Hi there. This is Harry. Welcome back to advanced English lessons with Harry
in the lesson we have for you today is all about phrasal verbs. But in this case, we're looking at
advanced English lessons, as I said, and we're
looking at three-word phrasal verbs. So a brief introduction to what they are
phrasal verbs normally with two words. One verb, one preposition.
Break down. a three-word phrasal verb has an extra preposition. One verb,
two prepositions. Okay, so we can pick up on something. Okay, so pick the verb up on your to
prepositions. Okay.
That's a bit more complicated. But often when we have a phrasal verb
with three parts to it, it does add to the complication. But there are very,
very useful expressions. So to catch up with a friend. So catch up on your work. Yeah. You
can catch up in the park when your friend is running around the park, you can catch up.
But if you catch up with the homework that you didn't do when you're out sick,
that's a three-part phrase. The verb to catch up with something. Catch up with somebody.
Okay, so we're going to go through a list of these. And as always,
I've got ten. I'll give them to you and then I'll give you some examples.
And if you don't understand them or you can't use them,
then you come back to me and we'll give you some more examples later.
Okay. So let's start. Number one, to come up with something.
So if you're sitting around a table with your colleagues, you're having a brainstorming session
or just a chat, and among your team you come up with some new ideas, come up with some ideas to.
Launch a new product. Come up with some ideas to entertain your clients. Come up with some
ideas for the Christmas party. If you have a Christmas party in your office every year and
it always gets more and more difficult to find something that the staff will find entertaining.
So you're looking for something fresh, something new, something different. So you're hoping some
of your colleagues will come up with some new ideas that people will find interesting.
So come up with something, come up with an idea,
come up with a suggestion, come up with a plan. Okay, so to come up with
Next. Get along with. So we usually get along with someone. We get along
with our classmates. We get along with our siblings. We hope we get along with friends
and family. So when we get along with. It means we have a good relationship. How is
John settling into the new school? Grades. Only took him a couple of days.
He seems to be getting along with everybody. Okay, so he's got a few friends each on the
football team. As you know, with kids, there'll always be little disagreements
here and there. But by and large, they get along with people quite well. Okay. How did the kids,
the twins, all they get along with each other? Fine. They have the squabbles.
They have the fights. But, you know, they are really close. They get along with each other very,
very well. Okay. So to get along with somebody means to have a good relationship
Have a good stay connection. Yes, occasionally a fight, an argument,
but generally get along with. I can get along with anybody. If somebody can put up with me,
I can put up with them. I can get along with anybody.
Get around to get around usually to doing something.
So, for example, if you've got some odd jobs that need doing in the House, you have to fix
that leaking tap on drip, drip, drip. You have to fix the the door and the cupboard
that is hanging off you. You have to put a new plug on the toaster, whatever it is. You get
around to doing it eventually.
Okay. So I command Harry. Look at all these things I've been asking you for weeks and
weeks. Yeah. Look, I'll get around to doing them at the weekend, I promise. On Saturday
or Sunday. What? Hopefully I do, Yeah. Okay, so there's a to do list and we get around to
doing the things on the list. Every morning. I make my little to do list, and generally
by the end of the day I get on or have gotten around to doing everything that's on the list.
So get around to do something means to finish and complete it. Okay. you could use it in
the negative. I'm really, really sorry I didn't get around to doing everything on the list, but
I got most of it done and I'll do the rest next week. Promise to get around to doing something.
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Next to put up with something or put up with someone to put up with something or someone
is really you don't really want to. And they've got some annoying habits or there's something
about them, but for peace of mind and to make sure that there's no arguments you put up with
it. Okay. So many, many people have to put up with a lot of noisy neighbours.
This is always the big problem. Every summer they drill and bang and knock. They're doing
their repairs. And you're just about to start that important call in your head. Bang, bang,
bang. So, unfortunately, you have to put up with it, provided that the work is carried out between
those hours of nine in the morning and four or five in the evening, whatever the local
rules happen to be, or I don't know this, the repairs, those neighbours, but what can I do?
I have to put up with it. Okay. Now we can also have to put up with somebody if they're in a bad
mood. All these exams are really taking a toll on our daughter, you know, But. And she hasn't been
in a bad mood now for weeks and weeks. Well, we'll just have to put up with it for another few weeks.
When she gets the exams out of the way, she'll be back to normal. She'd be on holidays and
hopefully that would be it. It's her final exam. So to put up with something or put
up with somebody. Okay. So it's usually when there's a situation, usually some annoyance,
usually something you don't want to listen to or hear. But you have no choice.
You have to put up with it.
Look forward to. Well, this is good news anyway. When we look forward to something.
We look forward to seeing somebody. We look forward to hearing from somebody. We look
forward to meeting somebody when we use. Look forward to. It's always followed by a verb with
the -ing. So that's a really important rule here from a grammar point of view.
So when we're looking forward to something, we have something that's going to happen. It could
be a birthday party. It could be a special celebration. It could be simply Halloween,
Christmas, Easter, whatever the festivity happens to be off. I'm really looking forward
to the Christmas holidays. I'm really looking forward to spending some time
in the countryside. I'm really looking forward to my birthday
because I've got plenty of new books that I'm sure I'll get as presents.
So to look forward to something means to have an
expectation that and anticipation that something good is going to happen.
Look up to? Well, we can look up on the Internet to see our favourite
movie or book. But when we look up to it means principally to get some inspiration. Okay. He
looks up to his parents for inspiration. They help him to tell them what he should
do or what career that he should follow. He really looks up to his grandfather.
