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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
of
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
he
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
it
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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