Welcome to this video. Today you're going to add
the top 10 phrasal verbs to your vocabulary. And of course, having phrasal verbs in your vocabulary
is going to help you understand native speakers, because our vocabularies are filled with phrasal
verbs, idioms and expressions. And it will also help you sound more natural. Because you'll sound
just like us. And who sounds natural in English? Native speakers! So you want to sound like us.
And you can do that by using more phrasal verbs, instead of direct translations. So these
10 phrasal verbs will help you sound way more natural. And of course, I'm Jennifer from
JForrestEnglish.com, and this channel is dedicated to helping you feel confident speaking English in
public so you can take your career and your life to the next level. Now before we go any further,
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lesson. Now, let's dive in with this lesson. Are you ready to add the top 10 phrasal verbs to
your vocabulary? Well make sure you watch right until the end because first I'll explain each
one, give you an example sentence to make sure you understand it. And then at the end, I'm going
to quiz you. So that way you can make sure you really understood all of these 10 phrasal verbs.
And you feel confident using them in your speech. So make sure you stay right to the end to complete
the quiz. Our first phrasal verb, ask around, when you ask around, it means you ask a number of
different people for advice, information or help. Now notice how I said a number of different
people. If you just ask one person, you're not asking around. You have to ask
many different people. So I would say, 3-4-5, or more people, but not one or two people. So
let's say your friend is in the same industry as you and your friend wants to know if anyone in
your company is hiring, because they need a job. Now you could say, I don't know, but I'll ask
around. I'll ask around. So what are you doing? You're committing to asking, three, four or more
people if they're hiring, right. Imagine if you work in a large organization, and there are 5, 10,
15 or 20 different departments, different sections within that organization. Well then you could
go to every one of those sections and ask: hey are you hiring. Are you hiring. Are you hiring.
Are you hiring, and then after you ask around, you could come back and let your friend know
the result. Oh, actually, this person is hiring. Or sorry, I asked around, but nobody's hiring.
So when you use ask around, your friend knows at least that you asked many different people. You
didn't just ask one person because that wouldn't be very helpful, unless you worked for a small
organization, and there's only one person who does the hiring, right. Now, you can ask around
for any information or any advice or any help that you need. Our next phrasal verb to come
across something. When you come across something, it means you find it by chance. So, by
chance, that means, accidentally, you weren't looking for it specifically. So you found it
accidentally. By chance, you came across it. Now, the, it is always a something, it can be
an object, so for example you could say, I came across this antique bays, When I
was cleaning out my closet, so of course when you were cleaning out your closet you
weren't looking for an antique bays, right, you just moved all these boxes and all of a
sudden, well, this antique base, you found it by accident, you came across it, so you can use
it for any object. Now we commonly use this for information. So you might say, Oh, I came across
this interesting study today. So you can imagine, you were looking for that particular study,
let's say you were just browsing on social media, or you were browsing on Google, or you're browsing
the headlines of the day, and all of a sudden you see a headline for this interesting study, you
weren't looking for it on purpose, You came across it. Our next phrasal verb to blurt out when you
blurt something out, it means you say something without really thinking about it so often the
things that you blurt out, you instantly think oh I shouldn't have said that why did I blurt
that out. So often people will blurt things out when they're nervous, right, or even when they're
angry, and they're not really thinking, and then they just see something, they might say something
mean like you've never helped me around the Hulk. And then the second you say you you regret it
because you don't actually feel that way, it just came out, you blurted it out. You said it, without
really thinking about it. So we've all been there. We've all done that, we've all regretted it
as well so this is something you probably don't want to do, you don't want to blurt things
out. Our next phrasal verb to check something or to check, someone out. Now I'm sure you know
this phrasal verb in the context of a hotel, you check in and out of a hotel, you check in
when you arrive and you check out when you leave, right, oh I'm checking out at five, what time is
checkout. But there's another way we're going to use this phrasal verb, don't get me wrong,
check out a hotel is very useful but I'm assuming you already know how to use that one. Now
you can also check something out, or you can check someone out when you check something or
someone out is when you want to draw someone's attention to something specific. So let's say
you're walking down the street, and there's this amazing car, a Lamborghini and and you never seen
a Lamborghini in your city, before you would say to your friend. Check it out. Check out that
Lamborghini, check that Lamborghini out, and you would probably make some sort of motion, like a
pointing in the direction of the car, as you say, check it out. Check out that Lamborghini and
what you're doing is you're drawing your friends attention to something specific. Now
remember, you can also check someone out. So let's say, a woman is walking down the
street and she's wearing the exact same sweater, as the friend you're with, you might think check
her out. Check her out, she's wearing the same sweater as you and again you would probably point,
because you want your friend's attention to go to a specific point, right, so it's useful to use
