Hello, my dear friends! Welcome to Series English!
My name is Antonia Romaker
and today we are going to continue studying
phrasal verbs with MAKE.
During my previous class devoted to this phrasal verb
we talked about make away, make for, make of and make off.
Today we'll talk about make out and make up.
To tell you the truth these two phrasal verbs
are much more complicated.
They have many meanings,
so they are extremely popular and versatile.
So that's why we'll devote a whole separate class to them!
And let's get cracking!
The first phrasal verb is 'make out',
it is extremely popular and it has many meanings.
Let's try to take a look at them all.
So first of all 'make out' can mean
just be able to understand, see or hear something,
just being able to.
When you can barely understand something,
hear something, see something.
Let me give you an example, it will clear things out.
Excuse me, could you speak up, please?
I can barely make out what you are saying!
What? Speak up, please!
That is speak louder.
Speak up, another phrasal verb by the way.
The second meaning is to be engaged in a sexual activity.
Usually it is connected with necking and petting.
So not very heavy petting and sexual activities.
An example: 'I saw them making out on a couch'.
They were not very discrete.
The third meaning is to make progress or manage.
An example.
What are your hobbies? What do you like doing?
Running? Knitting? Singing?
So let's imagine that you took part in some kind of a contest.
And then I meet you and say:
So how did you make out in the contest?
Good for you! Well done!
And the forth meaning is to pretend. An example.
He makes out to be a fool, but actually he is not.
He is very cunning and condescending.
So be careful, some people make out to be not who they really are.
And we need to be able to decipher their code.
OK and now let's move on to the last phrasal verb for today - make up,
which also has quite many meanings.
Let's get cracking! Number one:
make up can mean compensate.
An example.
Let's imagine that you are late for work.
Really late! And so you come to work and see your boss.
What do you do? Go!
Hi, boss! I'm terribly sorry, that I am so late!
But I'll make up for the time I've lost
by working late hours... this week... this month?
I don't know...
The second meaning of 'make up' is to use cosmetics,
beauty products.
So for example, do you make up every day?
Let's say you are a guy.
Do you like women, who make up really intensively?
who put a lot of make-up onto their faces?
You can use 'make up' as a noun - cosmetics.
So do you like women, who put loads of make-up onto their faces?
Or do you like natural beauty?
The next meaning is to fabricate, invent, tell stories.
An example.
I had to make up a story to cover up for my colleague.
Another phrasal verb, to cover up for somebody,
means to lie in order to save this person
from some problems at work, with his or her family and so on.
So when you tell lies to save this person.
And the last meaning is to forgive somebody
and become friendly again, especially after an argument or a fight.
A very simple example:
After their fight they kissed and made up as usual.
Good for them!
And that's it for today!
We talked about make out and make up.
But to tell you the truth, that's not it.
I mean there are more phrasal verbs with 'make'.
And we'll continue studying them.
Some of them are more complicated,
when you have to use two prepositions at the same time.
But during this class and our previous class
we talked about the most basic phrasal verbs with 'make'.
So I hope that you liked this video and you found it useful.
Do not forget to use these phrasal verb in your speech.
In this case you'll be able to introduce them into your active vocabulary
and you will sound more like a native speaker.
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Happy English an Russian practice! Bye-bye!