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Phrasal verbs, they are horrible, every student I teach hates them because they are so hard to
learn.Wwhy are they so hard to learn? A lot of the time the meaning has nothing to do with the words
you are using for example pass out has nothing to do with passing or being out it's to do with
fainting, it's very hard to learn. But don't worry take it easy take it slow you will be
absolutely fine, I recommend to my students to learn one phrasal verb a day try to use it as
much as you can and you'll be fine. But in this video I'm going to be giving you some of the most
common phrasal verb mistakes I hear as an English teacher so that hopefully you don't make the same
mistakes, let's get started! Okay mistake number one: have a look at this sentence and tell me if
you think there's anything wrong with it, I look forward to be there, is there anything wrong with
this sentence? Yes there is. Look forward to is a really common phrasal verb it means waiting for
something eagerly you are excited for something and you can't wait for it to happen however a
lot of my students don't know how to complete the sentence after that so if you are looking
forward to doing a verb the verb needs to have an ING on the end of it so we can say
I look forward to being there, say I look forward to seeing you. Okay moving on to mistake number
two, let's stay with the verb look for this second mistake because a lot of my students get mixed up
with look phrasal verbs and that's fair enough, there are so many phrasal verbs with the verb,
‘look’ so let's have a little quiz and see how well you do! Okay what does look after mean? Have
a think before I tell yo,. what does look after mean? It means to care for someone or something,
so I need to look after my children tonight I need to look after my neighbor's house while
they're away, okay, look after: very confusing because the word after has nothing to do with
the meaning but that's just what we say. Okay now what about this one? Look into, look into,
what does it mean? What does it mean? It means to investigate or to learn more about I'm going to
research I'm going to find out more about this thing, to look into. Now what about these two?
Look up to and look down on? Now watch out for the ‘to’ and ‘on’ they're different, look up to,
look down on. What do they mean? Okay so let's start with look up to, I want you to imagine a
child who is quite small looking up to a parent or an older person, that's kind of what this
means if you look up to someone you think they are amazing they are higher than you you admire
them wow I want to be like that! Like a child looking up to their mother thinking
wow I want to be just like you! So when we look up to someone we admire them we respect them we think
they are greater than us. So if that's look up to what do you think look down on means? Exactly,
thinking someone is lower than you thinking they are worse than you they don't deserve
your attention, you, you look down on them okay? These are really common, really useful,
so just think about the little child look up to and then a very snooty lady look down on. Okay
this one seems simple but a lot of my students get it wrong: look at, when do we use this one?
Correct, look at when we are looking at something it's different to look to okay? Look at, look to,
look at is very common it's very simple here is a thing I am looking at it, look to feels a lot more
distant, we might say I'm looking to the future it's far away I'm I'm picturing something in front
of me but maybe it's not really there I'm looking to the stars for inspiration they're far away I
I don't understand them they're so distant from me or we might say look to when we talk about
turning to someone for help or advice so we might say in times of trouble I look to my parents
I look to them I I turn my attention towards them and say help me. So don't mix those two up. Now
similar to look up two what about just look up on its own? Not look up to just look up on its own
what does that one mean? Correct, to research, to find something on the internet in a dictionary in
an encyclopedia I'm going to look that up I need to find out more information about that. And this
is the other phrasal verb with look that I hear a lot of mistakes with: look ahead, what does that
mean? Look ahead normally we say look ahead to exactly it means planning your future visualizing
a future visualizing a future goal I'm looking ahead to 2023 and I'm excited for what I'm going
to do in that year. There are a few more phrasal verbs with look but I can't stay here all day
so go on the internet and type in phrasal verbs with look and just make sure you're aware of
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I hear with phrasal verbs from my students so when you're learning a phrasal verb don't just
learn the phrasal verb and the meaning you need to learn if it's separable or inseparable, so every
phrasal verb is either inseparable separable or both sometimes and what that means is:
can you put a word in between the two words or the three words of the phrasal verb?
