Phrasal Verbs Part 4! Let's Learn English! 🤣🍔🐔 (Lesson Only)

Well, hello and welcome to this

English lesson about phrasal verbs.

This is part four.

If you didn't watch the first three, you should

take a minute to go and watch those.

After this one is done.

It'll take you more than a

minute, but you should watch them.

I've tried to put together what I think are the

hundred most common phrasal verbs in English, and in each

lesson I teach about 25 or 26 of them.

In this lesson, I'll wrap up

this series of English lessons.

There are far more phrasal verbs, by the way,

and I will, throughout the coming year do a

few more lessons about phrasal verbs, but this is

the last one for this series.

I think you will enjoy it.

There's a few in here that they're going to be

hard to explain because they involve a couple actually have,

I think one has an animal name in it. Yeah.

And one refers to.

Well, you'll see when we get there.

You'll have to wait to see the

slides as they come up again.

These are common phrasal verbs.

As much as I might be laughing or giggling a

little bit about some of them, they are common.

They are phrasal verbs that we use all the

time and you will hear all the time.

So welcome to this English lesson about phrasal verbs.

Part four to crack down on so this phrasal verb

wins the prize for having the most words in it.

There are other ones like this, but when you use

the verb to crack down on, it means that you're

trying to stop a certain kind of behavior.

You will most often hear this on the

news or read it in a news article.

They'll say, the police are trying

to crack down on speeders.

Sometimes at school we try to crack down on students

running in the hallway, or we try to crack down

on students who are using their phones in class.

So it means there is an activity and the

people in authority are trying to stop that activity.

So most often you'll hear it

when they're talking about the police.

The police were trying to crack down on speeders in

my local town a few weeks ago, and as you

know, as most of you know, they got me when

they were trying to crack down on Speeders.

They did it at a time when I drove by

and got a nice little ticket to crack someone up.

So to crack up has a bunch of different meanings,

but to crack someone up means to make them laugh.

You could say to someone who's

really funny, you crack me up.

Your jokes crack me up.

It means that they make you laugh.

I know a few people in my life where, let's

say I'm at a dinner and I'm sitting with them.

They crack me up.

They just make me laugh.

When I was a kid, there are a couple of cousins

I have that if we went to a family wedding, if

I was at their table, they would crack me up.

They would tell the funniest jokes

and I would really laugh. In fact, here's one of the

jokes I remember my cousin telling.

He said, what bird is a little bigger than a swallow?

And I said, I don't know.

And he said, a gulp.

So there's a little English joke for you.

A gulp and swallow are the same,

but a gulp is a little bigger.

That's when you drink or eat something to crack open.

A lot of phrasal verbs with the word crack in it.

To crack open is generally used to talk about opening

a bottle or can of something you're going to drink.

If I had a can of coca cola, I could crack it open.

I could say, oh, my friend came over last night

and we cracked open a couple of cans of beer.

So when you have something,

it's generally used to drink.

You can crack open a box of cookies.

Yeah, I think you might use a different verb for that.

You might just say, we opened up a box of cookies.

But for drink, a drink like a soda

or pop or an alcoholic beverage, you would

probably say to crack open, to beef up.

This is one of the ones I think is a little

funny because beef is actually a word we use for a

type of cow and also a type of meat.

A hamburger has a beef patty on it, but in

English, when you beef something up, you make it stronger.

So I was talking to someone this week who bought

a trailer, and they didn't think it was strong enough,

so they were going to beef up the trailer.

That means they are going to add more metal

or steel to the trailer to make it stronger.

You can see in my diagram here, this

is the original piece of something, and the

person added another piece to beef it up.

They wanted it to be stronger.

We sometimes use this to talk about people like, you could

go to the gym to beef up a little bit.

It's not as common.

It's most often used to talk about making

something stronger by adding stuff to it.

So let's say you had an old ladder and

you needed to climb up on the roof.

You might add some wood to the side of the ladder.

You might beef it up so that it's stronger.

Maybe you're like me.

And you're a little heavier now than you

were the last time you used the ladder.

