In this video, you're going to add the top 10 phrasal verbs to
your vocabulary. Of course I'm Jennifer, Welcome back to JForrestEnglish training,
your place to become a fluent confident English speaker. Now let's get started.
Are you ready to add the top 10 phrasal verbs to your vocabulary? Make sure you watch right
until the end because I'm going to quiz you to see how well you know how to use these phrasal
verbs. Phrasal verb number one, to add up. We use this phrasal verb to say that something
seems reasonable or likely. And the something is usually a story, an explanation, or a reason. So
let's say your co worker took a week off of work because she had to care for her sick mother.
But then she comes back to the office a week later, and she's really tanned. And it's winter.
You might say, something doesn't add up. Her story doesn't seem reasonable or likely. Something
doesn't add up. If she was taking care of her sick mother. why does she have a tan? I bet she
took the week off to go to the beach, to go on vacation. To beat down. This is a very simple
but useful phrasal verb. We use this phrasal verb only with the sun, when the sun is shining very
strongly. So if you're sitting on a patio, and it's sunny outside and it's really really hot,
you can say Wow, it's really beating down. "It" being the sun. If you say it, you don't have to
define the subject, the noun, as the sun, because we always use this phrasal verb with the sun, so
it's not necessary. And the context of sitting on a patio on a sunny day is all you need. So, it's
really beating down. Now you can use an object and say us it's really beating down on us. Notice
I have to add an extra preposition ON. Beat down on someone or something. You can use a something.
You might say, you should move your laptop. This sun is really beating down on it, on your laptop.
And that's not very good for your electronics. Right? So you should put your laptop in the
shade. Number three to tidy up. This is when you organize or arrange things in the right place. So
you can take a bedroom, an office, a kitchen, any individual room, or you could take an entire house
Eden and you might say this weekend I need to tidy up or this weekend I need to tidy my office up.
So you're going to go in your office and you're going to put all this things the objects in the
right place. So this is a very useful phrasal for number four to talk down to. When you talk down to
someone. You talk to them in a way that makes them feel less intelligent than you or less important
than you. So this is a negative phrasal verb. This often happens with adults and children, adults and
teenagers, parents and teenagers. A teenager might complain or a young adult might complain
that their parents always talk down to them. They talk to them in a way that makes them feel less
intelligent or less important. This often happens in the workplace, especially with someone in a
higher position and someone in a lower position that someone in a higher position might talk down
to that person even though that person has a lot more experience than them. And there's no reason
to do that. So this is used in a negative way but it commonly happens so you'll hear this phrasal
verb a lot when people are complaining about other people. Number five to sum up. This means
to summarize the main points. We commonly use this phrasal verb when you're ending a presentation
or a speech in your conclusion when you want to summarize so at the end of your presentation, you
might say to sum up, if we want to increase our profits, we need to diversify our product line.
So that's the main point of your presentation you elaborated on that main point, and now
you're saying to sum up to summarize so this is an excellent phrasal verb to add to your business
vocabulary to sound very advanced, professional and natural number six to joke around.
When you joke around it means what you're saying shouldn't be taken seriously. You're just joking.
You're just being light hearted. You're just having fun. Oh, we commonly use this to reassure
someone. So you might say oh, don't get mad. I was just joking around. So maybe you were making
comments about someone in a light hearted way but they took it seriously and you reassure them Don't
get mad I was just joking around. Now sometimes you might tell someone you shouldn't joke around
about job loss. So maybe somebody is making comments about other people losing their jobs,
and they're not taking it very seriously. But you want that person to know that's inappropriate.
That's a serious topic. You shouldn't joke around about job loss. It affected many people. Number
seven to eat out. This simply means to eat in a restaurant. So rather than saying last night I
went to a restaurant for dinner, we just simply say last night I ate out last night I ate out
which means I ate in a restaurant. This morning. I ate out before work so because it's morning,
obviously we're talking about breakfast so you can use it for any meal of the day. So you might
suggest to your friend if you want to save money, you should stop eating out. You should stop eating
out all the time. So you should stop eating in restaurants because of course it's more expensive.
So this is an excellent phrasal verb to add to your daily vocabulary to sound like a native
English speaker and number eight to drama. Now when you drum something up, it means you increase
support or interest in someone or something. So let's say your company introduced a new product,
but sales are lower than expected. Your boss might suggest everybody needs to brainstorm
ways to drum up interest so to increase interest to drum up sales to increase sales.
So if you put drama before the noun, it just means increase. Let's drum up support increase support,
drum up enthusiasm, increase enthusiasm. Number nine to speak up. When you speak up. It means
you speak more loudly. So right now I'm talking at this volume. But maybe you could say Jennifer
I'm having a hard time hearing you. Can you speak up? Can you increase the volume of your voice? And
I'll say sure I can speak up and then I'll speak more loudly. So this is an excellent phrasal
verb for a language learner because often you don't understand someone the first time and part
of the problem might be that they're speaking too quietly. So you can say Can you speak up?
Can you please speak up? Or do you mind speaking out and then the other person will speak more
loudly. Number 10. To work out a problem or a situation. This means that the problem or
situation becomes better it improves. So let's say you're having a conflict with your boss.
Your coworker might say don't worry, I'm sure you'll work it out. Work it out. That it being
the situation the problem the conflict. I'm sure you'll work it out. I'm sure it will improve. I'm
sure it will become better. We also use this with problems in general not specific to conflicts. So
let's say you lost some lot of money in the stock market. That's a problem. But your friend can say
don't worry, I'm sure it will work out. So it being this situation that you lost a lot of
money. I'm sure it will all work out in the end. So that is a very common expression that native
speakers use to reassure someone that a situation or problem or conflict will improve. I'm sure it
will all work out in the end. Now you have 10 new phrasal verbs added to your vocabulary to sound
fluent events and natural English awesome job. Are you ready for your quiz? Here are your questions,
hit pause and take as much time as you need and when you're ready, hit play to see the answers.
So how did you do with that quiz? Let's find out. Here are the answers. Hit
pause compare the answers to your own and whenever you're ready, hit play.
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