8 Advanced Phrasal Verbs

- Here are eight advanced phrasal verbs that will help you

ace the IELTS speaking test.

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Phrasal verbs are fun

and they can add color to your spoken English.

"Great," I hear you say,

and you also may say, "Oi, what's a phrasal verb?"

It's a great question.

Basically a phrasal verb is a verb

plus a preposition.

Sometimes two prepositions, a bit like to look up

and it has a literal meaning, like look up.

Sometimes phrasal verbs have an idiomatic meaning.

To look up a word means to find the word in a dictionary.

You can also have to look up to someone.

Up preposition, to preposition.

I look up to my father, meaning I admire

and respect that person.

Most importantly, phrasal verbs will make your English

sound more natural, especially your spoken English.

Because native speakers use phrasal verbs all the time

when they're speaking English,

and because there are so many, my advice to you

for learning phrasal verbs is to learn them one by one,

step by step in context.

Don't try to learn lists and of lots and lots of words.

It gets too complicated.

So in this video, I'm gonna give you eight

different phrasal verbs.

I'll give you the meaning and I'll give you an example.

At the end of the video,

somebody is gonna ask me eight questions

using the phrasal verbs.

It will be a great way to review

and some of the questions, well, here's a warning,

some of the questions are a bit personal

and the answers might surprise you.

That's at the end.

Let's go straight in

to the first phrasal verb.

Number one, to wear out.

Now, it's important to notice most phrasal verbs have two

or three different meanings.

In this video, I'm just gonna focus on one meaning

keeping it simple.

Okay? To wear someone out means

to make someone very tired.

For example, maybe for you running in the park

can wear you out.

Maybe preparing for IELTS is wearing you out.

For me, my boss wears me out when he talks

for hours on end.

Next, number two, to wind up.

Here, we are looking at to wind someone up, meaning

to irritate or annoy someone by playing tricks on them

or teasing them or joking with them.

For example, stop winding up your sister.

You know, it makes her angry.

When I was a kid, my brother used

to wind me up, no end right?

He would always steal my toys and hide them.

It used to wind me up.

Another example, I failed my test.

No, no, no, no, it is not true. I'm just winding you up.

So it's kind of joking, right? A bit like pulling your leg.

Next, number three, to do away with.

So this one has two prepositions, right?

The verb to do, and then away, preposition one

with preposition two.

This is a slightly more formal phrasal verb.

It can be used both in speaking and writing,

and it means to abolish, to get rid of

or to eliminate something.

Very often we use it for talking about rules or regulations

or policies that a company or a government may have, right?

For example, at last, the local government have done away

with that tax on imported food.

Got it? Next.

Number four, to put up,

it has many meanings, but here we are looking at

to put someone up, meaning to accommodate someone,

which is basically to let them stay in your home

or give them some kind of accommodation.

Normally for a short period of time, for example,

recently my brother was moving house, so I put him up

for a few nights during the move.

I hope you are enjoying this video.

A quick break, just to let you know

as you are learning phrasal verbs,

I think a really important thing is to also

to be practicing using them speaking,

and if you can practice with other people, it's even better.

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For now, let's get in to phrasal verb number five.

Number five, to fall for.

Actually, there are two meanings here,

which are very closely related.

I'm gonna look at both.

To fall for somebody means

that you develop romantic feelings for that person.

A bit like to fall in love, okay?

For example, she fell for him the moment she met him,

and then three months later they got married,

to fall for somebody.

Now, if you fall for something,

it means that you are tricked

or deceived by that.

Now to fall for, typically you can fall for a scam,

you can fall for a trick.

It's a bit like you fall into the trap, okay?

For example, I will say very strongly, don't fall

for those scams on the internet

that sell you IELTS certificates.

It's all false. Okay, great.

Next, number six, to fall out.

To fall out means to have a disagreement with somebody,

and that often ends your relationship

or at least stops the relationship

for a short period of time.

You can say that we have fallen out,

so we have disagreed and we stopped speaking.

They have fallen out.

You can also say, I have fallen out with someone,

I have fallen out with my friend.

We are not speaking or you can say,

we have fallen out with each other.

So we argued and we're not speaking to each other.

An example for you, Tom and Zoe were married,

but they fell out over disagreements about money

and eventually got divorced.

What a sad story. It doesn't always end in divorce.

Sometimes when you fall out, you can make up.

Let's go to number seven.

Okay number seven, to make up has two meanings.

I'm gonna look at both of them here.

The first one is to become friends after a disagreement.

So if you fall out with someone, you can make up,

you can make up with someone

and you can make up with each other,

if it's two people, which is normally the case.

For example, if I ever fall out with a friend,

I try to make up as soon as possible.

Good advice, right? Doesn't always work, but good advice.

Now to make up can also mean to invent something,

a story or a lie maybe.

We often say he's making it up, right?

He's telling lies or to make things up,

to invent stories.

For example, an angry girlfriend

that doesn't believe her boyfriend might say,

"I know that's not true, don't make things up.

Tell me what really happened."

Next, number eight is to be up for something

and this means well to be willing or keen to do something.

Usually when talking about a challenge

or something that might be difficult.

So for example, I'm not really up for doing this test,

I don't think I'm ready yet.

Maybe I will do it next year.

Or you might say to friends, at the end of a working day,

"Hey, are you up for a drink?"

Let's go down the pub together. Nice.

So now we're gonna review all of those phrasal verbs,

some questions and some interesting answers.

- [Moderator] Okay then Keith, I'm gonna ask you some

questions using those phrasal verbs.

Are you ready? - Okay.

- [Moderator] Keith, what wears you out?

- Listening to boring people at parties.

I mean, really, I'm a total introvert.

I get very bored very easily at parties

and it just wears me out.

- [Moderator] Keith, what winds you up?

- When people talk over me

and they just don't listen, that really winds me up.

- Do you sometimes deliberately wind people up?

- No, not really. I'm not really much of a prankster.

- What would you like to do away with?

- I'd like to do away with my neighbor,

the one that plays loud music

at the weekends and in the evening.

- Could you put me up this weekend?

- Sure we have a sofa bed that you can use,

but just don't be one of those friends

that stays forever.

- [Moderator] Have you ever fallen for someone?

- Well, yes, obviously I fell

for my wife when I first met her,

but if the truth be told, I actually fell for somebody.

I fell for a girl at university years

before meeting my wife.

Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, she didn't want

to have anything to do with with me.

- [Moderator] Could you fall for me?

- Oh, I don't think so.

We are just good friends, right?

- [Moderator] Do you sometimes fall for scams?

- No, I don't think I have.

I'm usually quite on the ball when it comes to scams.

- [Moderator] Have you ever fallen out with a friend?

- No, funnily enough, I've fallen out with my wife a number

of times, but I don't usually fall out with friends.

- [Moderator] Do you ever make things up?

- Generally, I find it very hard to lie.

I mean, sometimes I can tell a white lie, if I think it

will smooth things over.

- [Moderator] Are you up for going for a drink tonight?

- Absolutely. Is it your treat?

There you go.

I hope that helps you build your vocabulary

and develop your speaking skills.

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Keep practicing my friend.

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