Advanced Phrasal Verbs 5

okay welcome everybody to another phrasal verbs lesson this phrasal verbs lesson will still be working from the advanced trayzell verbs book by Michael McCarthy and Felicity Odell I think but it's Cambridge University Press it's called advanced phrasal verbs you will find it will be the first thing you find if you look for it on Google and today we're looking at chapters 31 to 35 and chapter 31 only focuses on phrasal verbs which are used very often in the imperative as an instruction or an order something like that so the first one I think is quite rare take it away and it's used usually in entertainment in a performance the singer might say to his band take it away and it means start playing start playing the song but the presenter of the TV show could say to the group the band the musician the singer take it away and it means start singing start performing so quite a rare one you can only use it if you mean start singing or start performing and if you if you keep an eye out for or keeping if you listen out for this phrasal verb on entertainment shows you probably will hear it at some stage okay if the presenter says give it up for the next group he is asking the audience to clap he's asking for an applause so when he says giving up for the next act he means please put your hands together that's another way they say it click your hands together so it's another one put your hands together meaning clap now is the time to start clapping put your hands together it's a signal to the audience but they start clapping give it up for the next act give it up for the next the next people that are performing whoever they may be it could be a musician could be a singer it could be anybody who's performing it doesn't have to be a singer or musician okay if you say go ahead it means please do what you're going to do please go ahead and do it so if a student in the class for a pupil says Dave can I go to toilet I might say go ahead and it means go on go to toilet do what you want to do it's basically when you when you give permission to someone to do what they want to do but not just give permission but instruct them to do it so go ahead is very common and it just means do what you have asked to do or do what you would like to do do what you want to do so something you might be at a restaurant and your friend says can I get you a drink can I get you a beer Dave I'll probably say go ahead I would love a beer okay if you say go on or come on or go from it this is very often used as a way of encouraging a sportsman so if you're in the audience if you've not the Williams if you're among the spectators our football match you might be shouting go on come on in fact we very often will shout go on or come on to encourage our football team but it could be at the Olympics when we're encouraging our Ghana or our swimmer whoever it is this is a way of encouraging people I could even use it on pupils as well if they're struggling with perhaps they're struggling with whatever they're supposed to be doing and I say come on go on meaning come on you can do it don't give up you can do it go for it do your best yes so it's just a way of encouraging sportsman or maybe other people but usually sportsmen if you say hang in there or keep it up it means don't give up it means you know you'll often say again at a football match you might say hang in there meaning don't give up you're gonna win come on go for it but whereas these are words of encouragement just general encouragement meaning you can do it these are more more likely to mean don't give up you're almost there you're almost at the finish line you can reach it you can be your gold hang in there keep it up so it doesn't have to be sport you could say it to someone who has a certain project and they haven't quite finished it and you want them to see the project flew you want them to complete the project and so you say hang in there don't give up keep it up keep going okay if you say roll-on Mundi it means you really want Mundi to come as soon as possible it means something exciting is happening on Monday maybe there's a party you're going to go to so you say vote on Monday maybe it's a day off maybe it's a bank holiday and so you say vote on Monday and it means come on Mundi I want you to come as soon as possible because I'm looking forward to that day so you might say roll on Christmas if you're looking forward to Christmas or vowel on the weekend if you can't wait to finish work for a couple of days and enjoy yourself okay if you say it pipe down it means quieten down it means please I mean shut up would be a good way of saying it this isn't perhaps a little bit less food than shut up although I wouldn't say it to an adult if you don't want to offend them I think teachers in classes though you often say quieten down which is a nice polite way of saying you know make less noise but pipe down would be a little bit mooder than quietened down but not quite as rude as shut up now if you don't believe what somebody's telling you if you think they are pulling your leg if you think they are kidding you might say come off it and this is very common this one come off it I don't believe that what a load of rubbish so if I meet the newspapers or watch the news on TV most of the time these words are running through my mind have come off it that just isn't true that's obviously a load of rubbish that's set up and there's a lot of a lot of stuff which makes you think come on so even come on which could be a word of encouragement it can also be disbelief shock at the rubbish that you're hearing you say come on that can't be true you're pulling my leg okay so dream on is what you might say to someone if you think they're being - hopelessly optimistic about something perhaps they think that they're going to be the next superstar the next perhaps they think they're going to play for Manchester United because they're so good at football and you might think dream on that's never gonna happen there's a lot of competition in this sport and there are a lot of other youngsters who also would like to play for Manchester United so dream on is probably not going to happen okay if you say cut it out knock it off or leave off it's when you're annoyed with someone's behavior very often parents would say this to their kids maybe you're on a long car trip and your kids are in the back and they're arguing again you might say cut it out knock it off leave off stop bickering bicker is a way another work which we use for argue it's not a phrasal verb but it's quite a good one and so if they're bickering in the back you might tell them to cut it out to knock it off to leave off so it's when you tell people to stop doing something annoying if you want someone to wait you might say hang on hang about hold on all of