Phrasal Verbs With AROUND And ABOUT | Effortless Phrasal Verbs | Aussie English

all righty guys we're live welcome to this episode of Aussie English I guess it's not really an episode this is the first lesson where we'll be diving into the free course that will be streamed online here on Facebook effortless phrasal verbs this is a free course that I have that will be streamed online for free and you can sign up using the link that I've attached in here and you can pay for all the bonus material that's gonna come out but give me a thumbs up if you can hear me okay guys give me a like give me a share if everything's going well and if you want to spread the word I hope you've already checked out the very first episode where we went through all the different kinds of phrasal verbs today we're going to be going through around and about but I'll wait for a few more people to show up I might give it a quick share just so that it guest gets boost a little bit on Facebook and a few extra people will hopefully see it so if you have time please feel free to give it a quick a quick share on your wall let me just do this quickly tell me where are you guys listening from today as well are you guys all in Australia are you overseas what time is that where you guys are how's your day been how has your day been so eight people awesome awesome guys I'm glad that you're joining me I'm glad you guys are here this is gonna be a lot of fun so the basic idea again guys for those of you who haven't seen the first episode it's on Facebook it's also on YouTube and that episode I go through all the different kinds of phrasal verbs so it's a really good one if you're trying to get your head around how to use phrasal verbs naturally and effortlessly like a native speaker the basic idea with this course is going to be that twice a week on Mondays at 7 p.m. and then Thursdays at 7 p.m. I'll be streaming a live class so to be live on Facebook for you guys to watch for free I'll be covering all the different prepositions or particles and that go after phrasal verbs and so I try I'm gonna try and teach you the concepts not just here is a list of phrasal verbs using the verb to come here's a list with using the verb to go I don't think that that's very intuitive I rather teach it from the point of view of the particle so what does / mean what does a round mean what does about mean and why do we pair it with certain verbs so that's going to be the basic idea if you want to sign up for the course or enroll in this course there are still two spots left where you can get it for $50 if you use the coupon code only 52 words o nly and then the number 50 fi fty if you use that coupon code there's two spots left where you can get it for only 50 dollars after we start and after those coupons are gone it's gonna be $97 okay while the course runs while I do this week to week and then after we finish it and it's all packaged it'll be increased a little bit more to about 110 dollars okay so just letting you guys know that's about four dollars 50 I think per lesson okay per lesson so again give me a thumbs up guys if the audio is all good and if you have time give it a quick share I've also created the Facebook group so I just created that just now for all the members this is what you get access to when you enroll in the course you'll be able to do daily activities with me I'll be running you guys through different exercises that cover the phrasal verbs we just learnt that week so today's episode is going to be around and about and how those two different prepositions are used and then in the classroom in the online Facebook private group before students will be going through exercises for that also I guess I'll quickly mention when you enroll in this course you'll be getting these episodes as they come out but I'm going to be combining combining combining this video with the slide show that I'm reading off that has pictures of all the different phrasal verbs that I'll be talking about so that you can listen you can watch and you can read all at the same time you'll get a PDF an mp3 you also get a word document all of those to download there'll be exercises at the end of it including every single phrasal verb I speak in the episode so not just the ones that we go over I highlight and go through every single phrasal verb in the transcript my spoken use of English and then give you exercises at the bottom so that's the plan okay guys enroll if you want check out the link there's two spots left if you use the coupon code only fifty only fifty and you get it for fifty bucks anyway let's dive into it guys so today we're going to be going through how to use phrasal verbs that are followed by the particle around or about okay so I paired these together because maybe about 50% of the time the literal phrasal verbs quite often it's going to be interchangeable with around or with about okay so we're going to go through that we'll get to that in a sec the basic idea with this preposition in the literal form guys using around or about is this action okay it's on a horizontal sorry a vertical plain it's on a vertical plane and it's doing this okay so if something turns around it does that if something turns about it does that so it's it's this kind of movement okay so I want you to have that in your head the whole time this lesson as we go through it's this kind of movement okay so let's just quickly go through and define the different uses of the particle around and about I'll go through all of them I'll outline them we'll go through some examples for every single different one and then we'll go over the same at the end again and then we can open up into question and answer time guys okay so number one number one we can use around and about for the literal form for movement right so for movement like this so this can mean in many directions places but it can also mean to rotate like this okay so it's turn around you know that that movement rotation number two is without purpose around about without purpose so to sort of do this with no real purpose okay number three is in a circular route from one side to the other so you imagine something's in the middle and you go from this side all the way around to the other