Now is the time to get passionate about
Phrasal verbs hey, what's up? How's it going? I'm Gabby Wallace
American English teacher and founder of go natural English here to help you with your fluency in
English one key part of achieving the fluency that you want is to
understand phrasal verbs oh my goodness phrasal verbs they are so
Frustrating overwhelming so annoying don't you just wish they would go away
I know phrasal verbs are a huge part of being able to
understand and speak English like a native speaker
But I know that you and so many of my English students have trouble with them
So three reasons why you don't understand phrasal verbs
I want to share these reasons with you
You know not to make you feel bad, but because when you understand the problem
Then we can find the solution and we can improve together
So if that sounds good then keep watching to the end because I'm going to suggest exactly
How you can improve this problem, so?
Reason number one why you don't understand
Phrasal verbs and wait hang on timeout just a second if you don't know what a phrasal verb is
Let me tell you quickly it's a verb with a preposition
that together
Form something new it's like when a verb and a preposition have a baby and the baby
Just means something different in English right okay, so for example
Let's use get because get is a very common verb used to
create phrasal verbs so if I say
usually just get I
Get it. I'm saying I understand it or
We can actually use get in a lot of different ways so maybe this wasn't the easiest example
but when we add a
preposition to the verb get it creates a new meaning like I get to
Teach you English means now that I have the
Opportunity to teach you English so it's different than just get right
I get two means I have the opportunity which is a
more
Advanced way of saying I don't want to say advanced. I don't like talking about different levels. That's just a different way more
academic way to talk about
Having the opportunity
anyway, okay back to
Phrasal verbs why don't we understand phrasal verbs number one because you keep avoiding?
Phrasal verbs because they're hard because you just don't want them to bother you anymore
So you don't really pay attention to them you just hope they'll go away
You know how like you have an itch sometimes? You're like. Oh should I go to the doctor?
I don't know. Maybe it'll just go away if I just don't pay attention to it well
That's kind of like phrasal verbs phrasal verbs are like the rash of
English
They're everywhere
But they're everywhere, it's so gross this example is so gross um and you can't ignore it
Because that rash is not gonna go away after a few days because phrasal verbs are used
even more often than more academic verbs it's more likely that you'll hear a native English speakers say I
get to
Do this cool thing?
Instead of saying I have the opportunity to do this cool thing
So we have to stop avoiding phrasal verbs
But that's a big reason why you don't understand them because you're just hoping that they'll go away
So you don't focus on them you don't listen for them, and it's not your fault
because in traditional English classes your textbook
Maybe your teacher probably didn't have time to focus on the phrasal verbs so they just skipped over them they focused on the academic
Words because a lot of people think that using bigger Longer
Academic vocabulary is better
well
Native speakers don't use academic
Vocabulary as often in everyday conversations, so if you actually want to understand
What people are saying and you want to sound like you fit in?
You have to learn phrasal verbs you have to focus on them number two the biggest
Second biggest reason why you're not understanding phrasal verbs is that when you are listening to English or you are in a conversation?
Where you want to understand?
What people are saying is when you hear a phrasal verb?
You're just giving up if you don't understand it right away. You're not considering the context you're not trying to
Guess from the context you can probably make a really
Intelligent informed guess when you consider what the person is probably trying to
Express for example if I say I'm gonna pick up my friend from the gym at 6 p.m.
In my car you can probably guess because I said
Friend it's a person gym a location in my car
6 p.m.
Maybe I'm actually going to give a ride to
My friend which is a I guess more academic way of saying that and the third biggest?
Reason why you're not understanding phrasal verbs is that you're assuming that you
Understand the phrasal verb, but you're not checking to make sure that you are correct
You're pretending
Maybe that you understand, but you don't check to make sure you're correct so when you hear someone use a phrasal verb you could actually
Stop and ask to confirm. Oh do you mean you're giving a ride to your friend? Oh, okay? Got it?
I'm learning English. Thanks for your patience so confirm. You can ask questions
It's okay most people want to help you if you're shy if you don't want to ask in the middle of a conversation
Maybe you don't want to slow things down. Maybe Barriss. That's okay
Just make a mental note or maybe a note in your smartphone to check that
Phrasal verb when you have a moment to yourself
So let's talk about
solutions if you've been avoiding phrasal verbs now is the time to get passionate about
Phrasal verbs and really focus on them if you convince yourself if you brainwash yourself a little bit and say oh
I'm so passionate about phrasal verbs they just light my life on fire yes
I want more phrasal verbs in my life
that's the best way for you to actually learn more about them because you're fooling yourself into thinking that they're enjoyable I do this when
I run when I see a big hill look. I don't like running especially
I don't like running up hill, but I trick myself, and I think oh I love running up hills hills are great
I love hills so much and Hills love me when I run up then I
Know I'm a weirdo
But it works so get passionate and get focused about
Phrasal verbs because I want you to know they're gonna help you a lot
So there's a big benefit for you to this relationship between you and phrasal verbs
next when you're listening to English
Conversations or other materials really listen for the phrasal verb and try guessing what it means and then you can confirm
What it means so the third solution is don't just assume
But double check ask the question check the phrasal verb maybe online
You can ask a friend when you have some time
But make sure that you're understanding
and then a bonus solution to start keeping a notebook keep a journal of phrasal verbs and then
start to use them on your own because you're going to remember them when you listen to them a lot when you
Repeat and review them a lot, and then especially when you start using them in your own
Sentences that's when you're really going to get it all right so got it good
I'm glad that we had this time together for this lesson. I hope you enjoyed it leave me a comment
Let me know your thoughts on phrasal verbs or if you want to ask about a specific
phrasal verb I would to hear from you and
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