those means wait that all of those mean wait a second you know wait a second hang on hold on hang about so they all mean wait basically listen up means missing carefully I'm gonna say something important so listen up I'm gonna describe some more phrasal verbs be attentive and if you go easy on someone go easy on someone means that you're for some reason you don't go hard on them go easy on someone if you're a teacher maybe someone has misbehaved and if you go easy on them you give them a very lenient light punishment you go easy on them but it doesn't have to be used in that way maybe you have a test for the students for the pupils and because because they've had a long break in the summer you decide to go easy on them and make the test quite easy so to go easy on someone means to treat them delicately and carefully in a fragile way because you don't want to make things too difficult for them okay if you're the manager of a company you might farm out some jobs to another country because you can't afford to play to pay the workers in your country farmer always means delegate it could also mean - when you farm out jobs you usually give those jobs to another company if you farm out a part of the business you maybe sell that thank you hive off that part of the business you sell it off you separate it and sell it and then farm out that part of the business to another country so to farm out is basically to delegate you could delegate jobs to another place or you could farm out all sorts of things you could farm out your projects to another place because they can do it a much cheaper price okay if you slog or slave away you work really hard and it sounds negative it sounds like you're doing loads of work and that you shouldn't actually be doing that much work so if you're working for a particularly unreasonable boss you might say that you've been slogging away for ages you've been slaving away because otherwise you'll lose your job or your your salary will be cut or something like that but beaver away or plug away is positive really these ones are positive and it means that you're working hard it's the same thing as slog away a flavour way but it sounds like it's a good thing that you're working hard so all students ought to be Vil way before their exams yeah they ought to knuckle down or buckle down now this one's more neutral but again it's the same if you knuckle down or buckle down you start working hard okay if you fling yourself into your studies it basically means you bury yourself in your books you you start applying yourself to your studies with maximum enthusiasm and maximum effort effort so flinging yourself into your studies or into your work it could be at work it means you start working as hard as you can and enthusiastically now if you have a project that you all to see it through which means keep going don't give up and complete the project yeah to see it through to the end you see a project through to the end you complete the project so it's very positive to see something food you ought to see through all your projects otherwise you're a quitter you give up at the first hurdle now if you step aside this basically means step down and you want to remember that one because step down means resign but step aside means step down in order that somebody else takes your position so if you Deputy Prime Minister steps aside perhaps it's in the middle of a scandal and he steps aside in order to let somebody else take his position it means he steps down to let someone take his position to let someone take his job so fairly similar but there's always going to be someone waiting when you say step aside to fill your shoes now if you get bogged down in work you get bogged down in a project or get bogged down with work that means get bogged down it sounds like you're stuck in the mud when you get the bog is a muddy swamp and so if you are bogged down with work it means you are snowed under very similar to be to be snowed under and this one means to be really busy to have loads and loads and loads of work to be snowed under very similar to get bogged down in to get bogged down at work it would mean that you've got loads and loads and loads of work and so you're slogging away you're slaving away now if you are not cut out for something it means you are not up to doing it you're not capable of doing it when you're not cut out for something so I am not cut out for a marathon I already know that I'm not capable of doing that well perhaps I would be with a lot of training but I don't even fancy doing that I don't feel up to doing a marathon and so I'm not going to lie like sport by the way I do enjoy a football I play football Mondays and I certainly feel up to doing that and certainly cut out for that but it's only one hour it's two games for half an hour and I'm certainly capable of running around for an hour and I think it's very good to do so as well it keeps you fit now if you cobble something together you might cobble together an essay with a few different ideas it means put something together to cobble something together so yeah basically put something together but you could use it with essays you can cobble together an essay but you might cobble together a plan or some kind of draft you could cobble together a draft or a plan or anything like that which you're putting together maybe for work maybe for school now if you pack in your job or Jack in your job you design so that's nice easy one it just means we resign you step down you resign they step down and step aside a very formal pack and Jack your job in a very informal it's what you'd say to your friends stand apart but you know I've decided to pack in my job it's annoying me maybe you decide to pack it in because the boss keeps passing you over for promotion so to get passed over for promotion means to be forgotten to not be promoted somebody else got the promotion so that might cause you to pack the job in now if you call out a plumber or you call out an electrician it sounds like you have a plumbing emergency of an electrical emergency and so you call out the plumber you call out the electrician electrician for emergency support for aid for assistance for help as soon as possible but remember that it has got a second meaning to call someone out on their mistakes is to bring their mistakes to their attention it's to notice their mistakes and tell them their mistakes so quite a few people call me out on my mistakes on these videos they write them underneath and if I'm in a particularly good mood and it's a very clearly written sentence I'll hold my hands up and say yes I am mistaken I'm sorry you're absolutely right thank you for calling me out on my mistake but if I'm in a bad mood I might just delete the comment and ban you from the channel I'm quite quite um unfair in that