side so we just sort of cover down at the start there number four is to reverse your direction so again it's this idea you've turned around for example you've reversed your direction you could be driving a car and you come all the way around and then number five we have a whole bunch of miscellaneous uses of phrasal verbs with around and about some of them kind of have an attachment to the literal form some of them don't but we'll get to them and we'll also go through some expressions that go with phrasal verbs that use around and about okay so number one movement in many directions or places to trot around or to trot about to trot around or to trot about the horse trots about okay so that's trotting is the kind of movement that a horse makes when it's it's not running fast but it's not walking to trot the horse trots about and this is interchangeable with the horse trots around so you can imagine standing at a paddock watching a horse trotting it's not walking it's not running it's sort of halfway between the two and it doesn't really have a specific direction it's just kind of trotting all around in multiple directions to different places its trotting around its trotting about imagine that this horse or this pony as it's trotting starts to jump okay so it's again it's jumping with no real direction there's no real the place that it's trying to go it's just doing it all over the place it's jumping around it's jumping about so the horses trotting around and it decides to also jump around the horse is trotting about and it starts to jump about so those two can be interchangeably used to trot around to try to out to jump around to jump about if the horse now picks up pace so it starts going a little faster and it starts running it's still doing this movement right it's going around and around or it's going about the paddock we could say that it's running around or it's running about the paddock so the horse is running around the paddock the horse is running about the paddock no specific direction no real place that it's trying to go it's just doing this thing around and around and around imagine that instead of a horse it's a dog and this dog is running around right it's running around it's running about a field or the paddock maybe it's chasing the horse and it's decided to play so it's playing around now it's doing this movement it's going all over the place with no direction in mind no specific place it's trying to get to but it's moving around it's moving about it's playing around it's playing about and so you'll notice in all of these examples guys around and about either one of those whichever one you decide on using we just changed the verb depending on what the animal was doing right if the horse was trotting we say it was trotting around if the horse was jumping we say it's jumping about if it was the dog and the dog was running we say it's running about or it's running around and if they're playing with each other they're playing around or they're playing about okay so as a native speaker when I see them doing this kind of movement I instantly know okay about around and I think what verb do I want to use that's gonna describe how they're doing this thing are they playing are they running and a trotting are they jumping and that's when I combine the two I say okay around and about jumping and then I combine the two into the phrasal verb so that's how I am thinking about these things and creating them effortlessly as a native speaker alright so number number two slide number two here imagine that we're talking about move still some movement but this time it's in a circular route from one side to the other side okay so it's going like this one side to the other side and I want to compare it to the previous definition that we just went over meaning sort of in no real direction with no real place or destination in mind okay so we're comparing this movement you imagine you've got something here and you're going from one side around to the other side that's the first definition and the second one is just no real place that they're trying to go so sometimes we can change the meaning based on which which one we use okay so I'll go through some examples if you go around town right you go around town that is that you are in town in the town in a city where there's lots of buildings and people if you go around town it's just this idea of you're travelling around it you're in town and you're going around you're in town and you're going about so again around and about can be used interchangeably when there's no specific direction however if we're talking about going from one side of something so imagine this is the city now or the town and we're going from one side of the town around to the other side of the town now we can't use about now we have to use just around so this time I'm going from here around the town to the other side I'm going from here around the city to the other side okay so no Direction no real place in mind we can use around or about but if we're doing this movement around the thing it has to be around so we go around we go about town or we go around the town by literally going from one side to the other what's another example so this time imagine instead of just you know the broad verb to go we want to get in our car and drive okay so we're doing the same thing we're driving from one side of the town to the other side of the town we say weird driving around the town we're driving around the town if however we drove into town we drove in to the town and we were just driving around everywhere with no real destination in mind we can say we're driving around town and notice there that we don't have to save that town we're driving around town we can also in that case say we're driving about town so about and around with no real destination in mind but if you're going from one side to the other side we have to only use around the last example imagine you get out of your car so you step out of your car maybe your wife gets out of the car as well and you guys decide okay we want to walk around town we want to walk about town so now you're out of the car and you're walking around there's no real destination in mind maybe you start running