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M: Hello English learners! Welcome to EnglishPod! My name is Marco.
E: And I’m Erica.
M: And today we’re gonna be bringing you a very useful lesson about being sick.
E: Yeah, um, we’re going to learn, um, how to tell your boss that you can’t go to work, because you’re sick.
M: Exactly! This is really important, because we all get sick and sometimes you just can’t go to work.
E: Yes! Or maybe sometimes you just don’t want to go to work.
M: You just... exactly, maybe you’re lying.
E: Yeah.
M: But we’re gonna be teaching you how to do it anyway, so, before we start with our dialogue, let’s take a look at “vocabulary preview”.
Voice: Vocabulary preview.
E: In this vocabulary preview we have two words for you. Uh, the first one is quite ill. M: Quite ill.
E: Quite ill.
M: So, quite ill...
E: Very sick. M: Very sick. E: Uhu.
M: Quite is a synonym of very. E: Exactly!
M: Okay.
E: Yeah.
M: And ill...
E: Sick.
M: Sick.
E: Yeah.
M: So, they both mean the same thing, no difference.
E: No difference at all. I just think, uh, ill is more common in British English. M: Uh, exactly. Alright, let’s take a look at our second word – flu.
E: The flu.
M: The flu.
E: The flu.
M: So, the flu is a virus.
E: Yeah, it’s a sickness.
M: Okay, and, uh...
E: Uhu.
M: It’s very similar to a cold.
E: Yes, but just a lot worse.
M: A lot worse, so, it’s stronger.
E: Yeah, yeah. Um, it’s also called influenza. M: Influenza.
E: Aha.
M: Exactly. So, the flu.
E: Uhu.
M: Okay, so, let’s listen to our dialogue. What’s gonna happen here today? E: Well, we’re going to listen as Julie calls her boss to tell him she’s sick. M: Alright, but is she really sick?

E: I don’t know. Let’s find out.
DIALOGUE, FIRST TIME
M: Alright, so, Julie didn’t really seem to be sick, ha?
E: Yeah, I... I don’t know th... that cough was just a little too much. M: It seemed like she was acting.
E: Yeah.
M: Alright, so, let’s take a look at some of this vocabulary in “language takeaway”.
Voice: Language takeaway.
E: We have five words for you here and these are all great words to describe a sickness, right?
M: Uhu.
E: Alright, the first one – headache.
M: Headache.
E: Headache.
M: Headache.
E: So, when you have a headache, you have a sore head, right? M: Right, your head hurts.
E: Uhu.
M: So, it’s pretty simple.
E: Yep.
M: You have a headache.
E: It’s the way you feel after, um, being at a bar too late. M: Yeah...
E: Yeah.
M: When you drink too much... E: Yeah.
M: You get a headache.
E: Yeah.
M: Alright, let’s take a look at our next word – sore throat. E: Sore throat.
M: Sore throat.
E: Sore throat.
M: So, basically, we have two words here, let’s look at the first one – sore. E: Hurting.
M: It hurts, right?
E: Yeah.
M: And your throat is...
E: Well, it... you know it’s the part right here, at the back... oh, you can’t see me. [Comment: Erica points at her throat, but realizes right away that we can’t see her, because it’s a podcast, not a videocast]
M: Hehe.
E: Well, it’s the part, um, at the back of your mouth that goes down to your stomach. M: Alright, that’s your throat.
E: Yeah.
M: So, you use your throat to swallow.
E: Uhu.
M: Okay. Now, we can use the word sore with different body parts, right? E: Yeah, like, um, a sore back.

M: A sore back, right? Or maybe you were playing tennis all weekend, so you have a sore arm.
E: Aha, or even a sore neck.
M: Right.
E: Uhu.
M: So, the word sore. Let’s take a look at our third word – running nose. E: Running nose.
M: Running nose.
E: Running nose.
M: This is a very strange word.
E: I know.
M: But it doesn’t mean that your nose is running, right?
E: No, but... okay, um, it... no, but when you have a running nose, um, there’s lots of water co