Phrasal Verbs for Around the House in English
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that you can use around the house we are
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minutes here’s today’s lesson title 20
phrasal verbs for around the house I
have chosen 20 phrasal verbs that I
think you can use as you are in your
home so I hope that they are something
they are a list of vocabulary words you
can start to practice right away I’m
going to talk about whether or not you
can separate these phrasal verbs and I’m
going to talk about kind of the
different situations in which you can
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today we are talking about phrasal verbs
that you can use in your house I chose
20 so I’m going to go through in three
groups
I have also for today made a quick
picture so that you can see at the end
of today’s lesson all of the phrasal
verbs we’re going to talk about but I’m
this is everything this is today’s
everything today’s vocabulary list so if
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let’s get started alright so first group
of phrasal verbs I’m starting at the
beginning of the day over here we’re
going to start with wake up here and get
up so what’s the difference between wake
up and get up wake up is well for some
people it’s like it’s like saying some
some people argue like wake up and get
up or the same thing but we can also
think of wake up and get up as two
slightly different moments wake up
refers to opening your eyes so meaning
to open your eyes like the act of
opening your eyes you gain consciousness
again so for example like wake up it’s
12:00 or past tense I woke up late the
wake up it’s 12:00 is present tense or I
woke up late I woke up late past tense
so I want to mention in this lesson the
phrasal verbs that you can separate and
the phrasal verbs that you cannot
separate so when I say separates I mean
when we can put like the object of the
verb between the verb and the
preposition so this is an example of a
verb a phrasal verb that you can
separate so for example when we want to
use wake up as a command like your
sister or your brother or your someone
you know is sleeping you can say wake
him up or wake her up or if it’s me you
could say wake Alicia up we have to go
so you can put the person here wake
person up to express the person that
needs to wake up we use that as a
command so wake someone up we can use it
get up on the other hand to get up let’s
go to the second one here to get up
means to get out of your bed or to get
out of your stone or whatever he’s
sleeping so to get up means to get out
of bed for example I get up early
everyday or past tense she got up late
today so past tense is got up got up
like this
okay so this verb sorry this phrasal
verb brother
we cannot like I would say we tend not
to use this one we usually don’t
separate this one but you might hear
someone say hey get that person up like
especially if it’s like like me as a kid
like you want to stay in bed like a
parent needs
you get the child out of bed you might
hear this one separated like yet Alisha
up but more generally I feel we use this
one wake up separated this one we don’t
separate as often okay I’m checking your
example sentences hello to everybody
who’s joining us let’s continue on to
the next one lie around I’ve put lay
here in parentheses under lie there’s a
reason so grammatically like correct the
correct verb to use here is lie to lie
around which means like to do nothing
like your body you lie on your sofa or
like you lie on your bed and you do
nothing so we use the expression to lie
around to mean to do nothing in your
house or like to do nothing in like a
comfortable place to lie around
however native speakers often use lay in
this expression we use lie and lay
interchangeably though yes they have
separate meanings to profess your mind
we use lay for an object like I lay my
pen down on my laptop so that’s like
that’s an object that’s doing it if I
want to talk about my body I use lie
here so we use lie around to mean to do
nothing like on the sofa so for example
I’m just gonna lie around today or we’re
just lying around the house so this is
very common to use around the house here
I’m sorry to use the house here so it
doesn’t mean like your body is around
your house or something
it means like inside your house like on
your sofa or your bed or whatever you’re
just doing nothing that’s what this one
means to lie around so you can say I’m
just gonna lie around today if you want
to have a chill there
all right school onward next one is pick
up pick up
I included this one first let’s talk
about what it means it means to take
something from the floor that’s 1 & 2
tidy to tidy like so to tidy means like
to make us
face clean so if there’s like lots of
stuff in the space to pick up the space
like pick up your room for example pick
up your clothes or pick up your room it
means to take those things off the floor
to make the space tidy organize I wanted
to include this one for this reason
right here not pick so to pick can mean
like to choose like I pick you or I pick
this color or it can mean like to
scratch it something misuse however is
pick up so to pick up an object from the
floor or to tidy something Victor says
can I say I need to pick up something at
the store yes there is that other
meaning of this phrasal verb as well
what does tidy mean so to tidy means to
make something organized so like if your
room has your clothes on the floor and I
don’t know lots of food or dishes I
don’t know it’s messy to tidy means to
clean those things so to organize
everything okay uh Jamari says pick up
that stick yes okay good all right yes
