Today's Class- Health Conditions-Do You Always Feel Well? Do You Sometimes Feel Ill?

When we feel well, we are healthy (hélzi).

Sometimes we don’t feel well. We may be:

not well (nat uél) mal

sick (sik) enfermo

ill (íl) enfermo

hurt (hert) herido

dizzy (dísi) mareado

nauseous (nóshes) tiene nausia

bleeding (blíding) sangrando

infected (infécted) infectado

I don’t feel so well. I am sick.

What is the matter?

I think I have a cold.

Um...

I have a headache, a runny nose and maybe fever.

Or we might have:

A cold- resfrío

Flu (flú) gripe

Fever (fíver) fiebre

Bronchitis (bronkáitis)

Pneumonia (eumónia)

Headache (hédeik) dolor de cabeza

Toothache (túzeik) dolor de muelas

Earache (ííreik) dolor de oídos

Heartache (hárteik) dolor de corazón

Stomachache (stómaeik) dolor del estómago

How are you?

I’m sore all over.

Too much exercise?

maybe.

Sore eyes (sór áis) dolor de ojos

Sore lips (sór lips) dolor de labios

Sore throat (sór zrout) dolor de garganta

Sore muscles (sór másels) dolor de músculos

Sore legs (sór legs) dolor de piernas

Sore feet (sór fíít) dolor de pies

Sore hands (sór hénds) dolor de manos

Broken bones (brouken bouns) huesos quebrados

Pain (péin), ache (éik), sore (sor) - dolor

Burn (bern) arda

Itch (ich) pica

Broken (brouken) quebrado

Infection (infécshen) infeccion

Rash (rásh)

Food poisoning (fúd poidening)

Is Nora all right?

Well, she got a burn.

Is it serious?

It hurts, but it is only a first degree burn so it will heal soon.

Some pains are

Dull (dal) flojo

Sharp (sharp) afilado

Pulsating (pálseiting) pulsando

Frequent (fríkuent) frecuente

Constant (kónstent) constante

Severe (sevír) severo

Penetrating (penetréiting) fuerte

Comes and goes (kams en gous) viene y va

Doctor, I have a stomachache

What kind of pain do you feel in your stomach?

I don’t know how to explain it.

Is it sharp or dull?

It is sharp.

Is it constant or does it come and go?

It comes and goes.

We Might have a Sickness; Illness; Disease; Ailment (éilment) – enfermedad

a disease may be serious but there is always hope for recovery

Arthritis (aztáitis) atritis

Cancer (kénser) cancer

Concussion (konkáshen)

Tuberculosis/TB (tuberculosis)

Cardiac arrest (cardiac arrest) parro de corazón

Heart disease (hart disis) enfermedad de corazón

Lung disease (lang disis) enfermedad de los pulmones

Kidney disease (kídni disis) enfermedad de los riñones

Malaria (malaria) malaria

SAR

HIV

You look terrible. What’s the matter?

My doctor said I have skin cancer.

Don’t worry!

Really?

Yes. It is curable 98% of the time.

Mental Illnesses can be controlled by medication and therapy:

Paranoia (paranóia)paranoia: paranoid (paranoid) paranoico

Schizophrenia (skítsofrénia): schizophrenic (skitsofrénik)

Manic depression (mánik depréshen): bi-polar (bai pólar) bipolar

Depression (depréshen): depressed (deprésd) depremido

Phobia (fóbia) fobia: phobic (fóbic) fobico

Doctor, I am afraid. I think people follow me and want to harm me.

How often do you feel that?

Not always, but it worries me.

When does it happen?

It usually happens when I’m very tired.

Try to do some Yoga or get a acupreassure massage.

It doesn’t help.

Well, you may be a little paranoid. Here is a prescription for you.

Some conditions happen at birth or early childhood – those may

Improve or cure

Blindness (báindnes) blind (blaind) ciego

Deafness (defnes) deaf (def) sordo

Dumbness (damnes) dumb (dam) mudo

Paralysis (paralysis) paralyzed (páralaised) paralizo

What do we look for when we want to get better?

a remedy (rémedi) remedio

a cure (kiúr) cura

an improvement (imprúvment) mejoramiento

a betterment (béterment) mejoramiento

a solution (solúshen) solucion

a healing (hííling) cura

What can help?

