others
uh what does argued mean oh since we
argued so argue this is the present
uh the infinitive form we argue to argue
means to fight
with someone so fight means like yes
physical
but to argue means to use your words to
fight with someone
so you argue with someone because you
have different opinions about something
usually
right so argued means two people
had a fight with words yeah okay
i hope that helps you okay i have to
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uh in a good like polite and um
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