So do you wanna know what a day in my life is like? Well, I’m gonna tell you just that,
but I’m gonna do that using Phrasal verbs. Now what exactly are Phrasal verbs? A phrasal
verb is a verb in combination with an adverb or a preposition in such a way that the original
meaning of verb changes completely to something different. A lot of people, who are very fluent
in English, are people, who know the art of using phrasal verbs while speaking. So if
you want to be a fluent English speaker. You need to learn how to use phrasal verbs and
that’s exactly what I’m gonna be looking at today.
Hello and welcome to today’s lesson.
Like I said it’s about using phrasal verbs to describe a day in your life. In this case
what I’m gonna do is, I’m gonna tell you what a day in my life is like and I’m gonna
do that using phrasal verbs. Like I said a phrasal verb is a verb plus preposition or
adverb and the specialty of a phrasal verb is such that the original meaning of the verb
changes and becomes something else. So well let me start with my day. Now a day in my
life looks like this, I get up in the morning and my morning coffee helps me perk up. That’s
right; the first thing I do is drink my morning coffee in order to perk up. Now perk up over
here means that the coffee wakes me up, now perk is the verb and up is the preposition
together they form the phrasal verb perk up. So as soon as I wake up in the morning, I
have my morning coffee, which helps me perk up as in, it wakes me up or it helps me become
alert, the next thing I do is I look through my closet and decide what I’m gonna be wearing
to work, so looking through. So when I say look through, it means to go over or scan
quickly. Again look is your verb and along with the preposition through, it becomes a
phrasal verb and I look through my closet as in my cupboard quickly and figure out what
I’m wearing to work, so when you’re looking through something, you’re not giving special
attention to every item that you are looking at, you are just doing this very quickly,
because you know, it’s not really like an important task that you are doing, you’re
gonna do this and finish it off quickly, so that’s what looking through means. The next
thing that I do is I dash off to work. Now when I say dash off, it means I rush to work
or wherever that I have to go, here again dash is the verb and off is the preposition
together they form the phrasal verb dash off, so the reason I’m using dash off, the reason
I’m using the phrasal verb dash off over here, it means that I’m rushing to work,
because I’m kind of sort of always running a little late. So I dash off or rush off to
work and then what do I do at work? I come up with different lessons for you, that’s
right, so come here is the verb and up with are two prepositions and the meaning is, I
prepare or work on lessons for you, that’s right. And what’s the next thing that happens
in my work day? So as time passes and when its lunch time, what I do is, I heat up my
food and have it. So when I say heat up, it means, I warm my food or make it hot depending
on my preference and eat it. Over here heat or to heat is the verb and up is the preposition
together heat up means to warm up or to make your food hot, that’s right, that’s what
I do in my lunch hour, because I am very finicky about my lunch, I love my food hot and I like
to have lunch on time, so that’s what I do, I heat up my food and I eat it and as
time passes and my work day progresses, I flesh out new ideas for work every day. So
fleshing out means to come up with or to ideate new ideas. So when I say flesh out, it means
that I have a certain new idea and i see how I am gonna be able to execute it or what I’m
gonna do with that idea? So what I do, when I flesh out ideas is I make a list of new
ideas to see which are workable and if they are workable, how I can put them into practice?
So that is the process of fleshing out as in coming up with ideas or ideating ideas
and making them work. And before I know it, its 6 pm and I wrap up my work, which means
I finish off my work. Over here wrap is the verb, up is the preposition together they
make phrasal verb wrap up which means finish or wind up. Now we all know that work never
really ends, but I am somebody, who believes in a work life balance, so I go by the timing,
once its 6 pm. I choose to wrap up my work or finish it or wind it up and head home.
Now what’s next? Well, my life and my day doesn’t end just with work. There’s a
lot of things that I do after work. I visit the store sometimes, once a week and stock
up on groceries. Now to stock here is the verb and up the preposition together it means
to buy in a large quantity. Which means I visit the grocery store and I buy a lot of
groceries for the week in a large quantity, so that I don’t have to visit every single
day and that’s what it means to stock up on groceries or supplies, which means buy
in large quantity such that you have something for reserve. What’s the next thing I do,
which makes my evening interesting? Well we are coming to the part that I really love
and that’s my workout. Before my workout I warm up. Now warm here or to warm is the
verb and up the preposition together warm up becomes a phrasal verb and It means to
do warming up exercises. So this is a great example of how a phrasal verb has a meaning
different from the verb that is used in it. So to warm, which means to increase the temperature
of something, but to warm up means, do warming up exercises ,which are generally done before
any kind of workout that you might pursue, it could be gym, it could be running, it could
be dance. All of these forms of working out actually require that we warm up the body.
Which means we do certain preparation exercises for the body before we start our workout . So
well that’s about warming up. What do I do next? This is something I do in order to
chill and unwind; I meet up with my friends. Now to meet is a verb, up the preposition
together it’s the phrasal verb. Meet up which means to catch up or meet with friends.
So what we do generally is, we hang out at a coffee shop, we meet up, we chat up. We
just kind of talk about our lives, day and head home. And once I’m home, I have a light
dinner and I doesn’t take me a lot to just dose off. Now what is dose off? To dose is
the verb off the preposition together it becomes the phrasal verb. Dose off which means to
sleep or fall asleep quickly. So since I have a packed day, I fall asleep very quickly,
which is what it means when I say that I just dose off and it doesn’t take me a long time
to dose off , so well that’s all about my day and I’ve done my best to describe my
day using phrasal verbs. You can use these phrasal verbs and make your own story about
a day in your life. I think that would be a great practice session for you, if you could
write about a day in your life using phrasal verbs. I really hope you enjoyed today’s
lesson. You have anything to say to me, if you have a question or a doubt make sure you
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