You might need to beef it up so that it

doesn't break when you climb it to wipe out.

So this has happened to me, but it's rare.

As a Canadian, I'm pretty good

at walking on snow and ice.

But if you have this happen to you, we would

say that you weren't careful and you wiped out.

So I switched to the past tense.

There you would hear it when someone

tells you to be careful, be careful.

It's slippery out there.

Don't wipe out.

Or I hate it when I wipe out on the ice.

So this person is in the middle of wiping out.

When they are done, they will

be laying flat on their back.

They might land really hard on

their butt and hurt themselves.

But yes, when you walk on something

slippery, it's very easy to wipe out.

You should always be very careful to duck out.

So this has a couple of, well, it's the same

meaning, but in one situation, it can mean to leave

something early when no one sees you, right?

Like, you might have to work till five, but

you duck out at 430 and you don't tell

your boss and you hope you don't get caught.

Maybe you duck out 10 minutes early from

work because you have to go somewhere.

But it doesn't always have to be in secret.

Like, I could go to my boss and say, hey,

can I duck out half an hour early tomorrow?

I have to pick one of my kids

up from skating or something like that.

So it can mean to sneak out of work.

Like, oh, he always ducks out of work 10 minutes early.

It's annoying.

Or you could say, yeah, the boss said

I could duck out a few minutes early

tomorrow because I have to go do something.

So to duck out means to leave work earlier than normal.

And you can duck out of a class as well.

If you're a student, you can ask a teacher,

hey, can I duck out 10 minutes early?

So, by the way, this is another one that

makes me smile because whenever someone says they're going

to duck out, I always think, quack, quack.

Which that's the sound that a duck makes.

In English, we say ducks go quack.

So duck out early. Quack, quack.

Don't say the quack quack part if

you use this phrase to pig out.

So to pig out, you know what a pig is there.

I'm doing all the sound effects.

I didn't do the beef one, though.

But to pig out means to eat a lot of food.

In fact, it means to eat more

food than you probably should eat.

So at Christmas, I go to Jen's parents

for Christmas dinner and I pig out.

I literally eat more food than I should.

I eat too much food.

So you can see this man here.

He has two plates of food.

I think he's going to pig out.

Either he's getting a plate of food for someone else or

he's going to pig out and eat both plates of food.

So again, to pig out simply means

to eat more food than you should.

Usually around the holiday season when you are meeting

family and having large meals, you are highly likely

to pig out in those situations to miss out.

So this one might take me a bit to explain.

When you miss out, it means that

something good is happening and you weren't

able to participate or be involved.

So, for instance, if a store has a huge sale and

it goes from Monday to Friday and you don't see the

advertisement till Saturday, we would say that you missed out.

It's not nice to miss out.

You might let me think of another one. Yeah.

If you don't get invited to a party, we would use

the same verb, that you missed out on the party that

no one told you about the party, so you missed out.

It's not fun to miss out on

things, especially a really good sale.

There was a Flyer this week that had a

tool set for sale and it was 70% off.

And I need a new set of tools like wrenches and stuff.

But I was too late.

I missed out.

The sale was over by the time I saw

the advertisement, so I was a little bit sad.

But it's okay, it'll come on sale again, I'm sure.

To read up on simply means to research something.

Sometimes during a live stream, someone will say what

country they're from and I'll say, oh, I'll read

up on that after the live stream.

Or maybe you're not feeling well and you go to

the Internet and you read up on your symptoms.

So you're like, hey, stuffed up nose, stomach

ache, and then you read up on it.

You don't need to use this many

words to talk about it, though.

You could just say, I'm going

to research that a little bit.

I'm going to look into that.

But when you read up on something, it simply means you

have a book or you're on a computer and you decide

that you are going to learn a little bit about something.

I like to read up on all of

the different countries in the world so that

when someone mentions where they're from.

I have a little bit of an

idea of what life is like there.

So to read up on simply means to research or

to investigate by reading, by the way, to chicken out.

So if you squint, you can

see Brent in the background there.

Brent and I went ziplining last summer.

Brent came up to visit.

