How to Talk to a Doctor in English Basic English Phrases

weekly livestream my name is Alisha 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 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

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then I’m going to start the lesson as I

said earlier today’s lesson is going to

be focused on three parts of visiting a

doctor three parts of the experience of

visiting a doctor and will be very

vocabulary heavy so let’s get started I

want to begin on this part of the board

we’re going to start 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 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

to injure have the same meaning but

injure sounds more formal so when I

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 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 but

these words are used for your bones your

bones so if you don’t know the word a

bone it’s the part of your body maybe

you know the word skeleton I don’t know

inside your body the structure of your

body so inside it’s 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 brake 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 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

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 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 gonna

draw with my my marker anyway 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 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 of rash as maybe look 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 marched this

burn is used as both a noun and as a

verb a noun and a verb Oh Leah I

scription Lee I’ll get to you I’ll come

back to you Leah thanks for that

he is our illustrator okay burn is a

noun or a verb burn is the injury you

get so I use 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 pasta burned a

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 bruised

bruised 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 are you i

s e bruised bruised 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 to I bruised my arm I bruised

my arm Daniel in 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

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

I’ll mark this here chills a noun refers

that’s the feeling what you have 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 you could say

I don’t know I 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 pain or

discomfort in your body pain however is

used to talk about just a feeling and on

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 key vocabulary

words I want to talk about today

yes wah Fair 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

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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 last February

I broke my wrist last February I broke

my wrist that is true that’s 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 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

tape but if I want to just generally

describe something I use hurt I hurt my

leg I hurt my arm 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 he 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 to make more

to give more information ok

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

ok let’s move on to this one I broke my

arm I talked about broke or fracture

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 are like he broke my nose he

punched me he broke my nose so to break

is present tense broke is past tense

it 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 no that’s

okay

I thought okay so let’s continue though

let’s practice using some of these 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 is 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 there’s is there is

there is and this up 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 up 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 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 a rash and spot in

this way

good nice examples there is a spot on my

shoulders as someone and 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 ok let’s continue to some other

ones ok 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 of burned past tense birth

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 well.2 swell means to

get bigger 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 good

I have to continue because time is going

quickly thanks for that question now um

where was I I have the chills yes when

you feel cold last to here I want to

point out this verb this expression is

I’m running up 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 there are

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 hundred and one 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 eight

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

constant uncomfortable feeling when we

think of pain often it’s like a quick

like stabbing motion like a knife pain

almost

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 gent

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 end

inge 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 liquids 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 at

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 check-up or

come back in a month for a check-up 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 it

is this 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 creams 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 your

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 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 more clearly on how

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 there’s no pain but they have

to fix like a virus or a bacteria

there’s no pain but they have to fix it

so painkillers have a specific purpose

to kill pain okay what do I need to do

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will be how to talk about your favorite

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pop stars your favorite music and so on

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course your favorite artists and your

favorite bands but also talking about

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performances and so on so please join us

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