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Health

Page history last edited by Michael Griffin 15 years, 7 months ago

Common mistakes for Korean students when talking about health:

 

I have much stress.
>>>I have a lot of stress.
>>>I have lots of stress.
>>>I have too much stress.
>>>I have stress. A lot.
 

I have a stress.
>>>I have stress.
>>>____ is stressful.
>>>I am stressed (out.)

 

I am very painful.
>>>It is painful (to me).
>>>I am in pain.

>>>My _____ hurts.

My knee is sick.
My knees are sick.
>>>My knee hurts./My knees hurt.
>>>My knees are painful.
>>>My knees are sore.
>>>My knees ache.
>>>My knees are bothering me.

>>>My knees are bad.

 

I want to lose my weight.
>>>I want to lose weight.

 

I sometimes eat a medicine.
>>>I sometimes take medicine.

 

 You are very thinner than before.

>>>You are much thinner than before.

 


I'll give you some prescription.
>>>I'll give you some prescriptions.
>>>I'll give you a prescription.
>>>I'll prescribe something for you.

I'm going to give you a prescription some pills.
>>>...for some pills.

I am some nervous.
>>>I am a little bit nervous.
>>>I'm nervous.
>>>I'm a little nervous.
>>>I'm so nervous.
>>>I'm somewhat nervous.
>>>I am nervous because of ____. 

You should take a medicine.
>>>take medicine.
>>>take some medicine.
>>>take some medication.
I'm just doctor.
>>>I'm just a doctor.

I need to lose my weight.
>>>I need to lose weight.
 

I have to recover it.
>>>I have to recover.
>>>I have to recover from it.
>>>I have to recover on my own/by myself.
 

I have to recover from it until tomorrow.
>>>by tomorrow.
>>>I have until tomorrow to recover from it.

 

Some (random but useful) sentences about health:

 

I got a shot.
 

The nurse injected me with ___.

 

I got a flu shot last week.
I don't want to get the flu.

 

I wear a patch.


I am sick.
I have a cold.

 

My ear hurts.
I have an earache.

 

I am ill.

 

He has arthritis.
His knees are always sore.
 
I cured him.
I injected him.

(I am a doctor)


You had better agree with me, or I will have your head cut off.

 

Have you ever taken an operation?

Have you ever had an operation?

 

Barry cut his head and got 4 stitches. He has a scar now.
In the French Revolution they cut off people's heads.


He was on an IV for a day.

 

Curly's dad had an operation last year.
(He had surgery)
They put a metal valve and a pacemaker into his heart.


I have a stomach.

I have a stomachache.  

 

 

Useful Health vocab: 

 

antibiotics

sinus (sinuses)
hay fever
pollen

infection

athlete's foot
diarrhea

constipation

rash

the chills

insomnia

contagious

infectious

 

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