Hi everyone. I'm Jennifer from English with Jennifer. As an online teacher, I sit a lot. I
teach lessons, I edit, and I create content -- all at my computer. But there are times when I do lots
of chores around the house. As soon as I get up in the morning, I'm on my feet doing one thing after
the other. I water the flowers, do the laundry, clean the floor, and a dozen other things.
Thankfully, my kids help a bit. They clean the bathroom and take out the trash,
for example. Usually sometime after dinner, I can sit down and relax. What is your day like?
Are you busy from the time you get up until you go to bed? Hopefully,
this lesson will give you confidence using three common phrasal verbs: sit down, get up, take out.
"Sit down" is easy to understand. You move from a standing position to a sitting position. This
is an intransitive phrasal verb. No object. But we often combine "sit down" with another verb.
Sit down and relax. Sit down and talk. Sit down and chat. Sit down and think.
Can we just sit down and talk? A very rude command is, "Sit down and shut up!" Hopefully,
you won't have to order anyone to do that. Now sit down and shut up! Note how a polite invitation
will almost always use this phrasal verb and not the verb "sit" all by itself. Please. Sit down.
Won't you sit down? Would you like to sit down?
More casually, by the way, you could say, "Have a seat."
Or you could use the idiom "take a load off your feet."
You could use that idiom with the phrasal verb: Come here. Sit down. Take a load off your fee.
Sit down. Take a load off your feet, huh? "Get up" is another common phrasal verb
that's easy to understand. It means to rise from a lying, sitting, or kneeling position.
"Get up" can also mean to rise after sleeping.
Technically, there's a difference between getting up and waking up. Right? I wake up,
but then I need 5 or 10 more minutes before I get up and start my day.
In conversation, the two verbs often overlap in meaning. What time did you get up today?
What time do we have to get up tomorrow?
I have to get up early for school, but on weekends I sleep late.
All right. I got to get up early. "Get up" is often intransitive,
but it's possible to wake someone up and get them out of bed. Right? So, you can get somebody up.
Can you get me up at eight tomorrow? Can you wake me up at eight tomorrow?
I think these requests are the same.
"Take out" means to remove something. This phrasal verb is transitive and separable. My
children take out the trash every Thursday. They take the trash out on Thursdays.
Question: What do some TV channels do before they show a movie with lots of swearing?
They censor the movie for a general audience. In other words, they take out all the swear words.
There's either silence or substitutions. A second meaning of "take out" is only for people. When
you take someone out, you treat them to dinner, or you take them to some kind of event, like a movie.
When was the last time you took someone out or when someone took you out?
Let me take you out tomorrow. A third meaning of "take out" is to obtain. If you take out money
from the bank, you're withdrawing money from your account. If you take out books from the library,
you're borrowing those books. And in a legal sense, you may be obtaining a service of some
kind. For example, some people choose to take out a life insurance policy
after they get married or once they have children. Is this a common practice in your country?
On American TV, we often see commercials for life insurance policies.
He should take some insurance out on himself. But first we take out,
like a hundred-thousand-dollar life insurance policy. There are other meanings of "take out,"
but we'll stop there. Here are three questions for you to answer in the comments. When you have
a problem with someone, do you sit down and talk or is there another way you handle it?
What time do you get up on a weekday? Is it easy for you to get up early?
Do you think it's difficult to take out a loan?
How about a quick quiz on some of the other phrasal verbs from earlier lessons?
Answers. 1. I hate to point out the obvious, but if you had listened to my
advice, you wouldn't be in this situation. Never take on more than you can handle.
Now you have to come up with a plan to finish all this work. 2. Our Spanish teacher set
up afterschool tutoring for anyone who needs more practice. It's helpful because sometimes
I can't pick up all the vocabulary on my own, and I need someone to help me review.
Answers. 3. At first, I didn't like our new coach. He was tough and demanded a lot. I thought I
just might give up. But then I made up my mind to keep going. I'm glad I did. Now I actually look up
to the man. He models strength. 4. It took me half an hour to figure out that last math problem. Then
it turned out that we didn't have to do that last one! Oh well. I'm glad I rose to the challenge.
That's all for now. Please like the video if you found it useful. I thank you for sitting down and
watching this lesson. Now it's time to get up and stretch your legs. Go out and breathe some fresh
air. Hopefully, you'll be back soon for more. As always, thanks for watching and happy studies!
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