hello and welcome to the first in the
series of common English phrasal verbs
today we're going to be looking at one
two three common English phrasal verbs
so let's get started
phrasal verb number one is believe in
now this means to believe in the
existence of something or to have a
strong confidence in something for
example I might say I believe in ghosts
do you believe in ghosts this means I
believe ghosts exist
do you believe ghosts exist or you might
say he will win the race I believe in
him this means I think he'll win the
race because I have strong confidence in
him so I guess the question is do you
believe in yourself to become fluent in
English I believe in you
phrasal verb number two is blow up now
blow up either means to inflate with air
like a balloon or a bicycle tire or it
means to explode and we can use this on
an emotional level or on a physical
level so first you might say can you
blow up my balloon for me or will you
help me blow up this blow-up bed
you might emotionally blow up and we use
this when we talk about anger so when
someone finally releases all their anger
they are said to blow up so I might be
holding back all my emotion getting more
and more angry until finally I go
and at that point I blew up we also
talked about blowing up on a physical
sense
so a bomb would blow up if you're very
bad at cooking then you might blow up
the kitchen perhaps Wow and you might
get very upset if your car blows up
because then it'll be broken and you'd
have to get a new car probably phrasal
verb number three break down break down
generally means to stop working so my
car might break down stop working and
then have to get a lift from somebody
else my computer might break down I hope
it doesn't but it might we can also talk
about having an emotional breakdown this
is usually used when someone gets upset
and starts to cry sorry it's just every
time I see a puppy I just break down and
cry and you could say yesterday I broke
down when I saw all the beautiful
puppies we can also talk about breaking
down with regards to mental and physical
health
if either your mental or physical health
is deteriorating for whatever reason
then you might talk about having a
mental breakdown or a physical breakdown
we can also talk about the breakdown of
a relationship or agreement so if a
couple are heading for divorce
they might say that their relationship
is breaking down or the communication
between them has broken down
there we go we've had blowup break down
and believe in well I hope you found
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