LIVE Phrasal Verb Practice CUT OUT Advanced English Vocabulary
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especially today a phrasal verb we’re
going to be talking about how to use cut
out cut out in daily life in your
conversations and to help you pronounce
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today Estella hello Reza and Germany Gil
Donnie in Brazil June John hello
glad that you’re here Thailand Vietnam
Cote d’Ivoire wonderful thank you thanks
for joining me I think that today’s
lesson will be useful we use this
phrasal verb all the time so I think
that it will be a good step for you to
expand your vocabulary and if you
already use this phrasal verb you’ll be
able to know if you’re using it
correctly so let’s talk about our first
question today hmm I want to ask you
let’s imagine let’s imagine that you
have a friend and well hopefully you
have a friend we don’t need to imagine
you have a friend but let’s imagine you
have a friend who is let’s say 200
kilograms so they need to lose some
weight 200 kilograms is not so healthy
you’re worried about their life their
lifestyle their health their heart your
friend is 200 kilograms so I want to ask
you which foods do you think they should
cut out of their lives cut out is our
phrasal verb today so I want to see if
you can use this in a sentence about a
really common topic cutting out food
from your diet so let’s imagine you’re
talking to your friend who is who is 200
kilograms and you say oh well you said
you wanted to lose weight so I think you
should cut out hmm oh
iman says junk food should be cut out
great idea junk food maybe some
something to sweet something to oily
something that’s so natural these kinds
of junk foods ow
aya says she should cut out sweets cut
out fatty foods cut out chocolate not
chocolate uh they they need to cut out
carbs out of their diet ah junk food
should be cut out because 200 kilograms
is too much I agree you should cut pizza
out oh I got a couple people who said
pizza cut he must cut out meat fat and
bread oh that is pizza meat fat and
bread uh Gabrielle has a good question
cut it out is used to stop doing
something change the way you do things
yes so there are a couple ways to use
cut out let’s use it in this first way
the most physical specific way and then
we’ll talk about some other ways at the
end of the lesson so I want to write
some of your wonderful sentences because
you’re using this in a beautiful
sentence so let’s write down you this is
for your friend you’re talking to your
friend you should cut out junk food you
should cut out junk food so the word
we’re talking about today is cut out cut
out and usually we use the word cut to
talk about scissors so you can imagine
this kind of image scissors are cutting
the paper they’re cutting something and
maybe they’re cutting part out we’re
going to throw it away we’re gonna get
rid of it you should cut out bad habits
oh great one I see oh I agree with that
you should cut out salad mmm maybe you
want them to get bigger and bigger oh
you should cut out eating at night we’ve
got lots of good health advice here so
let’s make this sentence in a little bit
of a different way you should cut let’s
see something that someone said here
I’ll add it in here
oh sweet foods oh yeah okay wait let’s
say you should cut sweet foods out all
right do you notice a difference between
these two sentences where is the second
part out
mmm so we have cut our phrasal verb you
should cut out here it’s together and in
the second sentence it’s not together
you should cut sweet foods out beautiful
no problem we can cut we can split this
phrasal verb and it’s completely natural
we do this all the time let’s try one
more example with this you should cut it
out so in this example we have to know
what is it what is it if I only said to
you ah hi Davis you should cut it out
you would be really confused because you
have no idea what what is it so we have
to use this only in a bigger context
only in a context where your friend
knows the kind of things that you’re
talking about maybe your friend came to
you and said oh Adriana
I am 200 kilograms so can you please
has helped me to find a good way to lose
weight what should I eat and you can say
oh well fat sweet foods uh junk food
eating at night you need to cut it out
here we have a context you’ve already
listed some things you could say you
should cut them out no problem but when
you have that context you’re already
talking about a topic like bad food but
it tastes so good doesn’t it
when you’re talking about this topic
already you can use it because we
already know what is it a June John has
a good question