For example put away to put something away we can either say I need to put away my shirts-
inseparable, okay? Ee're not separating it it stays together put away my shirts,
or we could say I need to put my shirts away- separable. Do you see how we've separated them
and put something in the middle, but some phrasal verbs you just can't separate them for example to
get over which means to recover or to forget about something to feel better after something
has happened to you so for example a breakup okay we need to recover from this breakup we
need to feel better about this breakup forget about it, but we can't say get the breakup
over that doesn't make sense we have to say get over the breakup we just can't separate that one.
And there are some that you just need to separate for example drop off which means to drive someone
normally or maybe cycle them to a place say goodbye to them and then leave it's like oh I need
my dad to drop me off at the airport in his car, but you can't say my dad is going to drop off me
at the airport doesn't work my dad is going to drop me off at the airport. So unfortunately
I don't have an easy answer for you I don't have just a rule that you can learn to make it easy but
all I can say to you is when you learn a phrasal verb don't just learn the phrasal verb make sure
you know if you can separate it or you can't separate it this is big, this is the thing that
will make you not sound like a native if you're separating phrasal verbs that can't be separated
or you're not separating phrasal verbs that need to be separated, this is a big mistake. Okay
moving on to the next mistake and this mistake involves these two phrasal verbs: get away and go
away, what's the difference? What do you think? Is there a difference, maybe there isn't? There is.
Okay one of these is a bit more aggressive than the others, it's a bit more aarrghh,
which one do you think is a bit more aarrghh? Get away, get away normally implies there's some kind
of struggle so imagine someone is holding you and they're like and you're trying to
get away there's something holding you back you're like I need to get away! Or we might say
oh I'm so sick of work I really need to get away meaning I really need to go on holiday but that
getaway implies that your work is holding you back your work is the reason that you're not going on
holiday and you feel tense, it's very different to go away, go away unless you're shouting it at
someone like go away! Other than that it's just quite soft there's nothing really about it that's
tense or angry. Okay the next mistake that I hear quite a lot is another confusion
so a lot of the time people get these two phrasal verbs mixed up so we've got to come across
and to get across, do you know the difference? See if you can predict it before I say it,
okay so to come across means to discover something unexpectedly, so I was walking
along the street and I came across a little dog he was just there, or we might use come across
to talk about how you appear to other people so we might say oh he came across as really weird
or he came across a bit creepy, it's like how you appear to other people, however get across
is putting out a message to people, sending information sending a message, I really want to
get across the idea that this is not acceptable in the workplace, I want to get across that message,
however if you are the person listening to the message and receiving the message we might use
come across so we might say oh yeah his message really came across. Okay this next one is so so
common, I hear it all the time and it's to do with traveling places, so I always always hear this,
I went in Australia last week and I hope that one day I can go in China, okay so the problem here
is that in so when we talk about traveling to a place, going to a place, even though you are in
China when you go there and you are in Australia when you go there we always say go to because
you're talking about the whole journey so, oh I can't wait to go to China next week
last week I went to the United States of America, okay? So travel journey the whole time you were
there we still say go to even though you were in the country. go in is only really used for
going inside of a building so let's say I'm stood outside of a church and someone says
to me do you want to go in? Do you want to go in? I'm going inside of a building or a place
but not for traveling not for journeys and visiting other countries. Okay the seventh
mistake that I hear quite a lot is people don't put the phrasal verbs into the correct tense,
phrasal verbs are not catchphrases they're not these things that are always the same and we don't
change anything about them we have to change them into whatever tense you're talking about. Okay
the next common mistake I hear is the confusion between grow up and bring up, grow up means…?
Exactly- yourself, I'm growing up becoming an adult. Bring up means…?
It's what the parents do, exactly your parents bring you up they help you grow
they raise you bring up means raise so don't say I grow up my children
you can't grow up for your children it's only something we can do for ourselves I grew up look
at me you bring up your children you raise your children you bring them up you don't grow them up
so it depends on who's doing it I grow up I bring up my children. Take a look at this sentence tell
me what word is missing it depends __ the weather it depends __ the weather, what do you think?
On. It depends on the weather, this one I always hear people getting this one wrong
it depends on, okay remember that: depend on. And that's about it,
like I said phrasal verbs are horrible but try to learn one a day and learn if
they're separable or inseparable and you will be absolutely fine! Thank you so much for watching,
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