I can never remember phrasal verbs in English
teacher Prix why are phrasal verbs so difficult and how can I learn phrasal verbs in
English more easily well that's what you're going to find out in this video coming up
hey friends teacher Prix here to help you talk to anyone anywhere anytime in English first and
foremost thank you so much for watching this lesson if it's your first time here consider
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better and more confident English speaker now guys let's get down to business first phrasal
verbs are difficult because they have multiple meanings and this can be very stressful to
English learners especially if they don't have a clear study routine they don't know how to study
phrasal verbs efficiently this is why you have that feeling that phrasal verbs are so difficult
first because they have way too many translations and second because you haven't yet developed an
efficient way to study phrasal verbs the second reason why phrasal verbs are so difficult is you
are ignoring the context when you see a phrasal verb in a sentence you probably tend to focus on
the phrasal verb alone you ignore the information the text or the video or the podcast is giving you
and you focus only on the phrasal verb when you do that and I am sure that many of you do it
gets more difficult to remember the phrasal verb because you are taking it out of a context if you
want to learn phrasal verbs and remember phrasal verbs you got to study them in contextualized
materials what is a contextualized material you can't just study the phrasal verb alone if you
watch my phrasal verb lessons here on my channel I give you the meaning but then I go immediately
to the context I give you a conversation a phrase two phrases but then I explain it I explain the
context so maybe the girl is talking to her boyfriend and then the boyfriend looks at her
and describes the problem and then I give you the phrasal verb if I just give you the meaning and go
it gets very difficult to remember the phrasal verb you're studying that's why you're staying in
this loop more phrasal verbs never remember more phrasal verbs and never remember because you take
them out of the context and you want to know them the next reason why you have problems remembering
phrasal verbs it's difficult to study phrasal verbs and stay until the end because I’m going
to tell you what to do okay don't worry I’m going to give you some solutions some recommendations
ideas that I have tested in my BSA my students in my academy with my private students for the
past 15 years so I know these tips work okay but reason number three why you can't remember phrasal
verbs they are difficult for you to to study you don't know what to do about phrasal verbs
is you don't know how to use a phrasal verb in a sentence because you never practice doing that
if you are old here on my channel you have had multiple opportunities of changing that because in
all phrasal verb lessons that I give here on my channel I always invite you to post
examples in the comment what I’m basically doing is making you use the lesson you study that is
intentional it's not just to make me feel good about people participating okay it's about you
changing the future of your English probably the way you study phrasal verbs is to get the meaning
maybe write down maybe you take the time to write down the phrasal verb and write the meaning
maybe write the example of the dictionary and then you stop there you don't create as human beings
we have the power to create beautiful things and not so beautiful things I’m afraid but
here on your journey to English fluency you have a great power on your hands which is to create
use English as a tool to get the things you want to communicate the stories you have to tell
so whenever you learn a phrasal verb if you don't practice using that phrasal verb even if it's
simply in written language maybe you don't have a speaking partner that's okay but if you don't
try to create an example you're never going to remember that phrasal verb it gets more difficult
to remember that phrasal verb because your process is messed up that's what is wrong if you have a
messed up process it doesn't matter how many times you study it doesn't matter how many new phrasal
verbs you learn you're never going to remember them fix the process and the problem dissolves
not talking about perfection there is always something new to learn there's always something
new to master but you will get better at it okay that's my goal that's what I always tell my
babies in my academy my BSA my students are you a BSA well let me know here in the comments
BSA It is about the process they learn a lot of phrasal verbs in my academy but they learn the
phrasal verbs in context and then I invite them to create examples on the platform they have a space
where they can post examples use the vocabulary they study and that is the most powerful way to
remember phrasal verbs to remember vocabulary in general now that being said how should you study
phrasal verbs do you have any tips Teacher Prix of course I do but before I give you the tips that
I have prepared for this lesson how about hitting the like button and subscribing to my channel
anyway point number one if you want to study phrasal verbs you gotta limit how many phrasal
verbs you study at a time I know that there are many amazing books on the internet
where there are 500 phrasal verbs 2 000 phrasal verbs 1000 phrasal verbs for your next vacation
just too many you have to consider two things number of phrasal verbs and conversation
where you can use the phrasal verbs you're spending time on it doesn't make sense why
are you studying something you're not going to use it wouldn't be fair to give a percentage because