It was a fun time, and we decided to go ziplining.

And we followed through with it

like we actually did it.

If one of us had decided not to do it,

we would use the phrasal verb to chicken out.

So I could have said to Brent before ziplining,

you're not going to chicken out, are you?

And he would respond and say,

I'm not going to chicken out.

Are you going to chicken out?

And I would say, I'm not going to chicken out.

So to chicken out means to.

It means you're going to do something and you

decide not to because you're a little bit afraid.

Because you're scared.

So leading up to doing the ziplining,

I was a little bit scared.

I could have chickened out, but I decided to do it.

So again, to chicken out.

To decide not to do something.

Let me back up.

It means you're planning to do something that's maybe a

little scary and you decide not to do it.

You chicken out.

You decide not to do it.

To hand in.

So a few weeks ago, I did the phrasal verb to hand out.

Teachers will hand out stuff to their class.

Today when I go to school, I

will hand out papers to my students.

When students finish working on a piece of paper from

the teacher, sometimes they need to hand it in.

When you hand something in, it means

you give it back to the teacher.

This phrasal verb is used

a lot in classroom situations.

Like if you go to a meeting and you have to

fill in a form, you have to hand in the form.

That's another use of it.

But probably it's used the most

often when talking about a school.

You need to hand in your work.

You need to hand in your notebook

so the teacher can check it.

I think that, yeah, definitely used mostly in a school to

hand in to give something to the teacher to save up.

If you want to do something fun and if

you don't have enough money, you can save up.

So you can put a little bit

of money in an envelope every week.

You can put a little bit of

money in a special bank account.

I don't know how your banking works, but with online

banking, usually you can have more than one bank account

and you might save up money for a trip by

putting it in a separate bank account.

You might save up money to go buy something on the

weekend by putting it in a little envelope in your desk.

So when you save up, it means you set money aside.

You decide not to spend a certain amount of money

because you want to use it to buy something new.

Right now I am trying to save up to buy a new computer.

The computer over there is six or seven years old.

It's starting to wear out.

It's starting to show its age.

It's starting to do weird things and I really need it

to work because I do all my editing on it.

So I am saving up.

I am putting a little bit of money aside

every month so that in the summer I can

buy a new computer to drop out.

When you go to school, sometimes people leave

and they don't come back and we would

say that they have decided to drop out.

In Ontario, you have to go to school until a

certain age, but after that you can drop out.

It's not good.

You should always finish high school.

By the way, I don't know the exact age.

I think around age 15 or 16 you can drop out.

But students are strongly encouraged to stay

in high school till grade twelve.

It's not good to drop out.

People drop out of university

and college much more often.

I know my son who went to university said

that after the first year a lot of people

decided to drop out of his program.

They decided it was too hard and

so they were going to drop out.

So to drop out means to quit school.

You can also drop out of a race.

Like if you're running a race and you

decide it's too hard, you can stop running.

And we would say, oh, he was tired so he decided

to drop out of the race to get around to.

So this is a fun one.

Sometimes you have a list of things to do and you get

the first few things done, but you aren't sure you have enough

time to get around to the rest of the list.

Sometimes my kids have to do some cleaning on a

Saturday and they don't get around to cleaning their room.

Maybe they help do dishes and they help do some

stuff in the rest of the house, but they don't

get around to doing the last thing at work.

You might have 20 things to do in a day

and you might not be sure if you are going

to get around to doing number 19 and 20.

So to get around to means to get

to the time where you can do something. Okay.

If someone said to me, when are

you going to go to work today?

I would say, oh, I'm going to

get around to going to work.

Around 830 today I'm going to leave for work.

That will be the next thing on my list.

Or I could say I'm going to go to work,

but I don't know if I'm going to get around

to fixing the gate in our backyard today.

So you can use it to talk about something you

will be able to do, something you will get around

to doing or something you won't be able to do,

like you're not going to get around to doing it.

So let me just give a simple

couple of sentences again on this list.

The person might get around to

finishing homework, but they might not.

