ONE HOUR ENGLISH LESSON - Top 50 Phrasal Verbs in English (WITH QUIZZES)

Welcome to JForrest English training. I'm Jennifer. And in this lesson, you're going

to learn 50, common phrasal verbs, that will help you sound fluent and natural in English.

Because this is a long lesson. I've divided it into five different parts. So first, you'll

complete a

quiz.

Then you'll learn the phrasal verbs in detail and then you'll complete another quiz to make

sure you really understand these phrasal verbs.

And then you'll move on to the next group of phrasal verbs. Let's get started.

question 1, I really

because my new kitten is so cuddly.

Now, I'll only give you three seconds to answer the question, so

if

you need more time hit pause, take as much time as you need.

I really lucked out question 2. If we

the deal now, we'll lose our deposit.

If we back out of question 3, your presentation is only 10 minutes. So make sure you don't.

You don't Ramble On question for we only have two days to fix all these

errors. I don't know how will

How will pull it off? Question 5, all travelers have to

The covid rules and regulations.

Have to advise I'd buy question 6. I once saw Brad Pitt in a restaurant but I and couldn't

even say hello.

But I clammed up question 7, if everything.

We'll finish the project tomorrow.

If everything pans out question 8. The meaning was so long and boring, I'm surprised I didn't.

I didn't nod off question 9. It just that tomorrow's our anniversary.

It just dawned on me and question 10. The Proposal looks good but let's take the afternoon

to before we decide.

To mull it over. Now, if you want more support to help you feel comfortable and confident

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it easy difficult share your score in the comments below and now I'll explain every

phrasal verb in detail. Number one to abide by this is more of a formal phrasal verb because

it's used when you accept or follow a rule or regulation so we use it mainly with government

rules core.

Rules even business rules, as well, for example, as a tourist, you have to abide by the rules

of the country, you're visiting. So if you see a sign that says no parking, you have

to abide by that rule, you have to follow that rule. Now, remember, we also use this

to say you simply accept, you accept, but then you follow it, for example, let's say

you go

Go to court because of a dispute and the court doesn't rule in your favor. You still have

to abide by that decision, you have to accept it and then follow it. So this is a more formal

phrasal verb, but it's very useful because we all have to abide by many different rules,

regulations and policies. Number two, to Dawn on, this is an excellent

Ezel verb to add to your daily vocabulary to Dawn on is when you

finally

realize or understand something, for example, one day it just dawned on me that I need to

change careers. So, one day, I just realized, I need to change career, so you can absolutely

say realize we're just using the phrasal verb gone on and it's extremely common.

Now notice the sentence structure here, it dawned on me, it's something Dawns on someone.

So the it is the realization, it dawned on me that I need to change careers. So just

keep that in mind because the sentence structure is commonly used with it Dawns on and then

someone number three to pull off. This is also a must know phrasal verb.

When you pull something off your able to do something that is difficult or unlikely. To

do. For example, let's say you're a wedding planner and a couple comes to you and tells

you, they want to have this huge 300-person wedding in three weeks and they want you to

plan everything that's really difficult and it might even be

Be unlikely that you're able to plan a 300-person wedding in three weeks. So, you could say,

I don't know if I can pull that off. I don't know if I can do that because it's very

difficult.

I don't know if I can pull that off the that being planning, the 300-person wedding. Now,

let's say you do successfully plan the wedding after you could say, I can't believe I

Hold that off. I can't believe I pulled off planning, a 300-person wedding in only three

weeks. Number four, to back out of this is an excellent business phrasal verb. It's used

when you fail to keep a commitment or a promise. Now, in a business context, a commitment could

be something you agree to, or arrange to.

It can be formal and you have a contract in place or it could be more informal and you

just agree to it verbally. So if you don't keep that commitment, then you back out of

it. For example, I can't believe the client backed out at the last minute. Now notice

here, I just said backed out, I didn't use the of. We only use the of when you specify

The noun, the something I can't believe the client backed out of the agreement. The project,

the plan, the proposal, at the last minute. Number five, it's a clam up. This is an excellent

phrasal verb for all of you or anyone that does public speaking. Because when you clam

up, you're unable to speak,

usually

because of fear or nervousness, but this can also

An also be used, if you simply refuse to speak for whatever reason, for example, I always

clam up when I'm public speaking. When I'm public speaking, I become unable to get the

words out, you clam up. Now, my advice to you is if you feel like you're going to clam

up, just take a deep breath. Number six. Telmo over when you mull something over.

