English Phrasal Verbs: Freak Out and Settle Down

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Hey, good morning everyone, what's up? I'm Chad from RealLife English and today I have
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another video lesson teaching you two really common English phrasal verbs. So the two phrasal
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verbs I am going to be teaching you guys today are the phrasal verbs to...
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So the first phrasal verb to freak out, so let's look at the word freak. Freak can be used
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as an adjective or a noun, in this sense as an adjective we say freaky, 'that's pretty
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freaky' or 'that guy, or girl, is a freak.' Generally not a very nice thing to say but
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if you call someone a freak, it means they are very strange or peculiar a little out
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of the normal, maybe you might say. They're a freak.
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Freaky could also mean they have an awkward way of communicating, 'that guy is kind of
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freaky' he doesn't have very good social skills.
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And to freak out the phrasal verb we are learning today, to freak out, means to get really scared
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or get kind of crazy, I freaked out when I heard the news. So that means you had a very
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scary, or you were scared with your reaction, FREAK OUT. To give you an example, Mike really
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freaked out when he saw the big spider on the wall, he freaked out when he say the big
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spider on the wall.
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And our phrasal verb number two for this lesson is to settle down, to settle down. Often the
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word settle would be pronounced with the American 'D' seddle, seddle, seddle down.
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So the word settle what does it mean? To settle, ee ahhh, it means to get comfortable, in a
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broad sense, but I mean for example if a country has just been discovered you have the early
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settlers, the settlers are the first people that go and start living there. You know they're
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getting comfortable in their new land. And to settle down means a very similar thing,
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the settle down can, it can be to calm down. If I, if somebody is being really loud or
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hyperactive you can say, yo dude... settle down man, settle down. And another way to
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use settle down would be if a couple, or a man and a woman were to get married you can
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say that they are settling down, which means that they are no longer living that party
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lifestyle, the single person lifestyle. They get married, sorry, they got married, they're
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having a kid and they're settling down.
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Ok, so they are the two phrasal verbs from this lesson, the two opposite phrasal verbs
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to freak out!!!! and to settle down. Remember learning them as opposites are a really really
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good way to help you memorize them much easier. And now let's quickly go to the phrase which
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is the most important part of this lesson. I'm going to say a phrase using both of these
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phrasal verbs, and the idea is for you to memorize the phrase that is going to help
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you memorize the two phrasal verbs. But also, let's work on the pronunciation of the phrase.
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So, listen and repeat after me, or even with me.
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So that is that, two more awesome phrasal verbs to put into your RealLife vocabulary.
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on the videos next to me. And that is it for today's lesson, I hope you have an amazing
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day, and I'll see you next time here at RealLife English.
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