PHRASAL VERBS to talk about what you do every morning

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It'll be great, you'll love it. No, you will. I'm going to teach you phrasal verbs, and phrasal  

verbs are essential. A lot of people kind of get  off track and they start to study idioms. Wow,  

idioms are kind of old, in my opinion, and not  very useful. But, one thing that is essential  

for you to understand and learn in English are  these crazy phrasal verbs. What is a phrasal verb,  

you ask? You did, I heard you! A phrasal verb  has a verb + a preposition. So, prepositions  

are things like "up, on, down, around". So,  if you have a verb and a preposition together,  

magically these are called phrasal verbs. And  they're very confusing. A lot of people have  

problems with them, because one phrasal verb can  have many meanings, but I'm here to make it easy  

for you and teach you about something you probably  do every day. It's called your morning routine.  

I don't know about you, but I have to wake up  in the morning. Some of you have to wake up in  

the afternoon or at night, depending on your  work schedule or if you work. So, the first  

thing that happens. Most treacherously and most  terribly is, "My alarm goes off". In the past,  

I could also say, "My alarm went off", maybe  at 7:00. If you wanted to be very specific,  

you could say 7:00am. But because most people  wake up in the morning, you don't need to say  

"am". Most people understand you're waking up  in the morning. If you work a night shift or,  

I don't know, you're a vampire, you could also  say, "Oh, my alarm went off at 7:00pm". That's  

cool, but usually we don't need to specify or  we don't need to say "am", because most people  

understand it's the morning time. And this is also  very illogical, crazy in English. An alarm goes  

off. But in reality, it goes on. Because it makes  a noise. So, in English, we just like to have a  

giggle and make it difficult. So, we have to say,  "My alarm goes off". It means my alarm sounds or  

makes a noise. And then, I turn off the alarm that  went off. Don't get it? Don't worry about that.  

So, my alarm goes off at 7:00. What do I do next?  I wake up. That means I open my eyes and I - Oh  

God, why isn't is Saturday? Why do I have to wake  up? Why was I born? Then, to actually physically  

leave your bed, you're going to say "get up". So,  maybe you are good at getting out of bed, but I'm  

not. So, my alarm goes off at 7:00, but I actually  get up, which means I leave my beautiful, warm,  

luscious bed, at 7:30. What are you doing for half  an hour, Ronnie? Yes, I am trying to make time  

stop so I can sleep longer, but it never works.  And then I try to figure out all the problems of  

the world and solve some English problems, but  yeah. 7:30 comes again and I have to get up.  

I take off my PJs. Peanut butter jam? No, PJs are  the short form of pajamas or pyjamas. Pajamas are  

the clothes you wear at night in your bed. You  can wear them in the daytime too, doesn't matter.  

They're usually funky, though. This phrasal verb  we can replace with just the verb "remove". So,  

you can say, "I remove my pajamas" or my  PJs, but that sounds very strange. We don't  

say that. If you said it, I would understand,  but that's not how we speak naturally. We say,  

"I take off my pajamas" or my PJs. I actually shower, okay? I - it just  

wasn't a phrasal verb, so I couldn't put it in  here. But after I take my shower, I need to put  

on my clothes. Now, in English, we don't use the  verb "wear" when we're actually getting dressed.  

Which means, putting on your clothes. In some  languages, you guys say, "I wear my clothes",  

but we don't use the verb "wear". We say,  "I put on my clothes". So, in the morning,  

we put on our clothes. I take off my PJ's, I  have a shower, and then I put on my clothes.  

Because it's illegal to walk around naked. The next thing I do is I put in, or I can also say  

I put on my contacts. Now, contacts is actually  the short form of contact lenses. We don't need  

to bother to say lenses. Everybody knows if you  put in or put on your contacts, those are contact  

lenses. Maybe you also like to wear makeup, so  you can say, "I put on my makeup". You could say  

apply my makeup, but again, it's not natural.  We always use a phrasal verb "put on". Maybe  

you want to wear glasses. Don't, please don't put  on contacts and glasses at the same time. You'll  

hurt your vision. But you would definitely put  on glasses and you would put on jewellery. This  

is a difficult word for people. Repeat after me:  jewellery. I put in jewellery. As I said before,  

rings, earrings, a necklace. All of these things  are jewellery, and we put them on, because they're  

outside of our body. So, I put on these things. Then, just to help with life, I do the most  

essential thing. I turn on the coffee  maker. I could say "start the coffee maker",  

but because it's a button, I would say  I turn on the coffee maker. "Start"  

is too formal. You can start your car, but  you're going to turn on the coffee maker.  

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