15 of the Most Useful Phrasal Verbs in English!

i think it is rolling hi everybody and welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is alicia and in this lesson i'm going to cover 15 phrasal verbs for work and for school i've chosen 15 phrasal verbs that i want to introduce and my goal for today's lesson is to look at the prepositions that we use with phrasal verbs i know a lot of learners struggle with phrasal verbs and prepositions so in this lesson i want to uh cover a little bit of everything so as you join live please make sure to send a message in the chat so that we can say hello to you and of course please like and share this lesson so that other learners can find it all right youtube looks like it's okay i see everybody is joining on youtube welcome youtube viewers facebook i will come to check you in a minute while we wait for other people to join live a couple of quick announcements for you first uh this banner at the bottom of the screen here is a 35 off uh banner uh if you take a look at the link in the description if 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lesson too okay uh facebook i see you fantastic welcome facebook okay great everybody is here so uh now that everybody has joined i will introduce today's uh lesson graphic oh my gosh this week i prepared uh this to look at all the phrasal verbs we are going to cover this week there's a lot there's a lot of text so i put it uh on this image i hope it's easy for you to take a picture so we are going to cover uh in three groups this group first uh then second and third and if there's time i will do a little bit of uh you know what's the difference between style questions so we have a lot to do i have not said hello to you i will say hello to youtube rustam silva hello edgar bavana hi everybody and on facebook hello over there devonthai hello marillo hi gilberto mary mo savier hi jelly hi everybody welcome okay we have a lot to do let's get started let's start with uh group one the first group so there's a lot of text we're going to go through the meaning of each verb we're going to look at the prepositions that are used and we're going to look at some example sentences so please send me your examples in the chat i will try to check in real time uh and if needed i do still have a white board we can use to practice okay so let's take a look the first one here let's begin with this first one catch on to catch on you can use this at work or at school to catch on means to become aware of something so we use this when we're talking about like secrets or when we're talking about things that we are learning gradually that are a little bit difficult for us for example this example sentence here when i was a kid i stayed up late to use the computer my parents caught on quickly so this caught on this is the past tense form of catch-on my parents caught on quickly means my parents quickly realized or my parents quickly became aware i was staying up late to use the computer so to catch on to something you might also see in this case caught on refers to the previous sentence you may also see it used with catch on to catch on to something catch on to a topic means to become aware of a topic or to gradually learn how to do something related to that topic okay continuing on so if you have questions send them in the chat i will try to check them live next one is figure out figure out is very useful i use figure out all the time to figure out means to solve a difficult problem or like a mysterious situation you don't know what's happening in that situation and uh you need like to get details so this is good when you are trying to understand like how people work together or you're trying to understand some kind of complex relationship you can use figure out to describe that some examples i finally figured out the answer to my problem i finally figured out the answer to my problem so figure out in past tense is figured figured i finally figured out the answer to my problem so please be careful uh some some learners a common mistake i see with this figure out does not mean find it does not mean find it does not mean discover to figure out is used when we think about something for a long time we try to solve a problem we try to solve a puzzle and after thinking about it for a while then we'd like learn the answer or we gradually understand something we solve a problem so you cannot use figure out to mean find okay uh what does aware mean so to become aware of something means to like to realize something usually gradually uh glorious on facebook says we need to figure out a solution for this problem perfect perfect khan maljeet says i've just figured out how to solve this error in my app christian on youtube says like figure it out yes figure it out with like this expression figure it out is used as a command sometimes which means solve it so please figure it out figure it out means please solve it okay uh all right good let's go to the next one then uh let's go to bring up to bring up this use of bring up uh the one i want to focus on in this lesson is to introduce a topic of conversation to introduce a topic of conversation so to bring something up means to start talking about something in a conversation for example don't bring up any difficult topics in the meeting don't bring up any difficult topics in the meeting this means don't introduce anything that's difficult or maybe that's sensitive in the meeting so bring up can be used to mean this yes you may have heard bring up used to mean raised like raising kids like i