Give Up, Make Up, End Up ✨ Most Common Phrasal Verbs (16-18)

Hi everyone. I'm Jennifer  from English with Jennifer.  

The fact that you're watching this  video tells me that you've been studying  

English for some time. You worked hard to reach  the intermediate or perhaps the advanced level.  

It wasn't easy, was it? So, what I know about  you is that you're not one who gives up easily.  

You didn't quit before, so I doubt you'll quit  now. We'll go on studying English together.

"Give up" means to quit. This phrasal  verb can be intransitive. "Don't give up"  

are words of encouragement. A good athlete never  gives up halfway through a game or a match.

We can also talk about giving up on someone.  This still means to quit, but it's in the  

context of our interaction with a person. A  teacher should never give up on a student.

A captain shouldn't give  up on his or her teammates.  

If you give up on someone, then you stop making  the effort to guide them toward improvement.  

Giving up on someone is about losing  hope and losing faith in them.  

What happens when someone gives up  smoking? What do they do? They quit.  

Note how we can use "give up" with an object.  This phrasal verb can be transitive and separable:  

Give up smoking. Give it up.

You don't just give up bad habits, though. A while  ago, I took taekwondo classes with my children,  

but when they lost interest and wanted to try  other activities, I had to give up taekwondo, too.

"Give up" can simply mean to stop doing  something or stop using something.

Are there things that you chose to give  up or had to give up over the years?

Have you ever read aloud with me? I've shared  some original stories and poems in my Oral  

Reading Fluency series. Besides teaching,  I enjoy creative writing. I like making up  

stories. Students who've joined my live streams  may also know I like creating stories on the spot.  

How about you? Can you invent characters and use  your imagination to create a world around them?

"Make up" means to create or invent.  It could be bad, like making up lies.  

But it could also be fun and good, like making  up a game to play with your nieces and nephews.

"Make up" is transitive and separable:  Make up a story. Make it up.

Can you guess these other meanings?

You need nine players to make up a baseball  team, so you need eighteen to play.

Every time my sister looks at a menu, she  needs at least ten minutes to make up her mind.

I plan to have a big birthday party this year  to make up for the one I didn't have last year.

In sentence A, "make up" means "form or  compose." Nine players form one whole team.

Sentence B uses the expression "make up one's  mind," which means to decide. The meanings in  

Sentence A and B are somewhat similar. It's  about forming something, like forming a decision.

Sentence C uses "make" with two particles:  make up for. When you make up for something,  

you compensate for something  lost or something not done.  

Make up for lost time. Make up for past mistakes.

In a work setting, do you think a great  personality makes up for weak skills?  

Did you know that I had planned to  teach English in Japan at one point?  

Well, my plans changed, and I ended up staying  in Russia longer than I expected to. Plenty of  

unexpected things happen in life, and it's  not a bad thing. Right? I started teaching  

in the classroom, and I ended  up building my career online.

"End up" means you reach a  place, a state, or a situation,  

and it wasn't planned. The outcome was  unexpected. This phrasal verb doesn't  

require an object, but you need to specify  that place, that state, or that situation.

In the TV series A Discovery of Witches, the  main character grows up trying to avoid magic,  

but she ends up becoming one of  the most powerful witches ever.

In Season 2, Diana Bishop's powers allow  her to time travel. She ends up in 1590.

We see the chemistry between Diana and  Matthew, a vampire, and it's no surprise  

that they end up romantically involved. They  end up husband and wife, though it's forbidden.

Has life ever taken you by surprise? What did  you end up doing? Have things turned out well?

We've now covered the 18 most common phrasal  verbs in English. Go back and review as necessary.  

Take on my challenge and answer the  three questions I asked in this lesson.  

I don't think I need to point out  how important it is to go beyond  

studying the definitions. Practice using the  phrasal verbs, and then you'll master them.

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