10 Useful PHRASAL VERBS for Any Topic in IELTS Speaking

you are about to discover 10 phrasal verbs that will make your english sound more natural and that will help you get a higher score on ielts speaking let's do it [Music] hello this is keith um from english speaking success and if you didn't know i also run the website the keith speaking academy so many students sometimes learn english from very outdated course books maybe a bit like a bit like this one so sometimes their spoken english may not sound so natural and of course the key to success in ielts speaking is to use natural spoken english you don't always need long complicated words like this yeah i am full of adoring admiration for my teacher i mean that's just not natural and by the way not everybody knows this come closer the most natural spoken english often uses simple words like this i look up to my teacher you see in spoken english we use lots of phrasal verbs like look up to a phrasal verb is basically a verb plus an adverb particle sometimes you get a verb plus an adverb particle plus a preposition like look up two but generally speaking there's just two parts there's the the verb and the adverb particle so things like nail down pass away drag on run over slip up and so on they are extremely common and what's more a lot of them are idiomatic now if you're a good student of ielts you will know from the pan descriptors that using less common idiomatic vocabulary is a key criteria of a band 7 8 and 9. so really important right great so today i'm going to teach you ten less common phrasal verbs so you can one sound more natural and two be using less common idiomatic vocabulary great two for the price of one that reminds me oh it reminds me of when i was living in malaysia right there was this big cake shop next to our house and when i walked past they had these huge donuts with jam and cream stuffed into them crammed into them and um one day i walked past and there was a sign outside and the sign said get two get one free and i saw that and i looked at the donuts and i thought get to get fat i mean come on great so today our calorie free phrasal verbs get two for the price of one right let's get into it oh before i do i just want to add that learning phrasal verbs is so much fun right and when you're learning is fun your learning will be deeper when you try these out with native speakers um i guarantee you they will probably either smile and think oh that's cool or they will smile and think it's not quite right but still very cool the key thing right when you're learning phrasal verbs is you must practice you must try them out and expect to make mistakes mistakes are great because when you get the feedback that helps you get better and to start using them more correctly now some of you may be thinking i don't have any native speakers well today you do because i'd like to introduce you to today's sponsors of this video cambly cambly is an online learning platform with native english speakers where you can go and have classes practice your phrasal verbs and get feedback you can go and practice some nouns if you like or even some adjectives no but kidding aside it's a great platform you can go and learn practice your english with teachers get feedback get better don't get fat it's really good i'm going to tell you more about that a little bit later right now let's get stuck into some phrasal verbs right then the first phrasal verb is to crop up and i wonder if you can guess the meaning here's an example oh i have to work late today something cropped up at work can you guess it actually means to appear usually unexpectedly or suddenly a bit like to pop up right something cropped up at work crop up cropped up in the past can you say that cropped up something cropped up exactly something cropped up at work maybe a problem a new project a new task um probably it was my boss that gave it to me but diplomatically i could say something cropped up at work thanks boss so i have to work late what things can crop up problems crop up shops crop up restaurants crop up in a new city opportunities can crop up so for example we might say in my hometown chinese restaurants are cropping up everywhere every week there's a new restaurant notice i use the present continuous but if i'm talking about now or the recent past i can also use in my hometown chinese restaurants have been cropping up everywhere both have a very similar meaning and both are fine crop up great let's move on to number two right phrasal verb number two to nail down now nail this is a nail hammer look at that this is as old as my course book so to nail down right is literally to stick something in place but idiomatically it means to identify clearly right if you nail down a reason you identify the reason clearly you can nail down answers nail down the time nail down the dates or nail down a reason so i'm thinking for example in the ielts speaking test when the examiner asks you why do you think blah blah blah blah blah you could say well it's hard to nail down the reason but maybe it's because right it's hard to nail down the reason fantastic actually that reminds me of another phrasal verb it's not in my list of ten but anyway learning opportunity let me tell you it's to single out to single out something is to choose one from a group of many for special treatment so again if the examiner says well why do you think this you could say i would single out one main reason and that is i would single out one main reason fantastic single out we always connect the loud loud single loud i would single out one main reason brilliant let's move on phrasal verb number three now it's not every day that you see a man ironing right but when