your body language to let your friend know where you want them to put their attention. So this is
an extremely common phrasal verb native speakers use it as a regular part of our vocabulary and I
highly recommend you use that as well. Our next one to me You're out. When you figure something
out, and being that you solve a problem, you find a solution to a problem. So this is a very common
phrasal verb we use this a lot when we're looking for the solution so I could say, I can't figure
out how to update this app, or I can't figure out why this app isn't working. I can't figure out
what to do next. So we commonly use this with the W H word, and we commonly use figure out in
the negative as well, but you can definitely use figure out in the positive to talk about arriving
at a solution. I figured out, so when the past simple. I figured out how to update this app,
I finally figured out how to update this app, I finally figured out why this app wasn't working,
so you can use it in the positive, and it's commonly used in the negative. Our next one. Calm
down, calm down. Calm down. Everything blow right, you need to calm down. This is a very common
one, and we use it to tell someone to relax. So that's exactly what it means, relax, and relax
is very common as well so you can say to someone, relax, relax, or you can say, calm down,
calm down. So if a friend or family member or anyone is really stressed out, then you can just
say, calm down, calm down. Now, thinking about our last one to figure out what remember we use
that when you're trying to solve a problem, or find a solution. So, you could come in late
help someone to calm down when they're stressed out because they can't figure something out,
right, I just use three phrasal verbs, calm down, stressed out and figure out, so there you go,
you can definitely combine these all together and native speakers commonly do, it's very common
that a native speaker will say one sentence with three or more phrasal verbs in it, and that's why
it's really important for you to get comfortable with them and add them to your vocabulary. Our
next phrase over dress up when you dress up, it means you were nicer than normal clothing. Now
notice I say nicer than normal because there is no one definition of dress up somebodies idea
of what nicer than normal clothing is could be very different from someone else's idea, right. So
if you normally wear ripped jeans and a T shirt, and then you wear khaki pants and a button down
shirt. You are dressed up, because you're wearing nicer than normal clothing and your friends would
probably say, Hey man, why are you dressed up today, because they know you always wear ripped
jeans and a T shirt, so for them to see you in other clothes, it would be quite surprising right
so they want to know Hey, why are you dressed up, and of course there are many times when you dress
up for example the job interviews, weddings, anniversaries special specially then, anything
like that you're going to wear nicer than normal clothes. Our next one to fill up. When you fill
something up, it just means to build something completely. So the off, you can just think of
it as 100%. It is filled up 100% Remember back in the day when you would go to a gas station
and they would actually pump your gas for you. I mean maybe in the country you're in, they
still pump your gas for you but in North America, they don't pump your gas for you anymore,
you do it yourself, but back in the day, you would go to a gas station you would roll down
your window, and they would ask you, how much, how much gas do you want. Now one of the most
common replies was fill it up, fill it up. What does that mean, fill it 100% So give me as
much gas as the car can handle, fill it up our next one, just show up. This is extremely common,
it has a simple meaning, it just means to arrive, or to appear, so it isn't really that common to
say, oh, what time did John arrive to the party. It sounds a little formal, to be honest, I
would say, oh, what type of don't show up. What time did John show up. What time did John
show up to the party, which is just the exact same thing as saying arrive, it's just a more
natural, conversational way to say it. And our final phrasal verb to leave something out. When
you leave something out, it means you omit it, you exclude it, you don't include it. So of
course, in this video on the Top 10 phrasal verbs, there are many many many many many many
phrasal verbs that I left out. To be honest, it should be the top 1000 phrasal verbs, because
that is probably how many are commonly used by native speakers on a day to day basis. But
of course I can't make a video on the Top 1000 phrasal verbs, because that would be a 10
hour video. And that's just crazy. So I had to leave out many phrasal verbs. So there are times
when you purposely leave out information. You purposely leave something out. But it's also
possible that you left it out accidentally. So your boss could ask you, oh why did you leave out
the chart. Why did you leave out the chart. So you didn't include the chart in the report. Oh why did
you leave out the chart? Oops, I didn't mean to. I forgot to include it. So you accidentally left
it out. And then you might be in trouble because it should be in the report. So you can use this
both when you purposely leave something out, or it could be accidental as well. So now you have
the top 10 phrasal verbs, added to your vocabulary to help you sound more natural and professional
English. So, are you ready for your quiz? Here's how it's going to work. I'm going to show you the
questions and you just need to fill in the blank. I'll only show you the questions for 10 seconds.
Obviously that's not enough time. So hit pause and complete the questions. And when you're ready,
just hit play. So here we go with your quiz. So, how'd you do with the quiz,
how many did you get right? Let us know in the comments! And also leave some
example sentences practicing your three favorite phrasal verbs from this lesson. Of course you
can practice all 10 as well, but that's a lot, so I'm just recommending three. Practice
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