around maybe you start jumping around but you're walking around the city you're also walking about the city remember no no direction in mind we're just kind of fluffing about doing whatever and so we can use around and about we're walking around town we're walking about town however if we walk so far that we end up outside of the town or the city and we turn around and look back and oh my gosh the cities all the way back there and we realize we have to get to a party on the other side of the city and we don't have our car we left our car in the city so we have to walk all the way through the city all the way over the city all the way around the city to the other side so if we walk around the city this time it has to be the preposition around so say we have to go this way and then this way to get to the other side of the city this time we say we walk around the city so hopefully that makes sense guys all right let's do a few more of just this circular motion so again we can go around the town we can go from one side to the other we can drive around the town we can drive from one side to the other we could also drive around say a roundabout and that would be that you have a roundabout in the road you know the circular thing that you drive around but this time instead of just going from one side to the other we can continue and come all the way back again so you could enter the roundabout you could go into the roundabout in your car as you're driving and if you just keep driving around and around and around it's doing this I'm driving around the roundabout I'm driving around and I might decide eventually this is the street that I want to go into this is the street where we need to go down this street to a certain house and that's when you would exit the roundabout but until then you're going around the roundabout you're driving around the roundabout you're moving around the roundabout so again I'm thinking around in my head that's this movement this idea and then I change the verb to go around to come around to drive around based on how I want to describe this movement occurring ok so again that's what's happening with regards to cognitive linguistics that's how I'm thinking about it I pick out the preposition or the particle that I want to use and I pick out the verb to explain the to will explain how this thing is happening and I combine it into a phrasal verb okay so again we went through walk around maybe you're walking around the roundabout you could keep going maybe you decide that you want to run around the roundabout or you could also if you decide to stand on the spot right in the center of the roundabout so imagine there's a car driving around you around the roundabout and you're standing in the centre and you decide that you want to keep your face pointing at the car the whole time so you're rotating around following the car as it spins around the roundabout or as it drives around the roundabout so you're spinning around you're turning around you're twisting around again it's that idea of this time you're on the spot doing this movement around and around and around and we just pick a verb to spin around to twist around to turn around and combine it with around to create those phrasal verbs okay so hopefully that makes sense and remember with that with this movement we can't really use about about would be more I guess you can use about if you want someone to turn about like this but that's kind of reverse direction which we'll get onto in a bit but if you're talking about this action you wouldn't say go about the roundabout you would say go around the roundabout alright so where are we up to all right we also have I guess I guess I should compare it to the phrasal verb over right we'll get into this in a future episode but for the purpose here if for instance I pick up my book and I turn my book over it's this movement right so I could just do it once so here's the book I want to see this side of it so I turn it over I turn it over again or maybe I'm just holding it in my hands turning it over so I'm just turning it over again and again and again the examples that I have here though however the sort of comparison to around this time so instead of turning it over I could put it vertically and do this action so now it's happening on the vertical axis instead of the horizontal axis so that's where it's over and this is around and it can also be like this but the basic idea is that I'm doing it on a vertical axis I'm turning it around like this whereas if it's on the horizontal axis I'm turning it over okay so for example what have we got here ah I wanted to introduce that because you can go over to someone's house as well right so I can go over like kind of like this movement right this this movement to go over to someone's house right to go over somewhere so if I go over to someone's house I'm going over an amount of distance like this and then I'm going to their house so that's sort of describing it on again it's kind of it's it's this action going up and then down if I go around to someone's house though again it's that twisting on a horizontal a vertical access twisting on a vertical axis but it's doing this this time so we can use both to explain going around to someone's house or going over to someone's house it's all about how you're thinking about that action so I could go around to my girlfriend's house he's going around to his girlfriend's house she's going around he's going over to he's going around to his girlfriend's house she's coming around to my house so my girlfriend is coming around to my house maybe she's jumping in her car and she's going to drive around to my house we can also get these phrasal verbs to take objects where I could say she's driving around to my house she's driving around to the beach she's driving around to the city so again it's just that idea of covering space driving around but maybe she's driving her ute around to the city or maybe she's driving her ute around to my house ok and a huge is a type of car so she's driving around maybe in the ute she's bringing some meat over for the barbecue that we're gonna have at our house so we're putting on a barbecue at our house she's bringing some meat over she's grabbed