About the Author Hilary P. is a professional psychotherapist and has practised in the United Kingdom for over 15 years. Hilary has a keen interest in language learning, with a classical language educational background. Hilary's particular interests & experience is in psychology, education & learning, especially online learning and language acquisition. Support For support files and downloads related to this text, please visit https://adeptenglish.com/. At adeptenglish.com, you can also read a collection of free articles, sign up for a range of free newsletters and receive exclusive discounts and offers from Adept English. Transcript Atishoo Hi, I m Hilary and welcome to this latest podcast from Adept English. If this is the first of our podcasts that you ve ever listened to, Adept English helps people become fluent in the English language, through listening. Our teaching and learning methods are probably different from what you have tried before so if you ve tried and not succeeded in becoming fluent in English why not learn with us? Have a look around our website at www.adeptenglish.com there s lots on there to help you learn English. And keep an eye out that means keep looking at the website because it s always changing. Keep an eye out for our newer Seven Rules Course it s easier than the original. And we re going to be running two versions of our free course soon! So today s subject. Let s talk about being ill in English specifically coughs and colds. Just imagine that you are on a visit to the UK and you fall ill. You have to go the pharmacy to get medicine or perhaps you have to visit the Doctor. The pharmacy is the shop where you buy things to make Copyright Adept English Production reference: A00051 Page 1
yourself better, products you can buy another name for pharmacy that you might hear would be The Chemist. A well-known pharmacy in the UK is called Boots - Boots the Chemist. There is a Boots in most major towns and they sell all kinds of medicine and soap and beauty products. If there s not a Boots, most villages and towns in the UK will have a pharmacy. Sometimes they re in the supermarket. Thinking about US, rather than UK English in America, they would call this the drug store. And the doctor is the man or woman that you see when you re ill. The doctor is the person who will perhaps diagnose you. Diagnose means that they will give you an idea, an opinion on what is wrong, why you are ill or perhaps even give you a name for your illness. So the verb for this is to diagnose and the noun is diagnosis. So the doctor may give you a diagnosis that means tell you what s wrong with you. So we re not talking today about nasty or serious illness or diseases, just some phrases and terms for normal coughs and colds that we all get from time to time. So you start to feel ill this may mean that your temperature is elevated, it s raised. Your body temperature is higher than normal. Your body temperature is normally 37C. But if you are ill, you may feel a bit hot and a bit cold at the same time and if you take your temperature, it could be 39.5C. A doctor would say that your temperature was raised or elevated, but mostly people say Oh, you ve got a temperature meaning it s high. If it s really high, they might say Oh, you ve got a fever. If you have a raised temperature, or a fever, then it is quite likely that you ll have a headache too. I expect you know the word for head? And a headache pehaps have a look at the spelling of that in the PDF which comes with this podcast. It s probably differently spelt from what you might think. A headache is a pain in your head. You can have the word ache on its own, or add it to the part of the body that has the pain in it. Pain means ouch or ow or you might say It hurts. So you can say headache, backache, toothache, stomach ache. Lots of different ways to say that you have a pain. An ache is more of an Ughh, dull sort of pain, whereas Ouch would be a sharp pain. Copyright Adept English Production reference: A00051 Page 2
So if you have a headache and a temperature, then you may also have what we call a sore throat. Sore means that something is painful, it hurts and your throat is where your food goes down, when you eat. Your throat is inside your neck and your neck is the part of your body which supports your head. So a sore throat is often what you have if you are going to be ill with a cough or a cold. A cold is an illness where your nose gets runny meaning that it runs a lot and you have to use tissues. I ve mentioned Kleenex before in the podcast about brand names. Well, if you catch a cold, it means that you ll need the Kleenex, you ll need tissues to blow your nose. Your nose might be blocked and you might sound a bit like this. When people catch a cold, it s a good idea to stay home and get better people don t want to catch your cold. I don t like it in the winter, when I go to pay in a shop and the shop assistant has a horrible cold. It makes me think I m going to catch that too so I go home and wash my hands! Stay home if you ve got a cold so that other people don t have to catch it. Notice we say catch a cold - like catching a ball or catching a fish, except we ve not done it on purpose when we catch a cold. So that s a cold. A cough is slightly different, but you can have them both together. If you cough, it sounds like this [Cough...cough]. So cough is one of those O-U-G-H endings. You might remember the podcast called Tough Pronunciation cough is one of these words. So the word cough is both a noun you can say the cough or a cough, but there is also be a verb to cough. So you could say Oh, I heard him in the night, coughing all the time or Oh dear that s a bad cough you ve got. So what sorts of medicines are there for these kinds of things? Well, if you have a temperature or a fever, you may want to take medicine which brings your temperature down. So useful drug names could be paracetamol, or aspirin or ibuprofen. You can buy these pretty much anywhere in the UK you can even buy them in the garage where you put the petrol in your car. And they re very good if you have a high temperature you probably take these medicines too sometimes. If you ve got a cold, you ll need tissues the Kleenex again and you can buy cold remedies. A remedy is something which makes an illness better usually a product that you can buy. So a well-known cold remedy in the UK is Beecham s Hot Lemon. It s a dry powder and it comes in a box and you put it Copyright Adept English Production reference: A00051 Page 3
into a cup and add hot water to make it into a drink. It s full of medicine which makes you feel better paracetamol and some drugs which dry up your cold. I thoroughly recommend Beechams Hot Lemon, if you are unlucky enough to get a cold, especially when you re in the UK. They re nice and make you feel better. When I was a child and I had a cold, my parents used to make me eat raw onion on toast. Ugh! Not any more! So maybe that s why I like Beechams Hot Lemon so much. For a sore throat, you can buy various sweets which aim to make it better. Sometimes in the pharmacy, these are called lozenges. So a lozenge is the word for a sweet, that you suck and it helps your throat get better. So throat lozenges are things like Strepsils. And the title of this podcast? Well when someone sneezes in English, they say Atishoo or that s how you would write it down. Maybe you use a different word for the sound of a sneeze in your language, but for us, it s Atishoo and usually then someone else will say Bless You, just as in German, they say Gesundheit! Enough for now, have a lovely day. Speak to you again soon. Goodbye. Copyright 2017 Adept English All rights reserved. No part of this text may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this text to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this text is offered or sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author nor Adept English will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this text. Adept English has endeavoured to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this text by the appropriate use of capitals. Copyright Adept English Production reference: A00051 Page 4
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