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now today I have six phrasal verbs on give and wrap now these are very
seasonal phrasal verbs why could this be well in the UK it's nearly Christmas and
Christmas is a time for giving so give and wrap off phrasal verbs that
we use quite a lot at this time of year but also we use them all the year round
as well
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wait let's get started so number one is to give away now to
give away it means to give something away for free you are not asking for any
money for this so for example people talk about giving away their money to
charity or giving away their clothing to the homeless you are not asking for any
money in return for this you're giving it away for free to give away I'm giving
away a couple of my jumpers to my sister because I don't need them anymore
something like that so it's that kind of thing to give away that is the first
meaning so the second meaning of give away is a lot more specific when a woman
gets married usually in the UK the tradition is that her father gives her
away so he walks her down the aisle as she comes down the aisle and then she is
given to her husband however today this may seem a little bit
sexist perhaps and so we can have our mother give us away if we want to or
another Guardian or something like that but traditionally it is the father and
our father will give us away and many many people do like to keep this
tradition what happens in your countries guys do tell me down in the comments who
gives the bride do you does it is the bride not given are you both meeting on
equal terms tell me in the comments I'm very interested to know okay second
phrasal verb is to give up to give up means to stop trying or to stop
something if you say I'm giving up with learning Spanish it's too hard for me I
just can't do it I'm giving up yeah this means you're stopping trying but this
can also have a positive meaning you can say I've given up smoking or I've given
up drinking too much alcohol and in those cases that means that you
have stopped that thing completely given up so different meanings in different
contexts here it can mean to stop trying or it can mean to stop something
completely now if you give up on someone or on something this means that you you
don't believe in them anymore you're not going to try with this particular thing
so for example a parent might say I'm giving up on my daughter she's never
going to be a well-behaved child I'm giving up on her something like that or
a teacher might say oh I just give up on that student I just can't make them
learn it's so difficult to make them understand just giving up on them now
this doesn't necessarily mean that the person will give up trying with that
person forever but it means that we we have had enough we were giving up at
that present time on putting our effort into that person so to give up on
someone you might say I'm giving up on hearing from that person I'm giving up
on hearing I don't think they're going to call me I'm giving up on hearing from
them next one lots of parents I think will be
familiar with this phrasal verb it is to give in to give in now when your son or
daughter says to you mommy daddy I want this I want that and if they say it
many many times like mummy I want I want that in your game I really really want
that new ps4 game I want it I want it I want it please the ps4 game and in the
end you you just want them to be quite so you say fine okay I'll buy you the ps4
game now in that case the parent has given in they have relented relented
would be perhaps a more formal word meaning said okay I give in to your
demands they accept your demands I'll do it basically the meaning is if somebody
asks you something enough finally you accept their demands and you say okay so
I gave in to my boss he kept asking me to take this higher position I wasn't
sure about it but he asked me so many times and finally I gave in I accept it
do you guys give in to the demands of your children if you are mums and dads
out there tell me if sometimes you think oh okay I'm going to relent I'll accept
it I give in. Another way that we use this phrasal verb is if we are trying to
compete against someone or something and
we can't and it's another way of saying you give up actually you can also say I
give in I just can't beat this this level on the computer I just I can't
beat my sister at chess or something like that I give in so it can also be
used as give up as well okay number four a little bit more complicated phrasal
verb it's perhaps more formally used it is to give way to someone or to
something now to give way when you're driving you sometimes have to give way
to oncoming traffic and this means that you do not have the priority to drive
first imagine you have a small amount of space
for two cars one of you will have to let the other pass first because you both
can't pass at the same time so one of you has to give way you have to wait and
let the other car pass this is to give way we can also say we give away when we
surrender to something for example we might say the prime minister gave way to
another politician because he felt he wasn't in a strong enough position
anymore so he gave way and let him take over can also mean like surrender to
give way to something the very formal version of this would be to yield to
give way to to yield meaning ok you go first or you can take over from me to
yield is quite an old-fashioned word to yield and so we use give way instead the
third meaning of give way I know what you're thinking phrasal verbs have so
many meanings I know they do so the third meaning is if something has
particularly an object has too many things on top of it it can give way
so a roof can give way if the weather is really terrible and the roof is not very
strong and there's lots of rain the roof can collapse and you can say the roof
gave way and anything that is piled with too many heavy things on top of it can
give way it can collapse so that is the third meaning of give way okay guys now
moving on to wrap phrasal verbs with wrap now at this time of year we do
spend a lot of time wrapping up presents Christmas presents which we put under
the tree until Santa or mums and dads are ready to deliver them so to wrap up
to wrap up means to put material around something to cover it so you can wrap up
sandwiches in cling film so they stay fresh
you can wrap a baby up in a blanket I wrapped him or her up in the blanket to
keep her warm at this time of year it is quite cold in the UK so we will often
have people telling us to wrap up people will say oh wrap up warm it's very cold
out there so make sure you wrap up meaning make sure you're covered in
material ok so that's the meaning of wrap up the first meaning the second
meaning is to finish if we say can we wrap something up so come on wrap it up
we often use it as a three-part phrasal verb with the object in the middle so
here this means to finish wrap it up to finish we might say okay we're going to
wrap up now we're going to finish now in Hollywood they will often say and that's
a wrap okay our final phrasal verb today is wrap around now when we wrap
something around we wrap it around several times so we're wrapping up but
where we're wrapping it around a lot more so we often wrap the scarf around
ourselves or we wrap paper around something a lot of times to keep it safe
if we're sending a parcel we might wrap around lots of things to keep the
parcel safe another lovely example would be that when we hug we wrap our
arms around somebody we're literally physically wrapping our arms around them
we wouldn't say I wrapped my arms up that person that would sound very very
strange we wrap our arms around them okay everybody now what I would like you
to do this is a little bit of homework I would like you to try and write one of
these phrasal verbs in a sentence in the comments below try and make up a
sentence with one of them and I promise I will try and correct them and I will
check your sentences for you I do have these phrasal verbs that we use all the
year round useful and if you celebrate Christmas I
am wishing you a very happy Christmas I hope you get given lots of present
hopefully you've been good enough to get lots of presents think this one's for me
thank you so much for watching everybody that's a wrap
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