Welcome to JForrest English training.
I'm Jennifer and today you're going to test your English level to see if you know these
common phrasal verbs.
So first and complete the test and then I'll explain every single phrasal verb in detail
with example sentences.
Let's get started.
What's the one?
Please bear with me while I look out your file.
Now I'm only going to give you three seconds for every question.
So hit pause and take as much time as you need to review the question.
Please bear with me while I look up your file.
Question two.
The phrasal verb to attend to means to attend to means total work on.
Remember, I'm going to explain what every single phrasal verb means in detail with examples
after the quiz number three, why are you so angry?
You need to cool you need to cool down and number four.
The phrasal verb for repair is the phrasal verb for repair is fix up.
Number five, the phrasal verb or to discuss something so you can reach an agreement is
to hash out to hash out number sets.
If someone is being too serious, you can tell them to light one mouth You're being too serious
like mouth.
Number seven after years of studying English, my hard work has finally paid my hard work
has finally paid off.
Number eight, we shouldn't rule out a graphic designer.
We shouldn't rule about hiring a graphic designer.
Number nine, my boss for being late again.
My boss chewed me out for being late again.
And number 10.
Let's give everyone a few minutes to before we begin to settle in.
So how did you do with that quiz was it easy difficult share your score in the comments
below.
And now I'm going to explain every single phrasal verb in detail.
So let's do that now.
So bear with someone this is a very common phrasal verb and has a simple meaning.
It means to be patient with someone.
So we use this a lot with customer service representatives or anytime someone is providing
you with a service.
Now it's very common when that person is providing you with that service to say please bear with
me please bear with me.
Please be patient.
So notice our verb tense that should be imperative the imperative so we're starting with the
base verb.
Now if you use this verb and other verb tenses, it's an E regular verb.
The past simple is for and the past participle is any idea if Warren That's right, born with
an optional E for spelling, but pronunciation is exactly the same.
In the past simple you can say I bore with him for 20 minutes.
I was patient with him for 20 minutes.
And in the past participle you can use this in the present perfect.
You might say I'm born with you for 20 minutes.
Our next phrasal verb is to attend to.
Now notice we're using the verb a tense and I can say last night I attended the party.
But that's not a phrasal verb.
That's just a regular verb because I don't have a preposition.
I attended the party.
I went to the party, but if we use the phrasal verb attend to the meaning is different.
I could say I attended to the party.
Now in this case, this means that I worked on or I paid attention to the party.
So how could you work on a party?
Well, you could work on organizing a party.
So organizing all the details, sending out the invitations buying the food cleaning the
apartment getting the decorations I intended to the party, so pay attention because the
verb attend and the phrasal verb attend to have different meanings.
Our next phrasal verb to cool down to cool down.
We use this when someone is really angry, upset or frustrated and you want them to relax.
You can say cool down, cool down.
So let's say a client has been sending you a lot of emails and you're feeling really
angry, irritated, annoyed, frustrated with that client.
But before you call that client, you should definitely cool down you need to take a minute
and relax because you don't want to call that client when you're angry and frustrated and
annoyed.
You need to cool down relax, chill.
Our next phrasal verb to fix something up when you fix something up it means you repair
it or you change it in order to improve it.
Now in this case, when you change it, it's not necessarily broken.
It could be that it's functioning but you want to improve it so you make some changes
to it.
You fix it up.
So for example I could say Sally love fixing up old cars in her free time fixing up old
cars so she repairs them but it could also mean that she just changes them.
Maybe the car is working perfectly but she changes it she changes the color or she adds
something to it.
She fixes it up.
Now this is a very common phrasal verb around the house because there's always something
to fix up right to change to repair to improve.
Our next phrasal verb to hash something out.
When you have something out it means you talk about something specific with other people.
And you do that because you want to get agreement.
You want to get agreement on the details.
So you can use this when you're planning a conference planning a party planning a project,
any kind of event and of course with a project or conference there are many details the date
the time who's doing what.
So you need to hash out those details.
You need to talk about them to get agreement.
Okay, we agreed to the time of the conference.