sense okay you get off work at a certain time you knock off work at a certain time it means you finish work that's all you get off work you knock off work quite common often used for work but it could be used for school the kids knock off school at half-past three so just finish those two when you hand something in it means that you have a document or a piece of homework which has to be handed to the relevant authority so homework has to be handed in to the teacher usually but if you're applying for a visa you might have to hide your documents into the visa center or you might have to hand in some documents to the embassy could be either now if you ease off you slow down or relax in some kind of way if you say that sales of ice cream is off in the winter it means the sales of ice cream decrease there aren't so many there's not such a big market but you could also say he eased his foot off the accelerator meaning that he took his foot slowly off the accelerator and started to slow down but you could say the rain is starting to ease off or the traffic is starting to ease off so it can be used in a lot of different ways to ease off and it basically means to be reduced or to quieten down or to relax in some kind of way okay if you go through a divorce or get through a divorce I mentioned this in the previous class it means that you you if you get through it you've finished going through it and if you go through it you're just in the process but yet always means to finish in some kind of way so yeah you get through it and you're finished all of the details of the contract have been ironed out they've been firmed up and that means that you're you're now officially divorced you've finished it but go through would mean to be in the process of the difficulty so I mean it doesn't have to be used with divorces it can be used with anything that's difficult you can get through your exams some of you may be still going through a difficult period in your life for one reason or another so it could be with any difficult period these two though are very often used with exams if you scrape through your exams you only just pass only just you're a borderline pass but if you say all through them you pass with flying colors we say you get really good marks now if the teacher marks you down it means that you do something wrong and for that reason you get a much lower mark so I mean I think students very often get marked down for mistakes of course they do in written essays usually it's mistakes that will mark you down more than anything you know the teacher will mark you down on due to your mistakes more than anything else content is important as well but its secondary really try never to make mistakes when you're writing English essays otherwise you will be marked down fall behind students fall behind in the in their subject when they're not doing their homework or maybe they're off for a few weeks because they have a holiday or they have an injury and then they might fall behind the rest of the class in which case they need to catch up with their schoolmates with their classmates so you don't want to fall behind really you want to you want to stay at the same level as everybody else now if you read something quickly you skim through the book you leaf through the pages you flick through the articles you've gone through the questions whatever it is that you're reading quickly you can do all of those with any kind of paper document or book or exam or anything like that if you've got a list you can tick the names off you can cross the names off you can check the names off all of those mean to basically own or this or this something like that it's just put a symbol next to the name so when the teacher takes the register they check the names off they take the names off they cross the names off they reel off the names first of all don't forget reel off means to say a list of names or a list of countries or a list of dates you reel off a list and then you tick the names off or cross the names or check the names off if you pull over documents you scrutinize them you look at them for a long time in order to fully comprehend them in order to take in all the information in that document you have to pull over it first now you might need to bury yourself in the documents in order to thoroughly understand them in which case you might fling yourself into the work in order to thoroughly comprehend it now if you're a student your teacher might say that this exam will count towards your final grade or your final mark meaning that this exam counts yeah that it has some weight in your final mark in your final percentage or your final grade for the year and they may say that any questions that you get wrong will count against you meaning that it will take down your final grade it will it will your final grade will be marked down if you make any of these mistakes these mistakes will count against you so count towards and count against are also very useful for students now if you deprive someone of their human rights you take away their human rights in some kind of way but if you deprive someone of food you don't give them enough food if you deprive someone of information you don't give them enough information so you can deprive someone of anything and it's always related to a lack of something it's when you don't allow someone to have something which they really need if you devote yourself look at that tail spelling sorry about that oneself with an e with two E's if you devote yourself to a project you 100% throw yourself into that project you fling yourself into that project yeah well yourself into is also correct you you enthusiastically apply yourself to that goal you aim at that gold and you devote yourself to it remember that devotion is a very strong word husbands should be devoted to their wives and wives should be devoted to their husbands and very often at the start of the book you mace at the start of a book you may see the the words this book is not devoted to actually it's a different word it's another con beginning with D if book is devoted to my wife no there's another word beginning with di forgotten it so sorry that's a bad example I'll try and think of that before the end of the class but yeah devote yourself to means give yourself fully to some kind of project or goal now you might say that this answer is related to something else you might say that this this book is based on the film you might say that these answers are founded on are grounded in so all of these expressions they all mean to be connected to in some kind of way or to be based on based on unfounded or not quite similar connected to is more like linked to related to okay ah dedicated to that was the one I was thinking about for books dedicated I mean there's another one beginning of deep