You think about it or you consider it and the something you're mulling over is simply

an idea, an idea, proposal, a suggestion, and you mull it over, you think about it,

you consider it. So let's say you're in a meeting and a client or colleague, suggests

a new tool to use and you need to think about it. So you could say give me a few days to

mull it over.

Over and I'll get back to you to mull, it over the it being using the tool, purchasing

the tool, whatever you're going to do, give me a few days to mull it over. Now, you can

also specify the noun and you can say I need to mold the deal over before I commit number

72 pan out. This is an extremely common phrasal, verb to pan out, Simply talk.

About how a situation develops for example, I'm not sure how this merger will pan out.

So the situation here is the merger and we're talking about well how's the merger going

to go? How's it going to develop? Will it be positive? Will it be - will there be challenges

or difficulties benefits? That's how the situation develops.

Oops. So here I'm saying I'm not sure I'm not sure how the merger will pan out. Now,

let's see. The merger has some difficulties or challenges. You could say the merger. Didn't

pan out, didn't develop the merger, didn't pan out as we had expected number eight to

ramble on. This is an excellent one for all you public speakers because when you

Ramble On you talked at length without getting to the point. So let's say I rambled on for

five minutes, trying to explain the definition of ramble on. And at the end you didn't understand

it at all. And you're confused, you're a little annoyed because I wasted your time I rambled

on. So this is you

Used as a negative and it's used when you're communicating an idea. So we generally use

this as a complaint, the speaker rambled on, for 20 minutes, number 9 to nod off. This

is when you fall asleep, but is when you fall asleep. Usually, for a very short period of

time and usually when you're not supposed to, so this isn't when you

You go to bed at the end of the night. Okay? So let's say you're in a meeting at work and

your colleague is rambling on. And the topic is very boring and you start doing this.

That is nodding off and this motion of your head. What I'm doing this is the verb to nod

nod your head. So when you fall asleep, what do you do? You nod your head. So that's where

this phrasal verb to nod off comes from. And remember we use this for short periods of

time. Usually when you're not supposed to fall asleep, for example,

When you're driving. So I might say I always listen to loud music when I'm driving at night.

So I don't nod off. And number 10, I love this phrasal verb to luck out. When you luck

out you're very lucky in a specific situation. So let's say there's this major sale on the

new iPhone model and

Are selling for 50% off. And you go to the store and you get the very last one

you

could say. I can't believe I lucked out and got the new iPhone for 50% off. You lucked

out you were very lucky in this specific situation. Or let's say you're driving during rush hour

and you're going to an appointment and you get a parking spot.

Right in front of the office in Rush Hour downtown. You can say I can't believe I lucked

out and got such an amazing parking spot. Or if you're telling that story to a friend

I got this parking spot right in front of the building downtown during rush hour. They

could say wow you really lucked out you really lucked out by getting that parking spot.

Now, that you feel more comfortable with the phrasal verbs. Let's do that. Exact same quiz

again, so you can see how much progress you made. So here are the questions. Hit pause.

Take as much time as you need. And when you're ready, hit play to see the answers.

Here are the answers, hit, pause, and compare your answers to the correct answers.

question 1, she's not

She's just really good at basketball.

She's not showing off question.

2 is hard to meditate when my kids keep

When my kids keep barging

in

question 3, we've been friends for 20 years. I'm not going to let this

I'm not

going to let this come between us question for. It's amazing how fast the company after

the pandemic.

The company. Bounced back. Question, five, I

need to call the

garage. My car's been all week.

My car's been acting up question. Sinks his speech, didn't the urgency of the situation.

His speech didn't get across question 7 just can close any deal. We can

We can count on her question 8. I

can't give you the day off tomorrow, but I

can.

By letting you leave early.

I can make it up to you question nine. They said the price is too high but give them a

week. They'll

They'll come around question 10. My boss always makes me stay late. I don't know why I

I put up with it. How did you do with the quiz? Share your score in the comments below

and don't worry if it was difficult because now I'm going to explain every phrasal verb

in detail. Number one to come around to an opinion or an idea. And this means to change

your opinion or to see a new point of view. Now, notice the sentence structure because

we have two prepositions

Oceans around and two. And then after two, we need something, we need a noun, an opinion

or an idea. For example, I came around to the new job after I heard about the benefits

package. So remember, this means you change your opinion. So previously, you didn't want

the new job, but now you've come around to it. So you've changed your opinion.

