hi and welcome back to love English I'm Leila and today I have well a simple
lesson but one that will be full of phrasal verbs for this time of year
today I'll be looking at 10 super common phrasal verbs that we use throughout the
winter months and the festive season meaning around Christmas time so whether
you're watching Christmas films in English or if you're living in an
english-speaking country these phrasal verbs are going to help you get through
the festive season now before we get started just a quick announcement to let
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now in case you didn't notice I do actually have my Christmas tree earrings
in and this is not a Christmas jumper it's a Christmas onesie so it's
basically a pajama suit a little bit mento but hey I love it on the Christmas
onesie you can see these strange things these are actually traditional Christmas
puddings they normally look something like this
but on Christmas Day this is what for the British eat we'll have a Christmas
pudding filled with spicy fruitiness it's just so good right 10 super simple
useful phrasal verbs for winter and the festive season
right number one to look forward to something an event an occasion or seeing
somebody when you look forward to something you are excited about that
event in the future you know it's going to happen and you cannot wait you're in
anticipation you are waiting for that thing to happen so this year I'm really
looking forward to going to Rome and spending Christmas with family and
friends there I won't be in the UK I'll be looking forward to a very Italian
Christmas lunch probably lasagna or something like that but actually what I
really forward to is Christmas Eve lunch in Italy because it's all fish and
that's my favorite so let me know what are you looking forward to at this time
of year number two this is a phrasal verb that you can of course use at any
time of the year but particularly at Christmastime there are a lot of plans
to meet up with friends so when you meet up with someone you arrange to meet them
whether you go and meet up for a coffee in a coffee shop or if you meet up 10
minutes early to go to the Christmas party together so to meet up with
somebody is to arrange to meet them at a certain time and place
however number three bump into bump into a more informal phrasal verb but one
that we commonly use is when you meet someone unexpectedly you bump into them
you might bump into someone while you're doing your Christmas shopping or bump
into them at a party where you didn't expect to see them so to bump into
someone is to meet somebody but unexpectedly number four is a phrasal
verb that has multiple meanings at this time of year to wrap up could be talking
about covering your presence in Christmas paper you would often wrap up
your Christmas presents say they're a nice surprise when people open them or
when we're talking about wrapping up it's often because the weather is so
cold and chilly and you need to make sure you put lots of layers on so that
you're not cold little bit like this number five I've
actually got to here to go out and to stay in to go out obviously referring to
actually leaving your home and doing something going to an event a dinner a
party outside your home but when you stay in you remain at home so what do
you prefer doing at this time of year do you prefer staying in watching a movie
relaxing at home or do you enjoy going out with your friends and having a bit
of a party number six now this is a little bit more advanced but one that
you could use when talking about an evening out often at New Year or
Christmas you might go out to a party but you could end up somewhere else to
end up is referring to the final place that you are on that evening it is
usually unexpected you don't plan to be in that place so I went out to the
Christmas party and we ended up in the pub down the road so without planning
the final destination of your evening was somewhere you haven't expected
number seven this is something that I actually did last night finally I put up
my Christmas decorations so to put up the literally means to place something
in a high up position but when we're talking about Christmas decorations it's
simply putting up your tree putting up the bull balls on the tree putting up
any lights that you like to hang them in place where they should be hopefully so
to put up is to hang to put something in an elevated position and of course the
opposite would be to take down that's something I do not look forward to doing
after Christmas is taking down the decorations and finding places for
everything I never know where those decorations came from I've got lots of
boxes and I always seem to have more Christmas decorations than I do
boxes so taking down my decorations is always a bit of a challenge
now after Christmas you may be thinking a new year is coming what can I do to
live a healthier lifestyle or to have some better have
a phrasal verb meaning to quit to stop doing something is to give up
so after Christmas you may choose to give up chocolate because we all eat
quite a lot chocolate during this time of year or you might decide to give up
smoking or a lot of people give up drinking in the new year because during
the festive season we do tend to drink quite a lot so often in the UK we have
something called dry January where people give up alcohol completely for
one month getting them into better habits for the new year so what are you
thinking about giving up in the new year number nine intel is specifically
thinking about Christmas number nine to sing along you can sing along with
somebody or sing along to a particular song so it basically means you're
singing with that song we all do it but at Christmas there are a lot of
Christmas songs that you can sing along to so what is your favorite Christmas
song to sing along to comment below and let me know and finally to get into
specifically this phrase is to get into to get into the Christmas spirit so when
you get into the Christmas spirit you're feeling super Christmasy very excited
looking forward to Christmas doing your Christmas shopping enjoying Christmas
food probably having a few to drink so what helps you get into the Christmas
spirit let me know for me it's usually having a little drink and putting my
Christmas decorations up so there we have it 10 very simple but hopefully
useful phrasal verbs for this time of the year and don't forget those twelve
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