10 Advanced Phrasal Verbs for IELTS Speaking

- Today I've got 10 advanced phrasal verbs

for IELTS speaking that will make you stand out

from the crowd.

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Hello my friend, this is Keith from English Speaking Success

and the website, the Keith Speaking Academy.

Now, phrasal verbs are important in English,

in spoken English,

they make you sound natural and they are fun to use.

If you want to learn more about phrasal verbs,

what they are and how to learn them,

go and watch this video.

But today, I'm gonna share with you

10 advanced phrasal verbs

for different situations in IELTS speaking,

work and study people, places, events, and activities.

And what's more, at the end of the video,

I will give you a link to the PDF

so you can download all of these advanced phrasal verbs.

Oh, and there's a bonus, at the very end,

I'm also going to tell you my favorite phrasal verb

of all time.

Let's begin.

Right, let's look first at the topic of work and study

and some different phrasal verbs, right?

First of all, "To knock off."

Now, this actually has many different meanings, right?

For example, if the sales assistant in the shop

knocks $5 off a product,

that means they reduce the price by $5, hurry.

Or if I or you knock off your boss (laughs)

informally, that means that you murder or kill them.

Don't do that, well, not today, no, never, right?

But the meaning here that I want to show you

is, "I knock off at seven o'clock."

And that means I finish work at seven o'clock.

On Fridays, I knock off early, right?

Now, here's a useful tip for you, pronunciation tip.

If a word like knock ends in a constant sound, K or a K

and the following word begins with a vowel

like off, O, we often link the K and the O,

KO, knock off, knock off, right?

Knock off, knock off.

Now, because most prepositions begin with a vowel,

in, on, at, up, over, most phrasal verbs,

you can actually link them, right?

So for example, I knock off, can you say it?

Great, in the past, I knocked off,

knock edoff, knocked off, can you say it?

I knocked off early.

That's it, great, good.

Let's push on.

Right, another fun phrasal verb is to chip in.

Now, you may know chips, right?

Chips like these in England

or in America, these are chips.

But to chip in?

Ha ha, well, imagine the scene,

you are in a meeting and people are talking,

they're rabbiting on and rabbiting on

and you want to interrupt and say something.

What do you do?

"Excuse me, can I just chip in?"

To chip in is to interrupt by adding a comment.

"Can I just chip in?"

Or, "He chipped in with some good ideas."

Notice the pronunciation?

Can I chi-pin?

Can I chip in?

Great.

Or, "He chipped in, he chipped in with some ideas."

That's it, lovely.

Interestingly, there is another verb

you can use similarly to he chipped in, chime in.

"He chimed in with some good ideas."

To chime is the sound of a clock or a bell going,

bing, bing.

So I chime in, or I chimed in

with some good ideas is I interrupted and gave my ideas.

Lovely, let's move on.

So the next phrase of verb is to hash out something.

Now, hash, it's an interesting word.

You may know hash browns, which look like this, right?

A crispy potato you can have for breakfast,

very popular in America more than in the UK.

Or you probably know hashtag, right?

Hashtag, #IknowlotsofEnglish, hey.

But to hash out something is to talk about something

with another person in order to reach an agreement.

So let's imagine you

and I are doing a presentation tomorrow.

Well, right now we need to hash out the details

of our presentation.

Or last night, my wife and I spent hours hashing

out our holiday plans for next year.

Great.

What do you need to hash out with your family?

Great, let's move on to the next topic of people.

And a couple of phrasal verbs for you here.

First of all, to wind somebody up.

Now wind up has many different meanings, right?

For example, at the end of my videos,

I often say, "Let's wind up here."

So let's wind up means, let's finish.

However, to wind somebody up

means that you annoy somebody, right?

For example, so I have this friend, right?

And she thinks that teaching is a waste of time,

so I disagree, right?

And that makes me angry.

Whenever we speak about teaching, she winds me up.

I don't like talking to her

about teaching because she always winds me up.

Next phrasal verb, to make someone out.

Now, you can also make something out,

and maybe that's more common, where we make something out,

is to see or hear clearly something, right?

So for example, if I'm looking at your writing, and I go,

"Is that a letter E or an A?

I can't make it out."

I can't make it out.

I can't make out your handwriting, right?

Or, "Oh what did you say?

I can't make it out."

So if you can't hear or see something clearly,

that's to make something out.

Make someone out is when you don't understand somebody,

"Oh, this colleague at work, right?

I just don't understand what she's thinking,

I can't make her out."

I can't make her out.

Notice if we have a pronoun instead of the name,

pronoun always goes between the verb and the preposition.

I can't make her out, I can't make it out.

Okay, great.

Is there anybody that you just can't make out?

Okey, dokey.

Now a quick learning tip for you, okay?

When you are learning vocabulary like phrasal verbs,

try and use a picture, something visual,

to help you remember.

Do you remember to hash out something, right?