some lamb some snags she's gonna chuck him on the barbie but she's the one who's in charge of bringing the meat around to our house so she's gone to the shops she went around to the shops she's bought some meat and they've she's brought that meat around to our house she's brought her you'd around she's driven her you'd around and brought around the meat ok so there's that that's sort of I want to get to the point where you understand that you can use objects as well whilst you're you're using these phrasal verbs we can also obviously use the verb to take so imagine she brings the meat around to our house we don't eat all of the meat and she decides afterwards that she's going to take it around to her house and finish later so she's going to take the leftover meat around to her house and finish it later imagine we're all sitting around a table - we've just smashed a lot of different food we're really full and someone decides they want to take some beers or some drinks around to different people so maybe they take the beers around the table to different people okay so I could pick up all these beers I could walk around the table I could take these beers around the table and hand them out to a bunch of other people okay so hopefully that makes sense and in these can in these examples we can't use the phrasal sorry we can't use the particle about it has to be around okay alright so again again these ones are a little more abstract so these are moving away from the literal phrasal verbs that we just went over this is moving more into the non-literal realm although it kind of makes sense but this one's many directions many places so we can use about and we can use around the first one here is to sleep around okay to sleep around or we can also say to sleep about to sleep around to sleep about and this means to have many sexual partners right so if you sleep with someone you have sex with someone if you sleep around though so that we've modified the verb by putting a particle on the end of it making it a phrasal verb we sleep around or we sleep about it means you know no particular direction multiple places so imagine that you're sleeping at this person's house with them at this person's house with them at this person's house with someone else you're sleeping around you're sleeping about and we can also say to get around or to get about again this is similar and can be used in many different ways you know you could get around town as in go around town you could get around in the town but if you say that someone gets around a lot you're talking about them having a lot of different sexual partners so my ex-girlfriend really got around or I get around all the time with a bunch of different people now you get around they get about he sleeps around someone with many people or he sleeps about with a lot of girls okay similar to that one we can say to mess around with to mess about with to fool around with or to fool about with this one is experiment sexually with so it doesn't have to be that you have sex but it's that you have kissed the person and anything else and kind of experimented maybe you're a teenager the scene agers messed around at the party they messed about with each other at the party they messed about they messed around they fooled about they fooled around so again that one has a sexual connotation to it and I guess the idea of why we're using around and about is that idea of no real purpose no goal no place at least figuratively that we're trying to get to we don't really know what we're doing and there's no real goal okay so that's why we're using around and about similar to this you might ask around or you might ask about to try and find and answer to something and this is where you ask many people so you imagine you've got people spread out all over the place and you need to ask around to try and get an answer you need to ask about to try and get an answer so I need to get a bunch of people's opinions on this topic from work so I'm gonna ask around at work or I'm gonna ask about at home and ask about all my friends and family and see what they think to ask around to ask about so that's to ask many people similar to those imagine that you decide to go shopping and you don't know exactly what you want to get you just know you want to go shopping and you want to find a dress but you've got no idea what okay so you go to all these different shops you are shopping around you're shopping about you're trying to find a good deal you're trying to find a bargain but you don't have any particular thing in mind you're not set on a on a literal or figurative of destination so a goal and so you're shopping around or you're shopping about similarly again if you take a friend around town to show them different things about town then you can show them around you can show them about okay so you're showing them all these different things all over town you're taking them around you're taking them about town you're showing them around and you're showing them about so if it was my first day at university the lecturers or the other students might show me around they'll show me where the toilets are they'll show me where the buildings are they'll show me where I can get coffee now show me about they'll show me around if at this University where I've just been shown around or I've just been shown about imagine that there's a really dodgy looking dude who looks like a thief like he's not there as a student he's a lot older and he's you know snooping around he's sneaking around he's looking like he's trying to find things to take maybe he's gonna take them home take them out of the university steal them get off with them run off with them he's snooping around and he's sneaking around okay so again the idea of just multiple locations multiple places and using around and about and this time taking the verbs snoop you know he's kind of looking really suss he's not he doesn't look like he's trustworthy or to sneak as in to try and be really quiet so he's sneaking around and he's snooping around maybe he's going to break into some of the different buildings and get off with a bunch of different computers or something all right now we'll move on to a different kind of use