18 Useful Phrasal Verbs for Work in English

hi internets welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about phrasal verbs for the office many of you have asked me to teach lessons about phrasal verbs so today I'm going to do a lesson and we're going to learn a lot of different phrasal verbs that you can use at work at school in meeting situations in situations where you use a computer whatever so not just for work not just for the office but hopefully that you can use in a few different ways in your everyday life so as you join please don't forget to like and share the video hit the thumbs up button and share so that other learners can find this week's lesson also please make sure to send a message in the chat so we can say hello as you join I see a few people on YouTube Hey hi Leah yeah is it work yes Leah hi Wellington hello blackout hello I see a few people on Facebook as well Diana hello moat and neigh great Amanda on YouTube hello there okay a few people are coming well we wait as 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to look at for today is this these are phrasal verbs you can use for every day of office activities so yes I have everyday office activities but some of these you can use for other parts of your life too so I'll mention those the lesson let's get started okay first the first this is actually two different phrasal verbs first is two o'clock in two o'clock in second is to clock out so two o'clock in and to clock out those are two separate phrasal verbs two o'clock in two o'clock in means to record your start time to record your start time so this means when you arrive at the office you record when you begin work so maybe you use like a I don't know some digital system to record when you start your office hours that's called clocking in we use the phrasal verb to clock in so in a sentence walk in when you get to the office so clock in is right here clock in this is like a rule or a command so clock in when you get to the office so the opposite then is this one to clock out to clock out so maybe you can guess to clock out means to record your end time to record your end time or to record the time you stopped working to clock out to clock out so in a sentence clock out when you leave so clock in when you get to the office clock out when you leave or clock out when you finish work it's a clock in and clock out a very basic office related and fight phrasal verb okay let's move on to the next one then the next one is to set up to set up please note that for this phrasal verb there is a space there's a space between set and up set up with no space is a noun to set up that's a phrasal verb keep the space there when you're making this a verb so to set up one's desk or work station so maybe you have a desk at your office or at your school or maybe you have just kind of a workstation maybe it's not exactly a desk you could use workstation too so to set up means to prepare something so like to get something ready for example let's set up workstations for the new staff so let's set up workstations we follow this set up with workstation or with desk like I need to set up my desk for the day that's typically how we use it sprays over okay and it's only says now I understand what was written on my work clock yeah this probably clock in a clock out phrase it's written on a lot of office clocks I think okay let's move on then to the next one to skip out on just skip out on misses one that you can use in situations outside of the office to skip out on means to not attend something on purpose like you decide I don't have time for this meeting or I said I would go to this event but I decided not to go so we use the expression to skip out on to skip out on this sounds rather casual so we do not use this in formal situations but you might use this with your colleagues with your close co-workers to skip out on to skip for example I'm gonna skip out on the afternoon meeting today I'm gonna skip out on the afternoon meeting today so skip out on and then what thing what event did you choose not to attend in this case the afternoon meeting I'm gonna skip out on the afternoon meeting today okay onward then we've got three more in this first group so this one is to head out to head out you can use this in a lot of different cases not just at the office not just at work to head out means to leave to leave so this has no like no relationship to your head your physical head so to head out means to leave for example it's late I'm gonna head out I'm gonna head out so replace leave or maybe go with head out okay a question on health says is it correct to say help me to set my desk up yeah that's fine that's fine so about this one here to set up yes you can split that so help me set my desk up is okay that's alright okay Katie on Facebook says I always skip out on University classes really that's not a good thing me are you paying for those Wow okay onward to next one the next one here ah this next one is super useful at work and at school it is to hand in to hand in to hand in means to submit so this expression comes from this motion like when you submit a report or you submit your homework this is kind of emotion yeah like or before digital stuff I guess but we used this motion so it's like your hand moved in towards another person so we use the phrasal verb to hand in to hand in to mean to submit something for example past tense I handed in my report at the end of the day I handed in my report so what did you hand in this is the thing that you handed in I handed in known phrase I handed in my report at the end of the day okay last one for this first group then it is to call in to call in especially to call in sick to call in sick this expression this phrasal verb means to contact your office