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Are you ready to add the top 10 phrasal verbs to your vocabulary? Now make sure
you watch right to the end because I'm going to quiz you so you really feel confident using
all your new phrasal verbs. So let's go with number one. Number one to come around
to an opinion or an idea. And this means to change your opinion or to see a new point of view. Now
notice the sentence structure because we have two prepositions around and to and then after
to we need something we need a noun an opinion or an idea. For example, I came around to the new job
after I heard about the benefits package. So remember, this means you change your opinion.
So previously, you didn't want the new job. But now you've come around to it. So you've
changed your opinion. Now you want the new job because you heard about the benefits package.
We commonly use this without the preposition to and without specifying the something
when the something has already been mentioned. For example, at first I didn't want to move to Boston,
but I came around after I visited. So notice I didn't say I came around to something because
the something had already been mentioned. So I came around to the idea after I visited number
two it to get across a point or message and this is when you clearly and effectively communicate
a point or a message. For example, make sure you get across that the project is over. Budget.
So if you're having a meeting with a client and your boss has very particular message or idea,
the project is over budget, and your boss wants you to communicate that in a clear, effective
way. Your boss wants to make sure you get that across. Now we also use this when you're talking
you're talking you're talking and the ideas aren't really coming out very well. And after a while
you stop and you say what I'm trying to get across is and then you see your point.
What I'm trying to get across is the project is over budget number three it to show off.
This is when you deliberately display your skills or abilities in a way to impress other people.
Now this is frequently used in the negative don't show off, don't show off, but
there's definitely a time and a place when you want to show off. For example
when you're going to a job interview. You shouldn't be modest. You should show off your
skills and abilities. You should talk about all your awards, your accomplishments, your degrees,
the compliments you've received. You want to show off all of your experience to the interviewer.
So an interview is the perfect time to show off. Also if you're going for your IELTS exam,
you don't want to be modest with your knowledge of the English language you want to show off your
abilities. By using a range of grammatical structures and a range of phrasal verbs and
idioms and expressions you want to show off to the interviewer number four to count on. Now this
is exactly the same as to rely on or to depend on. So you have three different phrasal verbs all with
on that mean the exact same thing and this is of course when you trust someone or something to
complete a specific task or objective for example, I can always count on Selma to stay late. So you
can trust Salma to complete the specific task or objective, which is to stay late. And remember
you could replace this with rely on I can always rely on Selma, or depend on I can always depend on
Selma. Now we frequently use this in a question response. For example, Can I count on you?
Can I count on you to close the deal? And then you can reply back and say absolutely you can count
on me. Number five to come between. Now this is when something disturbs a relationship. And that
relationship can be a professional relationship, a social relationship, romantic, family
relationship, it can be any kind of relationship. For example, Jacob and Marcus were best friends
until Sylvie came between them. So that's the image you could have. They were close, Jacob
and Marcus, but then Sylvie came between them and now they're divided. Sylvie disturbed their
relationship. Now it's very common for a girl or a guy to come between a relationship but it doesn't
have to be a person. It could be that Jacob and Marcus were very close, but the promotion
came between them. The new job came between them. Their family came between them. Their politics
came between them. Their religion came between them, it could be anything came between them.
Money is a good one as well that comes between people in relationships. And remember you can use
this in any type of relationship. Number six to put up with something or someone. And notice this
is a two preposition phrasal verb put up with put up with and we use this to say that you tolerate
bad behavior or unwanted behavior to put up with. For example, I don't know how you put up with your
boss. I don't know how you tolerate your boss. Now of course we can be more specific and specify
the action that the boss does. I don't know how you put up with your boss's constant criticism,
for example, or your boss's distasteful jokes. For example, I don't know how you tolerate it.
Now we commonly use this to say I'm not going to put up with
and then the behavior. I'm not going to put up with your constant criticism any longer.
Number seven to bounce back. Now to bounce back. This is when you recover or recuperate. Now,
you can use this when you recover from a negative situation in a business context, like for example,
a bad sales quarter or a bad product launch for example, but it can also be when you recover or
recuperate from an illness. So you can use it in both those situations. For example,
in a workplace situation, you could say, I don't know how we'll bounce back
from our laws in q2. So I don't know how we'll recover. And then you could have a discussion. How
can we bounce back? Does anyone have any ideas on how we can bounce back? Now in terms of recovering
or recuperating from an illness, you could say it took me a while to bounce back after my surgery.
So it took me a while to recover, recuperate number eight, act up. This means to behave badly,
or strangely. This is very commonly used with parents describing the actions of their young
children or even their older children. My son keeps acting up behaving badly, but we can also
use this with devices and objects. For example, my computer keeps acting up behaving strangely.
My computer keeps acting up. I hope it doesn't break. Number nine to make it up to someone. This
is quite a long one. So pay attention to this sentence structure to make it up to someone.
Now we use this when you try to compensate for a wrongdoing. For example, let's say it's your
best friend's birthday. And you can't go for whatever reason. So this is the wrong doing not
going to your best friend's birthday party. Now if you want to compensate for that wrongdoing,
you could say I'm so sorry. I can't make your birthday party. I promise, I'll make it up to
you. I'll make it up to you by taking you out for a nice dinner. I'll make it up to you by
going to the movies with you. I'll make it up to you by buying you a really nice present. So
those are the ways you're going to compensate. Now you might be wondering what is this IT, in make
it up to someone? We use it with it because what you're trying to compensate for has already been
explained. So you don't have to say it again. Now you can use this in a business context.
Let's say you went over-budget on a client's project. And you might say to your team,
how are we going to make it up to the client. How are we going to compensate for our wrongdoing.
The wrongdoing was you went over-budget. And then maybe someone would suggest, we can make
it up to them by offering a discount or offering a free product, offering an extra service. So
those are how you're going to compensate for the wrongdoing, to make it up to someone. Number 10,
to barge in. When you barge in, you enter a place a location unexpectedly and you interrupt
whatever is taking place. For example, I was in my office working and this kid
just barged in and handed me his CV. But later I hired him. So by saying the kid barged in,
it implies that he didn't have an appointment. He wasn't expected. He just barged in
unexpectedly and he interrupted whatever I was working on. But in this case it was successful
because he got the job. And now you have the top 10 phrasal verbs added to your vocabulary. So
are you ready for your quiz? Here are the questions for the quiz. You need to complete
each sentence using the correct phrasal verb. So go ahead and hit pause now and complete the quiz.
All right, so how was that quiz, easy, difficult one. Let's find out. Here are
the correct answers. Go ahead and hit pause and see how well you did.
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