10 Phrasal Verbs to IMPRESS | Boost Your ENGLISH SPEAKING Skills

Hi there. This is Harry. Welcome back  to advanced English lessons with Harry  

in the lesson we have for you today is all about  phrasal verbs. But in this case, we're looking at

advanced English lessons, as I said, and we're  

looking at three-word phrasal verbs. So  a brief introduction to what they are

phrasal verbs normally with two  words. One verb, one preposition.

Break down. a three-word phrasal verb  has an extra preposition. One verb,  

two prepositions. Okay, so we can pick up on  something. Okay, so pick the verb up on your to

prepositions. Okay.

That's a bit more complicated. But  often when we have a phrasal verb  

with three parts to it, it does add to  the complication. But there are very,  

very useful expressions. So to catch up with  a friend. So catch up on your work. Yeah. You  

can catch up in the park when your friend is  running around the park, you can catch up.

But if you catch up with the homework  that you didn't do when you're out sick,  

that's a three-part phrase. The verb to catch  up with something. Catch up with somebody.

Okay, so we're going to go through  a list of these. And as always,  

I've got ten. I'll give them to you  and then I'll give you some examples.

And if you don't understand  them or you can't use them,  

then you come back to me and we'll  give you some more examples later.

Okay. So let's start. Number  one, to come up with something.

So if you're sitting around a table with your  colleagues, you're having a brainstorming session  

or just a chat, and among your team you come up  with some new ideas, come up with some ideas to.

Launch a new product. Come up with some ideas  to entertain your clients. Come up with some  

ideas for the Christmas party. If you have a  Christmas party in your office every year and  

it always gets more and more difficult to find  something that the staff will find entertaining.  

So you're looking for something fresh, something  new, something different. So you're hoping some  

of your colleagues will come up with some  new ideas that people will find interesting.

So come up with something, come up with an idea,  

come up with a suggestion, come up  with a plan. Okay, so to come up with

Next. Get along with. So we usually  get along with someone. We get along  

with our classmates. We get along with our  siblings. We hope we get along with friends  

and family. So when we get along with. It  means we have a good relationship. How is

John settling into the new school?  Grades. Only took him a couple of days.

He seems to be getting along with everybody.  Okay, so he's got a few friends each on the  

football team. As you know, with kids,  there'll always be little disagreements  

here and there. But by and large, they get along  with people quite well. Okay. How did the kids,  

the twins, all they get along with each  other? Fine. They have the squabbles.

They have the fights. But, you know, they are  really close. They get along with each other very,  

very well. Okay. So to get along with  somebody means to have a good relationship

Have a good stay connection. Yes,  occasionally a fight, an argument,  

but generally get along with. I can get along  with anybody. If somebody can put up with me,  

I can put up with them. I  can get along with anybody.

Get around to get around  usually to doing something.

So, for example, if you've got some odd jobs  that need doing in the House, you have to fix  

that leaking tap on drip, drip, drip. You  have to fix the the door and the cupboard  

that is hanging off you. You have to put a new  plug on the toaster, whatever it is. You get

around to doing it eventually.

Okay. So I command Harry. Look at all these  things I've been asking you for weeks and  

weeks. Yeah. Look, I'll get around to doing  them at the weekend, I promise. On Saturday  

or Sunday. What? Hopefully I do, Yeah. Okay,  so there's a to do list and we get around to  

doing the things on the list. Every morning.  I make my little to do list, and generally  

by the end of the day I get on or have gotten  around to doing everything that's on the list.

So get around to do something means to finish  and complete it. Okay. you could use it in  

the negative. I'm really, really sorry I didn't  get around to doing everything on the list, but  

I got most of it done and I'll do the rest next  week. Promise to get around to doing something.

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Next to put up with something or put up with  someone to put up with something or someone  

is really you don't really want to. And they've  got some annoying habits or there's something  

about them, but for peace of mind and to make  sure that there's no arguments you put up with  

it. Okay. So many, many people have to  put up with a lot of noisy neighbours.