he says Vanessa I’ve got a question
what’s the difference between cut out
and cut off cut off so in this situation
cut out means it is all right here with
how about blue let’s choose a different
one this means to eliminate eliminate
you’re getting rid of these things from
your diet
eliminating but cut off cut off can mean
you’re stopping and activity so we could
say um my my daughter isn’t doing well
in school
so I decided to cut off her cell phone
service because she wanted to use it too
much and it was a distraction I decided
to cut off this service so you’re
stopping this is kind of a physical
thing you’re stopping that service so we
have two different cut phrasal verbs and
I think by focusing on one and it’s
great to ask questions please ask
questions if you have them about other
phrasal verbs when we focus on one you
can see the different nuances of when we
can use this Oh
has a great definition here cancel
cutoff could mean cancel yes because I
forgot to pay my internet bill the
internet company cut off my internet
service they canceled my internet
service great question about cut off and
cut out so I have a question for you
what do you think are some other ways we
can use cut out cut out we already
talked about probably the most common
cutting out something from your diet
your diet a diet can be just the things
that you eat in your life it doesn’t
need to be a special type of food but
cutting out things that you eat what’s
another way we can use cut out another
situation welcome to everyone who is
just joining me I’m glad I’m glad you’re
here how long cuz I should not cut out
healthy food I agree oh sure key has a
great other way to use cut out hmm he
says hi Vanessa you sure you’re really
cut out to be a teacher oh this is a
great second way to use cut out and this
is actually going to be typically a
longer phrase let me write this here I’m
not cut out to be ah let’s just say an
engineer yeah maybe maybe if I worked
really really hard I could succeed as an
engineer but it’s not my passion it’s
not my interest so we could say cut out
to be cut out to be so typically this is
gonna stick together
he’s cut out to be a famous musician
musician I’m cut out to be a teacher I
hope it’s enjoyable to me and I hope
it’s good for you
so I’m curious for you what are you cut
out to be this means you’re good at it
you feel like we can imagine the same
idea with scissors we can imagine some
kind of aah
like God is cutting out you like a paper
version of you in some other round
there’s some uh fate fate is cutting out
your life and your shape is perfect for
being an engineer your your shape that
you are cut out to be is great for a
specific type of lifestyle I wasn’t cut
out to be let’s say a farmer that’s a
really difficult lifestyle if you are a
farmer thank you so much we need your
food it’s necessary but it’s a pretty
hard lifestyle so you could say I’m cut
out to be a teacher I’m not cut out to
be a farmer an engineer hyung says I’m
cut out to be an olympic fencer
oh I hope to see you in the Olympics
great I’ll Gill dining this is beautiful
I’m cut out to encourage people
beautiful yes encouraging people is a
good goal in life Jason said I’m not cut
out to be an active guy mmm beautiful
our friends from Indonesia have a
question is a phrasal verb a verb yes
yes a phrasal verb is a verb it has two
parts one to the verb and the second
part looks like a preposition but it
goes with this verb so this verb is all
together so we can say the
is our full verb here I’m cut out to be
a polyglot Oh
Claudio beautiful let’s change on Jack’s
sentence around and say I’m cut out to
be a fluent English speaker you got it
oh we’ve got musician here Takahiro says
I’m not cut out to be a musician I think
you guys have got this second meaning
beautifully the first one is you should
eliminate you should cut out junk food
and the second one is talking about your
personal lifestyle I’m not cut out to be
a professional musician like Takahiro
said let’s talk about a third way before
we go let’s imagine a third way to use
cut out and this way is pretty clear and
straightforward so we don’t need to
focus on it for too long I’m curious
what do you think it means if I said
what if I said do you cut it out only
this cut it out and I had kind of an
angry look on my face what do you think
this means if I said to uh to Victor or
to Osama or if I said this to Gabrielle
cut it out
what do you think that means cut it out
cut it out yes Victor you’ve got it it
means stop and stop it right now I’ll
shake you’re correct right now it’s
really emphasized especially you can see
by the way I wrote it cut it out cut it