of around and about we can use this again it's sort of the same but these are all connected but this one we're going to specifically be talking about doing something without purpose so with no goal in mind with no real with no real purpose so the first one I have here is to fiddle around or to fiddle about so if I fiddle with my book it's that I'm just sitting down and I'm just kind of playing with it I'm just fiddling with it this is what fiddling with is it's just to sort of have it in your hands and be maybe not really focusing on it too much but just playing with it and just kind of to be fiddling with it mainly this kind of you know touching it and just no real goal in mind so I'm fiddling around I'm fiddling about if my shirt wasn't fitting very well and I kept pulling at it or I kept like trying to get it to fit nicely and I get fiddling with the shirt my parents could turn to me and say stop fiddling around stop fiddling about you're fiddling without purpose there's no real goal you know stop fiddling around stop fiddling about although I guess I know the goal is that's I'm not fiddling around I'm not feeling about I'm trying to make this fit if I'm having a lazy day at home and I have nothing to do so there's no school there's no work I'm just at home I could be sitting around no purpose I could be lying around if instead of sitting I'm lying down I'm just lying around on the couch watching the TV all day just doing nothing sitting around lying around the house and if I'm being lazy then I am lazing around the house or I'm lazing around doing nothing and again we can use sitting about sitting around lying about lying around and lazing about lazing around if I want to go and see my friends during this day where I'm being lazy at home I'm not doing anything I'm sitting about lying about lazing about if I go and see my friends I might hang around with my friends so I might hang around with them and we might go to the shops we might go around to the shops and then decide that we might hang around at the shops for a bit we might hang about at the shops so in this in this kind of one it's figurative it's not literally hanging from something but we use this as slang to mean to spend time doing something we're spending time together we're hanging out and we could be hanging out around you know with no real purpose a location we're hanging around the shops we're hanging out together around the shops so we're sort of near the shops with no real no real purpose and I'm sure you guys have seen lots of young kids always hanging around outside if instead of spending time with someone I was just there by myself looked like just standing outside the shops not really doing anything I could be standing around so this time I'm standing but it doesn't look like I'm you know there's no real purpose I'm just standing around if I was standing I could be standing around right and my parents are trying to build some furniture or lift something and move it my mum might say to me stop standing around and help us out help us pick up this furniture and move it we need to move it over there help us move it stop standing around stop standing around Pete so to stand with no purpose if I am maybe my mum and dad didn't want me to leave they didn't want me to go off they didn't want me to go around to a friend's house after they'd started moving this stuff around their house they might say did you want to stick around for dinner did you want to stay around for dinner so we're hoping you want to stay and have dinner with us did you want to stay around around our house you should stick around and have dinner you should stick around you could also probably here stick about yeah you should stick about stick about stick about and have dinner but I think stick around would be the more common one there and like standing around if I was just waiting for them to cook dinner I'm waiting around where I'm waiting about so again no purpose apart from waiting and so I could say I'm waiting around I'm waiting about I'm waiting around for dinner I'm waiting about for dinner all right if I started playing with the cat I could be playing around with the cat I could be playing about with the cat and we use a bunch of different verbs here to talk about I guess joking around playing around we've got a bunch of different ways of saying this the first one is to mess around so the mess is just to play to not really have any goal in mind you're just doing these things I'm messing around with the cat I'm mucking around with the cat I'm mucking about with the cat so we're just playing no real goal we're just mucking around we're just mucking about playing around playing about joking around joking about and Australian's also often say clowning around or clowning about if someone's kind of making a fool of themselves or being like one of those kids in class that makes a lot of jokes to try and get a lot of laughs he's clowning around he's clowning about in class we can also say if we want to elevate this a little more make it a little ruder it's not too rude until we start saying swear words but we could say to screw around or just screw about we could say to stuff around to stuff about to bugger around to bugger about that's a very Australian one - bugger around - bugger about so what do you do on your days off I just bugger around home I just screw around home stuff around home muck around at home mess around at home but we can also really elevate that to say around or to say about okay depending on the context that's gonna be rude or just very very very informal so you might say to a really good friend if you say a joke you're just joking around you could switch in on man I'm just around I'm just around it's just another way of saying that and in that case it's not really rude because you're not swearing at someone you're just swearing okay so that's where worrying about swearing is more important with regards to who's in front of you who you're talking to if it's friends it's probably fine we can also say things like to piss fart around which is just another way of saying not really doing anything this is something my dad used to always say to me stop piss farting around stop screwing around some