Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to Advanced English lessons with Harry
where I tried to help you to get a better understanding of the English language tried
to help you with your vocabulary and your grammar, use of expressions phrasal verbs
and in this particular advanced English lessons, that's exactly what we're doing. We're looking
at phrasal verbs and today's advanced English lesson is about phrasal verbs using the verb
look to look. Okay, so we're going to go through a list of these 10 In total,
I'll give you the phrasal verb and then I'll give you a situation when you can use it.
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Okay, so back to our lesson then advanced English lesson using phrasal verbs with the verb look.
Number one to look after somebody or look after something. Well, when we look after we take care
of as Will you please look after the kids while they go to the shop? Could you please look after
my dog? If they go on holidays? Somebody needs to take care of him. So to look after means to
watch over to take care of to make sure everything is okay. So I look after your
dog. Don't worry. I look after the kids. I can collect them from school. Don't worry, so to look
after something or to look after somebody.
Okay, number two, to look something up? Well, we are always looking something
up on the internet. Yeah, anytime we've got a problem. Anytime we've got a lack of information,
anytime that kids want to do a project, what do we do? Well, we look up something or we
look something up on the internet, we scroll through various records, we look at Wikipedia,
whatever we do we look something up. So if somebody has a question in the house, what do
you know about this? What do you know about that ad just look it up on the internet. So that's the
normal response that people are given, look it up on the internet. And so simple question of Google
drop in the name and you get the information to look something up is to search for or to
find out information relating to that topic on the Internet. In the old days, when I was young,
we used to have to go to the library and get out an encyclopaedia and look up the
information. Of course, it's usually out of date. So modern days look something up on the internet.
Number three, to look up. Now when we look up, it's to look up to the sky. Okay, so if you hear
an aeroplane overhead, you look up to the sky Have you heard the noise of the birds in the trees,
you look up to the trees to see what is happening. So you raise your eyes or move your head in the
direction of where the noise is coming from. So to look up, okay, so somebody might also say,
particularly, if you've got a football trainer, that when you have the ball at your feet,
you should look up not to run with your head down because you want see where you're going. You want
to see where your teammates are so that you can pass pass the ball to them very cleanly and very
clearly applique. So to keep your head up to look up, or if you're walking in the street,
look up and look where you are going in case you walk into somebody or worse still, you walk into
something like a lamp poster. So to look up, lift your head, keep your eyes out straight to look up.
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Number four, to look back on something. This particular expression and phrasal verb refers
to a bit of nostalgia. You know when we want to remember something from the past,
we look back on our school days we look back on our younger life as a young teenager,
so a bit of nostalgia. We are looking back to remember things that happened. Remember a person
in our life or a situation funny or dangerous or strange, but we look back with fondness about our
school days, we look back with fondness on life for times with our grandparents, we look back
on our times with our schoolmates. For example, if we meet them again after university and we say Oh,
do you remember when do you remember this person? Do you remember that person so we
look back on something with nostalgia with fondness? Now, of course, we can look back
and say I'm glad I'm where I am now today that I don't have to do what I did 20-30 years ago. So
we don't always look back with fondness, we might look back and be grateful that life has moved on,
life has changed, or indeed our life has changed. So to look back on something.
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To look down on so this is number five look down on and when we use this phrasal verb,
it's usually referring to a situation where we look at other people as been worse off than we
are financially, or from an educational point of view or professionally. So when somebody looks
down at somebody else, they don't treat them with respect, they don't treat them as equals
years and years ago, centuries ago, the kings and queens and members of the royal family literally
used to look down on the poor people below them. So they would be living in these high towers in
their castles and they would look down on the poor people below. And they would throw them
food or coins or whatever they would do. So that's where the origin of this phrasal verb
comes from. So to look down on people, is to treat them worse than you to not to treat them equally,
and to feel that you are better off. So it's not a nice way to be. Okay, so to look down on somebody.
Number six to look ahead, well, here again, we can use this literally, or we can use it
metaphorically. So when we use it literally to look ahead means to raise your eyes and look
where you're going look ahead on the street, look ahead to see the traffic that is coming in. Also,
if you're riding your bicycle, keep your eyes looking ahead to make sure there are no cars
coming in your direction that might cause an accident. But we can look ahead and another
way when we want to plan. So we can look ahead to next week. And we can plan our itinerary we
can look ahead to next week, and we can plan our schedule. Okay, look ahead to the new year. If
you're coming up to celebrate New Year's Eve, then you might look ahead to the next year so
that you can make New Year's plans or make some new year's resolutions, whatever that might be.
So looking ahead, or to look ahead is about planning and making sure that what you want to
do gets done sort of schedule events to programme events to finalise a work schedule so that you
can ever get everything done that you want to get done. So to look ahead, and we have an expression
to look ahead to better days to look ahead to the future, to look ahead to a happy life. So
it's all about planning and progressing in your particular life or your career.
