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different phrasal verbs that you can use
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in meeting situations in situations
where you use a computer whatever so not
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today's lesson i made again as usual in
three parts we're going to focus on
vocabulary like specific situation
vocabulary for each uh for each part of
today's lesson
so the first part or the first like
group of phrasal verbs i want to look at
for today is this these are phrasal
verbs you can use for everyday office
activities so yes i have everyday office
activities but some of these you can use
for other parts of your life too so i'll
mention those uh throughout the lesson
let's get started okay
first the first this is actually two
different phrasal verbs
first is to clock in to clock in
second is to clock out so to clock in
and to clock out those are two separate
phrasal verbs
to clock in
means
to record
start time
to record your start time so this means
when you arrive at the office you record
when you begin work so maybe you use
like a i don't know some digital system
to record when you start your office
hours that's called clocking in we use
the phrasal verb to clock in so in a
sentence clock in when you get to the
office so clock in is right here
clock in this is like a rule or a
command so clock in when you get to the
office
so the opposite then is this one to
clock out to clock out so maybe you can
guess to clock out means to record your
end time to record your end time or to
record the time you stop working to
clock out to clock out so in a sentence
clock out when you leave so clock in
when you get to the office clock out
when you leave or clock out when you
finish work so clock in and clock out a
very basic office related phrasal verb
okay let's move on to the next one then
the next one is to set up to set up
please note that for this phrasal verb
there is a space there's a space between
set and up setup with no space is a noun
to set up that's a phrasal verb so keep
the space there when you're making this
a verb
so to set up one's desk or work station
so maybe you have a desk at your office
or at your school
or maybe you have just kind of a work
station maybe it's not exactly a desk
you could use workstation too
so to set up means to prepare something
so like to get something ready for
example let's set up
workstations for the new staff so let's
set up
workstations we follow
this set up with workstation or with
desk like i need to set up my desk for
the day that's typically how we use this
phrasal verb
okay
anatoly says now i understand what was
written on my work clock yeah this
probably clock in clock out phrase is
written on a lot of office clocks i
think
uh okay let's move on then to the next
one to skip out on to skip out on this
is one that you can use in situations
outside of the office to skip out on
means to not attend something on purpose
like you decide uh i don't have time for
this meeting or i said i would go to
this event but i decided not to go
so we use the expression to skip out on
to skip out on this sounds rather casual
so we do not use this in formal
situations but you might use this with
your colleagues with your close
coworkers to skip out on to skip out on
for example i'm gonna skip out on the
afternoon meeting today i'm going to
skip out on the afternoon meeting today
so skip out on and then what
thing what event
did you choose not to attend in this
case the afternoon meeting i'm gonna
skip out on the afternoon meeting today
okay
onward then
uh we've got three more in this first
group so this one is to head out to head
out you can use this in a lot of
different cases not just at the office
not just at work to head out means to
leave to leave so this has no like no
relationship to your head your physical
head so to head out means to leave for
example it's late i'm gonna
head out i'm gonna head out so replace
leave or maybe go with head out
okay
a question
angel says is it correct to say help me
to set my desk up yeah that's fine
that's fine so about uh this one here to
set up yes you can split that so help me
set my desk up is okay that's all right
okay uh k on facebook says i always skip
out on university classes really that's
not a good thing are you paying for
those wow i wonder okay onward to next
one the next one here ah this next one
is super useful at work and at school it
is to hand in to hand in to hand in
means to submit so this expression comes
from this motion like when you submit a
report or you submit your homework
this is kind of the motion yeah like or
before digital stuff i guess but we used
this motion so it's like your hand moved
in towards another person so we use the
phrasal verb to hand in to hand in
to mean to submit something for example
past tense i handed in
my report at the end of the day
i handed in my report so what did you
hand in this is the thing that you
handed in i hand it in noun phrase i
handed in my report at the end of the
day
okay
last one for this first group then is to
call in to call in especially to call in
sick to call in sick
this expression this phrasal verb means
to contact your office or to contact
your school
to tell them you are not
coming to work today
because you're sick or to tell them you
are sick usually for example i have to
call in sick today i have to call in
sick today so this is like when we uh
we're at home we pick up the phone and
we call
into the office is kind of the idea our
communication goes into the office
that's sort of how you can imagine this
but we say call in sick call in sick we
typically don't use another adjective
here we don't say i'm going to call in
tired or i'm going to call in happy or
something we use i'm going to call in
sick this means i'm not coming to the
office today because i am sick
okay
uh ab
hello there on youtube says when we uh
are about to leave the office in the
evening how should we say what should we
say okay you can say to your close
colleagues you can use this expression
uh i introduced this i'm gonna head out
i'm gonna head out that one's uh rather
casual
you can just say like have a good
evening as well like that's kind of
polite have a good evening
okay olivia says my kids hand in their
