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    This document provides information on asking about and describing someone's health. It discusses common ways to ask how someone feels and common responses. It also discusses the differences between sick and ill, ache and pain, and presents perfect continuous and present simple tenses for describing health problems.

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    This document provides information on asking about and describing someone's health. It discusses common ways to ask how someone feels and common responses. It also discusses the differences between sick and ill, ache and pain, and presents perfect continuous and present simple tenses for describing health problems.

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    This document provides information on asking about and describing someone's health. It discusses common ways to ask how someone feels and common responses. It also discusses the differences between sick and ill, ache and pain, and presents perfect continuous and present simple tenses for describing health problems.

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    Health Problems Week 2

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    Wendy Ortega
    This document provides information on asking about and describing someone's health. It discusses common ways to ask how someone feels and common responses. It also discusses the differences between sick and ill, ache and pain, and presents perfect continuous and present simple tenses for describing health problems.

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    The most common ways to ask about someone's health are:

    •How do you feel (today)?


    •How are you feeling?
    •Is everything okay?

    They will most likely respond:


    •I'm fine.
    •I feel sick.
    •Not so good.
    •Not very well.
    •I don't feel well.
    •I'm sick.
    When you see (or hear) that they are not well, then you can
    ask:
    •What's the matter?
    •What's wrong?

    If the person wants to say what is wrong, they may give the
    reason they feel that way:
    •I have ... (+ health condition)
    •I've got ... (+ health condition)
    •I have a headache
    •I've got a sore throat.
    The difference between sick and ill

    To most people, both sick and ill more or less mean the same


    thing, that you are not in a healthy condition.

    Sick is less formal than ill and usually describes short-term


    ailments or diseases (like a cold or cough). Sick can also refer to
    feeling nauseous.
    In British English, to be sick can mean to vomit.
    Ill is often for more serious health problems (like cancer or
    pneumonia) but can also be used for short-term ones.
    Illness (noun) refers to a medical condition. Sickness (noun)
    refers to how you feel.
    The difference between ache and pain

    ACHE is a continuous or prolonged dull pain in a part of the


    body. It can often be a throbbing sensation that covers more than
    one point. You can sometimes try and ignore an ache.

    PAIN is physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or


    injury. It is usually a sharp sensation in a specific part of the body
    and hurts more than an ache.
    Explaining your problem
    Look at these two forms we can use to talk about our health
    problems:
    'I have been coughing a lot these days / recently / for the last
    few days / since yesterday.' (PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS)

    'I have a cough.' (PRESENT SIMPLE)


    Both of these are used to describe our health problems.
    The present perfect continuous is used to show that something
    started in the past and is still happening now. We use 'I have been
    + -ing verb.' Other examples of this form include:
    'I have been sneezing.'
    'My head has been hurting.'
    'I have been having headaches.'
    'I have been feeling tired.'
    'I haven't been sleeping well.'
    The present simple is used to focus on a situation at the present. It
    is more common to use the present simple than the present
    continuous when we see a doctor: 'My head hurts' is more common
    than 'My head is hurting’.

    We also use:
    I have + noun
    'I have a bad back'
    'I have a sore throat.'
    'I have a fever.'
    I feel + adjective
    'I feel dizzy.'
    'I feel under the weather.'
    'I feel rundown.'

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