Three UP Phrasal Verbs
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm today we’re going to talk
about three phrasal verbs look up keep
up make up using the technique that i
talked about in my phrasal verb video
last week let’s get started if you
remember the technique that we talked
about last time was to use a phrasal
verb that has the same participle look
up keep up make up to help you remember
and also to think about a story from
your personal life where you could use
these phrasal verbs so these are stories
from my personal life but I want you to
think about stories from your life when
you could use them and if you want you
can leave a comment below with this
story so let’s get started with the
first phrasal verb look up look up
simply means to research to search for
something and find an answer so we could
say ah when I write an email in French
sometimes I have to look up words that I
don’t know how to spell so with me I
have this is always on my desk French
verb book it’s really handy and a quick
French dictionary these things help me
to look up French words really quickly
while I’m writing an email or trying to
speak French if I’m not sure of the word
I can look it up really quickly look the
second phrasal verb is keep up keep up
means to stay with something physically
or mentally so when I was living in
Korea sometimes I would try to watch
Korean dramas but often times they were
only in Korean sometimes they had
English subtitles online but oftentimes
they were only in Korean and it was hard
for me to keep up to understand at the
same time what they were saying it’s
hard for me to keep up when native
speakers are speaking Korean it’s so
fast and my vocabulary isn’t high enough
yet to be able to understand them I
couldn’t keep up this is keep up
mentally I couldn’t keep up with what
they were saying the other kind of keep
up is to keep up physically
to stay with someone physically so when
I was in elementary school I loved to
run I just ran all the time and one day
a year we had a field day this is a day
where kids get together and competes
with some activities like running or
jump rope or some fun things so when I
did the the long running race it was
like endurance running for kids not too
stressful but just something fun when I
was in elementary school I was pretty
fast for a small child for a girl and no
one could keep up with me I was ahead of
everyone they couldn’t physically stay
with me they couldn’t keep up with me so
this is my story about physically keep
up and the other story is mentally keep
up so what about you I want you to think
about a time when you could use keep up
physically or mentally in your own life
to help you remember it let’s go on to
number three make up the third phrasal
verb using up today is make up make up
means to imagine something to use your
imagination it can also mean to
apologize to someone but we’re only
going to talk about the first meeting
today to imagine something so a story
that can help me remember and make up
and maybe help you remember it to think
about your own story as well is when I
was little me and my sister and our two
neighbors two girls who lived across the
street we loved to make up fun crazy
silly stories and tell the stories to
each other so one of these stories that
we made up was about a hunter who was
trying to kill a bear and the bear was
really smart so the bear stood against a
big rock and his shadow looked huge so
he scared the hunter away because his
shadow was so huge and it was just a
story we made up we didn’t read it in a
book we didn’t see a movie about it we
just made it up this is something
completely
imaginary so what about you what has
been a time when you have imagined
something maybe your child has made up a
crazy story of funny story or you did in
your childhood this is a good chance to
be able to remember the word make up
made up by remembering a story from your
life thanks so much for watching this
video about three phrasal verbs go on
over to my website where I’m going to be
giving some more examples and some more
details about these three phrasal verbs
thanks so much and I’ll see you there
goodbye