And now you want the new job because you heard about the benefits package, we commonly use

this without the preposition to and without specifying the something. When the something

has already been mentioned, for example, at first, I didn't want to move to Boston, but

I came around after I visited. So notice, I didn't say I came

around to something because the something had already been mentioned. So I came around

to the idea after I visited number two, to get across a point or a message. And this

is when you clearly and effectively communicate a point or a message. For example, make sure

you get

Pause that the project is over budget. So if you're having a meeting with a client in

your boss has this very particular message or idea the project is over budget and your

boss wants you to communicate that in a clear effective way your boss wants to make sure

you get that across. Now we also use this when you're talking, you're talking, you're

talking and the ideas aren't really coming out very well.

Well, and after a, while you stop and you say, what? I'm trying to get across is, and

then you state your point. What I'm trying to get across is the project is over budget.

Number three, is to show off. This is when you deliberately display your skills or abilities

in a way to impress other people. Now this

Is frequently used in the - don't show off. Don't show off but there's definitely a time

and a place when you want to show off for example when you're going to a job interview,

you shouldn't be modest. You should show off your skills and abilities. You should talk

about all your Awards, your accomplishments, your degrees, the compliments you've received

You want to show off all of your experience to the interviewer. So an interview is the

perfect time to show off. Also, if you're going for your IELTS exam, you don't want

to be modest with your knowledge of the English language. You want to show off your abilities

by using a range of grammatical structures and a range of phrasal verbs and idioms and

expressions you want to show off

To the interviewer number for to count on. Now, this is exactly the same as to rely on

or to depend on. So you have three different phrasal verbs, all with on that mean the exact

same thing. And this is of course, when you trust someone or something to complete a specific

task or objective, for example, I can always count on

tan, Selma to stay late. So you can trust Selma to complete the specific task or objective,

which is to stay late. And remember, you could replace this with rely on, I can always rely

on Selma or depend on. I can always depend on Selma. Now we frequently use this in a

question response for example, can I count on you? Can I count on you to close the door?

He'll and then you can reply back and say absolutely You Can Count On Me. Number five

to come between. Now, this is when something disturbs a relationship and that relationship

can be a professional relationship, a social relationship romantic family relationship.

It can be any kind of relationship, for example. Jacob and Marcus were

Friends until Sylvie came between them. So that's the image. You could have, they were

close Jacob, and Marcus but then Sylvie came between them and now they're divided Sylvie

Disturbed. Their relationship now is very common for a girl or a guy to come between

a relationship but it doesn't have to be a person. It could be

Jacob and Marcus were very close, but the promotion came between them, the new job came

between them, their family came between them, their politics came between them, their religion

came between them, it could be anything came between them money is a good one, as well,

that comes between people in relationships, and remember, you can use this in any type

of relationship. Number 6 to put up,

Up with something or someone and notice this is a to preposition phrasal verb, put up with

put up with. And we use this to say that you tolerate bad behavior or unwanted Behavior

to put up with. For example, I don't know how you put up with your boss. I don't know

how you tolerate your boss.

No, of course, we can be more specific and specify the action that the boss does. I don't

know how you put up with your boss's constant criticism, for example, or your boss's distasteful

jokes, for example, I don't know how you tolerate it. Now, we commonly use this to say, I'm

not going to put up with and then the behavior I'm

I'm not going to put up with your constant criticism any longer number seven to bounce

back. Now, to bounce back, this is when you recover or recuperate, now, you can use this

when you recover from a negative situation in a business context, like, for example,

a bad sales quarter or a bad product,

For example, but it can also be when you recover or recuperate from an illness so you can use

it in both. Those situations, for example, in a workplace situation, you could say, I

don't know how we'll bounce back from our laws in Q2, so I don't know how we'll recover

and then you could have a discussion. How can we bounce back? Does anyone have any ideas

on how we can?