To discuss, to try and agree,

you could there think of a hash brown, remember?

And you've got a hash brown,

imagine talking to somebody about the hash brown,

it's very interesting or very nice color, yes,

"Would you like half?"

"Yes."

"Half for you, we agree?

Good."

We've hashed out the hash brown.

So you know, just take some kind of a picture

to try and connect it to the phrasal verb,

it's really a useful way to help you remember.

Okay, next, let's talk about places.

First of all, "To do up."

Now, to do up can mean different things,

For example, you do up your buttons,

or I never do up my top button.

But talking about places, to do up a room is to decorate,

to decorate, to paint, change the floor,

change the light, things like that, to decorate.

So you could say,

"I've just done up the bathroom

and it looks as good as new."

Nice.

Now, when we talk about places,

and especially in IELS speaking part two,

we often talk about visiting people or visiting places,

there's quite a few nice phrasal verbs we can use.

"Drop in" is the first one, right?

To drop in is to visit somebody,

usually without a planned invitation, right?

"I will drop in tomorrow to see you."

To drop in.

Often we say drop in on, drop in on somebody.

For example, I am visiting New Delhi next week,

I might drop in on you, so get the tea ready.

Or we could drop in on the pub on the way home after work.

Drop in on the pub, visit the pub, right?

Again, it can link, dro-pi-non, can you say?

drop in on.

Can I drop in on you tomorrow?

Nice.

Now, similar to drop in on somebody

we have the following examples,

"I dropped in on Jacob, my friend."

"I went round to Jacob's."

Jacob's meaning Jacob's house,

but we usually drop 'house', right?

"I went round to Jacob's."

"I went over to Jacob's."

In the UK we often say, "I popped round to Jacob's"

Or, "I popped over to Jacob's."

All of these nice phrasal verbs

to talk about visiting people.

Let's move on.

Right, let's talk about events.

Often, IELTS speaking part two,

you are asked to describe an event,

maybe a party or a meeting or a presentation, right?

When we talk about the result,

there's a nice phrasal verb that is basically

to happen in a certain way and it's, 'To turn out.'

To turn out.

For example, "The presentation,

my presentation turned out badly, I forgot everything."

Or, "The recipe, the new recipe I tried

turned out fantastically."

It turned out really well, right?

So it can be to happen in a good way or in a bad way.

To turn out.

You cannot say, "I turn out my presentation well."

No, it's the thing turns out well or badly.

Now, here's another little tip for you,

when you're practicing verbs, like phrasal verbs,

make a phrase in the present and another in the past,

it'll really help you develop your grammar,

pronunciation and fluency.

And here is a simple template.

Usually ba, ba, ba, ba, but yesterday ba, ba ba ba.

For example, right?

"Usually my presentations turn out well

but yesterday it turned out badly."

Can you see what's happening?

With the present and the past, the pronunciation changes,

the end of the verb changes,

it's a really nice technique, right?

Can you give me an example for you?

"Usually ba, ba, ba, but yesterday, ba, ba ba."

For me, "Usually my cooking turns out really well,

but yesterday it turned out terribly, I burnt everything."

Now there's another phrasal verb

which means to happen in a certain way,

and it is 'To go off.'

Usually this is a positive thing,

it goes off well, usually, right?

We could say, "The meeting went off really well."

Or, "My presentation went off really well."

Now, finally, let's move on and talk about activities.

Commonly in IELTS speaking you have to talk about activities

like maybe hobbies for example.

Now, you probably know to take up a hobby

is to begin or start a hobby.

I took up painting last year.

but what about to take to a hobby?

What does that mean?

To take to means that you enjoy it and usually do it well.

For example, "Recently my daughter started aikido."

Aikido is a martial art.

"She took to it really well."

Right?

"When I was younger, I took up rock climbing

and I took to it really quickly."

And our final phrasal verb is 'To show off.'

To show off is interesting and it means to do something,

when you are good at something,

you do it and you try to show other people

how good you are at it,

but you usually rub them up the wrong way,

I mean, you usually annoy them, right?

For example, I remember at school

the teacher's pet, the teacher's favorite, right?

Was always showing off.

"Ooh, look at me, I'm the best teacher likes me."

Right?

And that used to rub us up the wrong way.

So annoying.

Great, that is our last phrasal verb,

I think I've given you more than 10,

but hey who's counting?

Now, what about, I promised you a bonus,

my favorite phrasal verb of all time.

Let me tell you.

'To nod off', right?

To nod your head, to shake,

to nod and to nod off, (laughs)

is to sleep, to fall asleep, right?

Oh, to nod off.

Great in meetings if they're really boring, right?

"Oh, oh, I'm sorry, I just nodded off."

I love it, I love the sound, "To nod off."

Nod off, great sound, lovely phrasal verb.

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That's it for today.

I think it's time to wind up

because I knock off in a few minutes.

Take care my friend.

Bye bye.

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