or to contact your school to tell them you are not coming to work today because you're sick or to tell them you are sick usually for example I have to call in sick today I have to call in sick today so this is like when we were at home we pick up the phone and we call in to the office is kind of the idea our communication goes into the office that's sort of how you can imagine this but we said call in sick call in sick we typically don't use another adjective here we don't say I'm going to call in tired or I'm going to call in happy or something we use I'm going to call in sick this means I'm not coming to the office today because I am sick ok of the setcolor there on youtube says when we are about to leave the office in the evening how should we say what should we say ok you can say to your close colleagues you can use this expression I introduced this I'm head out I'm gonna head out that one's rather casual you can just say like have a good evening as well like that's kind of polite have a bit okay Olivia says my kids hand in their homework to me is that correct yeah that could be okay that could be okay my kids hand hand in is used like when you submit something like professionally like formally so if it's your kids like your son or your daughter is giving you their homework maybe a little different I would use I hand in my homework to my teacher or I hand in my report to my boss it sounds kind of official something like that okay all right other thing I don't see any other questions so I'm going to take a quick break and then we'll move on to the next part of today's lesson so if you missed it earlier I talked as always about the free things are we going to see that video again okay all right let me grab a physical copy so that we can see but we're actually looking at here so I show you these every week why not both to show you these every week and lots of you have asked about how to download these these are the free pdf lessons I show you every week this is a quick video that's just introducing how to download these so from our website from the link below the video on youtube or above the video on Facebook you go to that website you just saw scrolling and you can log in if you do not have an account you can make a free account and then choose the PDF that you are interested in download that right away so you can put that on your phone your computer whatever so yes there are tons of these this one's like romance one this is the one I wanted the business one so today I'm focusing on vocabulary words for the office so this hard to see hey Instagram you can see Matthew so this is the sorry this is my business one very hard to see here but you can find all of the phrases for a business meeting I mostly use some phrasal verbs you can find this from the link below the video on YouTube or above the video on this okay alright let's move along yes this is live to all of you who always ask that question during a live stream let's continue on to part two of today's lesson we're going to talk now about expressions or phrasal verbs rather for meetings phrasal verbs for meetings so let's get to it also if you're just joining please make sure to like and share the video we appreciate it so others can find it let's move along phrasal verbs for meetings so for meetings there's a lot or actually there are a few here about making notes so the first phrasal verb there are two kind of variations there are two different expressions we use first is to write down and the other is to take down so to write down or to take down just means to write notes like it has this feeling of just quickly like making just a small note so you're not like writing an essay in the meeting like you're quickly making small notes so we use to write down or to take down to describe that for example he wrote down the details of the agreement he wrote down the details of the agreement so this is past tense wrote down so when we make a phrasal verb in past tense we do still need to conjugate the verb there just as we would regularly so he wrote down the details of the agreement with this one he took down the details of the agreement so again hopefully if making notes making notes is to take down yes someone wrote to jot down the notes yeah nice one let's add that here to chopped to jot j OT to jot down notes means like just to quickly take notes again dropped so some people might like to use that I don't really use job that much no not my thing but it's fine uh Brit maybe I mean it is kind of British English you okay either way you can use it if you like it let's go to the next one the next one is kind of the opposite you might think to write up to write up so to write up is not exactly the opposite of to write down to write up means like to prepare something by writing like for example please write up a list of tasks so this doesn't mean like quickly writing down it also doesn't mean like writing an essay it's like please take some time to prepare something like for the meeting or please take some time to prepare this information so write up some details or write up a list of tasks so it's not like notes and it's not like an essay it's kind of in between so please write up any simple agreement or please write up a list something like that sounds quite natural okey-dokey let's go to the next one - speak up - speak up - speak up means to use your voice of course to speak and to share your ideas or to share your opinion especially in cases where maybe you don't usually share your opinion so like for example if you're usually kind of a quiet person and you decide to share your opinion in a meeting you might say like I'm going to speak up like you think to yourself I'm going to speak up or if your coworker is a quiet person you might say wow my coworker