Bounce back. Now, in terms of recovering or recuperating from an illness, you could say,

it took me a while to bounce, back after my surgery. So it took me a while to recover

recuperate. Number 8, act up this means to behave badly or strangely. This is very commonly

used with parents describing the

Shins of their young children or even their older children. My son keeps acting up behaving

badly, but we can also use this with devices and objects. For example, my computer keeps

acting up behaving, strangely, my computer keeps acting up. I hope it doesn't break number

9, to make it up to someone.

This is quite a long one. So pay attention to this sentence structure to make it up to

someone. Now we use this when you try to compensate for a wrongdoing, for example, let's say it's

your best friend's birthday and you can't go for whatever reason. So this is the wrongdoing,

not going to your best friend's birthday party.

Now, if you want to compensate for that wrongdoing you could say. I'm so sorry. I can't make

your birthday party. I promise. I'll make it up to you. I'll make it up to you by taking

you out for a nice dinner. I'll make it up to you by going to the movies with you. I'll

make it up to you by buying you a really nice present.

So those are the ways you're going to compensate now, you might be wondering what is this?

It the make it up to someone. We use it with it because what, you're trying to compensate

for has already been explained? So you don't have to say it again. Now you can use this

in a business context. Let's say you went over budget on a client's project and you

might say to your team. How

Are we going to make it up to the client? How are we going to compensate for our wrongdoing?

The wrongdoing is, you went over budget and then maybe someone would suggest we can make

it up to them by offering a discount or offering a free product offering an extra service.

So those are how you're going to compensate for the wrongdoing to make it up to someone

number 10 to.

Barge in, when you barge in, you enter a place, a location unexpectedly and you interrupt

whatever's taking place. For example, I was in my office working and this kid just barged

in and handed me his CV. But later, I hired him. So, by saying the kid barged in it, implies

that he didn't have an appointment. He wasn't.

Did he just barged in unexpectedly and he interrupted? Whatever I was working on, but

in this case, it was successful, because he got the job. Now, that you understand, these

phrasal verbs, a lot better. Let's do that. Exact same quiz from the very beginning. Again

here, are the questions for the quiz. You need to complete each sentence using the correct

phrasal verb. So, go ahead and hit pause now.

Now, and complete the quiz.

Here are the correct answers. Go ahead and hit pause and see how well you did.

Question 1, you've been arguing for months. You need to

you need to make up question to I said, we need to diversify our product line and I

And I stand. By that question, 3, I always have a cup of tea at night to help me.

After a busy day.

To help me wind down. Question for my girlfriend is studying abroad and I'm really

and I'm really aching for her question 5. Your suit doesn't look comfortable. Why don't

you something more comfortable?

Why don't you slip into question 6? It's getting late. So I'm going to

I'm going to turn in question 7, Salma took this job to her accounting experience.

To beef up.

Question 8, have you who's going to give the presentation?

Have you nailed down? Question 9. Sometimes it's easier to a trained professional.

To open up to question 10. The party was fun, but I when they started talking about politics,

But I zoned out. So how did you find that quiz? Was it easy? Was it difficult? Don't

worry, because I'm going to explain every phrasal verb in detail, and it will definitely

be easy by the end of the lesson. So let's do that. Now, ache for to egg for, this is

a very nice romantic phrasal verb. Now, we really use this in the context of a romantic

relationship, so, make sure,

Sure, you use that appropriately and to ache for something. Or someone is when you really,

really want that something or someone, for example, he was lonely and aching for love.

So this is perhaps a little more of a poetic phrasal verb. You will probably hear it. And

novels stories movies TV, he was aching for love.

So, maybe you won't use that in your vocabulary but you'll likely hear it in romance movies

or romance novels. Now, you may be more likely to use a cake for someone. Let's say your

husband is overseas on a business trip and he'll be gone for two or three weeks. You

might say I'm aching for my husband. So, if you're talking to your friends, your family,

even your colleagues, you could say, oh, I'm really a

King, for my husband, he's been gone for two weeks. Already. Number two to beef up. This

is a fun one. When you beef something up, you make it

stronger

or more important. Now, we do use this in the context of bodybuilders and they can beef

themselves up become more muscular so you can use that in a fitness context, but we

also use this in more

A business context perhaps surprisingly because you might say I need to beef up my resume.

