Today we're going to be looking at phrasal verbs and specifically phrasal
verbs with take we're going to look at my top 10 phrasal verbs that I think we
use regularly! Now don't forget we've got lots more lessons on phrasal verbs, so
you can find some links at the end of this lesson - phrasal verbs with 'get' and
our top have phrasal verbs in English. For now, let's look at 10 phrasal verbs with take.
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and of course snapchat. So, 'take' is one of the most common verbs in the English
language, it's no wonder we have so many phrasal verbs with 'take'! At number one
'take after', this is a great phrasal verb and possibly my favorite of the ten.
To take after somebody, it means that you are similar to them you have similar
characteristics. That you even have inherited some characteristics. Whether
that's personality or physical appearance. We would take after, usually our mother
or father or we could take after a grandparent or even an aunt or uncle.
It's an older relative. So, for example I take after my grandmother I look a
little bit like her and also we both like sweets and cakes! Not a great thing
to take after. Next phrasal, verb take out, now take out can literally mean to
have somebody with you take them outside but it's not just take outside, it's take
them to a restaurant, the cinema, you usually take somebody out and pay for
the. So, he took me out to the cinema. Take out can also mean remove or
withdraw so for example when you need money from a cash machine ATM you could
say I took out some money. Now the other more sinister darker meaning of take out
is something you won't hear very often I hope only when you're watching
perhaps a gangster movie so take out can actually mean to kill somebody so if
you're watching a mafia movie they might say we're gonna take him out probably
doesn't mean they're taking him to the cinema more likely they're very guilty
okay let's move on to a nicer phrasal verb number 3 tape in this is lovely
because it can actually mean to kind of welcome somebody into your home
literally bring them in it could also mean to adopt often with animals so you
might find a stray dog meaning a dog without a home and you could take him in
you could adopt him and welcome him and make him part of your family that's a
nice phrase were much better than takeout now take in another meaning can
also refer to making your clothes smaller so if you have IV clothes this
is the post views then you might ask your tailor or seamstress to take them
in to sew them so that they are smaller and fit better unless common but still
useful to know now take up hopefully you already know this phrasal verb because
it is so common if you take something up then it means that you start a new hobby
that could be taking up football taking up yoga taking up learning English on
YouTube pay attention there after a preposition so particularly in the case
of phrasal verbs you would often have a verb follow it when you do take up
learning we have the gerund okay so after prepositions you would
have a gerund the noun form of the verb now you could
also take something up with somebody that's a long one that means that you
are going to raise an issue or a concern with them it might be that you are not
getting paid enough of work so you might say I'm going to take it up with my boss
it being the fact that you don't think I paid enough take it up with him number
five take down now this is not so much a phrasal verb it's quite literal so if
you put something up on the wall for example a picture let's put it up if I
want to remove it I would take it down now the non-literal meaning of take down
would be to kind of to win to succeed over somebody so in a fight you might
say that the boxer took him down so it means to win to battle and to win okay
number six to take to take to something or somebody so if you take to something
it means that you a natural asset you enjoy what you are doing and you're good
at it so he took to his new job very quickly similarly to take to a person to
take to somebody means that you kind of almost instantly like them I took to him
really quickly means I started to like him from the beginning
number seven we're nearly there to take over this is a particularly useful
phrasal verb when we are referring to business English as well in a normal
context to take over means to control to dominate so if you're having a
conversation in a group of friends there might be one friend that dominates the
conversation that controls the topic of what everybody is talking about
in a business context to take over it can be used as a noun a takeover but can
also mean the company took over another one so they would buy that company and
control it it's their company then now to take off take on could also be used
in a business context you can take somebody on meaning that you hire them
for your business that you employ them take on can also mean to challenge
somebody now it's quite aggressive so a good example might be with football
Manchester United took on Arsenal so their challenge them to win the match
now taking on something implies that you are that you are adding to the
responsibilities that you have so I took on more work meaning more work with my
responsibilities I accepted it right what we got next have a look we've got
take off Oh a nice easy one you should if you've flown recently know that
takeoff means when a plane goes basically up in the air
we don't have take down as the opposite with sale and no phrasal verb for that
really so you take off means to go up into the air it can also refer to a
company lots of these phrasal verbs have business meanings so if a company is
taking off it means that it's doing exceptionally well we often use this
when we are talking about small companies new companies taking off
suddenly doing exceptionally well making a lot of money now take off can also
mean to remove take off your shoes take off your clothes so that's nice and
simple but did you know it can also mean leap usually quite suddenly unexpectedly
just leap so it was the middle of the party and he just took off my straight
okay finally our last phrasal verb to take back take back is a nice simple one
to end with to take back simply means to return something it could be an item of
clothing I bought a top but it was too big so I took it back to the shops but
it could also refer to something that you have said and regretted so I told
her she looked fat in that dress boyfriend's I hope you haven't done that
and I took it back so I retract it what I had said I
regretted it very quickly okay that brings us to the end of our phrasal
verbs with tape there were a lot of them let's just recap take after take out
take in take up take down take to take over take on I'm reading you have to see
take off take back there we go so why not try and make some sentences with
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