Look into number seven to look into. When we look into something we investigate. The police
often look into crimes to see if there's somebody guilty, so it could be a burglary,
they look into to see if there's a history of burglaries in that area. Is there something in
common that might suggest a particular person who did it so they will look into it to investigate,
try and find out some more information, we simply might just use to look into to suggest to somebody
that we will just discuss it, we will look at something we will come back to you with some
answers. So if your colleague comes to you and says, I've got a bit of a problem here,
this isn't working out well with the client. Could you help me and you say yeah, leave it
with me. look into it. And I'll come back to you with some answers. I'll give you my view or give
you my opinion. I'll see if there's something better we can do or if I can help you so I will
Look into it, I will examine it, I will research it, I will find out what we can do in a better
way. So to look into it, okay, so anytime we want to investigate anything, anytime we want
to find out more information, anytime we want to do a little bit more digging, or exploring,
we will look into the problem, we will look into the situation, we will look into the issue to see
how we can help and how we can improve or how we can solve the particular problem. So to look into.
Next, number eight, to look forward to something. Now we did use to look ahead,
there's a slight similarity here. But when we look forward to something, it's it's something
that is already planned. And therefore we are interested to see what happens. So for example,
I look forward to meeting you next week. So we've planned a meeting. So I'm going to see you next
week. I look forward to meeting you. Again, it may not be exactly planned when it's going to be but
you're looking forward to that. I look forward to entertaining you when you come to my house
for some celebration, I look forward to celebrate your birthday with you. So a birthday party that
has been planned. So look forward to something means something in the future, something's going
to happen. And you welcome the opportunity to have the party to meet the person to answer the letter,
I look forward to any questions that you might have. And I'd be happy to answer those. So it's
all about planning something scheduled something that you're going to deal with to look forward to.
Number nine is to look round or look around. No difference you can see around with that are all
look around without the app. So you go into a shop, what do you do? You look around to
see what's available, something that might be of interest on the shelves and the window display,
and the display inside the shop. So you look around to see if there's anything of interest
for you. Or you might just simply ask the question, do you mind if I look around? So
you walk into the shop? The system will come over to you and say can I help you? Oh yes,
I'm just having a look around, I just want to look to see what's available. what's on offer, is that
something that I might be interested in. So you often call it window shopping with no specific
plan or specific idea as to what we want to buy, we just want to look around or look around.
Or if you're visiting a new city that you haven't visited before. So perhaps when you
arrive you check into your hotel, I said look, I'm just going to go out for an hour or so just
to look around to see what the city is like to see where the museums are to see where the
restaurants are to see and find my bearings my see where we are located just to see how
long it will take us to get from the hotel to different places. So I'll spend an hour
or so looking around or to look around the streets, the shops, the places of interest.
And then finally, number 10 We can use this phrasal verb look out for something now it
has two meanings. Okay. So I'll give you the first one to look out for something means to
watch out for to try and recognise something. So if you're travelling in a certain direction, you
haven't been there before, somebody might tell you Well look, when you get onto the bus or the train,
look out for this particular station. So look out for station number two or station number three,
you have to get off there and leave the station and then you'll find where you want to go.
Or the police might say to the pedestrians, look out for a blue van. There's been some some
suspicious activity in the street late lately. So please keep your eyes open. Look out for a
blue van. If you notice it or recognise it, please tell a member of the police force so
that it's a warning to look out for. Okay. And then the second meaning to look out for is to
watch over to take care of to support I always look out for my brother. I always used to look
out for my brother when we were young. If he got into difficulty or trouble, I'd be there to help
them or support them. If he got into a fight at school, which he often did. I'd be there
to help them and to stick up for a pause we say to watch his back. Somebody might say I've got
your back. Have you got my back so to look out for somebody's to watch over and and to protect, okay.
All right. So that's our 10 phrasal verbs with the word look, the verb to look.
Let me give them to you one more time. One to look after somebody or something so to
take care of my dog to look after the dog to look after the children.
To look something up, when you search the internet, you go on to the Google and you find
out some more information to look something up. Number three, to look up literally means to raise
your eyes, look up to heaven and look up, look up at the aeroplane look up at the birds in the sky.
Number four, look back on something, usually about nostalgia. Looking back
with some sort of interest in your previous life, something that happened to look back on.
To look down on this is a negative phrasal verb to look down on when we don't treat people equally,
we don't treat them with respect, we look down on people who have less than we have to look down on.
Number six to look ahead can mean to look straight ahead when you're cycling. So you don't have an
accident, or to plan to see what you're going to do next week, next month next year to look
ahead into the future. Look into something means to investigate to research to find out what's
happening or what did happen. So I look into that I will investigate it. Look forward to to
have some interest in what's going to happen and look forward to your birthday. I look forward to
meeting you. I look forward to seeing you again look forward to getting your reply.
Number nine to look around or round. So means just to have a glance just to nose around to
see what's happening and see what's available without any particular intention of buying
or doing anything else to look around or look around. And then finally to look out for look
out for your brother and look out for your sister means to take care of them. And then to look out
for means to be watching for something to look out for that black or that blue van
that the police are trying to locate because it was involved in some serious incident the
day before. So to look out for be aware of it and if you notice it, inform the police.
Okay, so those are our 10 phrasal verbs advanced phrasal verbs to do with the verb to look.
So the best way to use these and to practise and to remember them is to write them down,
put them into sentences, try to take a few drop them into your conversations,
and then take a few more than next week. Trying to learn them by heart won't work.
It never works. You remember them for a little while but you'll forget them very quickly.
So if you need any more help, of course, you can contact me always happy to hear
from you. And always happy happy to help you if I can. Okay, this is Harry saying thank
you for watching. Thanks for listening. And remember join me for the next lesson.