Native speakers love using phrasal verbs.
So if you want to sound more fluent and natural adding phrasal verbs to your vocabulary, is
a great way to start.
So here's what we'll do in this lesson.
You're going to learn 10, Common phrasal verbs, but first, you're going to complete a test
to see how well you know, these phrasal verbs and then I'll explain every phrasal verb in
detail.
Let's get started question 1.
You
you've been arguing for months, you need to
Now I'll only show you each question for three seconds, so hit pause, take as much time as
you need and when you're ready hit play to see the answers.
you need to make up question to I said, we need to diversify our product line and I
And I stand.
By that question, 3, I always have a cup of tea at night to help me after a busy day.
To help me wind down.
Question for my girlfriend is studying abroad and I'm really
and I'm really aching for her question 5.
Your suit doesn't look comfortable.
Why don't you something more comfortable?
Why don't you slip into question 6?
It's getting late.
So I'm going to
I'm going to turn in question 7, Salma took this job to her accounting experience.
To beef up.
Question 8, have you who's going to give the presentation?
Have you nailed down?
Question 9.
Sometimes it's easier to a trained professional.
To open up to question 10.
The party was fun, but I when they started talking about politics,
But I zoned out.
So how did you find that quiz?
Was it easy?
Was it difficult?
Don't worry, because I'm going to explain every phrasal verb in detail, and it will
definitely be easy by the end of the lesson.
So let's do that.
Now, ache for to egg for, this is a very nice romantic phrasal verb.
Now, we really use this in the context of a romantic relationship, so, make sure,
Sure, you use that appropriately and to ache for something.
Or someone is when you really, really want that something or someone, for example,
he
was lonely and aching for love.
So this is perhaps a little more of a poetic phrasal verb.
You will probably hear it.
And novels stories movies TV, he was aching for love.
So, maybe you won't use that in your vocabulary but you'll likely hear it in romance movies
or romance novels.
Now, you may be more likely to use a cake for someone.
Let's say your husband is overseas on a business trip and he'll be gone for two or three weeks.
You might say I'm aching for my husband.
So, if you're talking to your friends, your family, even your colleagues, you could say,
oh, I'm really a
King, for my husband, he's been gone for two weeks.
Already.
Number two to beef up.
This is a fun one.
When you beef something up, you make it stronger or more important.
Now, we do use this in the context of bodybuilders and they can beef themselves up become more
muscular so you can use that in a fitness context, but we also use this in more
A business context perhaps surprisingly because you might say I need to beef up my resume.
I need to make my resume stronger or more important.
I need to beef up my communication skills, for example, number three, to make up.
And in this context, we're talking about to make
up
with someone with someone to make up with someone is when you
Forgive someone after an argument or a dispute in a family context.
Young kids argue a lot, right?
And older kids, too.
But you might say to your son, your daughter.
You need to make up with your sister.
You need to make up with your brother.
You need to make up with your cousin or a friend and you list a specific person which
means you need to forgive that person.
Stop being
Angry at that person, stop fighting with that person.
So we definitely use this in a social context of family context, but you can absolutely
use this in a professional context co-workers fight as well.
There are disagreements in companies.
So you might say to one co-worker Sally, you need to make up with Mark, you work on the
same team you have to get along, you need.
Need to make up with each other number four, to nail down.
This is when you understand the exact details of something, or you get a firm decision on
something.
So let's say you're planning a conference, and you have a general idea of the conference,
it will take place in summer, it will be on this General topic or theme, but
When are the exact dates, what
specific
topics, who specifically will be the keynote speaker, who specifically will be presenting,
who will you hire to cater the conference?
You need to nail down those details.
So you need to either understand the exact details, or you need to make a firm decision
on who's going to cater when the conference will exactly take place.
So that
that's a very useful phrasal verb and you can use it in a business context or a social
context number five to open up.
When you open up to someone, you talk very freely about your feelings or your emotions,
things that make you quite vulnerable things.
You probably don't share with everybody.
For example after years she finally opened up
About his death.
So for many years, there was this tragic death perhaps and she didn't really talk about it.
She didn't talk about her feelings about the death.
But then after year, she opened up, she started talking freely about how she felt the exact
circumstances, how she's dealing with it.
Those types of things, her inner feelings and emotions.
Now, notice I didn't use to someone, I could say she opened up
Up to her family about his death.
So you have about and then the specific topic and to and the specific people, you'll commonly
hear people say
I've
never opened up to anybody like this before.
If someone says that to you, they're basically saying they feel very comfortable around you.
They feel like they can share their inner thoughts, feelings, emotions, and that's a
very positive thing.
It shows
Have a very close relationship number 6, to slip into something.
Now this is when you quickly put on a piece of clothing so this is a very specific phrasal
verb, it's only used with clothing.
Now, for example, this shirts is quite pretty, isn't it?
But let's be honest, it's not the most comfortable shirt.
So after I'm done recording this video, I'm going to slip into a t-shirt
I'm going to put on a t-shirt or if it's first thing in the morning and you're in your house
coat.
But then you hear your doorbell, you might quickly slip into some sweatpants and answer
the door.
So it's simply another way to say, put on number seven to stand by something when you
stand by something, it's used to show that you still support.
We're believe something.
So I might say, we stand by our opinion, that interest rates need to increase.
So that's my opinion.
That's my belief.
Interest rates need to increase.
I stand by that.
I still support that, I still believe that.
So you'll hear this a lot from people in power,
politicians
Executives in business, they'll have an opinion, have a belief and then they'll
State, I stand by that to let you know, they still believe that specific opinion.
Do you stand by that?
I see the by that.
Yes, I stand by that.
And the reason simply is now we also use this with stand by someone when you stand by someone.
It means that you support someone usually, when something negative has happened.
So let's say that your
Or was accused of stealing from the company, but, you know, your coworker didn't do it.
You might say, I stand by her, I stand by her, which means you're going to support her
in this difficult time, number 8, to wind down to wind down.
This is an excellent phrasal verb because it means to relax after a busy or stressful
day.
So you might say, aye.
I always read at the end of the day to wind down to help me wind down.
I always read at the end of the day or I go for a walk after work to wind down so it just
means to relax but is another way of saying it and it implies that you were very busy
or stressed out to wind down number 9 to zone out.
This is when you stop paying attention for a
Period of time.
Now, we've all done this,
especially
when we were kids in school and your teachers talking and you just zone out.
Now, generally people zone out because they don't have interest in a particular topic.
For example, whenever people talk about sports izone out, I just stopped listening and I
started thinking about something else in my own head and I'm not listening to the conversation
about
It's I zone out, I stopped paying attention but then when the conversation changes, I'll
pay attention again.
So it's always for that short period of time.
Number 10 to turn in.
This is a very useful phrasal verb because it's simply means to go to bed.
It's another way of saying to go to bed and is very common.
So, of course, you can say, I'm tired, I'm going to bed but you can also say I'm tired.
I'm
Going to turn in, I'm going to turn in and it's extremely, commonly used.
So, I suggest you use it.
You can use it as a suggestion.
Hey, it's getting late and you have that job interview tomorrow.
You should turn in.
You should go to bed or you can use it in question form as well.
What time did you turn in?
What time did you go to bed now that you're more comfortable with these phrasal verbs?
How about we do that?
Exact same quiz again and you can see how much you've improved.
So here are the questions, of course, hit pause, take as much time as you need and when
you're ready, hit
play,
and I'll share the answers.
So you can go ahead and hit pause now.
How did you do on that quiz?
Well let's find out.
Here are the answers, go ahead and hit pause and figure out how you did.
So, did you improve a lot with that second quiz?
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