They already got around to cleaning their

room and getting dressed, but they might

not get around to doing their homework. We'll see.

It's a cool little chart.

I should get one of these for my kids.

I think that would be fun to ask out.

So you see this gentleman here, he has some flowers.

I don't think the girl is responding in a

positive way, but he is definitely asking her out.

When you ask someone out, it

is a romantic phrasal verb.

It means you are interested in the person, you are

attracted to them, and you want to go on a

date with them, so you ask them out.

I'm trying to think if we use this in a, it

has to me, that is the meaning of this verb.

Did you know that Joe asked Kim out?

Did you know that Jim is going to ask Francine out?

So it definitely means that they are interested.

And by the way, girls can ask guys out as well.

Maybe at school there's a guy you like, you

can ask that guy out if you want.

So when two people are interested

in each other romantically, well, hopefully

they're both interested in each other.

One might ask out the other person to see

if they want to go on a date.

To go over this simply means to

check something to make sure it's right.

If you fill out a form, if you go to renew

your driver's license and you fill out a form, you want

to go over the form after you fill it out.

When a student writes a test, when they're done

writing the test, I always tell them to go

over the test one more time to check to

make sure their answers are correct.

So you should always go over any kind

of important document at least once to make

sure that you have done it correctly.

So to go over simply means to check

something to make sure it is correct.

I'm trying to think.

It doesn't just have to be paper like before you

drive a car in a race, you might want to

go over the car to make sure everything's in the

right spot, but it definitely means to check something to

make sure it is correct to try out for.

So if you are someone who likes to

play sports, you have done this before.

You have decided at some point in your

past to try out for a team.

At our school we have basketball teams

and volleyball teams and babington teams.

And students need to sign up for the tryout and

then they need to try out for the team.

So there's a couple of verbs in there.

So there's a piece of paper and

they sign up for the tryout.

Signing up doesn't mean you're on the team.

And then they go to a tryout, the noun version,

and they go to try out for the team.

Maybe you were really smart in school.

Maybe you're in school now and there is like some sort

of, I'm trying to think like chess club, you might have

to try out for chess club, you have to go and

play some games to show how good you are at it.

So when you try out for something, it means you want

to be on a team and you go and show your

skills, hoping that you will make the team to warm up.

So before you do something athletic,

it's always good to warm up.

Now there was some controversy last

time I talked about warming up.

I said you might do a little

bit of running and some stretching.

And some people feel like you should

stretch, like these guys are stretching a

bit before you do something athletic.

Some people feel like you should stretch afterwards and

maybe we'll hear that in the comments below.

But definitely I would say that these guys have

decided to warm up before playing a game.

They're stretching out.

Maybe they'll do some light running or some walking.

Maybe they'll kick the ball around a little bit to

warm up to get ready to play their game.

And then on the opposite side we have to cool down.

So you can see this guy, I think in this picture,

he has finished running a race and now he's going to

walk for a little bit to just cool down.

So when you do something athletic, when you play a

sport or when you go running, you get very warm.

And then when you're done, you

don't want to just sit down.

That's not good for your body.

You want to just walk for a bit or stay on your

feet or maybe do some stretching afterwards to cool down to relax

and to slowly come to a point where you're not.

Like when I go for a walk, I don't

come in the house and sit down right away.

When I was running last summer, I

don't stop running and just sit.

I would still walk for another kilometer or so after I

ran just to cool down a little bit to join in.

So this is kind of fun.

I see that the parents have decided to join in.

Maybe the kids said, hey, join in

and play this video game with us.

I always like it when families play together.

So I'm imagining the parents are

losing the game right now.

Whenever I play video games with my kids, when I join in,

I definitely don't do as well as I would have hoped.

But to join in means to do something with other people.

Let's say you saw two people

at the park playing basketball.

They might ask you to join in.

They might say, hey, you want to play?

Why don't you join us? Join in.

Let's play some basketball. To roll out.

So every year, car manufacturers will

roll out their new cars.

It doesn't have to be something that's on

wheels, though, by the way, you could say

that the furniture company is going to roll

out a bunch of new furniture next week.