We hashed it out.
We have so the time of the conference.
Our next phrasal verb to lighten up.
Now remember I already taught you to cool down and that's when you're really angry,
frustrated, annoyed and you want to relax.
Well when you tell someone to lighten up.
You also want them to relax, but they're not angry, frustrated or annoyed they're just
being too serious.
That's it.
They're being too serious.
They don't have a sense of humor.
So maybe you were joking around with a co worker and they took it too seriously.
And you just wanted to have some fun and joke around.
But they're too serious.
So you might say wait, wait, no laugh a little smile a little you're too serious.
So someone who's always like this, you know, they're not smiling.
They're not laughing.
They're just always very serious.
You might want to tell that person to lighten up smile, relax, laugh, but just remember
it isn't the same as cool down because cool down.
You're angry and annoyed.
Like Nah, you're too serious.
That's a difference between the two.
Our next phrasal verb took the hay off.
Now when something pays off, it means that you see the benefits of the something.
Lastly, you spent the last month at home studying for a big exam and you took the exam and you
passed you got a really high mark.
You can say all my studying paid off.
So remember something pays off all my studying paid off.
I now see the benefits of all the studying I did.
So we use this a lot for any kind of work or effort that you put in.
Now it can be mental work for studying for your job, but it can also be physical work
as well.
So all your dieting you're exercising paid off because now you lost weight you're stronger
you see the benefits of all your work so we can use this with both mental work and physical
work.
Our next phrasal verb to rule out we use this when something prevents something else from
happening.
So a classic example we have COVID and we have traveling now COVID Is preventing traveling
from happening right?
So we can say COVID ruled out traveling right COVID prevented traveling COVID ruled out
traveling.
Our next phrasal verb to chew someone out to chew someone out.
This is when you tell someone that they've done something wrong, but you tell them angrily
so you don't tell about comment calmly.
Even though you made a mistake.
You shouldn't have done that.
Nope, you're angry.
So you might go a little you might use language that you normally wouldn't.
You're angry.
Somebody did something wrong and you tell them so maybe your boss chewed you well, because
you were late for an important meeting.
So your boss was not calm.
Your boss was angry.
Why were you late?
You shouldn't have been late.
Why haven't I fired you yet?
He chews you out or maybe you're on a sports team and your coach chewed you out because
you missed an important practice.
Now if somebody chews you out and they're really angry, what phrasal verb goes with
that phrasal verb that we've already learned.
Cool down, right because if somebody's angry, why were you late?
You can say cool down cool down, relax, and then you can explain why you were late.
Our final phrasal verb to settle in when you settle in it means you get comfortable in
a new environment.
And that new environment is generally a new house, a new school, a new workplace.
And of course at the beginning you're not comfortable just because everything is new,
right?
But then you need some time to settle in settle and just means to get comfortable in a new
environment.
So let's say you move to a new city, and a few weeks later, a friend could ask you oh
look, Have you settled in?
Have you settled in so they're just asking you Do you feel comfortable in your new city?
And then you might reply back and say yeah, I've settled in or No, I haven't settled in
yet.
Now that you know how to use all of these phrasal verbs, how about we do the exact same
quiz from the very beginning, and you can compare your score from the first time to
this time.
So let's do that quiz again.
Now.
Question one, please bear with me while I look up your file.
Please bear with me while I look up your file.
Question two.
The phrasal verb to attend to means to attend you means total work on the number three.
Why are you so angry?
You need to cool you need to cool down number four the phrasal verb for repair is the phrasal
verb for repair is fix up.
Number five, the phrasal verb for to discuss something so you can reach an agreement is
to hash out to hash out number sets.
If someone is being too serious, you can tell them to lighten up You're being too serious.
Lighten up.
Number seven.
After years of studying English, my hard work has finally paid my hard work has finally
paid off number eight we should rule out a graphic designer.
We shouldn't rule about hiring a graphic designer.
Number nine, my boss for being late again.
My boss chewed me out for being late again.
And number 10.
Let's give everyone a few minutes to before we begin to settle in was it easier this time?
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