I need to make my resume stronger or more important. I need to beef up my communication

skills, for example, number three, to make up. And in this context, we're talking about

to make up with someone with someone to make up with someone is when you

Forgive someone after an argument or a dispute in a family context. Young kids argue a lot,

right? And older kids, too. But you might say to your son, your daughter. You need to

make up with your sister. You need to make up with your brother. You need to make up

with your cousin or a friend and you list a specific person which means you need to

forgive that person. Stop being

Angry at that person, stop fighting with that person. So we definitely use this in a social

context of family context, but you can absolutely use this in a professional context co-workers

fight as well. There are disagreements and companies so you might say to one co-worker

Sally, you need to make up with Mark, you work on the same team you have to get along

you.

Need to make up with each other number, 410 nail down. This is when you understand the

exact details of something, or you get a firm decision on something. So let's say you're

planning a conference, and you have a general idea of the conference, it will take place

in summer, it will be on this General topic or theme, but

When are the exact dates, what specific topics, who specifically will be the keynote speaker,

who specifically will be presenting, who will you hire to cater the conference? You need

to nail down those details. So you need to either understand the exact details, or you

need to make a firm decision on who's going to cater when the conference will exactly

take place. So that

that's a very useful phrasal verb and you can use it in a business context or a social

context number five to open up. When you open up to someone, you talk very freely about

your feelings or your emotions, things that make you quite vulnerable things. You probably

don't share with everybody. For example after years she finally opened up

About his death. So for many years, there was this tragic death perhaps and she didn't

really talk about it. She didn't talk about her feelings about the death. But then after

year, she opened up, she started talking freely about how she felt the exact circumstances,

how she's dealing with it. Those types of things, her inner feelings and emotions. Now,

notice I didn't use to someone, I could say she opened up

Up to her family about his death. So you have about and then the specific topic and to and

the specific people, you'll commonly hear people say I've never opened up to anybody

like this before. If someone says that to you, they're basically saying they feel very

comfortable around you. They feel like they can share their inner thoughts, feelings,

emotions, and that's a very positive thing. It shows

I have a very close relationship number 6, to slip into something. Now this is when you

quickly put on a piece of clothing. So this is a very specific phrasal verb, it's only

used with clothing. Now, for example, this shirts is quite pretty, isn't it? But let's

be honest, it's not the most comfortable shirt. So after I'm done recording this video, I'm

going to slip into a t-shirt

I'm going to put on a t-shirt or if it's first thing in the morning and you're in your house

coat. But then you hear your doorbell, you might quickly slip into some sweatpants and

answer the door. So it's simply another way to say, put on number seven to stand by something

when you stand by something, it's used to show that you still support.

Or believe something. So I might say, we stand by our opinion, that interest rates need to

increase. So that's my opinion. That's my belief. Interest rates need to increase. I

stand by that. I still support that, I still believe that. So you'll hear this a lot from

people in power, politicians Executives in business, they'll have an opinion, have a

belief and then they'll

State, I stand by that to let you know, they still believe that specific opinion. Do you

stand by that? I see the by that. Yes, I stand by that. And the reason simply is now we also

use this with stand by someone when you stand by someone. It means that you support someone

usually, when something negative has happened. So let's say that your

Her was accused of stealing from the company, but, you know, your coworker didn't do it.

You might say, I stand by her, I stand by her, which means you're going to support her

in this difficult time, number 8, to wind down to wind down. This is an excellent phrasal

verb because it means to relax after a busy or stressful day. So you might say, aye.

I always read at the end of the day to wind down to help me wind down. I always read at

the end of the day or I go for a walk after work to wind down so it just means to relax

but is another way of saying it and it implies that you were very busy or stressed out to

wind down number 92 zone out. This is when you stop paying attention for a

Period of time. Now, we've all done this, especially when we were kids in school and

your teachers talking and you just zone out. Now, generally people zone out because they

don't have interest in a particular topic. For example, whenever people talk about sports

I zone out, I just stopped listening and I started thinking about something else in my

own head and I'm not listening to the conversation about

It's I zone out, I stopped paying attention but then when the conversation changes, I'll

pay attention again. So it's always for that short period of time. Number 10 to turn in.

This is a very useful phrasal verb because it's simply means to go to bed. It's another

way of saying to go to bed and is very common. So, of course, you can say, I'm tired, I'm

going to bed but you can also say I'm tired. I'm

Going to turn in. I'm going to turn it and it's extremely commonly used. So I suggest

you use it. You can use it as a suggestion. Hey it's getting late and you have that job

interview tomorrow. You should turn in. You should go to bed or you can use it in question

form as well. What time did you turn in? What time did you go to bed now that you're more

comfortable with these phrasal verbs? How about we do that?