This is always the big problem. Every summer  they drill and bang and knock. They're doing  

their repairs. And you're just about to start  that important call in your head. Bang, bang,  

bang. So, unfortunately, you have to put up with  it, provided that the work is carried out between  

those hours of nine in the morning and four  or five in the evening, whatever the local  

rules happen to be, or I don't know this, the  repairs, those neighbours, but what can I do?

I have to put up with it. Okay. Now we can also  have to put up with somebody if they're in a bad  

mood. All these exams are really taking a toll on  our daughter, you know, But. And she hasn't been  

in a bad mood now for weeks and weeks. Well, we'll  just have to put up with it for another few weeks.

When she gets the exams out of the way, she'll  be back to normal. She'd be on holidays and  

hopefully that would be it. It's her final  exam. So to put up with something or put  

up with somebody. Okay. So it's usually when  there's a situation, usually some annoyance,  

usually something you don't want to  listen to or hear. But you have no choice.

You have to put up with it.

Look forward to. Well, this is good news  anyway. When we look forward to something.  

We look forward to seeing somebody. We look  forward to hearing from somebody. We look  

forward to meeting somebody when we use. Look  forward to. It's always followed by a verb with  

the -ing. So that's a really important  rule here from a grammar point of view.

So when we're looking forward to something, we  have something that's going to happen. It could  

be a birthday party. It could be a special  celebration. It could be simply Halloween,  

Christmas, Easter, whatever the festivity  happens to be off. I'm really looking forward  

to the Christmas holidays. I'm really  looking forward to spending some time

in the countryside. I'm really  looking forward to my birthday  

because I've got plenty of new books  that I'm sure I'll get as presents.

So to look forward to something means to have an  

expectation that and anticipation that  something good is going to happen.

Look up to? Well, we can look up on  the Internet to see our favourite  

movie or book. But when we look up to it means  principally to get some inspiration. Okay. He  

looks up to his parents for inspiration.  They help him to tell them what he should  

do or what career that he should follow.  He really looks up to his grandfather.

He really has a good relationship with them.  His grandfather's always telling him interesting  

stories, and if his grandfather tells him to  do it, you can be absolutely certain that he  

will follow the recommendation because  he looks up to him or everybody looked  

up to the boss for years. He was the inspiration  behind this company. And no matter who it was,  

no matter what position they had,  he always had a kind word for them.

So everybody looked up to him. Now you  can, of course, look up to the sky,  

like literally look up to the sky  to see the stars. You look up to  

the sky to see the moon. But look  up to in terms of inspiration is

idiomatic

Now the opposite, look down on somebody and this  is very negative. Okay. So when this goes back to  

the times of the kings and the queens and they're  literally their ivory castles and that tower,  

so they would look down on the peasants  below, they would be walking around the  

bottom of the castle walls or inside the  castle, and they would look down on them.

So when we use the expression today to look  down on somebody means usually to treat  

somebody as below you and different  from you when you really shouldn't.

So we often tell people, you can't look  down on those people who have less than  

you have. You should be grateful for  what you have and to grateful that  

you're not walking in their shoes. But  don't look down on them. We shouldn't  

look down on the poor. We shouldn't look  down on those who have less than we have.

So when we look down on somebody,  it means we treat them differently  

and less than we would treat  ourselves to look down on.

Live up to? Well, often we have to live up to  somebody's expectations of us. Yeah. Children  

all the time have a problem with the  parents because they have to live up  

to their parents' expectations. The parents  expect them to get A1 exam results all  

of the time. The parents expect them to  get the 1:1 degree at university,  

the top job, the great house,  whatever it happens to be.

And so the parents, we parents put  enormous pressure, pressure on our  

children that we shouldn't really do, and  they have to live up to our expectations.

So you often read

people's biographies and stories when they had  problems with their parents that they found it  

difficult to live up to their expectations,  particularly when the parent had been very,  

very successful, perhaps a successful  actor or actress, a successful writer,  

a successful politician, businessman  doesn't matter what they were.