stuffing around it's like being lazy not doing anything with any purpose and we can also say things like to bum around to fluff around too far - bummer about to fluff about and to faff about she always bums about on the weekend doing nothing he always fluffs about on the weekend doing nothing alright let's get on to the next one so to reverse direction guys so this is facing forwards and I turn it around I turned it about so that the back is now facing forwards okay so that is to reverse direction so the most common one here that you guys are going to know is to turn something around or to turn something about so as we're talking about with the book this one has to happen on a vertical axis with around and with about I want you to turn this book around so I can see the front okay okay okay you can use about but most often you're gonna hear people say around turn it around or you might say I want him to turn about in his seat turn him about turn him around turn him about so she turned around and looked at me and she turned about and looked at me however we can use turn around in a figurative sense to mean to improve to come good so things will turn around and get better soon so that is that idea of reversing direction so imagine that it's going forwards and that suddenly turns around and goes backwards if things are going badly we could say they're gonna turn around and go better they're gonna get better okay things will turn around and get better in that example we would never say to turn about and get better we would always say things will turn around things are gonna get better let's get into some of these miscellaneous ones guys so ones that don't necessarily make too much sense although they do have a bit of a connection with that basic idea of know sort of you know purpose in mind or know direction you know so the first one that I have here is to boss someone around what to boss someone about so if I have a younger sibling I have a younger sister which I do or I have a younger brother if I started telling them what to do so clean my room go over there do this put this on this that is me bossing them like literally like a boss if I was their employer when they got older if I was bossing them around like that it's telling them what to do it's giving them orders giving them audits do this do that I want you to wear this I want you to do this so I'm bossing around my sister or I'm bossing my sister around notice there that we can split it or we can keep it together bossing around my sister I'm bossing my sister around bossing about my sister bossing my sister about so let's go through some expressions as well guys with the phrasal verb I saw with the particle about and with the particle around you can ask someone what do you want about this one you might hear sometimes what are you on about if you're on about something and this one has to be with about to be on about something it means that you're talking about it and a lot someone might ask you what do you want about if they don't understand what you're talking about well they didn't hear you and they want to know what you're talking about what do you want about the next one is to be out and about to be out and about to be out and about this is a good expression to be out of the house being active so if you go out and then you go around to another person's house you're out and about you're away from your home and you were doing something active outside of your home you're out and about out and about we're out and about shopping in the city we're going around the city we're having a look around the city we're driving around the city shopping around the city we're out and about someone could beat around the bush and in this case we can switch the two to beat about the bush so imagine you've got a bush here and you're beating around it or your imagine you've got a bush and you're beating about the bush so no particular direction beating around beating about the bush this a means this means to avoid getting to the point so if someone's talking and you've asked them a question like a politician if they don't get to the point if they won't tell you what you want to know or what you asked they're beating around the bush they're beating about the bush they're not getting to the point they're not saying what you want them to say they're procrastinating they're wasting time they're beating around the bush they're beating about the bush another one is what goes around comes around this is like the first ones it has to be around it can't be about what goes around comes around right so if it goes around it also comes around this is the idea of karma imagine throwing a boomerang and it goes it goes around and then it comes back around okay so it's that finishing the circle kind of thing if something goes around and comes around it's the idea that you get what you deserve if you're nice to people the niceness goes around and then it comes back to you if you're horrible to people the horribleness goes around and then it comes back to you so what goes around comes around it's an idea of karma imagine a boomerang all right so we've got a few more and then we'll finish up so have been around the block a few times this one's always said in the present perfect so it's sort of in the past she's been around the block a few times this means to be experienced we can use this literally with regards to something or we can say it more figuratively but for example he knows what he's doing at work because he's been around the block a few times so that's like a block where there's lots of buildings and he's gone around the block he knows the block he knows that location because he's been around it many different times so to be around the block or to have been around the block again we say in the past means that they are experienced right you can't really be around the block in order to become experienced it's something that has to have happened up until present he's been around the block a few times he knows what he's on about he knows what he's talking about he's been around the block another one is to wrap your head around so imagine I have a problem in front of me and I'm trying to figure it out I'm trying to learn about what this