honestly I don't know but I’m pretty sure you're not going to use a lot of them what are you going
to talk about is it a personal experience life stories present your ideas in a meeting so where
can you put that phrasal verb you're learning okay that phrasal verb needs to fit into something
meaningful a conversation to describe your last weekend even to describe your routine
you use phrasal verbs why do you remember phrasal verbs when describing your routine because it is
meaningful we do that every day we talk about that oh I woke up oh I took off I turned off I turned
on these are all phrasal verbs oh but teacher they are easier no they're not easier it's just
that you found a connection a conversation subject that's why you remember those phrasal verbs point
number two is about organization and this week I posted a video about how to organize your study
routine to remember vocabulary okay and I told you about keeping a vocabulary notebook based
on conversation subjects why because you need to review the phrasal verbs you study it's not just
oh I learned it okay post-it yay and then you never check it again but when you organize your
notebook based on conversation subjects and you include the phrasal verbs then you can establish
you can set up a review routine and based on that you can get back to the conversation subjects
where you will find the phrasal verbs you need to learn and review and study again and practice
again learning any language is about organization if you are disorganized if you are messy if you
don't have a process it gets very complicated to learn English or pretty much any other thing in
your life that's why my students in my academy are so successful because everything is organized they
have the modules they have the sequence they have the lessons conversation subjects the vocabulary
they need to master everything is connected they work on all different skills and that makes their
life easier that's why you should not focus on the number of phrasal verbs but rather on the
quality of the phrasal verbs you study and keeping it organized based on what you want to talk about
and always getting back to them and creating more examples to help you strengthen your memory
muscle point number three combine different channels to learn the phrasal verb nope
not talking about YouTube channels I’m talking about your learning channels we have primarily
three main learning channels visual auditory and kinesthetic tactile combine visual aids with
sounds and emotions and memorizing the phrasal verbs you study will get easier but Priscilla how
how can I do that well I had a post-it here but I think I threw it away but basically you're gonna
grab a post-it and then you're gonna write down the phrasal verb okay the phrasal verb that you
want to master I’m trying to use a visual aid and I’m using my physical and memory
but teacher why not use a vocabulary app well when you use an app you type when you write down
you use your hands and because you are exercising your hands you are also exercising physical memory
which makes your memorization process wax stronger okay now you will create your example so I’m here
the phrasal verb I chose is to put up with okay so I write oh this pen is not working it's working
to put up with so I wrote it here put up with okay maybe you can't see it but I wrote it here
then I will write the definition okay and I wrote a synonym to tolerate
tolerate however this tolerate oops is more commonly used when you are describing
things you don't tolerate so it's more common in negative sentences okay common negative sentences
I had prepared a more beautiful post-it but this one is right now okay so I use different colors
because I am working on my visual aids if you have a different color use a different color
okay because you are stimulating your visual channel if you are a visual learner you should
have different post-its colorful post-its colorful pens because that really helps I’m not joking
around okay all right so I wrote the phrasal verb I wrote the definition then I’m gonna write an
example I will create an example and if I create an example that is connected with an emotion it's
better I will write an example that is different from the one that I wrote before that I threw away
from the post-it that I threw away I can't put up I’m sorry but this is the truth I can't put up with
my upstairs neighbor's dogs I cannot put up with my upstairs neighbors
dogs why because they walk all night and I can hear their paws all night
so this is true I cannot tolerate I cannot put up with my upstairs neighbor's dogs
why well what am I gonna do you know so here I am being realistic the more realistic you are
with your examples the easier it gets for you to remember okay that's why you should focus
on quality not on numbers okay so here you can you can just grab a person I can't put up with
my neighbor my neighbor is lovely she's a sweet woman but I’ve seen the dogs they're angry dogs
by the way they're not very happy dogs they they start barking to pretty much everybody around
they run like all night well do I stay awake all night no but I imagine okay I wake up a
few times night at night lately I haven't but during the day they go crazy they go bananas
so you can do this and then you can read aloud oh I can't put up with my upstairs neighbor's
dogs okay and there you have it this will be a much more productive way for you to study
combined with emotions this giggling that I’ve just had this giggling
and connecting and telling you this story this will help me remember the phrasal verb
more easily it takes more time to do this yes is it a more productive way to study absolutely
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