He really has a good relationship with them. His grandfather's always telling him interesting
stories, and if his grandfather tells him to do it, you can be absolutely certain that he
will follow the recommendation because he looks up to him or everybody looked
up to the boss for years. He was the inspiration behind this company. And no matter who it was,
no matter what position they had, he always had a kind word for them.
So everybody looked up to him. Now you can, of course, look up to the sky,
like literally look up to the sky to see the stars. You look up to
the sky to see the moon. But look up to in terms of inspiration is
idiomatic
Now the opposite, look down on somebody and this is very negative. Okay. So when this goes back to
the times of the kings and the queens and they're literally their ivory castles and that tower,
so they would look down on the peasants below, they would be walking around the
bottom of the castle walls or inside the castle, and they would look down on them.
So when we use the expression today to look down on somebody means usually to treat
somebody as below you and different from you when you really shouldn't.
So we often tell people, you can't look down on those people who have less than
you have. You should be grateful for what you have and to grateful that
you're not walking in their shoes. But don't look down on them. We shouldn't
look down on the poor. We shouldn't look down on those who have less than we have.
So when we look down on somebody, it means we treat them differently
and less than we would treat ourselves to look down on.
Live up to? Well, often we have to live up to somebody's expectations of us. Yeah. Children
all the time have a problem with the parents because they have to live up
to their parents' expectations. The parents expect them to get A1 exam results all
of the time. The parents expect them to get the 1:1 degree at university,
the top job, the great house, whatever it happens to be.
And so the parents, we parents put enormous pressure, pressure on our
children that we shouldn't really do, and they have to live up to our expectations.
So you often read
people's biographies and stories when they had problems with their parents that they found it
difficult to live up to their expectations, particularly when the parent had been very,
very successful, perhaps a successful actor or actress, a successful writer,
a successful politician, businessman doesn't matter what they were.
But if the parents were extremely successful, then it puts huge pressure on their children
and they have to live up to those expectations. I find it so difficult
to live up to my parent's expectations. How am I ever going to live up to those
expectations? I really don't have it in me. I really don't want to do it.
I want to do my own thing to live up to other people's expectations
to keep up with. Okay. Well, literally, to keep up with somebody means to walk at the same pace,
for example, that they're walking quite quickly in the park. You might say, hang on,
hang on, I'm having difficulty keeping up with you. Or if somebody is trying to
explain a difficult situation to you, it could be a physics
Or mathematical problem. And you're saying I can't keep up with you can't just slow down a
little bit and repeat it to me, make sure I understand what you're doing or the teacher
in the class will tell the kids, Look, it's really important that you keep up with me.
We've got a lot to cover, so I can't afford for you to fall behind if you don't understand it.
Shout now, because I won't have the time to repeat it, so please keep up with me. Okay,
so when you want to keep up with somebody, you have to keep at the same pace. If you're walking
or running, you have to keep up with people who are reading or the teacher how they are
progressing. In your workbook, you have to keep up with them or we can simply use it in the negative.
I find it really hard to keep up with this pace. Everything is 100 miles an hour,
you know, the boss wants this, the boss wants that. We're going to do this. We're going to do
that. We're going to change this. We're going to change that really, really hard at times,
at certain times to keep up with everything. Again, we have to keep up with the news.
Things happen in the world really, really quickly. Yeah. Here today. This is happening
tomorrow That is happening. And you really, really have to keep up with world events.
I like to keep up with world events. I look at the news.
On the Internet before I go to sleep. I look at the news in the morning when I wake up. I dunno,
it's just a habit. I have to see what has happened overnight so that I can keep up with world events
and I can be better informed. Okay, so to keep up with and then finally to make up for something.
Usually, we make up for mistakes, make up for our lack of education. So if
somebody didn't have a particularly good education in their early life,
perhaps later in life, they make up for that by going to do some
studies when the thirties or even the forties or even the fifties, you often read stories
about people going back to school, finished school that they never finished, complete a degree that
they never had a chance to complete when they were younger. So they make up for lost time.
Or we make up for some
time that we took off work. Something quite simple. Could I please have 2 hours in the
afternoon? I need to go to the doctor, and the only time you can see me is at 2:00. And it takes
me 20 minutes to get there, 20 minutes to get back. So it's going to take me an hour and a half.
I'll make up for the time tomorrow or the next day. I'll take a short lunch or I'll
come in early to make up for the time that I'm taking for this doctor's appointment. So
we always make up for something. Meaning if there's a shortfall,
we make up for that shortfall. If something is lacking, we make up for whatever is lacking.
Okay? Lacking in education, lacking in money. Or if you make a mistake, you'll make up for
it. If you forget somebody's birthday, one of the kids of the wife or whoever, you very definitely
better make up for it. So look, I'm really, really sorry I had to go away in that business
visit, but it couldn't be helped, so I'll make up for it.
Next weekend. Will go away with packed the bags on Friday evening, will head off,
switch off the mobile phones and will just have a weekend to ourselves and that will make up for
forgetting or cancelling that reservation we had last weekend. Okay, so to make up for something.
Okay, So they're all, as we said, three-part phrasal verbs and not too complicated.
Okay. The difference is as an extra preposition. So normal phrasal verbs,
one verb, one preposition, three-part
phrasal verbs, one verb, two prepositions. So one additional preposition.
So try to go through them, have a look at them,
see where you might use them. And if you don't understand them as always,
you know the drill. Come back to me and I'll give you some additional examples.
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