MASTER THE 5 MOST COMMON ENGLISH PHRASAL VERBS

hey as an english learner you’ve

probably struggled with phrasal verbs

right

you probably said yes because i know

phrasal verbs can be tricky

well that’s why today i want to teach

you the five most

common english phrasal verbs i’m going

to show you their meaning

and how to use them in real life

situations

i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump right in

all right so again phrasal verbs can be

tricky

but the first common phrasal verb is

right here cut

back cut back now this just means

to reduce now for pronunciation practice

after me cut back

excellent last time cut back

good job now this phrasal verb just

means to reduce

but let’s look at some example sentences

the first one is

they are cutting back expenses

so once again remember the word excuse

me the phrasal verb means

to reduce so they are cutting back

expenses actually means they are

reducing their expenses makes sense

right

now the second example sentence is my

family

cut back on the amount of electricity

we used last year now this is something

it’s funny i actually told a story

earlier this morning to some friends of

mine

about how growing up my parents used to

say hey

cut the lights off when you leave a room

cut the lights off

we need to make sure we are

using the energy properly in the house

they wanted to

cut back on their electricity bill so

again

you see the phrasal verb in that

situation now the final example sentence

for this phrasal verb is

i decided to cut back on

a lot of things this year

now what i want to do right now is look

at an actual situation a situation that

you can connect with

now i want you to think about the amount

of junk food

a person eats maybe you really like junk

food

right now i’m going to look at this i’m

going to show you a dialogue

between two individuals and you’re going

to see how the phrasal verb

cut back can be used so here we go

here’s the dialogue

between mike and brian mike says hey

brian we’re going to get some french

fries

you want to come brian ah hey mike

thanks for asking but i’m good

oh let me explain this to you this is

kind of a slang in

english i’m good just means i’m okay

i’m all right i’m fine the way i am

right now so brian is letting mike know

hey

thank you for the invite but i’m okay

i’m good

i don’t need to go i don’t need french

fries so

if you want to learn some american slang

you can actually

use this one and sound more like a

native english speaker

oh i’m good it’s okay i’m good

so how does mike respond to him mike

then says

really i’m surprised you usually always

jump at the chance to get french fries

are you feeling okay so now we see mike

is shocked because brian

usually always wants to

eat french fries mike is surprised

because

brian usually will always say yes

when given the opportunity that’s what

jump at the chance means it means if

someone gives you an opportunity

you immediately move you immediately go

for the chance or the opportunity

so in english we say jump at the chance

so again

mike is a little bit shocked because

brian usually

jumps at the chance to eat some french

fries

and then brian says i’m okay i

just started a new workout routine so

i am trying to be mindful of

what i eat now this is where brian is

letting mike know hey

i’m trying to be mindful of i’m trying

to

watch i’m trying to think carefully

about what i eat so okay mike

understands ah

you’re trying to be mindful of what you

eat you’re trying to be

careful now how can we use the phrasal

verb in this situation

we can describe the situation like this

brian is trying to cut back

on junk food because he started a new

exercise routine makes sense right

he’s trying to reduce the amount of junk

food he eats

because he’s on a new exercise routine

he’s following a routine

makes sense right all right so number

one cut

back now what about the second most

common

english phrasal verb we have this one

get around get around now this means

to be heard by a lot of people so

again for pronunciation practice after

me

get around

good last time after me get around

excellent now again get around just

means

to be heard by a lot of people so here

are the example sentences

news of his promotion got

around very fast next

it didn’t take long for news of his

resignation

to get around and finally

the news of their engagement got

around quickly again very common

situations where

if you get a promotion of course people

are excited for you

and the news will spread if you

resign sometimes people

will start talking and the news will

spread or

if you get engaged people will start

talking

and the news will get around

but what about this situation or another

real life situation that will help you

understand

so when a woman is pregnant this

dialogue is between samantha and mary

samantha says hey mary how have you been

mary says hey samantha i’ve been great i

actually have been meaning to talk to

you

now real quick ben meaning to do

something means that

you have it in the back of your mind

something that you want to do but you

haven’t done

just yet but you’re like oh i’m going to

do that

i’ve been meaning to call you i’ve been

meaning to buy

something something that i want to do

but i haven’t done just yet

so mary says hey samantha

i actually have been meaning to talk to

you now here’s the response samantha

says oh really

what’s going on well

says mary mark and i found out that our

little family

is going to be expanding or growing

samantha says wait what you’re

pregnant congratulations

and then mary says something interesting

shh

not too loud girl thanks so much

i just don’t want everyone to know

just yet you know how fast news

travels now i know your brain is already

working

because we just learned the second most

common phrasal verb

get around and it seems like she’s

saying the exact same thing so let’s see

how we can use it

in this situation we can say

mary doesn’t want the news of her

pregnancy to get around too

fast so she only told

samantha makes sense right again

get around this phrasal verb the second

most common phrasal verb

means to spread quickly and she doesn’t

want the news of her pregnancy to get

around too fast now we’re gonna look at

