TOEFL Speaking Template: Expression of Disease

1. General condition:

He feels headache, nausea and vomiting. (He feels headache, nausea and vomiting.)

He is under the weather . (He felt unwell, sick.)

He began to feel unusually tired. (He felt unusually tired.)

He felt light-headed. )

She has been shut-in for a few days. (She has been sick at home for a few days.)

Her head is pounding. (She has a headache.)

< p>　His symptoms include loss of appetite, weight loss, excessive fatigue, fever and chills. (His symptoms include loss of appetite, weight loss, excessive fatigue, fever and chills.)

He feels exhausted or fatigued most of the time.

He has been lacking in energy for some time.

< p> He feels drowsy, dizzy and nauseated.

He feels as though everything around him is spinning. (He has noticed some loss of hearing.)

She has some pains and itching around her eyes. Itching.)

2. Cold:

He has been coughing up rusty or greenish-yellow phlegm. (He has a cough with greenish-yellow phlegm.)

< p> His eyes feel itchy and he has been sneezing. )

He has a fever, aching muscles and hacking cough. (hacking = constant)

He coughed with sputum and feeling of malaise. (He gets a cold with a deep hacking cough.) (malaise = debility)

He has a headache, aching bones and joints. (He has a headache, aching bones and joints.)

He has a persistent cough.

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He has bouts of uncontrollable coughing.

He has hoarse and has lost his voice sometimes. Lost his voice. )

He has a sore throat and a stuffy nose.

His breathing is harsh and wheezy. He has a stabbing pain that comes on suddenly in one or both temples.

He has a runny. nose, sneezing or a scratchy throat. His both hands and feet ache all over. Both hands and feet are very sore.)

He has pain on the sole of his feet. (He has pain on the sole of his feet.)

There is a wart-like lump on the sole of right foot. (There is a lump like a wart on the sole of my right foot.)

His ankles look puffy and they pit when he presses them with his finger. (Pit = small dent form) (They and them in the sentence both refer to ankles)

The pain in his left foot is accompanied by redness and swelling. The joints near his fingernails and knuckles look swollen. (The joints near his fingernails and knuckles look swollen.)

He has numbness. and tingling in his hands and fingers. )

His legs become painful following strenuous exercise. A little deformed and unable to move)

There are some swellings in his armpit.

He is troubled with painful muscles and joints. She is troubled by the pains in the back and shoulders. )

She is troubled by the pains in the back and shoulders.

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His knee has been bothering him for some time. (His knee has been uncomfortable for some time.)

4. Poor sleep:

< p>　He is sleeping poorly.(He cannot sleep well)

He has difficulty in sleeping, inability to concentrate.(He has difficulty in sleeping, inability to concentrate.)

It is usually hard for her to fall asleep when she goes to bed at night.(She goes to bed at night and has difficulty falling asleep.)

He wakes during the night or early morning and finds it difficult to fall asleep again.( He has nightmares occasionally. (He sometimes has nightmares.)

5. Breathing:

< p>　His breathing has become increasingly difficult.(He has become increasingly difficult to breathe.)

He has to breathe through his mouth.(He has to breathe through his mouth.)

He is short of breath, even when he has not been exercising, he is breathless. (He is panting; even if he is not exercising, he is out of breath.)

His cough is more like wheezing. (His cough is dry, producing no phlegm.)

He has coughed up blood.( He coughs up a lot of phlegm (thick spit)

His nose stuffed up when he had a cold. on most days.(He coughs up thick phlegm most of the time. )

He has a feeling of tightness in the chest or a feeling that he is suffocating. (His chest feels stuffy, as if he can't breathe.)

6. Oral cavity Problem:

He has pain in his teeth or jaw.

He has some problems with his teeth. < /p>

　The tooth hurts only when he bites down on it. (His gums are red and swollen.) < /p>

His tongue is red and sore all over. (His tongue is red and sore all over.)

)

His breath smells bad and he has a foul taste in his mouth.

His gums do bleed.

He has some sore swellings on his gum or jaw. (His gums and jaw are swollen and painful.)

He has sore places on or around the lip. It hurts all around.)

There are cracks at the corners of his mouth.

There are some discolored areas inside on his tongue. ( Some parts of his tongue have a strange color)

7. Stomach problems:

He has a bloated, uncomfortable feeling after meal. Very uncomfortable. ) or

He feels bloated after eating.

He has bouts of abdominal pain. (He has bouts of abdominal pain.)

He feels bloated in his abdominal area.

The pain is mainly in the lower (upper) right part of the abdomen.

He has nausea and vomiting. (He has nausea and vomiting.)

It is difficult or painful for him to swallow. (It will hurt when he swallows food.)

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He has passed more gas than usual. (He has passed more gas than usual.)

He has been constipated for a few days. (He has been constipated for several days.)

He suffers pains when he moves his bowels. )

He has some bleeding from his rectum. (His anus is bleeding.)

He has noticed some blood in his bowel movements. (He has noticed some blood in his bowel movements.) < /p>

His bowel movements are pale, greasy and foul smelling. or

His bowel movements are gray (or black) in color. (His bowel movements are gray (or black) in color.)

< p>　He has trouble with diarrhea. (He has diarrhea.)

8. Others:

His blood pressure is really up. (His blood pressure is really up.)

)

High blood pressure is creeping up on him.

He has noticed frequent urination, increased thirst and unexpected tireness. (He has noticed frequent urination, increased thirst and unexpected tireness.)

It is a chest pain that gets worse when he bends over or lies down.

He has noticed excessive sweating and unexplained tireness. (He experienced excessive sweating and unexplained tiredness.)

He has a sharp pain in one area of ??his spine. (He experienced a sharp pain in one area of ??his spine.)

He has pain in other joints including hip, knee and ankle.

His eyes seem to be bulging. )

He has double vision.

He feels there is a film over his eyes. Something blocking the view)

His vision in the right eye blurred.

He has had some earaches lately. Pain.)

He has a repeated buzzing or other noises in his ears. (his ears often have a buzzing sound)