Learn 16 Easy English Phrasal Verbs

Hey guys, welcome back to EngVid. My name is Benjamin, your teacher for today. Today

we're going to be looking at some phrasal verbs. What's a phrasal verb? A phrasal verb

looks a bit like this. It's a couple of different words that when you put them together, act

as like a verb phrase for an action. Okay? And the phrasal verbs we're going to be looking

at today, concern clothes, how you put clothes on, what you do with them, that kind of thing,

places to describe places and people, so quite functional stuff that will add a little bit

of color, a little bit of flavor to your language... You ready to go? Let's go. First one to do

with clothes -- "to slip on". Now, what I'm thinking of here is a banana skin that I slip

on and I fall over. Ow, that hurt. But if you slip on some clothes, you kind of just

sort of putting it on a bit like you're almost sort of falling over. "Ah, I'm just gonna

slip something on." Yep. I'm not going doing my tie in the mirror. Do my cufflinks. No,

no, I'm just slipping it on. Nice and easily. "To button up." Now that little round thing

there is a button. If you button up, you are doing the buttons up maybe all the buttons

on your shirt. It also has another meaning this if you say oh button up, it means like

Oh, come on, suit yourself out. Come on. You don't need to be annoyed or upset. Come on.

You can you can do this. Okay, so but generally speaking button up means to tighten the buttons

on your clothes. "To wrap up warm." So, if we're talking about food, what is a wrap?

Well, it's it's something that kind of been like rolled together, isn't it? Yep. You've

got your bit of bread. You put some hummus and some lettuce and whatever tomatoes and

some cold meat or something... to wrap its head this. So if you are wrapping up? Yeah,

you're going to put a scarf on a hat on some gloves on a nice warm jacket gets about to

be sort of Bonfire Night over here. So going out in the cold weather this time of year.

You need to wrap up warm. Otherwise you're going to get cold. Wrap up warm. I hope I

get to go to Bonfire Night. I might be making more videos for you. But if you go out then

you wrap up warm. Okay, "freshen up". Now, I was watching the other day Paddington, the

movie with my son, and Paddington the bear has just arrived at the Brown household in

London. And they say to him, you know, Paddington if you want to go and freshen up, feel free.

And Paddington's like, "freshen up what is freshen up?" he goes up to the bathroom. And

he starts getting the toothbrushes and shoving them in his ear. And then the toilet he sort

of pulls the chain and then sort of flies up. And then the water starts going everywhere.

And before too long. Mr. Brown opens the door. And he flies down and a bath down the down

the stairway... that's not typically freshening up, but I loved Paddington's version of it.

Freshen up. So what is this? This is like diving into some snow? There's a there's a

sort of image of like going into something cold to wake up, like splashing some water

on your face to freshen up. Maybe you've had a long journey. And you arrive at your friend's

house and they say "Oh, do you want to just freshen up for a moment?" You're like, "Huh,

what does that mean?" Like? Is it a shower? Is it washing your face? The idea is you go

to the bathroom, and there's some sort of cleaning involved and you come back and you

feel a little bit better. The general idea: "freshen up". If you forget that after I've

spoken about it for so long I'm going to be really upset. Okay, "to take something back".

Right. Well, this morning I went clothes shopping Because I'm making lots of videos at the moment,

and you might have noticed, but I'm often wearing different clothes. And actually, rather

cheekily, I've still got the label in this shirt. So if tonight when I get home, I'm

like, you know what? This dark red, it's not doing it for me. I'm going to take this back.

So if you take something back, it's quite itchy, that label actually. You take something

back, you don't like it, and you're asking for a refund or a return. I get along really

well at the shop. They're really nice to me. I do buy stuff as well. I'm not totally cheeky,

don't worry. "To take something up." Now, if I go into my favorite shop in Toronto,

and I find this lovely pair of trousers, but they're just a bit too long. I might say to

them, do you think you might be able to take this up a bit. So what you're doing is, imagine

this is my leg. You can't really see my leg I've got I've got long legs. If you take it

up, you're just sort of pulling it up a bit to sell out of something. Now, if the shop

I was going to just sold hats, and they had a lovely orange hat, and I really want to

get that orange hat. And I go there the next day. Oh, no, the orange hat. It's not here

anymore. They've sold... past participle... They've sold out of the orange hats. How disappointing.

Okay, clothes. We feeling confident about it? Just take those words in... you should

be able to remember them I am expecting 10 out of 10 in the quiz today, okay? Right:

places. This is a describing phrase. If something is run down. You know what running is? We

know what down is? Put them together. What do we have? We have a place that is uncared

for. Unloved, messy, chaotic, nasty, not the kind of place you want to be. If it's rundown,

you know, there are rubbish bins sort of lying scattered all over the floor. Yet notice I

said "rubbish", "rubbish" rather than "garbage" or "trash" because I'm English rather than

American. "Littered with": if the rubbish is all over the floor than the on the street,

then the street is littered with rubbish. But normally you wouldn't use rubbish with

littered with, you would use something like the places littered with cigarette butts.

Yep. The end of a cigarette. So it's something specific. littered with means like covered

with littered with covered with something. Okay. Right. A litter of puppies is like the,

you know, when when a female dog, a b***h has like six or seven or eight or nine or

ten puppies. So a litter, there's lots of them. The building "stuck out". So my finger

is sticking through the other fingers behind me about two miles that way. There's this

really, really, really tall building in Toronto. It sticks out. Yeah, if I look that way, once

I've gone outside, I see the tall building. Yeah, I notice it. It's very easy to see because

it's different from all the other buildings. What sets it apart is how tall it is to to

set something apart. It's like, well, what is it that's different about that building?

Yep. It's the height of the building that sets it apart. People: just as the tall building

sticks out. If you stand out in the crowd, you look different to everyone around you.

And so you stick out or you stand out. Yep. I stand out in a crowd if I am wearing my

coveted orange hat. I stand out in a crowd if I am playing the trumpet. I blend in if

I am looking normal, yep, a blender, you use it for making juice. You chuck some oranges

in some bananas in some grapes, couple of strawberries. I have blended the juice. If

you blend in, it's like you become part of all the other ingredients, other people, other

life around you. "To look up to": we use the way we look to show importance. If I look

up to someone, then they are worthy of my respect. If I look down at someone, they are

not and I am trying to show that I'm more important. So if you look up to someone, then

you respect and admire, we look up to our heroes, our role models. Who's your role model?

Who's your hero? Yep, tell me you'd like someone from history? Who do you really, really respect?

"To put down." Now, sadly, our pets when they get to the end of their lives, it's often

the pet owners who have to put down the pets, or the vet does it for you. Or "to put up

with". If you put up with someone then you accept them for all their sort of strangeness.

Yep. So families have to put up with each other. Come rain or shine. Yeah, whatever

happens. Right. We've gone through each of these in a good amount of detail. So I'm really

hoping that you're going to remember them and more importantly try and use them. You

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