yeah usually in a book you say you've seen this book is dedicated to my children or something like that but suppose it could say devoted to my dream that's a bit weird no dedicated to is much better okay if you aim at a target with your bow and Hammer you're shooting at that target but you can also say our company is aiming at a new sector of the market meaning we are directed towards that new sector of them are so it doesn't have to be just with a gun or a bow and arrow it could be with something else but always remember that a mat or throw that or shoot at it means at that person throw something at that person aim at that person shoot at that person if when you're trying to hit that person in some kind of way now detract from this is very often used when a teacher is marking an essay and the teacher might say that the content has detract or the argument the lack of rationality has detracted from the mark yeah that it means to take away from the mark simply because it's not rational or something's not logical usually used for arguments for poorly formulated arguments so if there's something irrational or contradiction in the essay you might say these contradictions detract from the conclusion meaning that you know the contradictions make the conclusion weaker they dilute the conclusion they detract from the conclusion they make it less rational if you cash in on an opportunity you profit from that opportunity and you start raking in the cash you start raking in thousands of dollars or hundreds and thousands of pounds and so don't forget these ones which we've done before which means to claw in a lot of money to make in a lot of money if you object to something it means you disagree with something you think that something is wrong or incorrect so very often in essays at university we have to object to certain positions and we have to put forward our own positions you have put forward and argue in favor of our own positions if you say that this restaurant caters for vegetarians it means it has vegetarian meals on the menu but you might say this course at university caters for beginners meaning that it's ready to take on beginners but it's it will cater for beginners it will teach you from the very beginning so this is very flexible this - catered for I my lessons I try to make sure that my lessons cater for all students of all ages more or less so I must admit with complete beginners who are perhaps only three or four years old I'm not sure that it will be best to have Skype lessons but anybody above the ages of seven and away I'm certain I could make some lessons to cater for those age groups and I already do have a few students from those age groups now to contend with difficulties problems to contend with something something that's hard to cope with to deal with contend with basically is a formal way of saying deal with or cope with or face up to a particular problem so perhaps you might say the poor the poor in this country have to contend with floods disease and famine something like that and that's a lot of different problems to deal with okay if a business hives off the I don't know the HR department the human resources department it means it sells off that department usually they sell it off it could just mean to separate that department for some reason to separate that department from the rest of the building but from the rest of the business because to hive something off means to separate it from the business usually by selling it to someone else by selling off that part of the business maybe by farming out that part of the business to another country now if you say this person heads up for HR department it means he's in Hell in charge of the HR department tuck so to head up means to be the head to be in charge if you say that the new product that we are launching the new products that we are bringing out is expected to reel in a lot of new customers to bring in a lot of new business to drum up a lot of business we have that in another phrasal verb lesson as well so to bring in or reeling customers business that kind of thing and that's when we usually use these too but remember that you can bring in a new law as well or a new a new piece of legislation meaning introduced so that one can be used in a couple of different ways the factory may turn out twenty thousand twenty thousand items per month whatever it is what I'm not sure what the item could be it could be anything but you can say the factory turns out twenty thousand items a month the factory churns out eighty thousand items a month so we look to churn out before there are a few with churn you can churn something over in your mind you can also say that the kids often play football on my glass and it churns up the grass churn up is also possible and it means to destroy especially grass churn up the grass you also say no grass is best you can say that the dog churns up the glass the cat churns up the grass very often used with grass that one but churn out means produce and so if there is a prolific writer who churns out a lot of books per month that means they write a lot of literature and I try and churn out a few phrasal verb videos every month as somebody commented on my last video and yeah that's a good example it was very aptly use in that own sentence so if you bring out a product you launch a product if you firm up the details in the contract it's exactly the same as iron out the details in the contract to firm up means to make something more solid more concrete you could also firm up arrangements which maybe you wouldn't hire now or maybe you would but when you firm up Arrangements you make them more concrete you make both you make sure that both sides understand exactly what the arrangements are if you buy out another company usually that means you buy out all the shareholders by buying up all the shares so they're pretty good certainly connected they are related to each other by out and by up if you deal in arms you sell arms you sell weapons if you deal in art you sell art so that's quite an easy one I think and if you sign someone up well this is usually used for football teams or sports teams when they sign up a new player but you might also sign up a new student and that student signs up for your classes they register for your classes but you can sign up for weekly emails Fermin from a new website that you've found or something like that basically means register with the website so that you are on the email list oh okay that's a lot of phrasal verbs now's your time for questions rather than earlier but I imagine that most people with questions have already gone and so thanks very much for watching everybody I really appreciate your support and I hope to see you all soon

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Published: Wed Sep 06 2017