But if the parents were extremely successful,  then it puts huge pressure on their children  

and they have to live up to those  expectations. I find it so difficult  

to live up to my parent's expectations.  How am I ever going to live up to those  

expectations? I really don't have it  in me. I really don't want to do it.

I want to do my own thing to live  up to other people's expectations

to keep up with. Okay. Well, literally, to keep  up with somebody means to walk at the same pace,  

for example, that they're walking quite  quickly in the park. You might say, hang on,  

hang on, I'm having difficulty keeping  up with you. Or if somebody is trying to  

explain a difficult situation  to you, it could be a physics

Or mathematical problem. And you're saying I  can't keep up with you can't just slow down a  

little bit and repeat it to me, make sure I  understand what you're doing or the teacher  

in the class will tell the kids, Look, it's  really important that you keep up with me.  

We've got a lot to cover, so I can't afford for  you to fall behind if you don't understand it.

Shout now, because I won't have the time to  repeat it, so please keep up with me. Okay,  

so when you want to keep up with somebody, you  have to keep at the same pace. If you're walking  

or running, you have to keep up with people  who are reading or the teacher how they are  

progressing. In your workbook, you have to keep up  with them or we can simply use it in the negative.

I find it really hard to keep up with this  pace. Everything is 100 miles an hour,  

you know, the boss wants this, the boss wants  that. We're going to do this. We're going to do  

that. We're going to change this. We're going  to change that really, really hard at times,  

at certain times to keep up with everything.  Again, we have to keep up with the news.

Things happen in the world really, really  quickly. Yeah. Here today. This is happening  

tomorrow That is happening. And you really,  really have to keep up with world events.

I like to keep up with world  events. I look at the news.

On the Internet before I go to sleep. I look at  the news in the morning when I wake up. I dunno,  

it's just a habit. I have to see what has happened  overnight so that I can keep up with world events  

and I can be better informed. Okay, so to keep up  with and then finally to make up for something.

Usually, we make up for mistakes, make  up for our lack of education. So if  

somebody didn't have a particularly  good education in their early life,  

perhaps later in life, they make  up for that by going to do some

studies when the thirties or even the forties  or even the fifties, you often read stories  

about people going back to school, finished school  that they never finished, complete a degree that  

they never had a chance to complete when they  were younger. So they make up for lost time.

Or we make up for some

time that we took off work. Something quite  simple. Could I please have 2 hours in the  

afternoon? I need to go to the doctor, and the  only time you can see me is at 2:00. And it takes  

me 20 minutes to get there, 20 minutes to get  back. So it's going to take me an hour and a half.

I'll make up for the time tomorrow or the  next day. I'll take a short lunch or I'll  

come in early to make up for the time that  I'm taking for this doctor's appointment. So  

we always make up for something.  Meaning if there's a shortfall,  

we make up for that shortfall. If something is  lacking, we make up for whatever is lacking.

Okay? Lacking in education, lacking in money.  Or if you make a mistake, you'll make up for  

it. If you forget somebody's birthday, one of the  kids of the wife or whoever, you very definitely  

better make up for it. So look, I'm really,  really sorry I had to go away in that business

visit, but it couldn't be  helped, so I'll make up for it.

Next weekend. Will go away with packed  the bags on Friday evening, will head off,  

switch off the mobile phones and will just have  a weekend to ourselves and that will make up for  

forgetting or cancelling that reservation we had  last weekend. Okay, so to make up for something.

Okay, So they're all, as we said, three-part  phrasal verbs and not too complicated.

Okay. The difference is as an extra  preposition. So normal phrasal verbs,  

one verb, one preposition, three-part

phrasal verbs, one verb, two prepositions.  So one additional preposition.

So try to go through them, have a look at them,  

see where you might use them. And if  you don't understand them as always,  

you know the drill. Come back to me and  I'll give you some additional examples.

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