REALLY USEFUL Phrasal Verbs with BE

hello hello and welcome to let them talk and today I've got some phrasal verbs for you with the verb to be now I've chosen these particular phrasal verbs firstly because they are very common used all the time by native speakers and secondly if you don't know them they can cause confusion face verbs can often call be confusing but this is especially true of those with the verbs to be so do learn them and today I'm in London so I thought I'd record this lesson outside in the streets of the capital let's go [Music] so the first phrasal verb is to be up - yes it's right to be up - and all it means is to be doing and you often use this to ask somebody their activity at a particular moment so I could say what are you up to this afternoon what are you up to tonight you're doing something and by the way right now I'm in Buckingham Street and this house here is where samuel peeps used to live and samuel peeps was a diarist in london in the 17th century a politician and a Dyer is very famous for his diary and there is a story about that there was a Great Fire of London in 1666 all Londoners know that date march of London was destroyed samuel peeps was living in London at that time and the fire was coming towards his home so he wanted to save his valuable items and what were they well he dug a hole in his garden and buried his Parmesan cheese in his wine yes that's right he's Parmesan cheese and he's wine so if I was so tenuous connection but if I was there at the time in Simon Peters garden I would say to you hey Sammy what are you up to with that shovel and the cheese are you burying it okay fair enough to be out that's right should be out now this one has many different meanings I could just say I'm not in the house I'm out but the one I'm looking at now means that to talk about films and plays and and magazines to say that they are currently available okay or showing in the case of films in place okay so the film which films are out at the moment okay I'm currently in Leicester Square the heart of London's cinema district and let's have a look see what films are out right now so Incredibles - he's out now to be more incredible than Incredibles 1 Mamma Mia that's another sequel Mamma Mia here we go again or should it be Mamma Mia here we go again [Music] okay so the next phrasal verb is to be up for to be up for something and it just means one to do something an activity or something like that and it's often used in suggestions in a question and it's to be up for class a noun or a verb plus a noun let me give you an example hey you up for a beer this afternoon go for a beer yup for some Chinese food tonight so yeah for seeing some some jazz and by the way anyone let me show you something an outsider called the French house and this pub is famous because it was home of the French Resistance during the Second World War okay I shall de Gaulle was there and also same pub in London where they don't sell pints only half times does that's the French way okay for beer I'm talking about and you'll find in in Soho in on Dean Street baby fried so the next phrasal verb is to be into something yes that's right to be into something and all it means is to be interested in something so let me give you an example I'm really into jazz at the moment I go to jazz clubs two three nights a week I'm willing to art I often visit art galleries and what else yeah I mean into cooking I like cooking the English food to be into something [Music] so the next phrasal verb is to be off yes that's right to be off to be off and of course this one has different meanings I can be off meaning I'm going I'm off goodbye see you later I'm off to Tower Hill see you later there's another meaning to and it can mean to be rotten or to be bad when you're talking about food food that can become smelly so for example now the fish is off the eggs how they stink they're off the milk I can't drink this the milk is off and milk is off so to be off [Music] what is it it's very smelly is it off I know it's a durian so the next phrasal verb is to be up to someone it's that's right to be up to someone we've already looked at to be up to meaning to be doing what are you up to what are you doing but this is a little bit different to be up to someone talks about the person who is responsible for an action let me give you an example should we go to the National Gallery or the British Museum what do you think well I don't mind it's up to you it's up to you which means you can decide you can make the decision okay so another example what's read tonight well if it was up to me I'd choose Japanese but you can decide okay would you like to go to the theater or the cinema well it's up to you I really don't mind it's up to you you can decide [Music] next we have to be around to be around and all this means is to be nearby to be available so for example I'm around for next hour if you want to call me hey are you around tomorrow because I'd like to meet you if I'm not around you can always speak to Jim yes you can speak to Jim well that's it hope you found those phrasal verbs useful and once again thank you for watching and stay mellow goodbye from London and see you in the next video [Music]

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Length: 9min 27sec (567 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 03 2018