spoke up in the meeting so to speak up means to share your opinion or to share your idea especially in cases where you don't usually do that for example if you have an idea please speak up please speak up and some of you probably know speak up also means please speak more loudly - so if I'm like speaking really quietly you might say please speak up please speak up which means please speak more loudly like you're too quiet so there are two different meanings for that phrasal verb depending on the situation you can guess which one it is alright some questions Elizabeth on YouTube says sorry could I say to write up a draft yeah I think you could say like write up a draft of an agreement or like write up a draft of a contract yeah I think that's fine so to write something up sounds a little bit rough like it's not the final version so I think write up a draft is fine someone on hell says I think you missed listen up did I miss it or did I choose not to include it hmm okay on Facebook Muhammad says write up means take notes yeah write up is like you are creating a document yes but it's like the rough document so write down is like just taking notes it's not an essay it's not a perfect like message but to write up is like you're going to prepare something like to give to someone else so maybe it's like proper message okay I don't see anything others all right let's continue to this one to fill someone in to fill someone in to fill someone in means to give someone an update to give someone an update usually a small update and we often use fill in when we're requesting the update so for example if I'm your boss in this situation I want an update from you I might say please fill us in about the project please fill me in about the project or please fill me in about your studies means please update me give me a quick short small update about your activities or your project so you'll notice fill in you can split this one so in this case fill us in or fill me in is also okay to use fill me in fill us okay onward then the next the next one is to check in to check in maybe you know this for like a and an airplane so when you're flying like to check in for your flight or to check into a hotel to check in here means again to ask for an update like to ask about progress to ask about the status of a project is to check in so for example I'd like to check in about our new program I'd like to check in about our new program you might also here check in on someone check in on my father so like I'd like to check in on my father he's in the hospital something like that that also means to get a status update when you use this check in on someone it means get a status update about that person's condition to check in on someone to check in about topic so there are a couple of different ways to use this check in on or check-in about all right onward sin the athan Facebook has follow up yeah follow up is another nice one I'll add it here follow up to follow up is used usually I usually use follow up when I send someone an email and I haven't heard a reply there's no reply but I expect it I'll say I'm writing to follow up on my last email it means like check in after the last thing I sent you to follow up okay on to the next one these two these are kind of a pair to talk up to talk up and to talk down to talk up and to talk down so to talk up to talk up means to speak about someone and make them sound great so like in this sentence my manager talked up team at the meeting past tense our manager talked up who our team so that means the manager is saying the team is so great so the manager is talking about like the success of the team where the great skills on the team so to talk someone up or to talk to something a team to talk something up means to make it sound really really good on the other hand to talk down to to talk down to don't forget this preposition here to talk down to means to speak to someone as if they are below you so let's see there's enough space here I think let's imagine this is one person and this is the other person great drawing Alisha okay so it's like they're looking down on someone as they're talking so to talk down to means to speak to someone like they are below you they have a lower level than you so maybe they're rude or they're mean they're impolite so this is to talk down to someone for example don't talk down to your colleagues don't talk down to your colony so here so talk up make someone sound good to talk down to means to speak to someone like they are below you very good okay Mohammed on facebook says talk up means praise yeah kind of it kind of means praise so you are you are praising them yes in order to improve someone else's opinion of that person so in this sentence my manager talked of our team it like there's usually a reason like we want to improve someone's Union of us or about you oh okay a couple of points I saw okay on YouTube Ruben said my boss talked up our team's skills good okay let's see there a lot I already use check-in to mean hi I am showing up yes so as I said check-in can be used at a hotel as well to mean like I have arrived I am here other things to talk down to means looks down on you yeah it can be it can mean to look talked down to can mean to look down on someone but to talk down to means like you're actually using your words you're speaking to someone like they are below you okay let's move on you guys have some questions and I will try to get to them a bit later I have a few more things to get to so we'll take a quick break and then finish with the last point so if you missed it I talked a bit about the free PDFs we always have that you can find from the link below the video on youtube or above the video on Facebook check those links wherever you're watching if