TEST YOUR ENGLISH: Can You Use PHRASAL VERBS Like a Native?

All right, so I'm gonna play a clip for  you and I want you to guess what the  

correct phrasal verb would be. You know  phrasal verbs, right? Like "catch up"  

or "carry on" or "run out", for example.  So if you're ready, let's give it a go.

Did you get it? Awesome! So let's keep testing  your knowledge of phrasal verbs. Before we get  

started, we have a special gift for  you. It's this PDF that has all the  

phrasal verbs we're going to cover today with  examples and definitions. It's a really great  

reference for you to continue mastering  everything that we're going to learn in  

today's lesson. So you can download that by  clicking up here or down description below. 

So in this test you're going to answer three  quiz types. Some of them are going to be more  

difficult than others. And be sure to take note of  your score, because at the end we're going to let  

you know more or less what your level in phrasal  verbs is. All right, are you ready? Let's do this.  

Okay so the first type quiz.  Replace the underlying words  

with a phrasal verb from option a, b or c.

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Hey if you made only one or two mistakes here,  that is fantastic! It means that your knowledge of  

phrasal verbs is already at an intermediate level.  So that's at least B1 or B2. Hey and if you're  

like me in your language learning, then maybe you  feel like sometimes you learn a brand new word,  

but then the next day you're trying to remember  it and it's already completely gone. So what I  

found works best for me to remember new words is  to use them as soon as I learn them or as soon as  

possible after learning them. And a lot of English  Learners have told me, you know "that's great,  

but I have no one that I speak English with." And  that's exactly why we created the RealLife App.  

Now the RealLife App is the only place where  anytime, anywhere that you have an internet  

connection, you can simply press a button and  instantly be connected to another English speaker  

in a different part of the world for a fun Dynamic  and eye-opening conversation with someone from a  

different culture than yours. So if you haven't  downloaded the RealLife English App yet, I would  

challenge you to go do that and then try to have a  conversation with someone and use at least one of  

the phrasal verbs that we've used so far. You can  download it for free in your favorite app store or  

just click here or down in the description below.  Now, alright. So let's change things up a bit.  

Next you'll watch some clips from real  videos before answering the quiz questions.

Hey, if you made only one or two mistakes here,  congratulations! That means that your knowledge of  

phrasal verbs is already at an upper intermediate  or even advanced level, which is from B2 to C1.

All right, now next up I'm going to read  some sentences to you and each sentence  

has a phrasal verb. Now what you need to do  is: you'll have three options and you need to  

choose the one that has the definition that you  think best fits that phrasal verb. Are you ready?

So right, it's really similar  to being fired from your job,  

but there is a slight difference here. Usually,  layoff is used when we're talking about it being  

for economic reasons. So you wouldn't use this  if someone is just negligent in their job. So  

that means that they did something that was  incompetent or they just don't really perform  

at the level that they were hired to do.  In that case, you would probably use fire,  

but you'd use lay off if there's an economic  downturn and say a company lays off hundreds  

or thousands of its employees all at once  because it can't afford to pay them, you know.

So this is a really great phrasal verb for you to  add to your arsenal. Now we use this one usually  

to describe people, so you wouldn't use it very  often to describe a book or a movie that you  

watched rather maybe if you met someone new, you  could say "he came across a bit arrogant to me."

This is another really great one. So maybe if you  have a fight with your partner and then afterwards  

you realize maybe you were in the wrong, you might  apologize to them, so you can patch things up. Or  

you might try to have a conversation so you can  figure out what the real problem is and patch  

things up, or maybe you've had it falling out  with someone, which basically means that something  

happened that really hurt your relationship, and  maybe for a long time you're not talking anymore,  

so if you had a falling out, then maybe later you  decide that that relationship is really important  

to you. And, you know, you try to rebuild that  relationship, you want to patch things up.

So you might find this one really useful.  Make sure you don't confuse it with another  

very similar phrasal verb which is "cut  out". Maybe your doctor says that you  

are diabetic. You came across diabetic.  That'd be some really bad news and you  

need to cut out sugar. That means you can't  have sugar at all anymore. So cut out means  

that you can't do it at all, and cut down  just means that you need to reduce it.

Now, "to give in" is a nice phrasal verb to  use in many different contexts. If you have  

kids or maybe you have young people in your  family, I'm sure that at some point you have  

given in to their wishes. Maybe you have a  child that was asking you over and over and  

over again for something and you're decided  finally to give in and to give it to them or  

to buy it for them. Now you probably also know  the phrasal verb to give up, but this would be  

quite different. Don't confuse these two, because  to give up means that you're not going to try to  

do something anymore. We can also use that  

for feelings hat have nothing to do with  genetics. And it could be something like  

that you take after your father because  you're studying loss you become a lawyer  

or you're studying medicine so you  become a doctor just like your mom.

Hey if you have gotten this far and  you've made only one or two mistakes,  

that is amazing, incredible, you  are a cosmic phrasal verbs hero  

and you're ready to go out there and save  the Galaxy! Well maybe not quite that far,  

but it does mean that you have an advanced  level when it comes to using phrasal verbs.  

You know you're probably going to feel very  confident and natural in your speaking and  

you probably have around a C1 or maybe even a  C2 level. The next thing you might want to do  

is study idioms more. So maybe you would like to  do a test like this, but for idioms. Why don't  

you let us know down in the comments below if  you want us to make a test like that for you  

all right I really hope that you enjoyed today's  test we worked really hard to make something  

special fun and accurate for you but remember of  course that if you really want to know what level  

of English. You have it's very important that you  actually take a proper test that covers not only  

something like phrasal verbs and vocabulary, but  also things like speaking writing listening and  

grammar and to keep testing your English.  Why don't you check out this video next?