LEARN ENGLISH PODCAST: 50+ PHRASAL VERBS YOU NEED TO KNOW (WITH SUBTITLES)

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- [Jack] This is Jack from ToFluency.com
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and welcome to this audio lesson
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where I'm going to teach you around 50 phrasal verbs,
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and I'm gonna do it in a way that is a little bit different
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than probably what you're used to
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because we are going to listen to a story
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about a guy called Dave who lives a very interesting life,
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or at least I think it's interesting.
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And in that audio, which is only five minutes,
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there are 52 phrasal verbs.
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So what I want you to do in this lesson is this,
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listen to that story and try and listen
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for the phrasal verbs and to notice them
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when I'm saying them.
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And then continue with this audio lesson
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because I'm going to highlight and go through,
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which is a phrasal verb to go through,
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the various phrasal verbs that we use,
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explain what they mean, and where relevant,
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give you more examples.
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And then after you've done that,
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I want you to then go back to the part of the audio
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which is going to just give you the story,
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so listen to the story again, because you'll be amazed
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at how much better you understand it
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after going through the lesson.
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And then if you want to, as well,
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search for this on YouTube,
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52 Phrasal Verbs To Fluency.
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Search for it in Google as well
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because I have a written lesson
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so that you can watch the video
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and also see the examples written down,
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written down, to write down something,
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which is a phrase of where we're going to learn.
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There's some good ones here, some very common ones,
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some ones that you will only use in specific circumstances,
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and then some ones that I just think are fantastic
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that you probably don't know.
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And a lot of those come near the end.
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Things like to write things down,
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stay out longer, to run into, cut back on, et cetera.
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So yeah, I hope you enjoy this lesson.
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Here is the audio story.
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Today is Tuesday, or Tuesday in American English,
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and Dave's alarm goes off at 4:30 a.m.
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As soon as he gets up he turns on the coffee machine,
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but today he has run out of cream.
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He usually likes cream in his coffee
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so he's not had the best start to the day.
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But he drinks his coffee anyway
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and now it is time to work out.
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Now most people, if they work out in the morning
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they'll just do a few exercises, but Dave is different.
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He sets off on his 20-mile run,
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breathing in the air as he runs along the oceanfront.
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Again, his goal is to run 20 miles.
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After 15, he's running out of energy and motivation,
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but this is Dave so he doesn't give up.
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After his run, he bangs out 100 pushups without stopping.
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He takes a quick breath and then carries on
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doing another hundred, and then another.
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He gets home, turns on the shower,
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jumps in, dries himself off, and then has another coffee.
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It's now 10:00 a.m. and it's time to focus on work.
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He opens up his computer, logs into his emails,
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and responds to his clients' questions.
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In his inbox there are six speaking opportunities.
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He turns down five as they just don't pay enough.
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He agrees to do one as it pays him exactly what he is after,
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but he has to iron out a few details.
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He remembers that he has a speaking engagement next week,
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so he looks up flights to New York,
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where the speaking engagement is,
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and he soon realizes he doesn't have time
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to shop around for the best deal.
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So instead he fills out the form and books the flight
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business class.
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It's now time to get on with writing his presentation.
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He doesn't want to put this off until tomorrow
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or until next week.
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Now in the past, he would have a cigarette
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while writing his presentation.
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But he gave them up a few years ago,
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because this is Dave, the new Dave.
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It's time to prepare his lunch
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so he warms up leftover pasta from the night before.
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And once it's ready, he digs in
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and finishes it within about three minutes.
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The afternoon is dragging on a bit
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so he makes another coffee.
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This time he adds in a little honey.
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He spends the rest of the afternoon
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finishing up his presentation.
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Once that is done, it's now time to chill out
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for the rest of the evening
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so he decides to text his friend
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to see if she wants to hang out for the rest of the day.
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She agrees and he heads out just before five
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and sets off for his friend's house.
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He hasn't seen her for a while
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so he's looking forward to catching up.
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They grew up together and he's worried
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about them growing apart
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so he's very excited about seeing her.
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When he gets there, he pops in for a few minutes.
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They decide to eat out so they head out
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to this new, exciting restaurant.
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They order some appetizers.
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Dave is starving at this point so he wolfs them down.
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Sarah only picks at them.