tidy is to straighten that’s a good word
for a countertenor
okay yes there are other definitions
some of you are pointing out that there
are other definitions for these phrasal
verbs yes that is correct
for today’s lesson I’m covering the
meanings that we use inside the house
but yes there are other meanings for
these phrasal verbs okay let’s go to the
last one for this group put away you to
put away means to put something in the
correct place to put something in the
correct place for example put away the
dishes or can you put the towels away so
I want to mention a couple things put
away can be split I forgot I forgot to
mention it with pickup put away can be
split so here I put put and away
together
yeah put away the dishes so the dishes
refers to the object I’m going to put in
it’s correct place we can also split
this so put object away can you put the
towels away is also okay we can split
this one I forgot to mention pickup you
can split this as well so for example
pick your clothes up is also okay to use
okey dokey
I’m looking at your questions and your
comments now exactly on YouTube says put
away your stuff yes put away is a very
useful one put away you might hear
teacher is using this at school as well
with little kids especially ever Seto on
facebook says what is the meaning of
pick up so again pick up the meaning is
right here I include the meaning here to
take something from the floor or to tidy
mmm okay it caress says put away these
glasses yeah oh and a spelling note make
sure away is one word put away not put a
way put away put away your glasses put
away the pen nice ones everybody okay
I’ll you know key put the dishes away
yes good what does out of milk mean it
means we don’t have any milk okay let’s
continue to break it’s break time so
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asking for some more examples pick up
more examples so like to pick up a
marker to pick up the phone is another
way to say it so these are we use them
for we use pickup for objects in our
house to pick up an object I’m going to
pick up my phone I’m going to pick up my
phone and check your comments I will
pick up my laptop later I don’t want to
mess up anything now okay I hope that
helps can we use get up to improve in
something to get up mmm no we don’t
really use get up to mean improve we
would probably say I want to just
improve my skills we don’t really use
get up to mean that we might say level
up I suppose will this video be
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today part one it was here we just
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you might notice a theme I have made
part 2 phrasal verbs with turn so we’re
going to talk about turn on turn off
turn up and turn down and then a bonus
one that’s kind of related okay so let’s
take a look I think maybe this is review
for many of you but let’s talk about how
to use these phrasal verbs
at your house inside your house
specifically first one to turn on to
turn on means to activate so activate
that means like make the power come on
or for a light like too sweet maybe you
know switch on mmm
so we tend to use turn on in American
English like turn on the light or we
also use this for music as in why don’t
you turn some music on why don’t you
turn some music on so this means to
activate like to make something happen
to turn on so we use this one a lot with
like machines so my laptop like turn on
the laptop or turn my laptop on hmm okay
so as you maybe can guess turn off is
the opposite to deactivate to deactivate
so that means like to remove the power
from something so for example can you
turn off the stove or he turned the
movie off so you’ll notice again both of
these we can split and again by split I
mean we can put the object between the
verb and the preposition so turn some
music on is okay or turned the movie off
it’s okay okay good some of you are
sending your examples I’m checking now
turn on the fan yes turn on the fan is
okay or turn the fan on is okay okay
turn on the Alexa next one okay at night
I turn off my cell phone perfect great
job okay
someone says Estella says can you turn
on the TV yes if it’s like a machine
like a computer your TV your phone
whatever if it’s a machine you can use
turn on and turn off with that hmm can
you use this word with people yes I’m
not going to talk about that meeting
today generally though this is the same
I chose these words specific
generally they have the same meaning
when you’re talking about people so yes
you can’t use that someone says turn on
your brain yes I hope your brain I hope
you turned on your brain to watch this
lesson okay great I think you have it
nice job everybody
Eduardo yes turn on the car is perfect
perfect or start the car as well but
turn on is okay okay let’s go to turn up
now so the next pair is turn up and turn
down so to turn up and turn down turn up
means to increase volume or power so we
use this with music a lot please turn up
the volume or she turned up the heat so
this one she turned up the heat is one
you can use in your kitchen so when
you’re cooking and you want the fire
bigger you can say turn up the heat
turn up the heat or maybe you might here
turn up the flame as well turn up the
heat okay so the opposite as you can
guess turn down means to decrease
decrease means to go down to decrease
volume or power for example turn down
the music a little or he turned the room
temperature down so temperature means
how hot are cold
the room is yeah so he turned the room
temperature down means he decreased the
room temperature okay nice example is
everybody turn up the music says the
chat okay great great great yeah some
people are saying oh someone wrote pop