Exact same quiz again and you can see how much you've improved. So here are the questions,

of course, hit pause, take as much time as you need and when you're ready, hit play,

and I'll share the answers. So you can go ahead and hit pause now.

How did you do on that quiz? Well let's find out. Here are the answers, go ahead and hit

pause and figure out how you did.

Question 1. I used to play video games every day, but eventually I

Grew out of it, question, 2. Do you know why? Sarah of the meeting earlier today?

Walked out of the meeting question, 3, can you add mustard to the shopping list? I just

I just used it on question for you. Should your old books to your community store?

You should give away question 5. The bridge is because there was an accident.

The bridge is blocked off. Question sinks my boss said we can with canceling, the contract.

We can go ahead, question. 7, my company using cell phones during work hours.

My company frowns on question 8. I'm sorry. I at you during the meeting I overreacted.

Last out the question. I'm, can you help me this error?

Sort out question 10. The presentation was really long so I for a bit.

So I wandered off. So how did you do with that quiz? Was it easy or was it difficult?

Well, now I'm going to explain every phrasal verb in detail. Number one to block off. This

is when you obstruct an exit to prevent people from leaving. This is a very common phrasal

verb because on your daily commute to work. You may have to take

take a detour, which means take an alternative route because your regular exit is blocked

off. So let's say you get to work 15 minutes late, you can say, sorry, I'm late, Main Street

was blocked off and most likely that street or exit is blocked off. Because of construction

is also possible that there was an accident or

Perhaps, there's something like a parade or a protest that's preventing people from using

that exit, number two, to lash out. When you lash out, it means you react angrily. You

react with very strong negative emotion. So this phrasal verb is negative and it's used

in a negative way. So you might

It's a, she lashed out when I suggested a different approach. So you shared an opinion

and the person reacted very negatively, very angrily. They lashed out. Now, for this phrasal

verb, it's very common to say at someone, she lashed out at me, when I suggested a different

approach the apps on

One is optional, you don't need to do it but it can be very useful to specify who. So,

if you want to specify the person, then we use at someone, she lashed out at, Jim she

lashed out at us, it could be the entire group, she lashed out at the client. And then you

can explain the reason why she lashed out at the

Uh, clients because the payment was late number three to walk out. When you walk out, it means

you leave a place angrily. So we have another phrasal verb with angrily. You leave a place

angrily. So let's say you're meeting with your boss to discuss your performance. Now,

maybe you were expecting a 20% rain.

Is a raise is a pay increase, a 20 percent pay increase but your boss only offered you

two percent. You might say after my boss offered me two percent, I walked out. So you left

the room, you left the office, the meeting, but you didn't just leave you left. Angrily.

Angrily. That's the key here. So combining our last phrasal verb to last

Shout to react angrily, we can say after she lashed out at me, I walked out number for

to sort out. This means to resolve a problem. Now, we can use this with a business, professional

problem. For example, let's say your payment processor isn't working and you can accept

payments.

It's you might say, we need to sort this out ASAP. We need to resolve this problem, ASAP,

or who can we call to sort this out? So you can absolutely use this in a professional

business context. When there's a problem, we commonly use this, with personal issues,

with relationship issues, when you have a problem with another person. So let's say

you

And your sister haven't spoken in months because of a disagreement maybe your sister lashed

out at you and then you walked out of her birthday party and you haven't spoken sense.

Well, someone might suggest some ways you can sort it out. You need to sort it out with

your sister. You need to resolve the problem. And in this case, the problem is a personal

problem. So this is a great phrase.

Verb to use for a business context and a personal context. Number five to use up. This is when

you finish or consume 100 percent of something. So all of something and that's very important

because I could say I used the olive oil so I consumed the olive oil but when I just say

use it doesn't

Tell you how much, how much, olive oil

did

I use? I use the olive oil, but if I say, I used up the olive oil then, you know, I

used 100% of the olive oil. So there is none left for you or for someone else and you have

to get more. So, I could say, I used all the olive oil when I say,

The olive oil, all means 100%. So that is exactly the same as I used up. The olive oil

number six to wander off. This is when you leave a place, when you're not supposed to

or you leave a place without telling other people. Now this is commonly used with children.

