Catch Up On Something - Learn English Phrasal Verbs 😀

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Hello, everybody! This is Jack from tofluency.com - I help
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English learners reach a high level of English. Now,
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today is Saturday and I'm here at the office. Now, I don't normally come in
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every Saturday and if I'm at home I don't normally work on Saturdays either.
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But I decided to come into the office today to catch up on a few things,
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ok, to catch up on a few things.
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Now, to catch up on something means to do something that you haven't had time to
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do - something that you probably need to do but you haven't had time to do. So, for
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example, I'm going to catch up on emails now. So, I'm going to read the emails
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people have sent me over the past two days and reply to those emails.
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Another example is this: now, my wife sometimes watches TV shows that we both
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want to watch.
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So, let's say we watch episode one together.
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She might watch episodes 2, 3, 4 etc without me.
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So, I say to her: wait I need to catch up on the show before we watch episode five.
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I need to catch up on the show before we watch episode five.
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So, what I want you to do now is to tell me what you need to catch up on. So, just
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leave a comment in the comment section below and tell me what you need to catch
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up on.
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And as always. if you have any questions then please leave them below too. And if
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