homework to me is that correct yeah that
could be okay that could be okay my kids
hand hand in is used like when you
submit something
like professionally like formally so if
it's your kids like your son or your
daughter is giving you their homework
maybe a little different i would use i
hand in my homework to my teacher or i
hand in my report to my boss it sounds
kind of official something like that
okay
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phrasal verbs rather for meetings
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phrasal verbs for meetings so for
meetings uh there's a lot or actually
there are a few here about making notes
so
the first
phrasal verb there are two kind of
variations there are two different
expressions we use
first is to write down
and the other is to take down so to
write down or to take down just means to
write notes like it has this feeling of
just quickly like making just a small
note so you're not like writing an essay
in the meeting like you're quickly
making small notes so we use to write
down or to take down to describe that
for example
he wrote down the details of the
agreement he wrote down the details of
the agreement so this is past tense
wrote down so when we make a phrasal
verb in past tense we do still need to
conjugate
the verb there just as we would
regularly so he wrote down the details
of the agreement with this one he took
down the details of the agreement so
again quickly making notes quickly
making notes is to take down yes someone
wrote to jot down the notes yeah nice
one let's add that here to jot to jot
jot to jot down notes means like just to
quickly take notes again jot so some
people might like to use that i don't
really use jock that much i don't think
jot down notes i don't know that sounds
i don't know not my thing but it's fine
uh
brit maybe maybe it is kind of british
englishy
okay either way you can use it if you
like it
uh let's go to the next one
the next one is kind of the opposite you
might think to write up to write up so
to write up
is not exactly the opposite of to write
down to write up means like to prepare
something by writing like for example
please write up a list of tasks so this
doesn't mean like quickly writing down
it also doesn't mean like writing an
essay it's like please take some time to
prepare something like for the meeting
or please take some time to prepare this
information so write up some details or
write up a list of tasks so it's not
like notes and it's not like an essay
it's kind of in between so please write
up
a simple agreement or please write up a
list something like that sounds quite
natural
okie dokie
uh let's go to the next one to speak up
to speak up to speak up means to use
your voice of course
to speak and to share your ideas or to
share your opinion
especially in cases where maybe you
don't usually share your opinion so like
for example if you're usually kind of a
quiet person
and you decide to share your opinion in
a meeting you might say like i'm going
to speak up like you think to yourself
i'm going to speak up or if your
co-worker is a quiet person you might
say wow my co-worker spoke up in the
meeting so to speak up means to share
your opinion or to share your idea
especially in cases where you don't
usually do that for example
if you have an idea
please speak up please speak up
and some of you probably know speak up
also means please speak more loudly too
so if i'm like speaking really quietly
you might say please speak up please
speak up which means please speak more
loudly like you're too quiet so there
are two different meanings for that
phrasal verb depending on the situation
you can guess which one it is
all right uh some questions elizabeth on
youtube says sorry uh could i say to
write up a draft yeah i think you could
say like write up a draft of an
agreement or like write up a draft of a
contract yeah i think that's fine so to
write something up sounds a little bit
rough like it's not the final version so
i think write up a draft is fine
uh someone angel says i think you missed
listen up did i miss it or did i choose
not to include it
okay
uh on facebook uh muhammad says write up
means take notes yeah write up is is
like you are creating a document yes but
it's like the rough document so write
down is like just taking notes it's not
an essay it's not a perfect like message
but to write up is like you're going to
prepare something like to give to
someone else so maybe it's like proper
message
okay i don't see anything
others all right let's continue to
this one to fill someone in
to fill someone in to fill someone in
means to give someone an update to give
someone an update usually a small update
and we often use fill in when we're
requesting the update
so for example if i'm your boss
in this situation
i want an update from you i might say
please fill us in
about the project please fill me in
about the project or please fill me in
about your studies needs please update
me give me a quick short small update
about your activities or your project so
you'll notice fill in
you can split this one so in this case
fill us in or fill me in is also okay to
use fill me in fill
okay
onward then uh the next uh the next one
is to check in to check in maybe you
know this for like a uh
an airplane uh so when you're flying
like to check in for your flight or to
check into a hotel
to check in here
means uh again to ask for an update like
to ask about uh progress to ask about
the status of a project is to check in
so for example i'd like to check in
about
our new program i'd like to check in
about our new program you might also
hear check in on someone check in on
my
father
so
like i'd like to check in on my father
he's in the hospital something like that
that also means to get a status update
when you use this check in on someone
it means get a status update about that
person's condition to check in on
someone to check in about
topic so there are a couple of different
ways to use this check in on
or check in uh about
all right onward uh
cineath on facebook has follow yeah
follow-up is another nice one
i'll add it here follow up to follow up
is used usually i usually use follow-up
when i send someone an email and i
haven't heard a reply there's no reply
