Do you know these PHRASAL VERBS? (Learn 10 Advanced Phrasal Verbs) WITH QUIZZES

Welcome to JForrest English.

I'm Jennifer.

And today, you're going to add 10 Advanced phrasal

verbs to your

vocabulary.

Now, first, I'm going to quiz you to see how well, you know, these phrasal verbs, but don't

worry because after the quiz, I'll explain each phrasal verb in detail.

Let's get started,

question,

one with food prices, increasing.

It's getting more expensive to

Now I'll only show you each question for three seconds, so hit pause, take as much time as

you need and when you're ready to see the answer, hit play.

To eat out.

Question 2 is frustrating when someone because English isn't your first language,

Toss down to you question.

Three traffic is noisy and I can't hear you very well.

Can you?

Can you speak up question for?

You should try to with your cousin,

family comes first.

Work it out.

Question 5.

Do you have a table in the shade?

The sun is on us right now.

Beating down question 6, the politician needs

to a lot of support for his

proposal.

Drama question.

7, can you help me the living room before the guests arrive?

Tidy up question, 8?

I know you were but my divorce is a sensitive topic for me.

Joking around question 9.

She claims she slept through the robbery but that doesn't

Add up question.

10 to, we need to cut expenses by 20%.

To sum up.

So, how did you do with that quiz?

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these phrasal verbs in detail, phrasal verb, number one to add up.

We use this phrasal verb to say that something seems reasonable or

Collate and the something is usually a story, an explanation or a reason.

So let's say your coworker took a week off of work because she had to care for her sick

mother.

But then she comes back to the office a week later and she's really tanned and it's winter.

You might say something.

Doesn't add up.

Her story, doesn't seem reasonable or likely, something doesn't add up if she was taking

care of her sick mother.

Why does she have a tan?

I bet she took the week off to go to the beach to go on vacation to beat down.

This is a very simple but useful phrasal verb.

We use this phrasal verb only with the sun, when the Sun

Is shining very strongly.

So if you're sitting on a patio and it's sunny outside and is really, really hot, you can

say wow it's really beating down it being the sun.

If you say it, you don't have to define the subject the noun as the sun, because we always

use this phrasal verb with the Sun.

So it's not necessary.

And the context of sitting on a patio on a sunny day, is all you need.

So it's really beating down.

Now you can use an object and say us, it's really beating down on us.

Notice, I have to add an extra preposition on beat down, on someone or something.

You can use a, something you might.

Say you should move your laptop.

The sun is really beating down on it on your laptop and that's not very good for your electronics.

Right.

So you should put your laptop in the shade.

Number three to tidy up.

This is when you organize or arrange things in the right place, so you can take a bedroom

An office, a kitchen, any individual room or you could take an entire house.

Even and you might say this weekend, I need to tidy up or this weekend.

I need to tidy my office up, so you're going to go in your office and you're going to put

all the things, the objects in the right place.

So this is a very useful phrasal verb number 42,

Talk down to when you talk down to someone, you talk to them in a way that makes them

feel less intelligent than you or less important than you.

So this is a negative phrasal verb.

This often happens with adults and children, adults, and teenagers, parents and teenagers.

A teenager might complain or

Or a young adult might complain that their parents always talk down to them.

They talk to them in a way that makes them feel less intelligent or less important.

This often happens in the workplace especially with someone in a higher position and someone

in a lower position that someone in a higher position, might talk down to that person.

Even though that person has a lot more experience than them and there's

No reason to do that.

So this is used in a negative way, but it commonly happens, so you'll hear this phrasal

verb a lot when people are complaining about other people number five, to sum up.

This means to summarize the main points.

We commonly use this phrasal verb, when you're ending a presentation or a speech in your

conclusion when you want to summarize.

So at the end of your

Your presentation, you might say to sum up.

If we want to increase our profits, we need to diversify our product line.

So that's the main point of your presentation.

You elaborated on that main point and now you're saying to sum up to summarize.

So this is an excellent phrasal verb to add to your business, vocabulary to sound, very

Advanced, professional and natural number 62, joke around.

Don't when you joke around, it means what you're saying shouldn't be taken seriously,

you're just joking.

You're just being light-hearted.

You're just having fun, but we commonly use this to reassure someone.

So you might say, oh don't get mad.

I was just joking around so maybe you were making comments about someone in a

In a light-hearted way.

But they took it seriously and you reassure them.

Don't get mad.

I was just joking around now sometimes you might tell someone, you shouldn't joke around

about job loss.

So maybe somebody is making comments about other people losing their jobs and they're

not taking it very seriously, but you want that person to know that's inappropriate.

That's a serious topic.

You shouldn't joke around about job loss.

It's affected many people number 7 to eat out.

This simply means to eat in a restaurant.

So, rather than saying last night I went to a restaurant for dinner, we just simply say

last night, I ate out last night, I ate out, which means I ate in a restaurant.

Durant this morning, I ate out before work so because it's morning obviously we're talking

about breakfast.

So you can use it for any meal of the day.

So you might suggest to your friend.

If you want to save money, you should stop eating out.

You should stop eating out all the time.

So you should stop eating in restaurants.

Because of course, it's more expensive.

So this is an excellent phrasal verb to add to your daily.

Vocabulary to sound like a native English.

Speaker, number 82, drama.

Now, when you drum something up, it means you increase support or interest in someone

or something.

So let's say your company introduced a new product but sales are lower than expected.

Your boss might suggest everybody meet to brainstorm ways.

Ways to drum up interest.

So to increase interest to drum up sales to increase sales.

So, if you put drum up before the noun, it just means increase.

Let's drum up, support increase support drum up, enthusiasm increase enthusiasm number

9 to speak up.

When you speak up, it means you speak more loudly.

So, right now, I'm

Looking at this volume, but maybe you could say Jennifer, I'm having a hard time hearing

you.

Can you speak up?

Can you increase the volume of your voice?

And I'll say, sure I can speak of, and then I'll speak more loudly.

So, this is an excellent phrasal verb for a

language learner because often, you don't understand someone the first time and part

of the problem.

Might be that they're speaking to quietly, so you can say, can you speak up?

Can you please speak up or do you mind speaking up?

And then the other person will speak more loudly.

Number 10 to work out a problem or a situation.

This means that the problem or situation becomes better, it improves.

So let's say you're having

Conflict with your boss, your coworker might say, don't worry, I'm sure you'll work it

out, work it out, the it being the situation, the problem, the conflict, I'm sure.

You'll work it out, I'm sure it will improve.

I'm sure it will become better.

We also use this with problems in general.

Not specific to conflicts.

So,

Let's say, you lost some lot of money in the stock market, that's a problem, but your friend

can say, don't worry, I'm sure it will work out.

So it being this situation that you lost a lot of money.

I'm sure it will all work out in the end.

So that is a very common expression that native speakers use to reassure someone that is situation

a problem.

A conflict will

Will improve.

I'm sure

it

will all work out in the end now that you're more comfortable with these phrasal verbs.

How about we do that exact same quiz again so you can see how well you've improved here.

Are your questions, hit pause, and take as much time as you need and when you're ready,

hit play to see the answers.

Here are the answers, hit pause, compare the answers to your own.

And whenever you're ready, hit play.

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