PHRASAL VERB PLAY

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This is the Rachel's English 30-Day Challenge.
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Learn 30 phrasal verbs in 30 days. Jumpstart your vocabulary in 2017.
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Today is Day 7 and we're studying "play" phrasal verbs.
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I can’t play up enough the importance of phrasal verbs.
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They’re really used all the time in conversational and written English.
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Play up. Hmm. That sounds like a phrasal verb.
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Let’s not play around with these phrasal verbs.
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To play around means to treat carelessly.
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Don’t play around with that, it’s fragile!
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It can also mean to act in a way that’s joking, that’s not serious.
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If you’re sort of teasing someone, and they say “stop it!” Or, “you’re being mean!”, or “you’re such a jerk!”
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You can say, “I’m just playing around!” Meaning, I wasn’t being serious.
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It can also mean to test something, to try something out.
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Maybe you’re designing a logo and you’ve come up with five or six ideas,
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but you haven’t decided on the final version yet.
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You might say, I’m still playing around with the logo.
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To play along is to cooperate with someone’s idea.
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For example, I know Santa’s not real, but I’m going to play along for the sake of the kinds.
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I’m going to pretend that Santa is real.
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To play something back is to play something that has been recorded, video or audio.
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For example, say you’re listening to a podcast with a friend.
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You might say, I didn’t hear that sentence, can you play it back again?
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To play something down is to try to make it seem less important.
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When the project failed, he tried to play down his role in it.
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She’s so talented, but she’s always trying to play it down.
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To play something up is the opposite:
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to try to make something seem more important.
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In the job interview, play up your strengths.
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To play someone off someone else is to make those two people disagree, oppose each other.
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She played her parents off each other after their divorce to get what she wanted.
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To play on: this is a phrase we often use with fears.
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When you play on someone’s fears, you take advantage of what they are afraid of to get what you want.
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He played on her fear of burglars and sold her a very expensive security system.
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When something plays out, it comes to an end.
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If two people are arguing, someone might say, should we intervene?
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You could say, no, let’s see how this plays out.
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If you play with something, you’re constantly touching it. Like when someone plays with her hair.
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We also use this with ‘idea’ in the phrase ‘playing with the idea’.
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It means you’re thinking about something. You haven’t decided for sure.
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She’s playing with the idea of running for city council.
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Play. A simple word, but so many ways to use it as a phrasal verb.
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‘Play’ starts with the PL consonant cluster. Pl-.
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Lips part with a little burst of air, pp-- pl--
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The tongue is already in position for the light L. Tip up.
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Pll—Pl-- Plllll-ay.
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Then the AY as in SAY diphthong.
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Jaw drops more, ay---
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then lifts as the front part of the tongue arches towards the front of the roof of the mouth.
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Ayy-- Play.
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This 30-day challenge is leading up to a phrasal verbs course
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