up the volume you might want to pump up
the volume pump up the volume yeah yeah
okay good job Oh someone slimming says
when do we use switch you can use switch
for switch ON or switch off again switch
is not as commonly used in American
English which I speak but it is not
incorrect you can totally use switch ON
or switch off to mean turn on or turn
off okay
can we
you turn something to something yes to
mean like to change something into
something else you can yes turn up the
AC yes good ones turn up the power yeah
turn down for what it’s Jake nice one
okay
I like your examples today very nice
very nice to turn down your voice if I
loud I can whisper the rest of the
lesson okay let’s go to the last one
here cut off this one is not a turn a
turn phrasal verb
I want to include cut off because it’s
kind of related to today’s topic to cut
off means to stop or or to cut the end
from something so these are actually two
different meanings but you can use both
of them in your house first let’s look
at the examples they cut off our
electricity so this means they stopped
our electricity so we use cut off to
refer to like power so to cut off
electricity or to cut off water or to
cut off Internet service or something
like that or you can use this like in
the kitchen
for example cut off the end of the
carrot so this part cut off the end of
the carrot imagine like you’re cutting
in your kitchen and you with your knife
you go cut and you take off imagine this
is the carrot you take off just the end
we use cut off to describe that so cut
off the end of something you can use it
for hair to like I need to cut off my
hair cut off this part of my hair it
means to remove the end of something to
cut the end from something so I want to
mention this one you can split as well
actually I think all of these we can
split so again to split means you can
put the object between the verb and the
preposition hmm yes okay I’m checking
your examples now Adam on Facebook says
the government cut off funds to the
organization
very nice yes cut off funds so funds
means money giving money to an
organization very nice example great one
okay the company cut off the waters has
Dan on YouTube very nice okay um cut off
power yes very nice everybody yes you
can cut off hair I say as I just
mentioned
fond or in Mandarin says cut down on a
good one to cut down on something means
to reduce the like the frequency with
which you do something so for example
let’s say you smoke a lot and you’re
like oh man
I need to cut down on smoking that means
I need to reduce how much I smoke I need
to decrease the frequency with which I
smoke hmm so cut down on yes you
absolutely can use that okey dokey Oh a
name on facebook says cut off a
relationship is that correct yes you can
say it she like to cut off a friendship
or to cut off a relationship with
someone like I had to cut off my
relationship with my dad
hi dad I had to cut off a relationship
with my cousin you can which means you
stop the relationship yes you can use
this outside the house too to talk about
people okay very nice all right sounds
good everybody has some nice example
sentences good good good okay I will
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last part aleksander what’s oke oke to
uh okey-dokey I say that a lot
okie dokie means okay it’s a very casual
way of saying okay okay mmm
alright then with that let’s go to part
three I will show you again today’s list
but um so we talked about this group
part one today we just finished part two
now we’re going to go to part three the
final group of phrasal verbs for today
how exciting right okay I will get rid
of this and we’ll go on but um
cool hair alright okay let’s continue to
part three for today I made part three
kind of loosely cleaning a themed isn’t
that exciting so you can use it in your
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loosely and when I loose lean means like
a little bit kind of so loosely cleaning
themed first let’s talk about these two
I really wanted to talk about the
difference between these two today they
are clean up and clean off to clean up
and to clean off essentially basically
they have the same theme
cleaning yes but there’s a small
difference that will help you sound more
natural so to clean up means to make
something clean to make clean like clean
up the kitchen or past tense we cleaned
up the house but to clean off means to
clean a surface so a surface is like a
table for example imagine this is a
table and there’s
stuff on the table yeah and I want to
clean it I can say clean up the table or
I can say clean off the table which
means remove the things from the surface
so this is the nuance of to clean off to
clean off a surface it can also be for a
wall so like if I need to clean off this
whiteboard after my lesson I can say I
have sorry I have to clean off the
whiteboard then I can talk to you so you
can use clean off to talk about surfaces
to clean off this is the difference
between clean up and just clean and
clean off Oh key dokey I don’t see
questions yet okay good let’s go to the
examples for clean off so I mentioned
can you clean off the table can you
clean off the table or I cleaned off the
board regarding splitting about these
two for example clean the kitchen up or
we cleaned the house up that’s okay to
do that’s okay to do personally I think
I don’t really split it that much but I
usually say clean up and then the object
yeah someone some of you are sending
your examples now clean up my apartment
nice clean off the pavement okay good ah
Mohammed BRR
sorry I hope I said that right on
Facebook says we should clean up our
society nice one yes you can use this
outside the house do um oh so she says
