Learn the English Phrases TO MAKE UP and TO MAKE OUT

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In this English lesson
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I wanted to help you understand three meanings
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of the phrase, to make up.
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There's probably more, but we should get started
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if I have to explain three in less than a minute,
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the first meaning of this verb
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is to tell a story that isn't true.
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Often kids will make up a story
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when you ask them about something.
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They might not always tell you the truth.
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The other way we use this phrase is to talk about
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catching up on work or something that you missed.
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Maybe you usually work eight hours a day
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and one day you only worked six,
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you will need to make up those hours later in the week.
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So you might have to work for 10 hours
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a day later, or a couple days later.
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And then the other way we use this phrase is when
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two people who are romantically involved
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with each other have a fight
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and after the fight they will make up.
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When you make up with someone,
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it means that you were having a disagreement
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but you still like each other or love each other.
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And you decide that you're going to make up.
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The second phrase I wanna teach you today
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is the phrase to make out.
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Now, I'm going to teach you two meanings of this phrase.
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The first is when you ask someone how something went.
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You can say, you can ask this question.
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"How did you make out?"
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So let's say my son is going to go do some work
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for me on the farm.
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When he's done the work, I could say to him,
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"How did you make out with that work?"
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And basically I'm just asking him how things went.
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And the other one is a little more
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I might blush as I'm talking about this
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but to make out means to kiss someone.
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So if you know a couple who are dating, they probably,
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sometimes park on the side of the road somewhere
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and make out.
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That means that they kiss each other.
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I just don't know how to explain that any differently.
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I'm starting to get embarrassed.
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I don't know why love and romance is all around us.
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And sometimes people want to kiss.
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Sometimes they want to make out.
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So to review, to make up can mean to create a story
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that isn't true.
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It can mean to catch up on work that you missed.
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And it can mean, Oh, I forgot the third meaning,
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it can mean (chuckles) when you have a fight with someone
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who you are in a relationship with you might make up later.
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And then to make out can mean to kiss someone.
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Maybe if you have ever dated someone in your life
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you're familiar with the phrase to make out.
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And it can also be used in a question
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when you say, "How did you make out?"
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When you're asking someone how something went.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video
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as we do that I should say I shouldn't try to
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explain phrases that have two or three meanings.
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It takes a long time, but let's keep going.
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Aleksey has this comment,
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"Luckily, after years of learning English,
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I know the meaning of the word exasperate.
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Well, it's about time.
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Thank you for the lesson, Bob.
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It was interesting to know about the silos as well."
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My response was this,
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"Learning English can be exasperating."
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So thank you Aleksey for that comment.
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Yes.
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Learning the English language can be extremely exasperating.
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I'm glad that you were able to learn that word
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a long time ago
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and I'm glad that you were able to use the phrase,
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it's about time while you were making your comment.
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Good work all around.
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I'm walking this way because in my video
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on my bigger channel yesterday,
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I was showing you that the farmer
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across the river was baling hay and they are now done.
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All of the hay has been baled and cleaned up.
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I'm always amazed by how fast that goes, nowadays.
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When I was a kid, baling a field of hay that big
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would have taken a really long time
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and it would have all been done with manual labor.
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They do it all with tractors, a tractor with a baler
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a tractor with a wagon
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and then a tractor that kind of rakes up the hay
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and puts it in long rows that we call windrows.
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So pretty cool.
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All of their hay is cut and baled
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and I haven't even started on mine yet.
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Anyways, see you in a couple of days
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with another English lesson, bye.
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