So

Mother might say, I have to watch my daughter like a hawk or she'll wander off so little

kids, they might not stay in a room, they might wander off and go into another room

but of course that can be dangerous if nobody is watching that child. So, this is commonly

used with young children but we can also use it with adults. So let's say you're on a

M tour and you're in a foreign country on a Museum tour. Now you're supposed to stay

with the Museum tour, you're not supposed to wander off and just go look at other areas

of the museum, but you might say the tour was boring. So I wandered off number 7 to

grow out of. This is when you lose interest in.

In something. So to lose interest, you're no longer interested in something because

you're older or more mature. For example, a lot of young kids play video games for hours

and hours and hours, but as an adult, you might grow out of it. So you no longer do

that, you no longer play video games for hours, and hours and hours. Because your

Older, you're more mature, a number eight to go ahead. This means to proceed. This is

a very useful phrasal verb. We use it commonly to give someone permission to do something.

So your coworker might ask you is it okay? If I send the email to the client, and you

can say, sure, go ahead, go ahead. Which means proceed

Proceed with sending the email go ahead. Now, you can just say go ahead, period? Or you

can specify what the action is. You can say, go ahead and send the email or go ahead with

and we need a gerund. Go ahead with sending the email and send the email with sending

the email so pay attention.

It's tuned to that sentence structure number nine to give away this means to provide for

free. So this is a great phrasal verb for me. I could say, I give away my best tips

and advice on how to become fluent right here on this YouTube channel. Now, let's say you

have a lot of items from your kids,

But your kids are grown up now, but you have a lot of their clothes, their toys, even furniture

for your kids. You might want to give that away. So you can provide it to another parent

or someone else for free. We gave away all our kids clothes when they moved out. So when

you want to get rid of something in your house, you can sell it, or you can give it away.

Provide it for free. And finally number, 10 to frown on, this means to disapprove of something.

So you might say, my boss disapproves of casual clothes so you can say, my boss frowns on

wearing casual clothes, notice our sentence structure, frowns on wearing, we need our

Jaron verb. Now that you feel more comfortable with these,

Phrasal verbs. How about we do? The exact same quiz again so you can see how much you've

improved here. Are the questions. Hit pause, take as much time as you need, and when you're

ready, hit play to see the answers.

Here are the answers. Hit pause. Take as much time as you need. Compare your answers and

when you're ready hit play.

Question 1, we should the party with some karaoke.

We should kick off question to you. Don't need to your team, I've heard great things

about them.

Talk up question, 3. Make sure your team doesn't while the CEO is here.

Horse Around question for it. Really, when Jeremy took credit for my work,

Ticked me off question five. He's been since he lost the contract.

moping around question 6, we're on a tight budget, but we have enough to

To get by question 7. The expense reports have been since Sarah left.

Piling up question, eight. I've learned to my mother when she gives me relationship advice.

Tune out. Question 9. She used to be very serious but she's a bit.

Loosened up question, 10. My boss is going to when she learns we lost the account.

Flip out. So how did you do with that quiz? Don't worry if it was difficult because now

I'm going to explain every phrasal verb in detail. Let's get started. Number one to tune

out. This is a very useful phrasal verb because is used to say, you stop listening to someone,

you stop paying attention to them because you don't like what they're saying, basically,

so you to

Une someone out. This is something that kids do all the time with their parents, right?

If your parent is giving you advice and you don't want to hear it, you just tune them

out. So your parent is talking but you're just not really listening. So you might say,

I always tune out my mom when she gives me relationship advice. Now, this can also happen

a lot in a workplace situation. Let's say

The co-worker that sits beside you is just a very negative person and complains a lot.

You might just simply tune them out so you stop listening to them because you don't want

to hear all that negativity and complaining. So you just tune them out there talking but

you're not listening. Number two to take off. This is a useful one because it means to annoy

to anger or to irritate

Eight. Now, we use this into very specific sentence structures. It ticks someone off.

It takes me off when my coworker doesn't help, so it takes someone off and then you explain

the situation that causes the anger, the frustration, or the irritation. Now the other sentence

structure is just to say someone or something.