to clean off means like to remove
something from the surface of something
yes that is correct
Abdoulaye hello I’m YouTube says can you
clean off your screen yes exactly
exactly
good I think everybody has it okay let’s
continue to put on put on there are two
uses of put on here to put on can mean
to place clothes on your body so place
clothes on your body so like I put on
this shirt today I put on my pants today
I put on a hat to place clothes on your
body we also use put on to
to play music for example put on a
sweater or she put on a dress or hey can
you put on some music or I want to put
on some music so this means play to play
some music or you could say turn on some
music as well in this situation they all
mean the same thing start music that’s
what it means okay let’s go on to our
last group Wow we’re down to three
already time flies okay the next one is
breakdown I wanted to include breakdown
here for your house household use
breakdown has several different meanings
to make something smaller for today to
make something smaller or to take apart
to take something apart
for example let’s break down these boxes
let’s break down these boxes mmm oh wow
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ok so let’s break down these boxes is
when we use this expression when we have
this is gonna get complicated when we
have a box and we need to throw it away
but it’s too big we can’t throw it away
like this so we cut it into pieces this
making the box into pieces is called
breaking down a box we use to break down
to describe that to break down a box or
to take apart to take something apart so
we broke down our bookshelf again that
means to remove like this structure so
it’s not a bookshelf anymore
it’s just pieces we use break down to do
that and past tense it’s hard to see I
know I’m sorry we broke down broke down
BR oh-kayyy broke down yes to break down
also means like to start crying like
crazy like you have a really bad day
a bad week and you just melt
mmm that’s also a breakdown we can also
use the phrasal verb to break down to
describe that also I just used the noun
form here break down
you might hear the expression she had a
breakdown when you want to use it as a
noun remove this space actually this is
a very common theme I’m going to talk
about later so break down when you want
to use it as a verb break down no space
if you want to use it as a noun
cool cool cool yeah why do some people
say I had a nervous breakdown it means
you just you became so nervous or so
anxious you started to cry and like you
couldn’t go to work or school it was a
really tough time okay final two take
out take out so to take out means to
remove from a place as in take out the
trash or he took out the recycling
this verb we can split so take the trash
out is okay or take the recycling out or
he took the recycling out is also okay
to use to take out to me to remove from
a place also I’ll say it now I guess
it’s easier take out as a phrasal verb
this way there’s a space between take
and out yeah
just like with break down if you want to
use take out as a noun like to talk
about getting food from a restaurant
like many of us are doing now we say I
want to get takeout in that case when
you use it as a noun no space no space
here take out is the spelling to make a
phrasal verb put a space between take
and out okay
finally finally okay I’m looking for
your examples
oh yeah Mohammed on Facebook has another
meaning for a break down we didn’t talk
about it means to stop working like my
car broke down
yeah it means just stopped working good
point
hmm okay let’s go to the last one dry
off dry off to dry off means to make
something dry to make something dry
for example dry off your hands or let
the dishes dry off so we use dry and dry
off often interchangeably like dry your
hands is okay
or let the dishes dry is also okay dry
off sounds a little bit more like it’s
not a big deal it’s a little more casual
like dry off your hands it just sounds a
little a little less I guess formal it’s
dry isn’t formal but dry off just sounds
a little more like relaxed so that’s the
difference in feeling between dry and
dry off and also oh yeah we can split
this one so dry your hands off is okay
to use you can do that okay Cory says
I’m coming from the swimming pool so I
have to dry off my hair yeah yeah dry
off my hair okay others others others
okay I don’t see others yet dry off the
clothes yeah okay someone Marco says how
can I use takeout please
so takeout as in like I just talked
about oh yeah
takeout so takeout we talked about
removal removing something from your
house like to take out the trash or to
take out the garbage or to take out the
recycling
take out means food from a restaurant
that you take out of the restaurant so
we say I want to get takeout or let’s
get takeout that’s how we usually use
takeout okay Ernesto yes some phrasal
verbs you can split the verb from the
preposition some you cannot okay Daniel
and Facebook says what does dry mean so
to dry something means to remove the
moisture from something like dry your
hair with someone’s example or dry your
hands or dry your clothes it mean so
after you wash something
usually you dry something cool okay I
don’t see any more questions and I have
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phrasal verbs I will show you again are
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here are the phrasal verbs we talked
about today part 1 part 2 part 3 these
are the 20 phrasal verbs we talked about
in this lesson or around the house so I
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get in passive situation so some good
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