Listen up because today I am going to teach you some very useful phrasal verbs.
What's up everyone? My name is Wes.
This is interactive English which is all about helping you practice and improve
your English skills and today I want to teach you some phrasal verbs because we
use phrasal verbs all the time.
They are so common in everyday conversation and today I'm going to teach you
some phrasal verbs that are related to listening.
These are listening phrasal verbs and the first one that I have for you is
listen up. I said it at the very, very,
very beginning of this lesson and all it means is to listen carefully.
It's just you're telling somebody or a group of people to listen carefully.
So when I think about this phrasal verb being used,
I think about maybe a coach talking to a group of players.
They might want to get their attention and tell them, hey everybody, listen up.
What I'm about to say is very important.
Or maybe a teacher would say it to a group of students.
They want the students to pay attention and they tell everybody, listen up.
Listen Up. No one mention Richard Roper again.
Listen up. I don't have to tell you what this game means.
Listen up. I'm hearing a lot of whispers and rumors.
All right, listen up, listen up.
Now when you listen, you are secretly listening to their conversation.
You are secretly listening to what they're saying.
We can also make this a three word,
phrasal verb with the preposition on and listen in on someone.
Looks like Gary and Gertty are about get briefed on the Yukata assignment.
We should listen in.
I can only assume that you're listening in.
You've been listening in on our conversation.
Tell the FBI agent listening in on this call
Then we have here about, so to hear about something
or maybe you hear about someone is is just to receive information about this
thing or or person did you hear about what people are saying in the comments?
You should go check out those comments and while you're down there just write us
comment because we love hearing from him.
I know I hear about people who are with hearing about
how did you hear about that? Hello, how did you hear about us?
The next phrasal verb is here from and you hear from someone.
Now this phrasal verb has three different meanings.
The first meaning would just be you are receiving a phone call or a message or
maybe even an email from another person.
Did you hear from your friend which would just be like, okay, did they call you?
Did they write you? Did you hear from them?
Will I hear from you?
Did you hear from the doctor?
Did you hear from your friend?
Did you hear from Bobby?
Did you hear from Superman?
The next meeting is just to listen to a person or or even a group of people talk
about a particular topic. For example,
maybe the school faculty is going to hear from the students about some issue
that's going on at the university.
You would hear from these people we still have from tonight's featured guest.
As we begin our service,
we will now hear from her daughter and finally it means that if somebody is
angry then then you're just going to tell some other person about it.
I think it's often used in the context. Somebody angry and they say,
you're going to hear from my lawyer.
I'm going to tell my lawyer about this thing that I am angry about.
Or maybe somebody didn't apologize to, to you and you say,
you know, if, if he doesn't apologize then, then he's going to hear from me.
I'm going to let him know about this.
You have two weeks. Otherwise you'll hear from my lawyer,
But you'll hear from my attorneys in the morning.
You'll be hearing from me Sherlock.
You will be hearing from him, Mr. Scott. Okay. Wow. I can be very,
very persistent.
Then we have to hear someone out and when you hear someone out than you are just
listening to this person.
You are listening to what they have to say and and you let them finish.
You are not going to interrupt this person because you are hearing them out.
Think people frequently use it when you're,
you're maybe having an intense conversation or a discussion with somebody and
you want this person to listen to you and you just tell him, look, hear me out.
Listen to what I have to say. Hear me out
Before you say or do anything. Just hear me out.
Just hear me out.
It's called Hinckley Cold Storage.
Just hear me out. Just hear me out. All right.
They're playing cards in them and I read his hand blind
And I hope all of you hear me out and listen to the lesson until the very end,
because if you don't, then you're, you're going to hear from me.
You're going to hear about this. Another great listening phrasal verb is here of,
and you can hear of something and you are just receiving news about this thing
or about this event. For example, uh,
I was shocked to hear of the sad news or you could hear of someone and you're
receiving news about this person. For example.
I haven't heard of anyone. All right?
I don't know anyone who would not hit the like button for this lesson because
phrasal verbs are amazing. They're wonderful.
I haven't heard of anyone who wouldn't hit that like button,
which is a way of me trying to tell you to hit that like button. So why?
Why don't you go ahead and do it?
You ever hear of superman.
You ever hear of KFC?
The king shall hear of this.
Pittsburgh Crawfish. Every hear of us?
Now I won't hear of it Mo. You're a fabulous catch.
Then we have pick up.
Now the phrasal verb pickup has many different meanings.
I just want to talk to you about the meaning that's related to listening.
So to pick something up is just to to hear a sound.
You could also pick up a scent as well,
but when it comes to listening you would pick up a sound and what I think about
is somebody who, who's trying to listen carefully,
maybe they have their headphones on and they're trying to hear,
listen in on a conversation and they were like, oh, are you picking anything up?
Have you, have you picked up the sound? Can you hear anything?
Or maybe you're trying to listen to things happening in,
in outer space and you're trying to pick up some sounds.
You're trying to pick something up.
Try the scanner. See if you can pick up anything.
Don't worry Cap. I can handle it.
It's all yours. If the scanner pick up anything, report it immediately.
I tried to get a fix on Alphazentura according to Will's calculations.
Picked this up instead.
How about we talk about that other thing
as mission Abdul picked up on those little radio.
The next listening phrasal verb is tune in and to tune in means to listen to and
watch a TV show or maybe a news broadcast or,
or even a video lesson.
I really appreciate it that that all of you tune into our video lessons and and
hear me out. I am really grateful for that. Thank you.
Tune in next week called the exciting conclusion.
Phil here. If you have tuned in for WNYX is regularly scheduled.
Can you tune into the cockpit frequency? Yea, why?
The next phrasal verb, and this is probably my favorite one on this list,
is to tune out and when you tune out, you just,
you stop paying attention,
you stop listening and you can tune someone out or you could tune something and
you're, you're just not listening to this thing or this person anymore.
And I really hope that you are not tuning me out right now because you've heard
about something else exciting going on. Don't, don't, don't worry about that.
Just just stay with me. I want you to hear me out all the way until the end
Children. Okay. Tune out. Some secrets are coming out, right? Some adult one's.
Look, when usually Amy complains about her coworkers, I just tune her out.
It's just one more shift.
Just tune her out and she'll eventually leave you alone.
And then we have, well this is not a phrasal verb, it's just an expression,
but,
but I liked it so I thought I would throw it in there and it is to hang on to
someone's word. Often I think the,
the entire expression would be to hang onto someone's every word and that just
means you are listening very carefully to what someone is saying because
somebody is saying something that is so exciting.
It is so captivating that you just want to listen to every single word that this
person is saying and you are hanging on to every word.
But he hangs on your every word. I'm asking. I'm telling you,
take that responsibility seriously.
I guess it's because we all want to believe that what we do is very important
that people hang onto our, every word.
I now the leader of thousands of people,
they all hang on my every word.
So listen up. Now that you've tuned in to this lesson and you've heard me out,
now I want to hear from you and I want you to write to me in the comments,
and if you understood this lesson and you feel like you can go out and use these
phrasal verbs, then let me know in the comments and I just want you to write,
I am hanging on to your every word. That way I know. Okay,
this person was listening carefully. They were not tuning me out and,
and they have learned something new. Thank you guys so much for watching.
I hope you enjoyed learning these listening phrasal verbs and I will see you