i was younger i used to work in a restaurant and i had to iron my shirt every day so i'm quite good at it the thing with ironing is right shirts are full of creases and these creases are a problem so we have to iron out the creases that's very simple but iron out is also idiomatic so to iron out something to iron out a problem is to get rid of or to be free of that is it no longer exists notice the pronunciation we don't pronounce the r it's iron out or if you link iron out iron out nice you can iron out problems iron out difficulties you can iron out misunderstandings to be free of them right for example if i want to use this this nail or this well yes this nail is bent it's no good that's a problem so if i get rid of the nail i find a new one great then i can iron out the problem now then in ielts speaking part three um i'll speak in part three very often you're talking about problems and solutions and the examiner may ask you for example let's talk about the problem of internet safety how do you solve this problem and what you could say is something like the best way to iron out this problem is to d d d d d the best way to iron out this problem is great very nice let's move on number four now phrasal verb number four is to pack in so to pack in can you guess what it means if i give you an example here we go i went to the gym for three months but then i packed it in i just didn't have enough time to go i went to the gym and then i packed it in you can probably guess it means to stop doing something right you can pack in a hobby you can pack in a job stop doing it you can pack in a course if you stop following it lots of different ways of using it let's look at another example i want to pack in my job it's not very rewarding and badly paid great you can talk about maybe a hobby i took up took to take up means to start right i took a painting but then i packed it in i didn't enjoy it very much so to pack something in or to pack in something if you use the pronoun it that goes in the middle packet pack i decided to pack it in excellent what a nice phrasal verb you can use for lots of different topics let's move on okay number five is to ache for now to ache well you may be familiar with this word from other words like stomach ache toothache headache and it really means a pain something that hurts you now at the same time to ache for means to desire or to want strongly similar to to long for to long for is to want something very very strongly so for example we might say i'm aching for a holiday i really want a holiday notice we've got the present simple but you can also say i've been aching for a holiday it's really the same meaning but emphasizing also the recent past not only now you can use both of those interestingly when you're on holiday sometimes you ache for home because you want to go home in the time of the pandemic and confinements and lockdown maybe you can say well i'm aching for a beer i'm aching for companionship i'm aching for a night out with friends there's lots of things you can be aching for during the pandemic okay keep practicing let's move on now i'm just going to take a moment to have a sip of water and tell you all about the sponsors of today's video that is cambly cambly is a fantastic online platform where you can practice 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perfect you can also use the present perfect continuous the pandemic has been dragging on for such a long time right both tenses are possible um often students ask me well which one is correct very often grammar is not about right or wrong it's about what's the meaning you want to give and with the present perfect and present perfect continuous nine times out of ten you can use both but the feeling is a bit different the pandemic has been dragging on it's continuous there's a feeling of it's going continually going on and on there's a stronger feeling but both are correct so to drag on we can talk about well ielts speaking part two right maybe you want to talk about a boring party the party dragged on for such a long time right or maybe a boring conversation the conversation dragged on for a long time maybe it's a lesson or a meeting the lesson dragged on for ages the meeting dragged on forever lots of things you can talk about in ielts speaking part two drag on let's swiftly move on to the next phrasal verb right the next one is do away with something now you know these words do away with but all together do you know the meaning to do away with something is to remove or stop something or abolish something so it's usually talking about a law or some kind of obligation so to do away with the law is to stop it to do away with a rule or do away with attacks is to abolish it you can do away with any restriction right to do away with something to stop or abolish be careful it's different from do away with somebody which means to kill somebody we're not talking about that we're talking about do away with something now this is really good because i think in ielts speaking part three um the examiner often asks you well what do you think about this and often we talk about some kind of restriction maybe a law or a tax or something we have to do so you may say things like the following i wish we could do away with face masks um talking about a law i think the government should do away with this law talking about exams in education we should do away with exams forever right now an interesting thing to notice here is you may be thinking so should i say do away with or abolish which is better well why not use a trick of natural spoken english and the trick in natural spoken english is that we often repeat the same phrase in a slightly different way