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to become a successful speaker you must
develop all seven of the essential
English fluency habits one of these
habits is the ability to use
conversational spoken English so you
sound natural like a native English
speaker and not like a robot so in this
video we'll look at 10 phrasal verbs
that will help you sound much more
natural use these instead the first one
is to sum up typically people will say
in summary which is something that's
perfectly fine to use but to sum up is
much more casual and conversational if
you're giving an example and saying
maybe I have one two or three things
that someone needs to do like I'm giving
a business presentation and i want to
say well at the end of this presentation
in summary you should do this or in
summary here's my conclusion but i can
just say more casually in conversation
alee whether i'm in a business situation
or in a casual friendly situation to sum
up so let's say i'm even just on a trail
hiking with some friends of mine and I
say okay guys we're going to go here and
here and here so to sum up we're going
to take a three-hour hike and visit
three different destinations to sum up
listen carefully to how this blends sum
up sum up to sum up to sum up next to
catch on to catch on to catch on is the
same thing as saying become popular
typically people will talk about
something becoming popular like maybe a
new business model or a new kind of food
some kind of food is catching on
becoming popular is perfectly fine
English that you can use but you will
sound much more natural and
conversational if you can say that
something is catching on to catch on
listen carefully again to how this
blends to cat Shawn I've noticed that a
new mobile game is catching on with kids
lately catch on catch on next you can
talk about dealing with something to
deal with to deal with whenever you have
a problem and maybe you're trying to
solve that problem
or it's something that really you can't
solve and you just have to wait for the
end of that thing to happen you are
dealing with that problem so a typical
more advanced way of expressing this in
again conversational English people do
use this as well is to endure so if you
are enduring something it just means you
have to have to solve that problem or
wait for something like you're in during
a rainstorm because you're out golfing
and you really want to play but now you
have to wait for the rain to pass so
your enduring something but you can talk
about dealing with it as opposed to
saying endure if you want to sound much
more casual and conversational so if
someone contacts you and you want to say
you're busy because you have another
thing that you're dealing with at the
moment you can use deal with so I'm
sorry I can't help you right now I have
to deal with another problem I have to
deal with another problem to deal with
next in a similar way you can talk about
figuring something out to figure out to
figure out to figure out is another
great phrasal verb and this just means
to solve something or try to understand
a problem typically you will have
something and again you can use to solve
a problem maybe we are in a business
meeting and people will talk about well
there is a problem we have to solve or
in a more casual and conversational wave
and say well this is something we must
figure out figure out so I'm having a
problem at work and we don't really know
how to figure it out so we are trying to
figure out the problem or again we're
trying to find the solution or to solve
something but more casually and
conversationally to figure something out
to figure out next to get away with to
get away with listen carefully to how
this blends get away with get away with
get away with get away with when you get
away with something you're cheating or
tricking the system in some way so maybe
you are maybe taking a test and the
other students in your class or have
actually studied and they're doing well
and you're sitting and taking the test
but you're using a little note that
tells you all of the answers and if the
teacher does not catch you then you get
away with
eating so you can get away with if you
think physically about a person that's
maybe walking with something and then
they leave an area they are trying to
get away with so they are leaving with
something so in this case they're
leaving with a good score so you can
always take a physical idea from a
phrasal verb and take it to a more
figurative idea of in the case like this
to cheat on something to get away with
next is to bring up to bring up when you
bring something up you're introducing or
mentioning something typically in a
conversation like a friend of mine
brought up an idea about how we can
market something at the business meeting
but if you think about the physical
origin of this think about yourself
maybe standing in an ocean and you put
your hand down under the water to bring
up something that's under the water so
maybe something is sitting on the bottom
of the ocean and you pick it up you are
bringing something up I brought up an
interesting point at the meeting today I
brought up an interesting point at the
meeting today next to give up and listen
carefully to how this blends to give up
to give up to give up when you give up
it just means you quit and again it's
perfectly fine to say that you're
quitting when maybe you don't want to
play a game anymore like you're in the
middle of playing a game of Monopoly or
a game of soccer and you're losing very
badly you can just say okay I give up I
give up and again it just means that
you're quitting something you don't want
to do it anymore and you can give up
anything maybe you could give up in a
business situation you could give up
trying to acquire another company or you
could give up a particular business
venture or even a particular strategy
maybe that you're trying to do for your
company but you could give up and to say
okay we're not going to do that anymore
so we're going to stop doing this thing
and maybe find something else so it's
the same thing as saying to quit but
again it sounds much more native and
conversational to give up to give up
next to put off to put off listen
carefully again to how this blends
because the T becomes more of a d sound
hood Dolph put off put off when you put
something off it means you're delaying
that thing if you think about physically
taking something in your hand that's
sitting on a table and moving it to
another location you're putting it off
to the side or putting it off in a
different place in the same way maybe
you're doing your homework and you're
feeling lazy you don't want to do it so
you're going to put off your homework or
put something off for another date so
maybe we have a picnic we're going to
put it off we're going to delay that
thing and have it at another time to put
something off so you always have to come
back to that thing again it's maybe
something you would do if you're
procrastinating which means that you're
waiting you don't want to do something
now typically something you don't want
to do like your homework or your taxes
or exercising or whatever but you will
come back and do that thing later so
you're putting it off until another time
to put off next if you want to talk
about canceling something this is to
call something off we called off the
meeting we called off the appointment we
called off any situation where we
decided just not to have it so if you
put something off it means again you're
delaying that activity until another
time but if you want to call something
off this means that you're deciding to
cancel it so maybe you thought you were
going to have a meeting but it was
called off because of weather or maybe
the sporting event was called off due to
a thunderstorm so again instead of
delaying it you're canceling it
completely to call something off to call
something off and finally just a fun one
i thought i would throw in here and this
is to make out to make out people will
typically talk about making out with
someone maybe you're kissing that person
but it's very passionate and maybe
you're touching a little bit more than
just kissing or maybe even a lot more
depending on the person but this is
instead of using the word kiss so if you
want to talk with your friends and say
oh I kissed somebody this is instead
talking about making out so you're
really talking about the same thing as
kissing but this is a way that native
speakers would actually describe it I
made out with someone I was making out
with someone well that's the end of this
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