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They then go through the menu again
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and pick out a main meal to share.
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Sarah then knocks back a couple of very expensive cocktails,
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but Dave just drinks water.
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He's trying to cut out alcohol during the week,
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which is pretty smart.
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Before heading back home, they decide to take a walk
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along the ocean and they actually run into
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an old friend from school who is there
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with other friends around a campfire.
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They decide to stay out a little bit longer.
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And then Dave drops Sarah off at her home
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and drives back home.
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When Dave gets home, he has enough time
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to write down what he has learned during that day
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in his journal.
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He then turns off the lights,
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gets into bed, and passes out immediately.
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Today has been a good day.
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Okay? So we had 53 phrasal verbs there.
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I'm not going to go through each one in depth,
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but I'm just gonna repeat some of them now.
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So the first one, Dave's alarm goes off at 4:30.
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So when something goes off it means it makes a sound.
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This could be your alarm on your phone.
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So my alarm is gonna go off at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow.
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I'm not looking forward to it, for example.
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But it could just also be a fire alarm or a car alarm.
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So your car alarm is going off. Could you turn it off?
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And turn off is another phrasal verb.
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The next one, as soon as he gets up.
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So to get up means to get out of bed.
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He turns on the coffee machine.
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To turn on means to start it.
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You can turn on a light, turn on the TV,
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turn on anything, really, anything that has a switch.
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The next one is a great one, to run out of something.
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And in the story I said, he runs out of cream.
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Now, if I have coffee or tea,
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I actually gave up coffee a year ago now,
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but when I have tea, I like to put cream in it or some milk.
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So cream is that really thick style milk
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which is great in coffee and tea.
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But if you run out of something,
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it means you don't have any remaining.
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So it means that you don't have any left.
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And you can use this a lot in the present continuous.
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We're running out of cream. We're running out of time.
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We're running out of gas. Let's stop soon.
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Now, Dave is a big fitness fan.
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And I said in the story, it's time to work out.
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And to work out means to exercise, to exercise.
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An example is I haven't worked out much this week.
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I haven't worked out much this week.
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Now you don't really use this for sports or walking.
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It's mainly used when you want to do exercise,
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like go to the gym or maybe go for a run,
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as well, but mainly going to the gym.
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I then said he sets off on his 20-mile run.
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So to set off means to start a journey.
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So you can say, "We need to set off early tomorrow.
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"Let's set our alarm really early. Okay?"
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So to set an alarm means to give your alarm the,
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to put it into your phone so it goes off at the right time.
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But to set off means to start a journey.
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In the story, he ran on the beach,
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or he went for a run on the beach,
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and I gave to phrasal verbs here,
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to breathe in the ocean air, to breathe in the ocean air.
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Feels good, doesn't it, to breathe in the ocean air?
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So this means to inhale, to inhale something,
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like breathe in smoke, for example.
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And then the other one was he runs along the oceanfront.
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So to run along something means to run next to something.
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It could be used for other things like
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to run along the train tracks,
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to run along the road, to run along the river.
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Now, although he was running out of energy,
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which we talked about before, to run out of something,
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he didn't give up in the past.
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He didn't give up, and to give up
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means to quit, to stop doing something.
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Now we can use this a lot in sport.
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Like don't give up now, keep going.
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Don't give up now, keep going.
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But we can also use it for things like bad habits.
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Like I need to give up smoking.
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I need to give up fast food.
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And I gave up coffee, for example.
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Next one related to working out
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is he bangs out a hundred pushups.
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So if you bang something out, it means you do something
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in a quick manner and you don't procrastinate.
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You just get it done. It's mainly used for sports.
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You won't really use this much in everyday English,
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but if you're watching a movie,
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maybe something to do with sport
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or to do with the Army and the Navy,
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then you might hear this, to bang out a hundred pushups.
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After exercising, Dave needed a shower.
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So what he did was he turned the shower on.
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So again, this means to start something,
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to turn the shower on, and then he jumped in the shower,
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to jump in the shower.
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And this just means to get in the shower.
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And I use this nearly every time I'm telling somebody
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I'm going to have a shower.
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I'm say, "I'm just going to jump in the shower."
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And it does suggest that you're going to
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have a quick shower, to jump in the shower.