problem is I'm trying to figure it out and get to the bottom of it if I try and do this we can say the expression to wrap my head imagine that I get my brain and I stretch it up and I wrap it around this problem or I get my head around this problem it means to understand it to figure it out to know about it so if I wrap my head around something maybe it's phrasal verbs you guys at the moment are trying to wrap your heads around phrasal verbs so you're trying to understand your you're trying to learn about phrasal verbs you're trying to get your head around phrasal verbs you're trying to wrap your head around phrasal verbs we can also drive someone crazy with an expression to send someone or to drive someone around the twist to send them around the twist to drive them around the twist is to drive them crazy so they go mad they lose it they go bonkers they go crazy send someone around the twist and to drive someone around the twist and round the twist is a really good Australian TV show where all these crazy things happen in each episode so if you watch that you'll understand this expression the last one here guys before we sum everything up is to throw your weight around or to throw your weight about so what do you reckon this one means if you get your weight literally imagine you're fat or even you know you just pick up your body and you start pushing everyone around you start pushing everyone about it's like to boss someone around it's like to boss somebody about if I throw my weight around I'm being bossy I'm being controlling I'm telling people what to do I am giving orders I'm bossing people around I'm throwing my weight around I'm throwing my weight about so a boss at work might do this especially if he's got a really big overinflated ego all right so we've gone through all the different kinds of meanings of the particles around and about guys make sure you watch this multiple times sign up to the course and do all the exercises but let's run through it the first one is movement in many directions and remember we talked about the whole horse trotting around running around walking around around or about the paddock right and so the basic thing is that it's going around there's no real direction there's no real place and so we can just pick whatever verb we want to describe this action okay so we just pick the verb yeah he's running so we joined those together he's walking okay we joined those together he's trotting we join those together so it's in many directions in many places we also had number two without any purpose so imagine remember that that cat is lying around or that I am lazing around at home I'm sitting about at home not doing anything no real purpose that was a good example there number three is in a circular route right so it could be that it's going from one side to the other side or it could be going around and around and around so you could drive into a roundabout and then you could drive around the roundabout and you could take the first road off the roundabout or you could keep going around indefinitely okay so you're driving around you could also drive from one side of the city around to the other side of the city so if you drive around you're doing this as opposed to driving through like that and coming out the other side or driving over or driving under you're driving around the city number four was to reverse direction so remember you could be going forwards like this things could be getting bad and suddenly they turn around and they get better again or it could be that your car is facing this way and you turn it around your reverse direction and now you're facing the other way so remember that is sort of like over where over is the horizontal movement like this to turn around or around in this sort of sense is on that vertical axis so it has to be standing up like this and turning around instead of lying down and turning over okay and then the last one was those miscellaneous ones so that's it for this episode guys that's it we'll see you in the next one if you have any questions guys put them in the comments now for all these live streaming things I will add this extra question and answer time where I get to chat to you guys about everything in anything regarding this lesson regarding phrasal verbs more generally regarding English remember guys if you want to sign up to this course there are two coupon codes left so you just have to use the coupon only fifty only fifty one word o nly FI fty and you'll get the course one payment of just fifty dollars so it's about half price okay so make sure you sign up if you want to get all the bonus content for this course guys there's going to be the Facebook group where you can join up and do daily activities regarding all of the most recent episodes as I release them you'll also get obviously more access to me to ask me questions about anything related to phrasal verbs you'll get a PDF to download of the entire transcript everything that I've said every single phrasal verb that I use in these transcripts I'll highlight I'll then put it in a glossary and define it I'll give you a definition and then under that I'm going to give you an example sentence of every single one of these phrasal verbs and space for you to write out your own sentence so I'm really trying to hammer these phrasal verbs home so that you learn it all you learn the patterns and you can learn to use them effortlessly and naturally like a native speaker so make sure that you join the course and enroll if you haven't you're gonna learn phrasal verbs incredibly thoroughly quickly and effortlessly guys and I know you're gonna love it anyway any questions guys and I'll start answering some of the ones that came up previously let me just scroll up alrighty then start to lose my voice all right so hey Ruchi how are you going hey mean you know how you Anna thanks guys so much for coming roomie eggs as well alright did I finally catch you live you leaning right now someone from Dubai hey marry someone who saw him here in Richmond a few weeks ago apparently yeah all right what is the difference between going over to your house and going to your house and as well going around to your house that's a really good question Lila