was brought up in this country we can also use bring up in work and in school and in conversation uh related situations to mean introducing a topic of conversation to bring up one more example my best friend brought up an awful memory my best friend brought up an awful memory so past tense here bring up becomes brought up in past tense my my best friend brought up an awful memory this means in the conversation in a conversation my best friend talked about uh something that was a bad memory for me okay fantastic uh i don't see any other questions so let's continue on the next one is go through go through to go through for this first use i want to focus on to go through means to work on something step by step to work on something step by step so we use go through a lot for large projects for example an essay so a paper your writing or maybe a big project proposal something with many details we need to go through each part so that means we need to look at each part step by step until we finish to go through so for example let's go through your proposal after lunch let's go through your proposal after lunch that means let's look at all the details step by step of your proposal okay one more past tense example i went through my report with my manager i went through my report with my manager so with this one i want to talk about a common versus issue so uh sometimes some learners ask what is the difference between go through and work through so we can use these two go through versus work through that's what i'm writing here in this board go through versus work through this is maybe a point to consider go through versus work through we can use them both of them can be used to have this meaning to work on something step by step we can use go through and work through to do this however go through has another meaning it means to experience struggles emotional struggles usually and to overcome those emotional struggles so to go through a difficult experience you might hear go through used in that way work through has somewhat of a similar meaning but to work through something means to actively try to improve a difficult situation like he worked through some difficult things so there are some nuances there are some little differences in how we use go through and work through in terms of emotional or like difficult situations okay uh like likas sorry on youtube says can we use go through like going inside of something yes absolutely there is another use of go through which means like to pass through like to go through a tunnel for example yes absolutely absolutely okay someone's saying can you explain again this lesson is being recorded so please check the lesson afterwards okay um i don't see other questions so let's look at the last one here read up on to read up on you'll notice i have this on here we often see this used with on read up on topic to read up on something means to refresh your memory or like to gain knowledge about something by reading so what's the difference between read and read up on when you read it's like um it's kind of just very neutral it's just a an everyday activity to read a book or to read about a topic but when we when we use the expression read up on it's like a quick refresher or we're just quickly getting some key information that's the feeling with read up on maybe we do it to prepare for a presentation we would use read up on topic to express that just to refresh something okay uh so some examples kind of hard to see sorry let me fix that it's a limited space here i'll move this up okay so uh to read up on my example you should read up on forest safety before you take a long hiking trip you should read up on forest safety before you take a long hiking trip so this read up on followed by your topic in this case forest safety forest safety so please read up on forest safety before you take a long hiking trip on facebook raquel says i read up on english books every week okay that's a situation where read is the best i read english books every week you use read up on to talk about a topic not about the thing you are reading so we do not say i read up on magazines nope or i read up on books nope we would say i read up on english grammar every week you can use a topic but not the type of thing you read something you are refreshing your brain about khanwaljit says you should read up on the basics of the programming language before you start a project good uh read up on your presentation topic okay very nice janab says does read up have the same meaning of brush up ah they can be used yes so the question uh is read up versus brush up to read up on something versus to brush up on something to read has a pretty good hint in it yeah to read up on something means to refresh your knowledge of something by reading yeah to brush up on something means you can refresh your knowledge by doing an activity so not just reading but for example ah i need to brush up on my cooking skills means to refresh your knowledge by cooking chris solitty sorry if i said your name wrong on youtube can you use reading up yes you can use it to talk about a current uh progressing action so like right now i'm reading up on i'm reading up on uh english grammar or i'm reading up on this topic yes to talk about something you are doing now okay so again choose the topic with read up read it all right fantastic so that's group one let's finish there uh raquel nice yes i read up on superlatives you got it you got it very nice job very nice job okay let's uh phew take a break that's a lot of text phew so uh we