Medication (medikéishen) medicacion

Medicine (médisin) medicina

Prescription (preskrípshen) prescipcion

Massage (masash) masaje

Acupuncture (akiupánkcher) acupancturaTherapy (zérapi) terapia

Yoga (iyóga)

Injection / Shot (inyekshen) injeccion

Operation / Surgery (operéishen/séryeri) operacion

Who can help?

A nurse (ners) enfermera

A doctor (doctor) doctor

A physician (fidíshen) medico

A masseuse (masús) masagista

A psychologist (saikóloyist) psicologo

A psychiatrist (saikáetrist) psiquiatra

A healer (hííler) cura

Where can we go for help?

Doctor office (dóctor)

Clinic (klínik) clínica

Hospital (hospital) hospital

Emergency room (eméryensi rúm)

Yoga class (iyóga)

Massage parlor, or private practice(masay) masage

What do we say to a person who isn’t well?

“Get well soon!”

“We wish you a quick recovery!”

“Get better soon!”

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Today's Class-What do they do? Where do they work?

These are some of the things people do:

Actors act and play roles in movies and theatres. Some become stars and make a lot of money.

Archie is a very creative architect. He mainly designs hotels and restaurants for major construction companies.

Anna is an artist. At her studio she paints in oil, acrylics or water paints and sculptures. She exhibits her work in a gallery.

Bruno is a bar tender and works at a well known bar in Mar de Plata. He is popular with the guests and makes good tips.

His brother is a bouncer (baunser) and decides who may or may not go in to see the band at the discotheque next door.

There is a little beggar who begs for alms at the

train station in Retiro. Most of the time passengers give him a few coins but sometimes he gets a bill of two or even five pesos.

Cara is a caterer (kéiterer) and owns her own commercial kitchen. She specializes in Peruvian food and caters to businesses around the port.

Charlie Chaplin was a very famous comedian (komídian). He appears in silent movies (sáilent múvis).

Christian is a chef at a five star French restaurant in Paris.

Diego is a dentist and shares a clinic with five other dentists. He fills cavities, cleans and polishes teeth or sometimes pulls out a molar tooth.

Dan is a professional dancer and performs with the Russian National Ballet at various theatres (zíaters) around the world.

Dianne Keaton is a director (dáirector) . She directs films and is an excellent actress as well.

Eric is an engineer (ényiníír). He designs and maintains computerized machinery for General Electrics.

Eli is a private electrician (electríshen) who works for himself or contracts work from construction companies.

Evelyn is an entertainer. She performs in television shows and in local theatres. She acts, sings, dances, talks and tells jokes in front of enthusiastic audiences.

Fay is a flight attendant for US Airline. She attends to passengers on board commercial flights from Los Angeles to Buenos Aires and back.

Frank and Francis are foremen. They oversee large industrial construction projects.

Fred is a fire fighter (fáier fáiter). He often saves the lives of people who get trapped in their apartments or when their house is on fire.

Fashion designers like Pierre Cardin design men's cloths and accessories.

George is a gardener who tends many embassy gardens. He works for a dynamic landscape company.

Garry is a gofer for an office in Manhattan. He runs errands and delivers messages and small parcels to clients across the city.

Gustavo is a grocer. He sells fine cheeses, breads, and milk products among other things.

Hilda is a housewife (háusuáif) and does house chores at home. She cleans, washes dishes, does the laundry, shops and cooks, sews, takes care of her husband and children and does not get paid for it!

Heather is a hostess at an elegant Italian restaurant. She seats customers and hands them the menu.

Henry is a hunter (hánter) . He hunts (hants) deer, birds and buffalo and sells them to the villagers.

I am an interpreter (intérpreter). I interpret in court (kort) from Japanese, Spanish and Hebrew to English and vise versa.

Ingrid is an investor with a private company. She negotiates with large corporations to help fund farms and small businesses.