you're watching on Instagram please check YouTube or Facebook to get the links for these so this is the one I've been holding is the business English one of course today's lesson is focused on office English office related vocabulary that you can use but we have lots of other ones I showed a couple of these earlier this is like a shopping related one on the back of this is a verb for shopping actually too so this is another popular one we also have travel so we are talking a little bit about travel related expression you can pick all of these up for free from the link below the video on YouTube or above the video on Facebook okay let's go to the last part today's lesson and then the last part of today's lesson is about computer tasks computer tasks so things that you do on a computer or that are related to a computer so if you're just joining please don't forget to like and share the videos other people can find it ok let's continue so the first the first phrasal verb for this part is to send over to send over to send over just means send yes to send something but we use this kind of casually so and we often use it with digital files like please send over the photos when you have a chance so please send over here this just means sent like please send the photos when you have a chance send over sounds a little bit more casual like we're a little bit closer so you could use this link like co-worker or a colleague you're a little bit close to like can you send over that file it sounds a little bit more friendly than just simply send send sounds a little bit more stiff okay the next one is to look into to look into this is a really good one for a lot of different situations for any kind of planning to look into means to research to research so to look into something means to find facts to find information to find data about something to research something for example I'm looking into some upgrades for our equipment I'm looking into some upgrades for our equipment here I'm using it in the progressive looking into which means I'm researching now I'm researching some upgrades for our equipment so looking into in progressive or look into regularly we can use this like when making vacation plans like I'm looking into summer vacation packages or let's look into some place to go this weekend so to look into it means to research to research ok onward running out of time oh my gosh three left okay the next one is a pair to fill in or to fill out to fill in or to fill out these means right sorry please need to write like in a form so when we need to enter our personal information like our name or birthday our address we use fill out so especially when we are writing forms for example we filled out the shipping form we filled out the shipping form means we entered our information into the shipping form that we use filled out then please fill in the form please fill in the form so what there's no difference between fill in and fill out in this case in this case you can use whichever you prefer fill in or fill out I would say perhaps in American English we use fill out a little more commonly if you fill in is a little more common in British English okay on to the last two to plug in to plug in very important to plug in to plug in means to connect something to electricity to plug in your computer monitor to plug in your iPad to plug in your TV to connect to electricity so I forgot to plug in my phone I forgot to plug in my phone ah a point here the opposite is not to plug out when you want to do the opposite we to unplug to unplug u n PL u G to unplug something needs to remove a connection to electricity so to plug in to unplug something so do not use plug out that's not anything please use to unplug to unplug alright final final final final vocabulary word is to pull up to pull up this phrasal verb in a computer related setting means to open a file on a screen so for example hey can you pull up that PDF means like to open the file on the screen so to pull up something needs to open it so we can see it on the screen so you might hear this in a meeting or if your coworker comes to your desk and says something like can you pull up the latest version of the poster can you pull up the latest version of the poster it means can you please open it on your screen so we can both see it so to pull up is usually used when you need to reference something you can look at something with someone else to pull up oh ok great that is everything so we'll wrap up there I will finish there for today's lesson but I hope that you found some new expressions that you can use of course at the office and in your everyday life as well these are just a few phrasal verbs that you can use at work but I hope it's a good start for you so if you have questions please send them in the chat I will try to answer them somehow so please do send them along okay we have to finish up for today though so I'll end today's lesson here we will of course be back next week next week the date will be July 10 yeah yeah calendars ok July 10th Wednesday July 10th 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time that is New York City time the topic will be your personal style how to talk about your personal style I'm going to try to include some slang in this lesson so we can talk about maybe style related slang words slang expressions and so on so please join us next week Wednesday 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time for a personal style lesson and check out the link below the video on youtube or above the video on Facebook to get the free things that I showed you earlier some of you asked about this you 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Length: 33min 47sec (2027 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 03 2019