will take a quick break and then come back to group two so if you missed it there is a 35 off sale on our english class 101.com website where you can get premium and premium plus plans to study english with our lesson materials with our tools check it out if you are interested in studying with us you can find the link below the video if you're watching on youtube and above the video if you are watching this on facebook if you are just joining live today uh sorry if you are not watching live but today's topic is 15 phrasal verbs for work and school if you missed part of the lesson it is being recorded okay um someone asked a question pavel on youtube says can you separate phrasal verbs sorry can you separate phrasal verbs and put pronouns in between them sometimes yes sometimes i will try to uh talk about when you can do that okay so let's continue to part two i will show you today's vocabulary list again you can take a screenshot if you like now is your chance i will show you again a little bit later um so let's continue to group two i just talked about group one these words here now we're going to talk about group two group two the second uh group of vocabulary words so let's go also oops oops my bad sorry also if you have not please make sure to like and share this lesson so that other people can find today's lesson find today's topic all right let's carry on okay so let's go to this first one let's go to keep up keep up to keep up with and you might also hear to keep up on something usually with but some people use on here what does keep up mean to keep up means to make progress at a desired pace so we can use this at work or at school to mean we are continuing our work or we are continuing our studies at the at the pace we want so our teacher wants this pace or our boss wants this pace for our work and we can keep up means we can continue at that pace so some examples he's not keeping up with his work he's not keeping up with his work means now he's not continuing his work at the pace or at the speed we want he's not keeping up with his work one more you run so fast i can't keep up you run so fast i can't keep up so that means i can't match your speed you are too fast for me so we can use this for like our uh studies and for our work and we can use this for like physical activities to to keep up with something someone says do not keep up with the kardashians ah that's funny to keep up with uh that's a great example though that's a great example to keep up with someone can also be used to mean to get all the updates about something to keep up with a person refers to getting everybody's updates so like if you follow if you follow someone online or if you follow like your favorite tv show or um whatever like on instagram or twitter you can keep up with that person you get all of their updates okay nice example sentence that's very funny okay let's go to the next one the next one is very very common and very very helpful it is turn in turn in to turn in means to submit to submit so we use turn in for like paperwork for our homework assignments to turn something in this is an example of a phrasal verb we can split so let's look at the examples here first i turned in my essay this morning i turned in my essay this morning so this means i submitted my essay this morning i turned in again this is the past tense form another example this one i've split it so split means turn and in are separated by a word here please turn your report in by tomorrow please turn your report in by tomorrow so this means the same thing please submit your report so what's the difference why should i say turn your report in or can i say turn in your report they're both fine they're both fine to use so uh it's just totally up to you you can choose uh avi on youtube says how do i know when to use with and on uh up here with this one this one generally usually we use with here i included on just because you may hear some people use on in this expression usually we use with so i would recommend to use with here okay uh jean or john carlos on youtube says does turn in have the same meaning as drop off or hand in uh turn in and hand in mean the same thing yes to turn in and to hand in to drop off however means something different drop off means to quickly stop somewhere and leave something so drop off can be used for paperwork yes but it doesn't have the official feeling of like an assignment or homework of some kind it's like maybe i borrowed something from a friend like i need to return my friend's pen i go to their desk and i drop off the pen so it's not like an assignment in that way i just need to give someone something turn in and hand in are like official submissions of something okay other questions i don't see uh someone on facebook i cannot read your name sorry says i turned in my english test this morning very nice please use past tense there yeah i turned in my english test this morning uh fantastic ooh nelly says can we use this phrasal verb in virtual classes yes yes you do not have to use this for just physical objects great question you can use this for digital project submission so when you email your teacher or when you email someone's like some kind of official paperwork you can also use turn in like i turned in my assignment to my teacher you can you can uh i think we tend we probably use it more in physical like real life situations but you can use it in digital classes too okay fantastic thanks for your questions let's continue to the next one kick off to kick off to kick off means to begin something