LEARN PHRASAL VERBS (the funny way)

Hi. Let's have some fun, shall we? We're going

to do fun phrasal verbs. Yeah. No, no, no,

I know. I know your face, I know you think,

"Ronnie, how are phrasal verbs fun?" Nothing

is fun with phrasal verbs, but you know, it'll

be fun because I'm going to tell you some jokes,

and then you can tell your friends some jokes,

and you guys can all laugh, and it'll be a great

time. Yeah, I promise, I promise. Just hear me

out. Okay, so first one. Okay, ready? On the board.

That's an interesting get-up you're wearing.

Get-up means clothes. Do you think that style

will ever come back? Okay, so think about it.

What does it mean? Is it... Is it funny? Ronnie,

that's not funny. Okay, hold on, let me explain.

So, you... If you look at this phrasal verb,

"come back", it means "return". So now if I say,

"Hey, that's an interesting get-up you're wearing.

Do you think that style will come back into

fashion?" Because right now it's terribly not

in fashion. So, "come back" as a phrasal verb

here means "return". So this is an insult,

really. So your friend rocks up with this, like,

crazy outfit maybe from, well, the 80s have come

back into style or something, maybe from the 90s,

and you're like, "Whoa, hey, nice ripped jeans,

buddy. Oh, no, that's in style again." Do you

think that fashion will return and become stylish

again? Backhanded compliment, number one. Funny

as well, number two. "Oh, no, that kid just fell

down a hole." Yeah. We need to give his parents

a book on how to "bring up" children. "Bring up"

children, two meanings. One, you can physically

bring something up, like, raise it. And number

two, if you bring up a kid or children, it means you teach them manners. A lot of

people aren't taught manners these days, I think.

So, this is funny because it has a double meaning.

One, you're physically bringing the kid up out of

the hole, and two, you're teaching the parents,

like, hey, don't let your kid run around a construction site where there's holes and

they can fall down. Super funny, I know. I know, I

know. Number three, "Hey, should I put on the lamp?"

Nah. "I like that outfit you have on now." Huh? How's

that funny? Okay, okay. So, if you put on something,

like a light, it means you turn it on or give

power to something. So, in English, we can say,

I'm going to turn on the light or put on the lamp.

The second meaning is we mean it to wear clothes.

So, it's like the person saying, like, hey,

hey, should I wear this lamp? The person's like,

nah, nah, nah, don't change your outfit, it's

already cool. So, "put on" in this case has

two meanings. One is wear, and the other one

is turn on. Turn me on. Funny? Is it funny yet?

I'll do it again. "Hey, should I put on the

lamp?" Nah. "The outfit you have on is great."

Yeah, I know. Come on, they're phrasal verbs, you've got to make them fun.

Number four, is it true that tall people look down on short people?

So, maybe you know this phrasal verb "to look

down" on something is you're physically taller

than someone and you, "Oh, hello down there.

Hello, Mr. Snake. Hello, down there." So,

I'm taller than Mr. Snake. Right? But in this case, "to look down on someone"

means you think they are less than you. Maybe

socially, economically, intelligently, I don't

know. So, "to look down on someone" means to think

they are less than you. So, this works in a double

way. You decide, are these jokes funny? A way that you can learn phrasal verbs

is make jokes from them. Once you understand

that phrasal verbs have more than one meaning,

then your brain begins to go, "Oh, hey, Ronnie,

I could be a stand-up comedian and tell all these

wonderful jokes with phrasal verbs." I'm going to

be right back with some more of these so you can

continue your laughing spree. And I'm back with

more horrible jokes. They are horrible. They're

horrible, but you're learning English and you're

learning phrasal verbs and it's not boring, so

stick with it. Yes. Okay, so I was reading about

the negative effects of drinking, so I gave up

reading. Honky, honk. So, it should say I was

reading about the negative effects of drinking,

so I gave up drinking, but to make it funny,

I just decided to stop reading so that I could

keep on drinking. Got it? So, "gave up", do

you know what that means, that phrasal verb?

I gave up drinking, I gave up smoking, I gave up

running, I gave up exercising, I gave up dieting.

If you give something up, it means that you

quit. So, the funny thing is I quit reading,

but I'm still drinking. Oh, yeah. It's not

so much the work I like, said the bus driver,

it's the people I run into. Honk, honk. Bus

drivers out there, be careful. Okay, so if you

run into someone, this has two meanings. The

first one, what you probably imagine is a bus

can actually hit or run into you. So, the first

meaning is the bus driver actually hits people.

It doesn't happen a lot. Bus drivers are usually,

you know, pretty well trained. I did recently hear

a story about a bus driver hitting a pedestrian.

"Pedestrian" means a person walking. I can

guarantee you with 99.9%, no doubt, that this

human was walking, holding their cell phone.

Get off your fucking phone when you walk across

the street, unless you want to die. Number two,

if you run into someone but you don't hit them, it

means you meet them by chance. So, oh, you know,

I was at the supermarket, oh, and I ran into

Tommy. Like, "Tommy, what are you doing here,

dude? Oh, you getting some tomatoes? Yeah, nice.

Nice tomatoes, Tommy." So, to run into someone

means you meet by chance. So, this is why it's

funny. The bus driver meets a lot of people by

chance and could also maybe hit them if they're

using their phones and not watching when they're

crossing the street. Put your phones away, people.

Meet by chance. Okay, next one. Oh, I put change.

No. Chance, chance, chance. C-h-a-n-c-e. See,

another thing is about learning English is you're

afraid to make mistakes. Look at me. I make

mistakes all the time. Don't ever be afraid to

make a mistake. Okay? It's cool. You're good. Got

you. Number seven. Oh, this is cute. What did the

big candle... Candle's, like, a thing like this.

It has a flame, you light it. Sometimes they smell

good. By the way, I make my own candles. They're

in the shape of this. If you want to buy one,

hit me up on my website. Anyways, what did...

Hello? Hello? Hello? What did the big candle

say to the little candle? "You're too young to

go out." It's only funny because it's a candle,

because if a candle goes out, it means it's extinguished.

So, if you extinguish a flame, it means you

put... Bye-bye. Bye-bye, fire. But in the second

meaning, it's like an adult talking to a kid or

a mom talking to a child, saying you're too young

to go out, and this means... Meaning, it means,

like, to go out to party or hang out with your

friends. Let's try it again. What did the big

candle say to the little candle? "You're too

young to go out."