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I'm just gonna jump in the shower. I won't be long.
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So after getting out of the shower,
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he decided to do a little bit of work
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and he opens up his computer.
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Now you can imagine this in your head.
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You can picture what is happening here.
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Imagine you have a laptop.
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It is in your bag and simply, you just open it up.
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So you don't say open a computer, you say open it up.
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And you can also use this for presentations or files,
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like open up this file, open up this presentation.
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So open up something is used a lot with computers and work.
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Now the next thing he does is he logs into his emails.
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He logs into his emails.
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And this is where you enter your username and password
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to access your emails.
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And sometimes when somebody buys one of my courses
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I get an email saying, "I can't log into my account.
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"I can't log into my account."
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So I help them log into their account.
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Now Dave is in demand for his services,
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but he turns down five offers.
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And to turn something down means to refuse to do it.
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So he turns down five offers. He refuses to do it.
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He says no to those offers.
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Now think about a job that you apply for,
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but it's not quite right for you because of whatever reason,
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maybe they don't pay you enough,
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you can say, "Oh, I have to turn that job down
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"because it doesn't pay well enough.
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"I have to turn that job down."
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Now the next one is fantastic for business English,
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to iron out a few details.
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So he has an offer, but he has to iron out a few details.
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And this means to resolve or to agree to some details.
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So often when you are agreeing to something,
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signing a contract,
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if you are an independent contractor,
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you might have to iron a few things out,
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which means say, "Okay, I'll do it if you do this."
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Or, "Let's do it, but I need to do a bit of this."
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So that means to iron stuff out.
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Now, the next thing he has to do is
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find some flights to New York.
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So he looks up flights to New York.
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To look something up, you probably already know this
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from using a dictionary and to look up new vocabulary
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in the dictionary, but we can use this for lots of things,
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to find information about or to research something.
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Often with my wife and I say,
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"Can you look up something for me?
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"Because you're on your phone.
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"Can you look up what time we have to leave tomorrow?"
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So this just means to research something,
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to find more information about something.
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Now, Dave doesn't like to waste time,
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so he doesn't have time to shop around.
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He doesn't have time to shop around.
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now to shop around means to consider several options
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and also to compare prices before making your decision.
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So when I am looking for some new soccer shoes,
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in the UK we call them football boots,
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I don't like the term soccer shoes or soccer cleats.
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so football boots, I often shop around.
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And I usually, and this is another phrasal verb,
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I usually end up getting them on eBay
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because they're a lot cheaper there.
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But I'll look on Amazon as well and just other places.
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So to shop around means to consider several options
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before buying something, before making your decision.
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Now, after doing that, after doing his exercise
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and looking at flights and going through his emails,
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it's now time to get on with writing his presentation.
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It's time to get on with writing his presentation.
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So to get on with something
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means to spend your time doing something,
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to actually commit that time to doing it.
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Another phrase here, if you say to somebody,
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"Just get on with it," it's a little bit critical.
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You're saying, ""Look, you're wasting time.
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"Just start, just start this thing, just get on with it.
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"Stop wasting time procrastinating
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"or looking up flights to New York."
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And often when you procrastinate, you put things off.
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And in the story it said
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he doesn't want to put this off until next week.
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So to put something off means to delay something.
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This is used a lot in everyday English.
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People will say, you know,
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"I keep putting off doing our taxes.
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"I keep putting off doing admin at home.
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"I keep putting off the laundry."
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So this is when you just delay doing something
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because you don't want to do it.
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Dave is then feeling a little hungry,
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so what he does is he simply warms up leftover pasta.
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To warm something up means to make something warm,
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especially when it comes to food.
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So after cooking something, it goes in the fridge.
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If you have leftovers, like leftovers,
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and then you can warm this up again
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by putting it in the microwave
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or putting it in a pot and making it warm again.
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So a way to put this as a question is,
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"Do you want me to warm this up for you?"
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I often ask that to my children
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if we have leftover food saying,
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"Do you want me to warm this up for you before you eat it?"
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I love this next one, the afternoon is dragging on a bit.
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Oh, it's dragging on, today's dragging on a bit.
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Now, if something is dragging on
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it means that time's going slowly
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or things aren't going as quickly as you like.
