Learn English Phrasal Verbs - MUST KNOW Phrasal Verbs in English

Welcome back to JForrestEnglish training, your  place to become a fluent and confident English  

speaker. Of course, I'm Jennifer and in this  lesson you're going to add the top 10 phrasal  

verbs to your vocabulary. And make sure you  watch right to the end because I'm going to  

quiz you to make sure you know how to use these  new phrasal verbs. Let's get started. Phrasal verb  

number one, to bear on. This means to be connected  to or related to. For example, I don't see  

how that information bears on this case. So I  don't see how that information is connected to or  

related to this case. I don't see how it bears on  this case. Now we can also use to bear on to me,  

influence or affect. For example, our relationship  didn't bear on my decision. So maybe you have a  

personal relationship with a contractor and you  interviewed many contractors and you chose the one  

you have a personal relationship with. But you  want people to know that personal relationship  

didn't impact or affect, it didn't bear on my  decision. This is a more professional or formal  

phrasal verb. You'll hear it a lot in the news  and reports and you can use it a lot in a business  

context. Number two, to care for something. When  you care for something, not someone, something,  

it means that you like, you have a preference  for that something. But we commonly use this  

in the negative. So I could say, I don't care for  chocolate cake. I don't care for chocolate cake.  

It's just another way of saying I don't like  chocolate cake. I don't have a preference for  

chocolate cake. I don't care for chocolate  cake. So if somebody offers you something,  

you could decline it and simply say, Oh, I don't  care for chocolate cake. Or if your coworkers are  

discussing the latest reality TV show and  they want to know what you think about It,  

you can say, I don't care for reality TV. It's  just letting them know you don't really like it.  

It's not your personal preference. Number three,  to perk up. To perk up means to feel better,  

happier or more energized. So think of first  thing in the morning when you wake up. You're  

still pretty sleepy, right? And what do a lot of  people do? They drink coffee. So you could say,  

coffee perks me up. Coffee makes me more  energized. Or going for a walk perks me up.  

We also use this when someone isn't feeling well  because they're sick or because something negative  

happens, like they lost their job. And you might  go over with some flowers, with some chocolates,  

or just with yourself to try to help perk up  that other person. To help make them feel better,  

happier, more energized. So you might say,  well, the flowers perked her up. The flowers  

perked her up. The flowers made her feel better,  happier, more energized. Number four, to sift  

through. This is a great phrasal verb. We use  this when you have large amounts of information,  

perhaps a lot of paperwork or files, books, and  you need to examine that information to determine  

what's useful, what's important. For example,  after Juliano quit, I had to sift through  

all his files. So he has all these files, a lot of  information, and you have to examine all of them  

to determine what you can delete and what's  important and you need to keep. Or at home,  

maybe you're going through your  grandmother's photo albums and she has  

20-30 different photo albums, so you might ask  your brother, can you help me sift through these  

photo albums? So you're going to examine them  to determine what pictures you want to keep  

and what pictures you want to get rid of. Maybe  you don't know who is in that photo or the quality  

is really bad. Number five, to wrap up. This  is another way of saying to end, to finish,  

but it's very commonly used, especially in a  business context. So if you're in a meeting, and  

you're coming to the end of the meeting, you can  simply say, all right, everyone, let's wrap up.  

Let's wrap up for today. Now we commonly add 'it'.  Let's wrap it up. Let's wrap it up for today. It's  

getting late. Let's wrap it up. The 'it' is the  meeting. The meeting, the conference, the event,  

whatever you're in that you want to finish  or end. Or you can say, how should we wrap  

up the conference? How should we finish or end the  conference? You want to do it in a memorable way,  

right? How should we wrap up the conference.  And then you can have a discussion on that.  

Number six, to flip through. When you flip through  a book, a report, a magazine, it means you go  

through it really quickly. So usually because you  want to get a general idea of what that book is  

about, or because you're looking for very specific  information. So if you have this report that's 130  

pages, but you're looking for a very specific  piece of information, you can just quickly  

flip through it to find that specific part of the  report. Or you can do this when you're waiting for  

a friend to arrive, waiting for a bus, you might  flip through a magazine. Just look through it,  

but you're not really reading anything. You're  just flipping through it. You're going through  

it quickly. Number seven, to draw out. When  you draw something out, you make it a lot  

longer than necessary or needed. So it's usually  used in a more negative context. For example,  

he really drew out his speech. He made the  speech a lot longer than it needed to be,  

or that it should have been. So it's more  of a negative. It's criticizing the speech.  

Or you could say, they really drew out  the ending of the movie. So maybe you were  

enjoying the movie, but then the end was just  really long, way longer than it needed to be.  

And you're wondering, when is this movie going to  end? They really drew out the end of the movie.  

Number eight, fall behind. This is a great  phrasal verb for both a professional context  

and a personal context. When you fall  behind, it means you make less progress than  

wanted or needed. Let's say you were off sick  from work for over a week. Well, you're definitely  

going to fall behind. You're going to make less  progress than needed, because you have a deadline,  

or than you just simply wanted to make, because  you were gone for an entire week. So often we  

can fall behind because we're sick or there's  a competing deadline or competing project or  

something going on in your personal life. But it  could also simply be because we didn't work hard  

enough or fast enough and we fell behind. So in  a school context, if you don't spend enough time  

reading or doing your homework, your exercises,  you might fall behind. And if you fall behind,  

you might have to ask your professor for an  extension on a specific assignment. Number nine,  

to get around. This is when you move from place  to place within a specific location. So let's  

say the location is your city. And I'm visiting  your city. I could ask you, what's the best way  

to get around? What's the best method of  transportation to go from place to place  

within your city? So what would you say, what's  the best way to get around in your city? And then  

you can say, oh Jennifer, you can easily get  around on foot, which means you can walk from  

location to location because your city is very  small. Or you might say, you definitely need a car  

to get around. Maybe your city is quite large  and spaced out and it's not possible to walk, so  

you need a car to get around, to go from place to  place. So this is an extremely useful phrasal verb  

when you're a tourist because you should  absolutely know how to get around in the  

city you're visiting. And finally number 10, to  put off. When you put something off, it means  

you delay it or postpone it. Now you could put off  a meeting, you could delay or postpone a meeting  

for a specific reason. You might say, let's  put off the meeting until next week. So let's  

delay the meeting until next week. A lot of times  people will put off things that are unpleasant,  

things they don't want to do. For example, I've  been putting off asking my boss for a raise.  

I've been putting off asking my boss for a raise.  So notice the gerund verb. I've been putting off  

asking. I've been putting off cleaning  my closet. I've been putting off buying  

new tires. So you need that gerund verb.  And why are you delaying and postponing?  

Because it's uncomfortable, unpleasant. So  now you have 10 new phrasal verbs that you  

can add to your vocabulary. Are you ready for  your quiz? Here are the questions. Hit pause,  

take as much time as you need, and when you're  ready, you can hit play and see the answers.  

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