but i expect it i'll say i'm writing to
follow up on my last email it means like
check in
after the last thing i sent you to
follow up
okay on to the next one these two these
are kind of a pair to talk up
to talk up and to talk down to talk up
and to talk down so to talk up
to talk up means to speak about someone
and make them sound great so like in
this sentence my manager talked up our
team at the meeting past tense our
manager talked up
who
our team so that means the manager is
saying the team is so great so the
manager is talking about like the
success of the team or the great skills
on the team so to talk someone up or to
talk to something a team to talk
something up means to make it sound
really really good
on the other hand
to talk down to to talk down to don't
forget this preposition here to talk
down to
means to speak to someone as if they are
below you so let's see there's enough
space here i think let's imagine this is
one person and this is the other person
great drawing alicia okay so it's like
they're looking down on someone as
they're talking so to talk down to means
to speak to someone like they are below
you they have a lower level than you so
maybe they're rude or they're mean
they're impolite
so this is to talk down to someone for
example don't talk down to your
colleagues don't talk down to your
colleagues so here don't talk down to
your colleagues so talk up make someone
sound good to talk down to means to
speak to someone like they are below you
very beloved
okay uh muhammad on facebook says talk
up means praise yeah kind of it kind of
means praise so you are you are praising
them yes in order to
improve someone else's opinion of that
person so in this sentence my manager
talked up our team it like there's
usually a reason like we want uh to
improve someone's opinion of us or of
our team
oh
okay a couple of points i
saw okay on youtube reuben said my boss
talked up our team's skills good okay
um
let's see there a lot uh
i already used check-in to mean hi i am
showing up yes so as i said check-in can
be used at a hotel as well
to mean like i have arrived i am here
um other things
to talk down to means looks down on you
yeah it can be it can mean to look talk
down to can mean to look down on someone
but to talk down to means like you're
actually using your words you're
speaking to someone like they are below
you
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let's continue so the first uh the first
phrasal verb for this part is to send
over to send over to send over just
means send yes to send something but we
use this kind of casually um so and we
often use it with digital files
like please send over the photos when
you have a chance so please send over
here this just means send like please
send the photos when you have a chance
send over sounds a little bit more
casual like we're a little bit closer so
you could use this with like co-worker
or a colleague you're a little bit close
to like can you send over that file it
sounds a little bit more friendly than
just send please send send sounds a
little bit more stiff
okay
um the next one is to look into to look
into this is a really good one for a lot
of different situations for any kind of
planning to look into means to research
to research so to look into something
means to find facts to find information
to find data about something to research
something for example
i'm looking into some upgrades for our
equipment i'm looking into some upgrades
for our equipment here i'm using it in
the progressive looking into which means
i'm researching now i'm researching some
upgrades for our equipment so looking
into in progressive or look into
regularly
we can use this like when making
vacation plans like i'm looking into
summer vacation packages or let's look
into some place to go this weekend so to
look into means to research to research
okay onward running out of time oh my
gosh three left okay the next one is a
pair to fill in or to fill out to fill
in or to fill out these mean right
sorry these mean two right like in a
form so when we need to enter our
personal information like our name or
birthday our address we use fill out so
especially when we are writing forms for
example
we filled out
the shipping form we filled out the
shipping form means we entered our
information into the shipping form but
we use filled out filled out
then please fill in the form please fill
in the form
so what the there's no difference
between fill in and fill out in this
case in this case you can use whichever
you prefer fill in or fill out i would
say perhaps in american english we use
fill out a little more commonly maybe
fill in is a little more common in
british english
okay
on two the last two
to plug in to plug in very important to
plug in to plug in means to connect
something to electricity to plug in uh
your computer monitor to plug in your
ipad to plug in your tv to connect to
electricity so i forgot to plug in my
phone i forgot to plug in my phone
ah a point here the opposite is not to
plug out when you want to
do the opposite we use to unplug
to unplug u-n-p-l-u-g
to unplug something means to remove a
connection to electricity so to plug in
to unplug something so do not use plug
out that's not anything please use to
unplug to unplug
all right final final final final
vocabulary word is to pull up to pull up
this phrasal verb in a computer related
setting means to open a file on a screen
so for example hey can you pull up that
pdf means like to open the file on the
screen so to pull up something means to
open it
so we can see it on the screen so you
might hear this in a meeting or if your
co-worker comes to your desk and says
something like can you pull up
the latest version of the poster can you
pull up the latest version of the poster
it means can you please open it on your
screen so we can both see it so to pull
up is usually used when you need to
reference something you need to look at
something
with someone else to pull up
okay great that is everything so we'll
wrap up there uh i will finish there for
today's lesson but i hope that you found
some new expressions that you can use of
course at the office and in your
everyday life as well these are just a
few phrasal verbs that you can use at
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