Ira is an inventor. He invents many useful house hold gadgets.

Jimmy is a juggler (yágler) in a circus. He juggles balls, torches and objects as large as chairs!

John is a journalist and has a column in the New York Times.

He writes about interesting people and places.

Jack is a janitor. He maintains and keeps the school neat and clean.

Kings are rulers who make all the important decisions in their Kingdom.

Laura is a lawyer. She defends abused mothers and children who appear in court.

Larry is a money lender. He mainly lends money to farmers and small businesses.

Lesley is a laundress. She has a laundry mat in the centre of London. Many executives drop off their soiled (dirty) suits and shirts and pick them up clean, pressed and ready to wear.

Marty is a manager (mánaller) at the Sheraton Hotel in Puerto Madero. He often solves complex problems and handles difficult situations.

Monty is a mechanic. He fixes cars, vans and trucks in his own garage.

Marcus is the minister of transportation in X Land. His father is a church minister.

Nancy is a nanny. She takes care of babies and little children at their homes.

Nora is a nurse (nérs). She assists doctors with the care of patients at a Hospital.

My niece is a nun. She serves God in a secluded monastery.

Oprah is an operator. She answers calls for Verizon, currently the largest Telephone Company in the USA.

Olivia is an organizer (órganaiser). She organizes large events that take place in the Convention Centre.

Patric is a painter. He paints houses inside and out.

Pam is a plastic surgeon (séryen). She operates on hands and feet in her own clinic.

Peter is a policeman in NYPD. He and his partner drive around town in search of any suspicious activity.

Prentice is a potter who creates beautiful pots, cups and vases and then exports them to Europe.

Queen Elizabeth is the the symbolic ruler of England but does not make military or political decisions.

Robert is a repairman (ripérmén) and has his own shop. He repairs home appliances like refrigerators, washing machines, driers or even radios and televisions.

Ronda is a realtor. She buys and sells houses in the San Francisco area. She doesn’t like to rent because it is too troublesome.

Stella is a salesperson (séilsperson). She sells cosmetics and other products from home.

Sarah is a scientist and works at a lab. She researches new cancer remedies.

Selma is a seamstress (símstres) and works with grandpa at the shop. She sews and mends woman apparel.

Simon is a singer and a song writer. He has ten CDs to his name.

Theodore is a tailor (tailor). He tailors suits for men at his atelier (atelié).

Teresa is a math teacher and teaches at the University of Buenos Aires. Math is not an easy subject but she makes efforts to simplify the various complex equations so her students may understand them easily.

Tammy is a tour guide (túr gáid) and works for a tourist agency (turist éillensi). She accompanies tourists and shows them the City of Buenos Aires. Sometimes she takes them to a Tango show or escorts them on a boat tour around Tigre.

A translator (tránsleitor) translates legal documents, letters, magazines or books from one language to another. Now a days, most translators work with computers in the comfort of their homes.

Tom is a truck driver (tral draiver). He drives company trucks that deliver electric parts to the downtown area.

Umberto’s brother is an undercover agent (ándercaver éillent) in Las Vegas. He inspects criminal activity by following clues.

Ursula is an usher (ásher) in a theatre (zíater). She checks viewers’ tickets or shows them to their seats.

Valdez is a vendor (vender). At weekends he vends musical instruments in fairs (férs) around town.

Victor is a veterinarian who cures sick animals in rural areas. He operates on horses, cows or sheep. Sometimes he or injects them or administers medicine to them.

Valerie is a valet (vale) parker. She parks expensive cars of customers who come to dine at the Hilton Hotel.

Wendy is a waitress (uéitres). She waits on tables at Cafe Havana. She makes good tips. Her boyfriend is a waiter.

Walter is a welder. He welds computer hardware parts in an IBM factory.

Wesley is a whole seller. He sells in bulk (large quantities at a marked down prices) to retailers (stores that sell to individual customers).

X is a Xerox operator at the Municipal Office of Justice. He mostly copies legal documents for lawyers.

Zelda is a prominent zoologist at the University of California. She often studies the conditions of captive animals in San Diego Zoo or travels to an African Safari.