The BEST way to learn PHRASAL VERBS

hey everyone i'm alex thanks for clicking and before we start today's lesson i have some very exciting news i have a new website and i have written an english phrasal verbs book for you to help you improve and practice your phrasal verbs the name of the website is englishalex.com once again that's englishalex.com and the name of the book is 100 practical english phrasal verbs i think you're really going to love it so let me explain a little bit about the book you get 100 high frequency phrasal verbs over 900 examples 20 lessons of context-based learning and only the most common usages and multiple definitions so if you want to improve your knowledge of phrasal verbs if you want to practice your phrasal verbs see common sentences see phrasal verbs in context check out the link in the description to this video and you can pick up the pdf and ebook version of the book or the physical book now on to the lesson where we learn the best way to learn phrasal verbs so when you're learning phrasal verbs like with any vocabulary you need to put it in context now when you're learning a language there are two ways you come across it one in the wild so this means if you're having a conversation with someone if you're watching a movie if you hear a song and you hear a new phrasal verb or a new piece of vocabulary you wonder what does that mean okay so you can come across it in the wild now if you do come across a phrasal verb in the wild that is you know you hear it in a particular situation in a movie in a song etc you probably want to find out what that phrasal verb means so if you can't ask the person you're talking to if you hear it in a conversation um then you need to go out and find out what it means probably on your phone very quickly right what does that mean if you want to take a more proactive approach so let's imagine you do not have a lot of people to speak english with if you do not have a lot of people to communicate and learn english from you can be proactive by picking up a book or going to a website um and you can pick an easy to remember example so let's say today you know what i want to study and i need to improve my english phrasal verb knowledge so you pick up a book or you go to a website and you say okay let's look at these five phrasal verbs today or let's look at these two phrasal verbs today so if you want to be proactive the best way to learn phrasal verbs and to remember them number one is to pick an easy to remember example i'm going to step away from the board for a bit you can take a screenshot if you like to make that easier for you if you like doing that and i'm going to read a little bit so for example if you are trying to learn the phrasal verb put away right so to put away something means to place it in its appropriate place and if you want to remember this phrasal verb you might want to use a sentence like put your phone away okay and you remember the sentence put your phone away put your phone away it's a common context because this is something that you might hear from a teacher you might hear it from a boss at work and it's easy to remember put your phone away put your phone away what does that mean oh yeah put it in its appropriate place so put it in my pocket put it in my bag you have now placed the phrasal verb in context you've given yourself an easy to remember sentence number two learn related phrasal verbs okay so for example i've given you um some easy examples here so learn the opposites of the phrasal verb that you're learning if an opposite exists they don't always exist but sometimes they do for example turn on right to activate something turn on a switch a light a computer turn off okay so these are opposites turn on turn off it's a simple example or number two you can learn similar or same phrasal verbs so some phrasal verbs you can put together right so throw away throw out get rid of all three of these phrasal verbs refer to discarding something so you're like okay i have this group of phrasal verbs that can kind of be used in similar contexts and in similar ways or they might mean the exact same thing which is great because now you've kind of created a phrasal verb family so you've put it in context right you found out what it means you've given yourself a useful sentence that's easy to remember maybe you've learned and studied some phrasal verb opposites and related phrasal verbs now what next well you can either study study study study study which has been proven that if you cram cram means try to compress a lot of information in a short amount of time like if you study the night before a test this doesn't really work for long-term memory if you want something to stick in your long-term memory you have to practice something called spaced repetition so let me step away from the board one more time now spaced repetition means let's say you come across the phrasal verb throw away today and you learn what it means you give yourself an example and you think great throw away okay now don't just keep saying throw away throw away throw away throw away and then forget about it forever after the first day um don't study it for two days and then never think about it again now what you want to do the science of this says you should study on the first day give yourself a break study it two days later study it on the third day take a longer break study it on the seventh day take a week off after that study it on the 14th day so the longer you you slowly start expanding the amount of time that you're taking between looking at the phrasal verb so that it cements itself in your long-term memory that's the goal of spaced repetition so this again has been scientifically proven to help increase the chance of you remembering and recalling information whether that is vocabulary or grammar or anything else related to language learning so one more time to learn phrasal verbs the best way put it in a context did you hear it uh in the wild if you heard it in the wild go find out what it means if you can right if you hear it in a movie you can pause the movie you can look at your phone say come across what does that mean okay come across okay um or if you don't want to wait to hear phrasal verbs and you want to be proactive with your learning if you want to say i'm going to learn phrasal verbs let's study let's learn some you can you know find the definition in a book find the definition online and then pick an example that's easy to remember for you so like i said what did i say about your phone put your phone away right good learn related phrasal verbs so this means learn the opposites if they exist learn related phrasal verbs that are similar or the same if they exist again they don't always exist but sometimes they do and then if you can i know this is difficult because spaced repetition you might have to set it on your calendar not everybody can do this we're all very busy people but if you can do this this is the best way to remember phrasal verbs remember new vocabulary and store it into your long term memory so i hope this video has been helpful for you and one more time i want to tell you guys i am very very excited that i finally have a website that where you can learn more english i have free blog updates over there where you can see um you know idioms phrasal verbs anything that comes to mind that i think will be beneficial to your english knowledge and you can buy a copy of my first book 100 practical english phrasal verbs one more time it has 100 high frequency phrasal verbs over 900 examples common sentences 20 lessons of context-based learning and only the most recent usages the most common definitions so you won't hear stuff in my book about you know a phrasal verb that was used a hundred years ago that nobody uses anymore only the most current usages because i want this book to be useful for you that's why i called it 100 practical english phrasal verbs because language well you have to be able to use it and if you go to englishalex.com or click on the link attached to this video description i promise you the book will give you language you can use so till next time thanks for clicking

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Length: 10min 19sec (619 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 11 2020