what's the difference between look at, look up, and look through? Should we hand in, hand out,
or hand over our assignments? and do we take in, take down or take on new information?
let's find out. hello everyone Anna here from Englishlikeanative.co.uk today we are
exploring 20 common phrasal verbs that are particularly useful for, but not limited to,
students and teachers. we'll break them down one by one and then bring them all together in
a very dramatic short story, that may or may not be true - I will reveal all later on. oh and you
can also download your worksheet for this lesson by clicking on the link below and this worksheet
will help you to to remember what you've learned today. so let's begin with look at look at simply
means to direct your gaze towards something to fix your eyes on something for example the teacher is
going to look at my artwork this afternoon it can also mean to consider or think about something
for example the school is looking at options to improve the playground next the phrase of
verb look up this means to search for information on the Internet or in a reference book like let's
look up the word flabbergast in the dictionary o and the final phrasal verb using the verb look
is look through hello this means to examine something carefully such as I look through
your test paper this evening and give you your results tomorrow so that's look at look up and
look through moving on to hand in this means to submit something like don't forget to hand in
your assignments the deadline is Monday morning so that's hand in hand out means to distribute
as in okay class I'm going to hand out the worksheets now and hand over means to give
something over to the control or possession of someone else often but not always this is under
duress so it's something that you have to do for example if you're caught using your mobile
phone in class you may have to hand your phone over to the teacher hand in hand out and hand
over now let's explore take in in the context of learning it means to understand or absorb
information for instance it took me a while to take in all the details of the lecture take down
is about making notes or recording something very similar to write down as in I need to
take down the important points from this meeting and take on means to accept a responsibility or
challenge as in she she decided to take on the role of team leader take in take down and take
on so next we have something that you don't want to do fall behind fall behind means to lag or not
keep up with something this will happen during a course if you are unwell and you can't attend
your classes all the other students will now be ahead of you in the course while you have fallen
behind okay you will likely work hard to catch up stating I can't afford to fall behind in my
studies now catch up or catch up with means to reach the same level as someone or something like
I need to catch up with my classmates in maths read are on is about acquiring know by reading
for example I need to read up on the history of this topic miss out on this means to lose an
opportunity you fail to make use of an opportunity as in sorry guys I got to go I don't want to miss
out on this chance to go to Australia see you later go over this means to review or examine
something thoroughly such such as let's go over the running order for the sum of Fate again and
sign up I'm sure you're all familiar with this one it's about registering or enrolling in something
like have you heard about my pronunciation course lots of students have signed up next on the list
we have figure out which means to solve a problem or understand something like I need to figure out
how to complete this task H now figure out is similar to workout the workout has two meanings
so it can mean to resolve an issue to figure it out to resolve the situation or it can mean
to exercise for example we need to work out this problem together H or I work out at the gym every
day and then we have find out which also means to discover information like ah the students will be
so excited when they find out that they all passed with distinctions Now find out differs from work
out and figure out because finding out can happen with or without intention so I may just hear some
news ah I found out I just heard it whereas figure out and work out require intention hm and effort
I've got to work hard to learn this to figure this out to understand and find the solution
okay so let's quickly run through those again uhhuh run through that means to quickly examine
or to look at a set of things so we will run through the list now and then I will thrill you
with my dramatic short story and you have to see if you can spot the phrase of verbs in context oh
and remember to download your worksheet so that you can go through the exercises after class go
through this is the last one on our list and it means well go through can mean many different
things but here it means to practice so the list is look at look up look through hand in hand out
hand over take in take down take on fall behind catch up with read up on miss out on go over sign
up figure out work out or work out find out run through and go through now it is story time are
you ready it was 1998 I was at College sitting in my a-level math class looking at an algebra
equation on the board Panic stricken for reasons I won't go into I had fallen behind and despite my
best efforts to catch up with everything I just couldn't seem to get to grips with my algebra
the teacher seemed to sense my discomfort with the material and asked me to hand in my work I
reluctantly refused stating that I I knew I'd got the wrong answer but I didn't really understand
why in an extremely cold manner he stood over me and held out his hand in insistently requesting
my workbook I handed over the little work that I was able to do and sat there watching the teacher
look through my scribbles with a frown on his face finally he looked at me he wasn't happy
he then proceeded to humiliate me in front of the entire class by copying my incorrect work
up on the board and asking everyone to figure out where I had gone wrong he then made everyone go
over the lesson that I had missed in order to bring me up to speed I was so embarrassed when
the bell rang I stormed out of the class with tears in my eyes I decided never to step foot
in inside that classroom again instead I grabbed a prospectus and looked up creative arts courses
that afternoon I had managed to sign up for a drama course which was tricky as I had already
missed out on the first four weeks of term when my math teacher found out I had ditched his class
he was very disappointed in me in me not in himself it seems he hadn't worked out that
the reason I left was because of him my new Drama teacher couldn't be more different from my math
teacher he was delightful and so welcoming in my first class the students were going through some
Shakespeare scenes that they had been working on a young girl handed out the scripts and everyone
stood up and got into position I was asked to take on the role of narrator talk about
throwing me in at the deep end my first read was awful and I instantly doubted my decision to join
the acting course in the following weeks I spent my free time reading up on Shakespeare it was a
lot to take in but I didn't give up and during class I made sure to take down notes in every
single class then during our final run through of our Shakespeare scenes I finally felt like
it was starting to make sense to me and I gave a reasonably good performance did you spot all the
phras of verbs you can return to this Tim stamp in the video to listen again otherwise the answers
can be found on the free worksheet the links are below so the question is was that a true story
of my time in college and the answer is partly partly yes and no I did have an awful experience
that awful experience in my a-level maths class and that made me switch to a drama course instead
but I wasn't thrown straight into performing Shakespeare no it was much easier than that now
phrasal verbs might seem challenging at first but with practice and with these real life examples
you can Master them so if you're in the mood for some more phrasal verbs then check out this this
video I'll put a link down below this is all about phrasal verbs that you may use if you're driving
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