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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around the world
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of speaking english with confidence
and fluently is of course learning
phrasal verbs
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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
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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and don’t worry about making mistakes
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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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i will see you guys
next week