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Welcome to our Daily English Listening Practice with this week’s series:

Health Vocabulary

Feeling pretty terrible right about now. This week’s series is aimed at Health Vocabulary, and today, we’re talking about being sick. Feel better soon!

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Notes from the Audio Files

Wiped Out

• Recoup: recuperate, recover
• Useless: Not useful
• Power through: continue, carry on through something difficult
• Recovering: healing

How to use it:
“After my surgery, I was wiped out for at least 2 days, I barely remember any of it.”
“Food poisoning completely wiped me out. I couldn’t leave the house for about a week.”

Stuffed up / Bunged Up

• Bunged up: blocked nose – UK
• Nasally: a sound resonating in the nose
• Hay fever: pollen allergy
• Pollen: powder found in flowers, usually yellow
• Runny nose: opposite of stuffy nose
• Nasal spray: spray for inside your nose
• Clears me up: opens up my nasal passages
• Decongestant: type of medicine that helps with stuffy noses
• Non drowsy: doesn’t make you tired or sleepy
• Dragging myself around: going very slowly due to a problem
  

How to use it:
“Every spring, I have to start taking allergy pills or I get really stuffed up from the pollen.”
“Everyone is a bit bunged up, so I brought some lemon tea into the office to help.”

Burning Up

• Feeling feverish / got the chills
• Feel it coming on: feeling the early signs of an illness
• The chills: Feeling cold due to your sickness
• Sweat out the fever: your body tries to cool down your fever by sweating
• The sign of a fever: the symptoms of a fever

How to use it:
“Sweetie, there’s no way you’re going to school today, you’re burning up.”
“I feel like I’m burning up, my temperature is way over a hundred.”

Can’t Keep It Down

• Food poisoning: A sickness caused by raw or rotten foods.
• Raw: uncooked
• Stomach bug: see below
• Get rid of something: remove something
• Sip water: drink water slowly

How to use it:
“I haven’t been about to keep anything down, everything makes me nauseous.”
“I tried to take some aspirin but I couldn’t even keep that down.”

A bug, stomach bug, 24 hour bug

• Nauseous: feeling unwell, headache, unable to concentrate
• 24 hour bug: A sickness that only lasts about a day
• Picked up a bug at work: got sick from work
• A stomach bug: an illness that affects your stomach
• They have a bug

How to use it:
“I mean, I was sick all day Saturday, but by Sunday afternoon I was just fine. Must’ve been some 24-hour bug.”
“Chris can’t come into school today, he’s got a nasty tummy bug.”

Feeling a bit feverish lately? Let us know!

Thanks,

Kat and Mark