Or Jen might roll out some new products that we're

going to be selling in our booth this summer.

Maybe we'll sell potpourri. Do you know what that is?

You should look it up.

Potpourri is when you dry flower petals and

then you sell it dry and then people

use it because it smells nice.

I don't actually know a lot about potpourri,

but anyways, when you roll something out, it

means you introduce something new at school.

We could roll out some new classes next year.

So when a business or organization decides

to have new products or services, they

will roll out the new products.

It's used a lot with cars. Definitely.

Every year, car manufacturers will roll out their new line

of cars and they will start showing it to people.

So we learned the phrase to run into in

the first phrasal verb lesson, I think, number one.

And we talked about to bump into.

I think we did.

I'll have to go back and watch it.

But to bump into means the same thing.

You can bump into people when you're at

the grocery store and it doesn't mean to

actually drive your grocery cart into them.

It can be like, oh, I bumped into you with

my cart, but it can simply mean to meet, oh,

I bumped into my sister yesterday, or I don't like

going to that store because I always bump into people

I know and I don't like talking.

That doesn't sound very nice, but

that could be a situation.

When you bump into someone, it means you meet them.

When you weren't planning to meet them, you meet them, I

guess you could say by accident or it's just a fluke.

Do you know that word fluke?

Something that happens randomly to bump into someone.

Boy, I used a lot of words.

Did I use potpourri and fluke?

Those are probably new words for you.

I should put them in the chat probably at some point.

Don't know how to spell potpourri, though, to team up.

So this is similar to join in, but has

more of like, you're trying to get a task

done well, so you need more people.

So let's say that I'm teaching a class

and another teacher is teaching the same thing.

We might team up and teach the class together.

Maybe your company builds houses and

there's another company that finishes the

last part of the building process.

You might team up and build houses together.

So when you team up with someone,

it means you do things with them.

I'm trying to think of another example.

Let's say Jen was going to go sell

flowers in Toronto at a really big market,

and she might not have enough flowers.

She might team up with another flower grower and

they might go together and sell flowers together.

So anytime you join forces, anytime you work with someone,

we would use the phrasal verb to team up.

Yeah, I think the construction one is a good one.

I know when I was younger, we would often

team up with another construction company on larger projects.

We would work together when I worked for

in the construction industry to get into.

So when you get into something,

it means you start doing it. Similar to.

To take up.

But I could get into cycling this summer.

I could get into learning how to make bread.

I could get into sewing or fishing.

I could really get into it.

So when you get into something, it means that

you decide you like it and you want to

learn how to do more of it.

And it's usually about hobbies, like, yeah, he's really

getting into working out, or she's really getting into

fishing, or he's really getting into art.

So it means that you are learning something, usually a

hobby, and trying to get really good at it.

So a lot of you decided to get

into learning English a long time ago.

And you might be wondering, why don't

we just say he started learning English?

Why do we say he got into learning

English, I don't know, just sounds better.

It's like come on in versus come in.

Sometimes it just sounds better to say it one

way over the other to grow out of.

So when I was younger, sorry, I didn't bite my nails.

I shouldn't give away information.

When I was younger, I knew someone.

When I was a kid, I knew someone who bit their nails.

Who bit their nails a lot, but eventually

they were able to grow out of it.

When you grow out of something, it means that you

stop doing a certain behavior as you get older.

Okay, so sometimes people in their

late teens are pretty wild.

As teenagers, they do illegal things, but

eventually they grow out of it.

Well, you hope they grow out of it.

Parents and teachers often use this phrase when a student

or when a kid is doing something that they don't

like, you a tell them not to do it, but

you also hope they grow out of it.

When you grow out of something, it

simply means you've become more mature.

You've decided that whatever you're

doing isn't a good idea.

When you grow out of something, it's usually good.

I'm trying to think too.

Like, you can grow out of situations as well.

But let's leave this as you get older kind of thing.

You're probably all aware of a behavior you did as a

kid that eventually you were able to grow out of.

Always good.

When you can grow out of a

behavior, especially if it's a bad behavior.