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Now today we're going to be learning all
about phrasal verbs. We just did one
didn't we Chris? We did indeed on the Learn
British English Free channel; we've had a chat
about phrasal verbs to do with sleep.
Sleep which is very important and very
regularly used. As we sleep on
a regular basis, hopefully, if we're lucky.
Every day! So today we're looking at
phrasal verbs that use the word catch.
There's quite a few of them and if we're
not careful it can catch us out.
Very good, you know i think that might be
one of the main ones we need to learn. It
is definitely so to be caught out means
to be and caught in the act of
wrongdoing usually, not always in the act
of wrongdoing but sometimes you can be
caught out, just taken by surprise. For
example, the CCTV; which is a monitoring
video system; might catch out the robbers
when they're committing a robbery. Like
when someone tries to steal something
from shop, the shop will often have a
camera and it can catch out anyone who
tries to do that.
Yes it's being caught in the act. What
else do we have that uses catch? I wanted
to talk about catch on.
Oh and there are two uses of this verb
in particular. If someone catches on, it
means they understand something
so for example you might have a really
bright student, very clever student, he
catches on quickly.
Yes I know that lots of you catch on
quickly because you're always
demonstrating that you understand the
lessons that you've learned
on our videos, absolutely. And another
similar one is to describe when
something becomes popular. Right! So it
might be a new trends and new topic of
interest, it catches on, so it becomes
popular quickly?It does indeed yes.
Cool so that's catch on and catch out;
Finally we're going to look at the
phrasal verb catch up. Now there are many
uses for this phrasal verb
the first one is in a very physical way.
So you might need to catch up with your
friends if you're all walking down the
street in a big group, but some of them
move ahead because you're too busy
nattering, then you might look ahead and
realise they're quite far ahead, and you
have to maybe run to catch up to them, so
catch up in a physical way. I see. Another
way we can use catch up is when we become
equal with someone else.
For example when you're grown up you're
actually becoming taller as the years
go by, you might have an older brother
and after a while you finally become as
tall as him say you catch up to him in
height. You do. Another thing could be if
you're working, maybe someone has done
more work than you
they are further ahead in a particular
task and one day or one night, is more
likely, you you work really hard and you
catch up with them in terms of the work
load. So to catch up academically and
to catch up physically in terms of like
height or to catch up in a very physical
sense to literally get closer to
somebody. Now you can also catch up with
people, so my friends will regularly call
me and say "hey" they don't talk like
that, but "hey when are we going to have a
catch-up" and this means to sit and
discuss, and bring each other up to date
with what's going on, so to learn all
about what they've been doing recently
and just their general news
so you're having a catch-up, bringing
each other up to date.
That's right so you can catch up with
someone and it can also be used as
a noun to have a catch up with them.
Yes so let's meet up and have
catch up. Alright I think that covers all
the catch phrasal verbs that we're
talking about today so that was catch up
catch on and catch out. Okay well thank
you for watching I hope you found that
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about the word sleep it's very helpful
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