Excuse me off. John really ticks me off. He's so - John really irritates me. Frustrates

me, annoys me John really ticks me off. He's so - but I just tune him out. Number three

to talk up and you talked someone or something up. And that means you speak in a way that

makes that someone or something sound really beneficial.

Vishal really positive, really amazing. Maybe even more so than the reality. So let's say

you're in sales and you're trying to sell this piece of software to a company. Will

you're going to talk up that software? You're going to talk about that software in a way

that really highlights. All of its positive features and you probably won't mention any

negative features. You're going to talk it up or let's say

That you're really close friend applied for a job in your company. Well, you're probably

going to talk up your friend. You're going to speak about your friend, very enthusiastically,

very positively because you want your friend to get the job, you're going to talk up your

friend number four to pile up. This means simply to increase in amount and we generally

use this with work. So,

In general you can say work is really piling up. Work is increasing in amount. You can

use this with specific work. So you might say my expense reports are piling up or even

with household chores you might say the laundry is piling up the dirty dishes are piling up

they're increasing in amount number five to mope around.

Some mope around. This is when someone moves from one location to another but they do it

in a very unhappy way, a lazy way, a disappointed way. And it's generally because something

is wrong, something specific is wrong. So maybe they just lost their job or they just

broke up with their girlfriend. So they'd mope around the house. All day. They go from

the couch to the kid.

Kitchen back to the couch but they look really upset and lazy and no energy. So this isn't

really a positive thing. We generally say stop moping around. You need to stop moping

around and start looking for a job. If that's the reason why you're moping around because

you lost your job, stop moping around and look for a job, number six to lose.

Send up. This is a great one. It means to be more relaxed, more comfortable, or less

serious. So, you might say she was very shy at first, but then she loosened up. So she

became more relaxed. More comfortable. Now we often use this as advice to someone. If

someone is just being too serious, you might say loosen up. Loosen

Listen up. It's similar to sing relaxed. A little relaxed, a little loosen up. You need

to loosen up. Oh, just loosen up. Number seven to kick off. This is a great one because when

you kick something off, it means you start. But we use this in the context of a sports

event, a meeting, a conference, or even a

Already. So some sort of event with people. So when Sports is very common to say the game,

the match kicks off at and then you say, the time the match kicks off at 3:00, the game

kicks off at 7:00 and that's just when the game starts. Now you could also say let's

kick off the meeting.

Bye. And then you can explain how you're going to start the meeting. Let's kick off the meeting

by introducing the new CFO or let's kick off the meeting by sharing. The good news number

8, this is a fun one to horse around when you force around you behave in a silly or

noisy way. So basically what children do all the time they Horse Around

Round, but you might say, the kids were horsing around and they broke my favorite vaes now.

Although, this is commonly used in children, it can, of course, be used for adults as well,

because adults act in silly and noisy ways all the time, right? Even in workplace context.

So, you might be talking about how your team is constantly horsing around. And as a bonus,

you can also say,

Goof around. It's an alternative but they're both very commonly used so horse around or

goof around number 9 to get by. This is when you have just enough money to live on but

not very much extra. So you can basically pay all your bills and that's about it. So

you might say sense are twins were born. It's been more difficult to

get by. You have two new babies in the house. Well, first congratulations. But of course,

that's very expensive. So now you only have enough money to pay your bills to buy the

food by the diapers by the groceries, pay your mortgage things like that, we're getting

by, we're getting by, you're just surviving so if someone knows you're going through a

tough time financially maybe you lost your job and they ask you

How's it going? Is everything okay? You could say well I'm getting by I'm getting by which

lets them know you're surviving, you have enough to pay all your core expenses and finally

number 10. So flip out. Now this can mean to become very excited but it can also mean

to become very angry or agitated so is when you have a very strong emotion but that emotion

can be

Be positive excitement or it can be - anger, and it will be obvious based on context. So,

if you just won a competition or a prize or the lottery, you might flip out and become

very, very excited, right? The sports team flipped out when they won the gold medal or

the team flipped

out.

Vote. When they lost the game, the team became very angry so you can use it in both situations

and for this expression you can also say, freak out, freak out flip out, they mean the

same and again positive excitement or - anger. So now that you're more comfortable with these

phrasal verbs. How about we do that exact same quiz again so you can see how much

You've improved. So here are the questions. Hit pause. Take as much time as you need,

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

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