out so typically we can use this in
situations where someone is doing
something let’s imagine that you have
two kids and your kid
are playing together but all of a sudden
the older kid starts hitting the younger
kid and you walk into the room and you
say hey cut it out he’s smaller than you
don’t hurt him
so you are trying to tell them stop stop
it oh we’ve got a little friend here so
we could say cut it out in anger in
anger and this is used there’s a lot of
expressions we can use when we’re angry
to say stop it you can say simply stop
it stop hitting your younger sister stop
hitting your younger brother but you can
also use cut out cut it out and it’s
it’s strong but I think if someone is
doing something terrible absolutely
awful and you want to be as strong as
possible I recommend not saying cut it
out cut it out is for daily events like
your older brother is hitting your
younger brother probably happens often
it’s not the end of the world so you you
can use cut it out but if there’s
something really bad happening maybe on
the street you see someone beating up
someone else if you feel brave enough
you wouldn’t say cut it out maybe the
person who’s beating up the other person
would feel like oh they don’t really
care it’s not too big of a deal they’re
saying cut it out so we use this kind of
annoyance or for daily things if you saw
something really bad I recommend just
saying stop it stop what are you doing
stop that’s really clear everyone
understands stop something in our brains
turns on and we say ah I should stop
thank you everyone for your kind
comments about my cat they’re always
curious yeah
um she is cut out to be really cute
I think she’s cut out to play all day
non-stop play with our other cats play
with the air play with anything she
finds she can play with a sock she can
play with really a piece of dust and
she’ll chase and she she really likes
she’s cut out to play with anything
she’s cut out to be easily amused
because a couple months ago we were
moving some furniture and we
accidentally hit the wall and our walls
are white but underneath the white wall
the white paint is some red paint so we
accidentally hit the wall and there’s a
little red spot and we haven’t fixed it
because she loves to play with this red
spot on the wall she’ll hide she’ll jump
at it
she’s cut out to be easily entertained I
hope we can use this phrasal verb in a
lot of situations so thank you everyone
for joining me I hope you can use cut
out in a lot of different ways let’s
practice using these phrasal verbs let’s
practice using this second version here
cut out to be mmm let’s use this in a
positive way about English I want to
create a final sentence and we can say
it together are you ready let’s say I am
or I’m I’m cut out to be a confident
English speaker when you say it again
and again it’ll become true because you
start to think that again and again
let’s say this all together I’m cut out
to be a confident English speaker
doesn’t matter if you feel nervous now
you feel worried now you are cut out to
be a
confident English speaker and sometimes
when someone like when you’re a child
and your parent ELLs you oh I believe
you can do this you feel good you feel
like oh maybe I can do this so when you
tell yourself that again and again it
grows so let’s say this together let’s
practice pronouncing it correctly I’m
cut out cut out to be a confident
English speaker it’s possible I want to
show you here really quick
because in American English we love to
turn T into a D sound so it’s possible
this T could become a D if you’re
speaking quickly cut out cut out hmm if
you want to say it like this you can but
if you hear Americans talking you’re
going to hear that pronunciation
especially if they’re speaking quickly
so if you want to say I’m cut out to be
a confident English speaker I’m cut out
cut doubt there’s no air cut out just
cut out cut out it kind of sounds like
good which is something that a cow eats
could I’m cut out to be a confident
English speaker thank you everyone who’s
writing this down this is also good
dictation practice because when you hear
me speak you’re writing down exactly
what I’m saying so we have cases here
who says I’m cut out to be a confident
English speaker in Indonesia they say
I’m cut out to be a confident English
speaker Gabriela says I’m cut out to
Sabine a confident English speaker
beautiful you’re listening to my words
and you’re writing the same thing
beautiful keep up the good work
remind yourself when you wake up stretch
in the morning and say okay
I am cut out to be a confident English
speaker I can do this keep up the good
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