Welcome back to JForrestEnglish training, your place to become a fluent and confident English
speaker. Of course, I'm Jennifer and in this lesson you're going to add the top 10 phrasal
verbs to your vocabulary. And make sure you watch right to the end because I'm going to
quiz you to make sure you know how to use these new phrasal verbs. Let's get started. Phrasal verb
number one, to bear on. This means to be connected to or related to. For example, I don't see
how that information bears on this case. So I don't see how that information is connected to or
related to this case. I don't see how it bears on this case. Now we can also use to bear on to me,
influence or affect. For example, our relationship didn't bear on my decision. So maybe you have a
personal relationship with a contractor and you interviewed many contractors and you chose the one
you have a personal relationship with. But you want people to know that personal relationship
didn't impact or affect, it didn't bear on my decision. This is a more professional or formal
phrasal verb. You'll hear it a lot in the news and reports and you can use it a lot in a business
context. Number two, to care for something. When you care for something, not someone, something,
it means that you like, you have a preference for that something. But we commonly use this
in the negative. So I could say, I don't care for chocolate cake. I don't care for chocolate cake.
It's just another way of saying I don't like chocolate cake. I don't have a preference for
chocolate cake. I don't care for chocolate cake. So if somebody offers you something,
you could decline it and simply say, Oh, I don't care for chocolate cake. Or if your coworkers are
discussing the latest reality TV show and they want to know what you think about It,
you can say, I don't care for reality TV. It's just letting them know you don't really like it.
It's not your personal preference. Number three, to perk up. To perk up means to feel better,
happier or more energized. So think of first thing in the morning when you wake up. You're
still pretty sleepy, right? And what do a lot of people do? They drink coffee. So you could say,
coffee perks me up. Coffee makes me more energized. Or going for a walk perks me up.
We also use this when someone isn't feeling well because they're sick or because something negative
happens, like they lost their job. And you might go over with some flowers, with some chocolates,
or just with yourself to try to help perk up that other person. To help make them feel better,
happier, more energized. So you might say, well, the flowers perked her up. The flowers
perked her up. The flowers made her feel better, happier, more energized. Number four, to sift
through. This is a great phrasal verb. We use this when you have large amounts of information,
perhaps a lot of paperwork or files, books, and you need to examine that information to determine
what's useful, what's important. For example, after Juliano quit, I had to sift through
all his files. So he has all these files, a lot of information, and you have to examine all of them
to determine what you can delete and what's important and you need to keep. Or at home,
maybe you're going through your grandmother's photo albums and she has
20-30 different photo albums, so you might ask your brother, can you help me sift through these
photo albums? So you're going to examine them to determine what pictures you want to keep
and what pictures you want to get rid of. Maybe you don't know who is in that photo or the quality
is really bad. Number five, to wrap up. This is another way of saying to end, to finish,
but it's very commonly used, especially in a business context. So if you're in a meeting, and
you're coming to the end of the meeting, you can simply say, all right, everyone, let's wrap up.
Let's wrap up for today. Now we commonly add 'it'. Let's wrap it up. Let's wrap it up for today. It's
getting late. Let's wrap it up. The 'it' is the meeting. The meeting, the conference, the event,
whatever you're in that you want to finish or end. Or you can say, how should we wrap
up the conference? How should we finish or end the conference? You want to do it in a memorable way,
right? How should we wrap up the conference. And then you can have a discussion on that.
Number six, to flip through. When you flip through a book, a report, a magazine, it means you go
through it really quickly. So usually because you want to get a general idea of what that book is
about, or because you're looking for very specific information. So if you have this report that's 130
pages, but you're looking for a very specific piece of information, you can just quickly
flip through it to find that specific part of the report. Or you can do this when you're waiting for
a friend to arrive, waiting for a bus, you might flip through a magazine. Just look through it,
but you're not really reading anything. You're just flipping through it. You're going through
it quickly. Number seven, to draw out. When you draw something out, you make it a lot
longer than necessary or needed. So it's usually used in a more negative context. For example,
he really drew out his speech. He made the speech a lot longer than it needed to be,
or that it should have been. So it's more of a negative. It's criticizing the speech.
Or you could say, they really drew out the ending of the movie. So maybe you were
enjoying the movie, but then the end was just really long, way longer than it needed to be.
And you're wondering, when is this movie going to end? They really drew out the end of the movie.
Number eight, fall behind. This is a great phrasal verb for both a professional context
and a personal context. When you fall behind, it means you make less progress than
wanted or needed. Let's say you were off sick from work for over a week. Well, you're definitely
going to fall behind. You're going to make less progress than needed, because you have a deadline,
or than you just simply wanted to make, because you were gone for an entire week. So often we
can fall behind because we're sick or there's a competing deadline or competing project or
something going on in your personal life. But it could also simply be because we didn't work hard
enough or fast enough and we fell behind. So in a school context, if you don't spend enough time
reading or doing your homework, your exercises, you might fall behind. And if you fall behind,
you might have to ask your professor for an extension on a specific assignment. Number nine,
to get around. This is when you move from place to place within a specific location. So let's
say the location is your city. And I'm visiting your city. I could ask you, what's the best way
to get around? What's the best method of transportation to go from place to place
within your city? So what would you say, what's the best way to get around in your city? And then
you can say, oh Jennifer, you can easily get around on foot, which means you can walk from
location to location because your city is very small. Or you might say, you definitely need a car
to get around. Maybe your city is quite large and spaced out and it's not possible to walk, so
you need a car to get around, to go from place to place. So this is an extremely useful phrasal verb
when you're a tourist because you should absolutely know how to get around in the
city you're visiting. And finally number 10, to put off. When you put something off, it means
you delay it or postpone it. Now you could put off a meeting, you could delay or postpone a meeting
for a specific reason. You might say, let's put off the meeting until next week. So let's
delay the meeting until next week. A lot of times people will put off things that are unpleasant,
things they don't want to do. For example, I've been putting off asking my boss for a raise.
I've been putting off asking my boss for a raise. So notice the gerund verb. I've been putting off
asking. I've been putting off cleaning my closet. I've been putting off buying
new tires. So you need that gerund verb. And why are you delaying and postponing?
Because it's uncomfortable, unpleasant. So now you have 10 new phrasal verbs that you
can add to your vocabulary. Are you ready for your quiz? Here are the questions. Hit pause,
take as much time as you need, and when you're ready, you can hit play and see the answers.
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