so this is where this kind of comes in in handy I guess that that idea over to and around I guess maybe it's better for me to be just explained with my hands so my house is here and your house is here and I want to go to your house right so if I go to it's just in a direct line it could be like this could be like this could be like this but it's me from here going to your house if I was going from your house back to my house again it's that straight straight line okay so it's I guess it shouldn't do this movement it's like this straight line okay I can just switch in a different phrasal verb before I want to use over going over walking over running over driving over but this time the over bit means to go up over this distance that's between my house and your house to your house we're gonna go over to your house we're gonna go over to your house if instead this time I want to use around it's like your house is here mine is here and this time I'm going around to your house so I'm not going in a direct line I'm not going over I'm going around to be honest I don't really think in my head about these literal meanings I just pick one and I just say it I don't know where it comes from I just pull it out of my head and I use it but if we wanted to think about the literal meanings that is what the literal meanings are to go over to go to and to go around off the top of my head I don't think there's any reason why you would ever choose one over the other there's no example in that case at least for going from one place to another place from one place over to another place from one place around to another place there's no reason to pick one over the other so I don't think there's situations where one won't make sense if you're talking about going from here to here you can use whatever you want so I hope that helps what's the difference between a round and round I can I use both you definitely can I think right so if something is round so imagine here I have a coin this coin is round so that's describing it that's that's an adjective that is what how it appears it is round right the coin is round but at the moment I'm running my finger around the coin by doing this so now I'm talking about the movement of my finger my fingers going around the coin doing this but the coin is round that's the shape of the coin my fingers moving around sometimes though people shorten the particle around to just round yeah we'll come round later mate we'll come round after work we'll come round and check you out we'll go round will jog round will drive round later so you're gonna hear some people just drop the at the start of round and they're just gonna say round but when describing something when describing a coin you have to say the coin is round you can't say around that's talking about this movement right so I hope that makes sense any other questions guys any other questions can you guys give me some sentences using the phrasal verbs that we went over using around using about can you type some down in there below can you give me some examples so for instance what if I type out let me know if you can see this I'm going over to his house later can you guys switch that sentence and put around into that sentence somewhere I'm going over to his house later maybe I'm coming over to his lighthouse later maybe I'm driving over to his house later where could we put the word around into that sentence can you give me some examples and I'll just read the next question as it comes why you guys do that okay lalla so similar again round can be used as an adjective to describe there's something like the coin here that is round it's not square it's round but in those two examples you've given me what does right round mean and you spin my head right round that is around but they've shortened it to round okay so right round would be like right around so they've put right there to mean the entire way so we went right the way around the coast of Australia that would be like you've got the map of Australia here and we went right around the entire coast all the way if I just said we went round the coast it could be just a little bit that we went around it could be the entire thing but I don't know until you hear something like he went right round he went the whole way around he went the entire way around the coast okay so you spend me my head right around would be like you confuse me I think that's what they would mean there so if you spin someone's head around it's that you sort of make them crazy you confuse them you're spinning my head around you're spinning my head right around it's you're confusing that person or maybe you're driving them crazy but the main thing there is that round is a shortened version of around okay so we can shorten it sometimes when speaking although if we're writing correctly we would write around we sparked we went right around the coast or you spun my head right around but we can also say right round or you spun my head right round okay so I don't think there's many other questions coming through guys you're welcome to ask me anything otherwise I might Nick off and just get on with my night but if you have any other questions please put them down below and I will answer them it could be about phrasal verbs can be about anything relating to Australia guys feel free to ask me and everything English wise maybe it's about what I did today could be about anything you like driving around to his house later exactly and they totally got it right exactly I'm driving around to his house later nomen as well I'm coming around to his house though we would say because you're going from one location to another location so I'm coming around to his house make sure you check in the two in that case okay so that's going from one place to another place but if that's it for today guys and there's no other questions we might finish up thank you guys so much for joining me remember click the link click the link in the description check out the course I'm building it over time but if you want to sign up for it you can do so now and you'll save probably 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Length: 56min 38sec (3398 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 25 2017