the third most common english phrasal

verb but i want to remind you of

something

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phrasal verbs

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we go

let’s go to the third most common

english

phrasal verb here we go the third one is

right here

look into look into

now this means to try to discover facts

about something i’ll give you a hint i

just told you about what the english

fluency week a free

event for you to speak english fluently

well

you probably want to discover more

information about it

you probably want to click the link you

want to look

into the event even more makes sense

right

all right so again look into just means

try

to discover facts about something now

pronunciation after me

look into you got it good

last time look into

excellent now look into so let’s look at

some example sentences here we go

now this has three example sentences

after

several customers complained about

late deliveries they decided to

look into the matter next

can you look into this for me

and finally the detective decided to

look

into the details of the case again

in each of the sentences we’re talking

about getting more information

discovering more about the situation

so what about another real life

situation let’s look at a dialogue here

we go

so let’s say for example students are

fighting like little kids

you have the teacher and then you have

the student

johnny here we go teacher says johnny

tell me what happened johnny says well

michael hit me while we were playing at

the playground

so i hit him back wait a minute

tell me why michael hit you

johnny continues i don’t know teacher

he literally just hit me out of the blue

oh now real quick out of the blue just

means

no plan no reason it didn’t

happen according to a schedule just out

of the blue

randomly so johnny is saying that

michael hit him randomly out of the blue

now look at the teacher’s response huh

okay i can tell that there is more to

this

story or there’s more information that i

need

i am going to go speak with michael and

some other students

to get to the bottom of this

now to get to the bottom of this just

means to get to the root

to get to the true story what really

happened

so we see that the teacher

needs to discover more information what

does that sound like what phrasal verb

hey you got it so how can we describe

the situation using the phrasal verb

here we go

the teacher decided that she had to look

into the details of the fight

to find out what really happened so

again we see

natural situation it happens little kids

sometimes fight

and teachers have to figure out what

really happened

we have to look into the situation

all right make sense yeah all right now

the fourth

most common english phrasal verb is

right here here we go

put off put off now this means

to delay doing something especially

when you don’t want to do it now this

happens a lot this is very similar again

to

procrastinate you know the word

procrastinate right like

i don’t want to do it i need to do it

but i don’t want to do it

so when you delay say i’ll do it later

we say put off that’s the phrasal verb

so pronunciation after me

put off excellent

front teeth bottom lip for the f sound

last time

put off good job now

how can we use this in some sentences

here we go first example sentence is

right here

are you putting off writing the essay

because you can’t

concentrate right now next

they decided to put off their wedding

or delay their wedding and finally don’t

put off the project so you see again

in each example we’re talking about

delaying something

or procrastinating a bit right so let’s

see

a real situation a real dialogue

imagine putting off the payment

of a bill here we go all right here we

go

here’s the dialogue between a wife and a

husband the wife says

honey we got something strange in the

mail

oh really let me see what it is

okay it says something about our bill

is late and now we have an extra fee to

pay

hmm says the husband that is weird i

thought for sure

i paid all of the bills last week

the wife remember you were out of town

last week honey

husband oh you’re right i was

planning to pay the bills before i left

but i decided to do it when i got back

because i thought i had time

man it must have slipped my mind

when i got back now slip my mind just

means

forgot something right it slipped my

mind i forgot something

so the husband is saying i was planning

on doing it when i got back

i decided to delay the payment of the

bill

until i returned home you got it you

know what we’re going to be using so

how can we describe the situation here

we go using put off

her husband put off paying the bills

because

he thought he would have time to pay

them after

his trip makes sense to delay we

understand the situation

put off is a perfect phrasal verb for

this situation and many others

now what about the fifth most common

english

phrasal verb here we go the phrasal verb

is right here

give in give in now this means to

surrender

especially in a fight or argument

now for pronunciation real quick after

me

give in good now that v

sound front teeth bottom lip and a

little bit of vibration

after me last time give in

excellent now again it means to

surrender like okay fine

fine whatever you want i’m gonna do it i

i i don’t want to fight

whatever you want i am giving in right

now so let’s see some examples and this

is right here here we go

first ben’s mother gave in

and let him stay out late with his

friends

next my parents would not give

in so i stayed home and finally

the enemy finally gave in

so the war stopped so again

we see these situations where hey

whatever you want to do

i’m not going to fight anymore these

individuals gave in

but what about a real situation a

dialogue we can look at here we go

let’s look at this dialogue right here

in this situation

a child begging for ice cream

now here’s the child mommy can i have

some ice cream

the mom no because you didn’t

finish all of your chores

please mommy i promise to finish all of

my chores before i go to bed tonight

he’s putting off his chores you got that

right he’s delaying his chores you got

that

now how does the mom respond here we go

why should i let you get ice cream