with excitement to begin something with excitement like a project or an event for example we kicked off the event with an inspiring speech we kicked off the event with an inspiring speech or let's kick off the new year with a party so you can imagine kick off means like start yeah start but the difference between start and kick off is kickoff is like excited about that thing we're enthusiastic we want to do something kind of big we want to create a party create an event we want to launch something with our to show our excitement that's the difference a key difference with kickoff and start okay uh nightbot oh yes uh silva on youtube has a great uh a slight difference it says nightbot kicked off a person in the chat to kick off is different from kick ouch this is a question i wanted i hope to get to later but we'll talk about it now to kick off versus to kick out uh kick off which i just talked about means to start versus kick out this is our next this is the verses for this group kick off versus kick out so to kick off means to start something with excitement yeah like you're kicking off the uh a football game or a soccer game like everybody's excited when you kick the ball the first time kick out however means to force someone out of a place so like if you cause trouble in a restaurant or a bar they may kick you out remove you from the restaurant or bar or in a chat room the moderator or the robot may kick you out of the chat room so to kick out means to remove someone from a place i did not include it in today's list because we usually we don't use kick out too much in work and in school hopefully but uh that's the difference between kick off and kick out is kick off used for fighting uh i get well we do is just kick to talk about attacking someone to kick someone you we don't really use kick off uh in this way with that okay very nice job uh lab cons on your facebook says i kick my son out of the room okay i kicked maybe past tense i kicked my son out of the room don't forget lots of people are sending uh examples here make sure a past tense is kicked we kicked off or i kicked my son out of the room okay uh can i say let's kick it off yes absolutely let's kick it off fantastic okay uh yeah lots of you past tense don't forget your past tense here many many uh chatters all right let's go to the next one drop out of drop out of means to quit school or quit a competition you need to use drop out of of so don't forget this little thing okay so examples i had to drop out of college i had to drop out of college means i had to quit college what's the difference between drop out of and quit with drop out of it sounds like something i wanted to do or i had a goal but for some reason i couldn't continue or i didn't want to continue so i removed myself from that goal or from my plan to drop out of has this feeling quit doesn't have that same feeling another example past tense dropped dropped he dropped out of the race for health reasons he dropped out of the race for health reasons so again he removed himself from the race or from a race for health reasons so that means his health wasn't so great so he decided to remove himself from the race my friend dropped out of high school good good okay um to drop out of uh some bhavna says i drop out of this chat from this channel so drop out again drop out we use for things that that are kind of like a big goal so education goal or uh like a personal like marathon a big race a competition so we use it in those situations university we don't really use it on so much on small everyday things okay uh sushi says drop out of is it kind of the same meaning as give up no to give up is like i've tried i'm so tired i quit to drop out of something it's like you've tried for a long time and maybe you don't want to stop actually when you give up you decide i'm done i want to stop kind of with drop out of it's like you had a goal and now you have to you have to quit so it's kind of the feeling there with drop out of something you don't want to stop generally to give up is like i'm tired i quit i'm done like i'm not going to try anymore with drop out of and i feel like in many cases we still want to try but we cannot all right uh i dropped out of the seminar okay could be it could be uh if you were participating in the seminar as a speaker okay uh some of okay someone says i dropped out of my job we do not use it for everyday life situations again a key point with drop out of is we are working towards a specific goal like i continue to use the example of university or competitions like sports competitions to drop out of a race or to drop out of a contest for a project you're developing there's some kind of personal goal there all right let's go to the last one clock in and clock out this one i thought would be uh very helpful for many people to clock in and to clock out means to record the time you begin and end work so for example oh no i forgot to clock out i forgot to clock out means i forgot to record the time i finished work and she clocked in at 9 00 am so to clock in means to start work to clock out means to leave clock in clock out also you may hear a clock off instead of clock ouch they're both fine they're both the same all right uh okay let's wow time's going quick so let's let's stop there if you have questions i will check them uh real quickly in case you missed it earlier i'll remind you one more time there is a 35 off sale at englishclass101.com or premium and premium plus plan so if you want to study with us please check the link below the video on youtube