Hi! My name is Antonia Romaker! Welcome to Series English!
Today we are going to focus on phrasal verbs,
we are going to continue talking about them,
namely we are going to take a look at
the following ones:
take after, take down, take back and take in.
So TAKE! I'm sure that you already know that
phrasal verbs can be really confusing
and this topic is very complicated.
And we need to master it,
if we want to make our English perfect.
So let's get started
and the first phrasal verb for today is 'to take after'.
It can have two basic meanings:
the first one is to resemble somebody
by your character, appearance
or something of the kind,
and the second meaning is to follow as an example.
For instance, 'who do you take after -
your mom or your dad?'
I would like to take after my favourite English teacher.
She's so inspiring! And she takes so much passion
in learning foreign languages.
So I would like to take after her!
I try... I do my best!
Now, 'take back'. Once again two basic meanings:
the first one is to admit that your opinion
was wrong or is wrong.
So to admit that you are wrong.
and the second meaning is
to remind of something, to remind of the past.
Now a couple of examples.
Have you just said that I am a liar?
Yeah, you are!
You don't mean it! Take it back! Now!
I mean it, I won't take it back!
Because I'm your evil crazy twin - Antonio!
And the second example -
This song takes me back whenever I hear it.
The third one - 'to take down'.
Here there are three things
I want to draw your attention to.
Two basic meanings: the first one is
to write something down,
so to record something in writing;
the second one is to dismantle or tear down.
Usually here we are talking about buildings,
different kinds of buildings,
but not only. And there is one more thing,
one additional meaning,
so you can say 'to take down',
or you can say 'to take sown a peg'.
Usually you take somebody down,
you take somebody down a peg.
And it means to clear for somebody,
to make it clear for somebody,
that this person (he or she) is not so important
as he or she thinks.
So to make this person understand
you are not so important here.
Just calm down.
So now a couple of examples, for instance,
I guess that some of you have heard from your teachers...
When you studied somewhere,
at some kind of a lecture,
that your teacher said:
Are you taking it down, Mr? Mrs... Mrs...
Whenever they take down
another historical monument or a park,
ti build yet another shopping mall, I see red!
To see red, by the way do you remember this idiom?
if you don't - take a look at this class.
Now let's move on, and one more example.
I'm sorry to take you down,
but you are not in charge here.
It's just an example, you can say to somebody
who is too arrogant, you can say:
I'm sorry to take you down, but I have to.
Stop it! Just beat it!
Take in, 'take in' might mean to comprehend something
or to understand something, as simple as that.
The second meaning is to make a piece of clothing narrower.
And there's also one phrase - to take in a movie.
When your ex gets married,
it's really hard to take in.
Especially if just a couple of weeks have passed.
You can also take somebody in,
here I want to take a closer look at two meanings
and they are opposite.
Well, not opposite, but very different.
The first one is to take care of somebody,
to give this person a place to stay,
to give him or her a home, to take in,
like in your family, in your circle.
And the second meaning is to trick somebody
or to deceive somebody.
How can she be taken in by that moron again?
He is cheating! Yeah...
Women are naive sometimes
or they just do not want to see it... coming.
OK, so that's it for today!
We studied several phrasal verbs:
take after, take back, take down, take in.
There are some more and we'll study them in our next class.
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