this is a video on phrasal verbs in real
English from myself Charlie Baxter and I
Harry Gyles I everyone how are you
today? I'm sure they're doing fantastic
and they're ready for some stories some
anecdotes right so what was your
anecdote your story you're going to tell
me Charlie?
well it all happened four years ago and
I was at University and I wanted to go
to Africa for a couple of weeks maybe
even a month okay yeah and and I was
about to back out of it when another
friend said that they would go with me
ok so you said you were going to back out
of it was it was it already reserved
yes yes I had placed a reservation with
the volunteer company
ok but I was nervous i wanted to back
out of it but another friend said
they would go with me to support me
okay good i'm glad! who went with you in
the end? it was that girl called Laura Oh Laura
shes a lovely girl but I'm with the lady of
dreams
yeah don't don't back out that one yeah
that's a good one
yeah okay so i went to Africa in the
summer but I hadn't actually met Laura
before really it was a mutual friend
and so we got to the airport ready
to take off and i put my travel bag in
to the desk and they said that's too
heavy so I got annoyed and they
started telling me the rules and after I
heard the rules i decided to back down
and give them the money okay right okay
so what they were kind of you were
frustrated and arguing your point and
then you you back down from the from
your argument and just said it's ok?
that's it
yeah I backed down so I felt like
emotionally I went backwards.. anger and
stuff and I let it go.. OK cool
so I had to pay and then we got
onto the flight and I had a glass of red
wine
oh who was it was it from Chile? I don't
know it was from Chile but it may
have been from Argentina! Argentina!
Si! either way i had the glass of wine
and then I started to feel a bit strange
and then I needed to get out and go to the
toilet and splash water on my face
to wake me up a bit and and I got up and as I
got to the door I suddenly hit black and
bam! all I knew was that I had gone
straight forward onto the floor of the
airplane so you you you fainted?
I fainted right OK right that's crazy
and then I woke up with three
stewardesses holding my head fanning me
and with my legs raised up in the back
of the airplane right okay so you had
what like the people working in the airplane
the air hostesses .. there
were three of them surrounding you
yeah I actually felt a bit overwhelmed and
stressed out because of this and I
wanted them to just back off a bit and
give me some space.. right OK so you wanted
them to to move away to move back from
you
exactly yeah give me more room to
breathe right OK to back off you... OK
interesting
yeah and then and Laura came and saw the
commotion or the trouble and she got me
up into my seat and helped me feel normal
again but later in that trip I was
thinking why did I faint on the plane?
and then someone else said that the
malaria tablets they had been taking
were making them feel really light
headed and dizzy and I looked at her
malaria tablets and they were the
same as mine
ok so ermm.. you heard from
other people that they were also
fainting
so when you were worried about the pills
making you faint that kind of backed up
what you thought your idea about the
tablets right? exactly yeah because i had
thought maybe it's the tablet
I'm taking no one else had any effect so
i thought it's not true then new
information in and it backed up my idea my
original thought
yeah like your theory about
tablets was backed up
yeah yeah you could even say she backed up
my thought... Cool. So that was the first
round of stories with phrasal verbs
using back now we've got round 2 with Harry
what you got for me?
yeah alright so i'll tell you a story
about something that happened to me a
few years ago and I mentioned this in
the latest expressions video so check it
out
So I was on a night out
with Charlie when we were at university
young single chasing ladies and i was
talking to Charlie outside the club and
i picked Charlie up because he's
very light nice and weedy! Yeah nice and
weedy and and I was holding him in the
air and one of Charlie's friends
or kind of friends at the time
he got a bit confused
he was a bit confused and thought that me
and Charlie w're having a fight or a
confrontation so he came over and he
punch me in the face.. and then did you
confront him or did you back down?
well I didn't really have the
chance to back down because i was i was
knocked down on the floor and I was only
semi-conscious I remember I couldn't
really see anything! yeah I remember you were
in a bad state! i was in a very bad state and I
picked you up and you were like yeah
bleading everything awful but luckily I
have some good friends and my friend my
friend 'Ant (Anthony)' was there and he came over he
saw that I was on the floor and I had
been punched and he backed me up... he came
over and he tried to hit the guy who
knocked me on the ground. So does that
mean
to back you up? hitting someone that
has already hit you? I don't think
necessarily to hit someone but to to
support someone in an argument or in a
fight .. so Ant backed me up he came
over and he helped me in the situation
and then got punched and he fell on the
floor as well and and it was crazy!
do you think there was a CCTV footage of
it?
yeah yeah I think there was some CCTV
Soif I if I reported him to the
police we could probably show TV footage
to back up my police report ermm... and yeah
if I was seriously hurt
I could have used that to back up my
story and to back up means give more support?
yeah? Yeah to give support to and and
to yeah to support my theory my idea and
my my police report
yeah okay and what would you do with
that video if you got hold of it? I would
i would getget the DVD and I
would back it up on my computer
meaning what what does that mean? well
meaning to to make a copy of something
so i would back it up on my laptop
so that we have a hard copy of the
footage of me being punched. Excellent!
alright so well done there! thank you for
that there are your two anecdotes using
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