or above the video on facebook alexi says can i say i dropped out of my kung fu classes because i broke my foot yeah great example great example like i dropped out of my kung flu classes okay yes like you're working towards some kind of competitive goal there really very nice very nice okay onward uh let's go to the last part uh real quick i will show you one more time today's verb list i have to finish quickly though oh my gosh so this is today's 15 phrasal verbs list uh and we've talked about some other bonus verbs ooh let's look at this last group now if you missed this i recorded all of this other stuff this one is where we will finish let's go also if you have not please make sure to like and share this video so that other people can find the lesson all right let's go group three for today are you ready i am ready okay let's look at the last group here last is uh clean out let's start with this one clean out to clean out something means to remove everything inside a space you remove everything inside a space to clean it in order to clean it for example i cleaned out the refrigerator today that means i removed everything from the refrigerator to clean my refrigerator also clean out your desk before you go clean out your desk before you go so that means before you leave please remove everything from your desk so if you quit a job for example okay um all right someone says i cleaned out my bedroom oh really so you removed everything from your bedroom cool okay uh the next one make up make up so i know many of you will say is it like makeup that you put on your face this is different make up there's a space right here yeah this space to make up this is how you know it's a verb a phrasal verb and not the noun like makeup to use on your face makeup for your face has no space yeah make up as a phrasal verb has a space here this is how you know so this use i want to talk about is make up for or make up with i'll talk about the differences to repair this means to repair a past relationship with someone we use makeup with in this case or it can mean to replace a missed activity to replace a missed activity so some examples i made up with my friend after our fight this means i repaired my relationship with my friend after our fight i made up with in these cases use with when you're talking about repairing a relationship with someone use with do not use for in that case it is incorrect however in a case like this where you are talking about replacing a missed activity use for for example i'll make up for my absence next week i'll make up for my absence next week this means i missed a day of work or school absence my absence my absence means i was not at work i was not at school i'll make up for my day i was gone next week so we are replacing a missed activity in this case use four do not use with here so depending on the meaning you want to use you need to choose the word that follows make up okay oh yeah there's another good point on youtube to make up also means like to create as in a story to to create a story all right time's going quick uh alexander says make up is also for kissing no that is make out there's make out and that is not in today's verb list we do we typically don't need to use make out at work and at school maybe i don't know what you're doing but that's make out to make out we make up uh to talk about these things all right let's go to the next one because i'm almost out of time oh my gosh fall behind how appropriate to fall behind means to become slower in progress than desired as in i fell behind on my homework or we fell behind schedule on our project we were too slow in other words i fell behind past tense fell behind on something please do not flood the chat with the same comment remote control desk if you're out there youtube uh last two quickly get along i think these are a couple of nice ones to finish with to get along means to have a good relationship with someone to have a good relationship with someone for example he didn't get along with his co-workers or i got along with my brother so this means you have a good relationship with someone in the negative it means you do not have a good relationship with someone to get along with someone to get along with someone finally a good review one to call back to call back means to return someone's phone call to return someone's phone call so can i call you back in 10 minutes or my client never called me back so this is one you can split yeah can i call you back or uh my client never called me back so you can use this uh with the person uh whose call uh you're talking about in between the two words all right i have to finish there holy cow time went quickly oh my gosh if you want to take a picture real quick here is the list of vocabulary words i talked about in today's lesson how exciting right uh i have to end very quickly so uh next week of course i will be back hooray next week's lesson it will be august 19th 10 p.m eastern standard time i'm going to talk about how to give your opinion on food and drink so this will be a good one for i think beginner and intermediate learners in particular i will talk about some adjectives you can use in these situations so we'll finish there for this week thank you as always for your awesome questions and your awesome comments uh check out the link below the video for the 35 doc deal and if you have questions send them to me for our q and a series i will say goodbye to you there so thanks as always enjoy the rest of your week bye

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