right different from writing where we don't do that but in speaking we do because the words disappear so we often repeat them so it would be perfectly natural to say something like um i think we should do away with exams the government should abolish them great kill two birds with one stone you're using the phrasal verb and a nice word but you're just repeating it be careful not to do this too much right don't say for example i think we should stop exams should remove them yes let's do away with them the government should abolish them which is just over the top like it's too much but just two phrases is absolutely fine i think we should do away with exams the government should abolish them perfect great let's move on right the next phrasal verb is all about well things that are expensive or cost a lot of money now in english there are a lot of phrases we can use um around things that are expensive it cost an arm and a leg an arm and a leg it cost a fortune and so on right but a nice phrasal verb is it set me back twenty dollars it set me back um it set me back can you say that it set me back great now notice it's not i set back it's the thing i bought set me back right this car set me back a few thousand pounds so it set me back means it cost me so much normally the the nuance is that it cost a lot of money if we use it set me back five dollars the feeling is that five dollars is expensive it's too much commonly we would say well it set me back a lot of money um right i don't know but english people are often reluctant to say how much things cost right you know you could say whoa look at this nice ergonomic mouse how much did that set you back yeah it set me back quite a bit no but how much did it set you back yeah quite quite a lot and we're just so reluctant to talk about money i know in some countries it's quite normal um and for some people it's fine but for me i always found it strange um living in china for example where people would say so how much do you earn um yeah nice day sun's coming out very strange questions for me but i got used to it so we can use this expression right talking about when things are expensive or cost a lot of money it set me back a lot of money it set me back a fortune or it set me back a fair penny it's a nice british expression all of them meaning it cost a lot excellent let's move on okay the next phrasal verb is to slip up now to slip means to fall because the ground is maybe smooth with water i see or or there's a banana peel there and you slip notice the pronunciation right it's right to slip if you sleep and you smile when you smile then it's to sleep but this is to slip and the phrasal verb is to slip up again it's idiomatic it doesn't mean you fall up which is quite difficult it means to make a mistake to slip up can you say to slip up in the past i slipped up i slipped up nice so um this is great because in ielts speaking general conversations we talk about slipping up in work in relationships talking about the government right for example you might say the government has slipped up they've made a mistake i slipped up at work yesterday i made a huge mistake i lost my manager's presentation did you see the trick there i was doing i was repeating it twice but saying it's slightly different i slipped up at work i made a huge mistake clever trick right or relationships oh i slipped up last week i forgot my wife's birthday so whilst mistakes are great don't slip up too many times let's move on to the last but not least phrasal verb now an extremely common topic in life and also in ielts speaking which is a reflection of life um is books magazines newspapers um photos these topics come up a lot so i've got a great phrasal verb for you i'm going to give you the old-fashioned version because i am a bit of a fuddy-duddy but also i'll give you the modern version to show you that i'm not completely um lost or left behind in the 20th century where i grew up so the phrasal verb is flick through now we use that to talk about for example reference books like this one great book um when you look through quite quickly right i i'm flicking through my grammar book yesterday i was flicking through this book you can flick through a book flick through a magazine flick through a newspaper you can even flick through a photo album right so that's nice to flick through so in ielts speaking part 2 you may be asked to describe an article you read a piece of news or a photo so you could start by saying something like this i was flicking through the newspaper the other day and i saw an article about healthy eating for example right i was flicking through the newspaper the other day and and then talk about the piece of news or the photo or whatever nice hey now for you digital natives out there i know that you read books and newspapers and photos you look at them on your phone or your tablet or computer so it won't be flicking through right it'll be swiping through i was swiping through my facebook feed the other day and i saw an interesting photo let me tell you more so to flick through if you're a fuddy-duddy or to swipe through if you're a digital native excellent great it's been a blast making this video and i hope it can be useful for you too wow i've even managed to do my ironing at the same time if you've liked this please do subscribe turn on the notifications to find out about upcoming videos and two important things to tell you first one you can get and download a pdf of these phrasal verbs from my website the links are in the description below and secondly in order to use these 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Length: 29min 57sec (1797 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 25 2021