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So you might hear someone say, "Man,
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"this movie is dragging on," which means
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that it's just taking a long time to finish
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and it's getting a little bit boring.
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So you can use this at school, for example, like,
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"Oh this afternoon's dragging on a bit."
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But he spends the rest of the afternoon
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finishing up his presentation.
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And this means to complete the presentation.
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Another example is I just have to finish up
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writing this email, then I can leave the office.
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And then in the evening, it's time to chill out,
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to chill out for the rest of the afternoon,
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rest of the evening.
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And this means to relax and to take it easy.
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You can also mean to not worry about something,
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like chill out, it's not a big problem.
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Don't worry about it. Chill out.
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He then calls a friend to see if she wants to hang out.
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So to hang out means to spend time together in a social way.
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And to hang out with his friend
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he heads out just before five.
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We use this a lot in everyday English.
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To head out means to leave your home or your office
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to go somewhere else.
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It's quite simple, but we use it all the time.
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For example, "I can't speak right now.
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"I'm just heading out."
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He's excited to meet this friend
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because they grew up together.
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And to grow up together means
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that they spent their childhood together.
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And another example here related to my life,
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growing up in Northern England
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meant playing outside in the rain.
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So I remember playing outside in the rain a lot
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because I grew up in Northern England.
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Now before going to eat out,
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which means to eat at a restaurant,
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he pops in for a few minutes.
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So to pop in means to enter someone's house
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for a brief period of time.
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Another example is I'm going to pop round to Dave's
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to pick something up.
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Do you notice that other phrasal verb there?
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To pop round, to pick up something.
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So we can use pop round as well as pop in.
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So after getting their appetizers, which Dave wolfs down,
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which means he eats very quickly,
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whereas Sarah only picks at them,
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which means she eats them very slowly,
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they then go through the menu again.
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So this means to look at the menu again
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to see what's on offer.
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And you might say to the server in a restaurant,
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"I'm not ready. I haven't gone through the menu yet.
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"So I just need a little bit more time."
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But after they do that, they pick out a main meal to share.
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So this means to choose something,
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to pick something out on the menu, to choose something.
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Another example is she takes forever picking out an outfit.
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She doesn't know what to wear
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and she takes forever picking out an outfit.
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But Dave is trying to cut back on alcohol during the week.
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This means to reduce the amount of alcohol he drinks.
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So another example is I've cut back on sugar recently,
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I've reduced the amount of sugar I want to eat.
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But what happens later on
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is they run into an old friend from school.
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So this, to run into somebody
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means to meet somebody you know by chance.
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I often say to Kate, "Guess who I ran into today?"
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And Kate is my wife, "Guess who I ran into today?"
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And then we play a little game.
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She will say, "Male or female?"
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I'll say, "Male."
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And then she says, "Oh, do we know them from football?"
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I say, "Yes," and then she has to guess who I ran into.
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It's a fun game. I like playing it.
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But after running into a friend from school
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they decide to stay out a bit longer, to stay out.
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So to stay out means to remain out of the home
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for a bit longer.
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Another example of that is I couldn't stay out late
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on a school night when I was younger.
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I couldn't stay out late on a school night.
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So we're getting close to the end
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of these phrasal verbs now.
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Just stay with me because Dave dropped Sarah off at home.
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So to drop someone off at home
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means to take them home in a car.
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A question you can ask is, "Can you drop me off?
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"Can you drop me off?
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"I don't have a car today.
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"Can you drop me off?"
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And then Dave is one of those people
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who writes down what he has learned that day.
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So he keeps a journal.
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To write something down means to write it
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on a piece of paper.
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He then turns off the lights,
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which is the opposite of turn on.
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He gets into bed, which is the opposite of get up.
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And then he passes out immediately,
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which means to fall asleep straight away.
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I used to be able to just pass out when I was traveling.
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I could just pass out anywhere,
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just have a little sleep wherever I was, it was fun.
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So those are the phrasal verbs
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that we learned in this lesson.
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Now if you want to see this in writing as well,
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just search for, ToFluency,
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which I'm sure you know how to spell by now, ToFluency,
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and then 52 phrasal verbs.
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So then you'll be able to find this as a written lesson,
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too, so you can see exactly how to spell things.
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You can go through this slowly.
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And you can also watch the video as well on that page,
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