before you finish your chores

now here’s the child because i finished

all of my homework and i

promise to do my chores too

pretty please now this is something that

um

we use in english kids use it more often

pretty please

it’s like emphasizing please like please

please pretty please

so we use that to emphasize please but

adults don’t use it as much

kids use it okay all right so how does

the mom respond

okay since you finished all of your

homework

you can have some ice cream so the mom

went from saying

no and then going back and forth with

the child please mommy no

please mommy i’ll do this fine go ahead

you can have your ice cream so the mom

didn’t want to fight about it anymore

or argue you know what we’re doing

exactly

here’s the sentence describing the

situation the mom

finally gave in and allowed her child to

have

some ice cream she finally said

go for it do it you can have the ice

cream

makes sense right excellent now these

five

common english phrasal verbs will help

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you still there you know what time it is

it’s story time

hey i said it’s story time

all right so today’s story actually

um is very interesting this happened

when i was studying korean

i was a level one student i was learning

the basics like the letters the sounds

and basic

verbs so when i was studying and

learning korean

i remember my first class it was great

now

in my class there were many different

students

but i was the oldest out of all of them

at that time i may have been

27 or 28 and my classmates were all like

17 and 18 years old now the thing is

i was paying for my education i was

paying for the classes and they weren’t

cheap they were about

a thousand dollars for two months it was

expensive but i was working i was a

missionary english teacher and i was

taking a lot of my salary

and using it to pay for my education but

there came a point in time where i

started to wonder because i knew the 17

and 18 year olds

weren’t paying for their education so

i asked them one day i said i need to

discover i need to look

into what they’re doing that i don’t

know about

so i asked one of the students she was a

japanese student i remember her very

well very nice young lady

and i said hey i’m paying for my own

education how are you guys paying for

this because it’s not cheap she said oh

we’re not paying for this

i said what do you mean she said oh we

all have scholarships

and i said what scholarship do you have

so she proceeded to give me more

information about this korean government

scholarship

that paid for everything so i listened

i was very intrigued i was very

interested and i said wait a minute

all these students here are learning for

free because of the scholarship i need

to find out more information about this

scholarship so i decided to look into

the scholarship

so i left class that day and i went back

to my apartment

i had to work so i worked in the evening

and over the next few weeks

i did a lot of research i looked into

this amazing korean scholarship program

found all of the details and i realized

hey i also could apply for the

scholarship

but it was very very difficult to get

the scholarship

so anyways i applied for the scholarship

and i went through the entire process

but as i was going through the process i

was still studying

in the program i was still in level one

now

the thing that i remember happening

again after i found out about the

scholarship and

i was going to look into i wanted to

learn korean because i really was

interested in korean and i wanted to

converse with other individuals in their

mother tongue

so i looked up the scholarship but i

continued paying for my own education

while i was waiting for the results

or the the feedback from my application

so i remember one day in class again

level one

and we were learning how to say take a

shower

in korean and the teacher was telling us

okay

shower in korean is shower hada

okay shower hada i’ll teach you a little

korean

now shower is shower and then hada means

to do

in korean now in english we don’t say

do a shower we say take a shower

and in the class myself and one other

guy

were the only we were the only two

native english speakers everyone else

was from

you know other countries they could

speak a little english but it wasn’t

their first language

so i remember the day in class when the

teacher said do a shower

and i said what she said yeah do a

shower shower hada

and it took so long for my friend and i

to understand

this concept of not taking a shower but

doing a shower

now of course i can speak korean now and

we made it through the lesson

but it was at that moment that i

realized hey if i want to be fluent

in this language i’m going to have to

work really hard

i’m going to have to learn the way they

say things i’m going to have to learn

their structures their grammar and not

think

in english and not think in my own

language

the same is true for you i learned that

when i was in level one and it wasn’t

easy

but the same is true for you today you

learned five common english phrasal

verbs

and sometimes i understand it’s very

tricky to use english phrasal verbs

but once you make that choice once you

make the decision you know what

i’m not gonna think about things in my

own language i’m gonna think about them

in the language i’m trying to learn

which is english

things get easier so i hope that you use

all of these english phrasal verbs try

to use one

every day again they’re the common ones

so you can find

examples and situations and you can

master english

and be fluent so again as you know i

speak

english and i speak korean after i

decided to do that i was able to speak

korean

fluently moving forward learning of

course through all the levels so

i hope this story inspires you that even

in the beginning if something seems

difficult

as long as you put the effort in you can

definitely speak english fluently

and yes i did end up getting the

scholarship which helped me focus on my

studies

so guys thank you so much for joining i

hope you enjoyed this short story i hope

it was encouraging

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forget to

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