Last week a friend told me he got a cold.
How did your kind, wise English teacher reply?
Did I give him my sympathy, my understanding or maybe some health advice?
No.
I bragged.
I told him, “I haven’t been sick since October.”
Well, guess what happened to me yesterday….
SUMMERTIME SICK
It’s not difficult.
But a lot of students make mistakes when they describe their illnesses.
For example, what’s the difference between a cold and the flu?
What’s the correct way to use both in a sentence?
And let’s add one more useful sick word to your vocab: a bug.
What does that mean?
Share your guesses in the comments and I’ll explain tomorrow.
Cheers,
Mr. Vig
“Bug” is some kind of infection leading to some disease ?
My guess is that a cold is a mild illness — you feel a little unwell, but you can still, for example, go to work. But the flu is a more serious illness — you need to stay at home, take medicine, and rest.
“a bug” – I don’t know what is means.
Cold is nonspecific mild respiratory disease and flu is disease caused by specific flu virus. It’s spread mostly in the winter, like epidemic. Bug is sinonim for viruses, bacteria and other small, ugly creatures which cause disease
NB! My doctor said that dont exist illnes that name is cold:)
I have cold, I hope that i havent not flu
Maybe its mean illness that gomes from bugs, example porellios.
Bug like virus. Cold light disease, bo fever, flu more heavy with fever.
Bug can be a defect, error, in computer/tech; can be a inset, as a literal and can be, too, virus, infection, flu, germ, as a coloquial illness. I think, well, I have asked to GPT. Honestly.
A cold and a flu are probably both viral but a cold is less severe than a cold. The symptoms are different.
With a cold I have a runny or stuffy nose, i’m a little bit tired and maybe I cough and sneeze.
With a flew, I have fever, a headache, a sore throat, I get chills, I cough, I can’t leave my bed, I’ m exhausted, I may cough also… it’s terrible and lasts longer than a cold.
A cold is not very important, it goes away after a few days. You cought, you sneeze. And you feel tirer.
A flu, i think, is really an illness because of due to virus, bactéries, … It doesn’t go away so easy. You feel very bad, tired and sometimes you have fever ! Even you don’t want to eat.
So, You need to take an appointment with your doctor. He perhaps will give you a prescription for any médecine. When that flu is due to a virus, that medecine will certainly be an antibiotica that you would take for normaly 5 days.