English Lesson - Advanced - 3 of 6

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Ok, so I'd like to look at some phrasal verbs.

Phrasal verbs are always a problem and

I think that students always finde them

difficult to understand and to grasp

and to try and use because it's so vast

of the amount of phrasal verbs

that we have in the English language.

So I've chosen 10 phrasal verbs

that I think you might find helpful

in relation to the work that you're

going to be doing, or that you

might come across.

Being a phrasal verb, something

that comes into your path.

Here's 10 phrasal verbs.

Let's look at the first five.

BRING (SOMEONE) ROUND,

BRING (SOMETHING) UP.

„Ask after“, we're going to say „ask after“ someone.

You know if I ask you, I'd say „How's your mother?“

or „How's your father?“ or „Howe is Peter?“.

I'm asking after this person.

„So tell them I was asking for them“.

I was asking how they are.

We could say ask for,

we would say something,

ask for an answer or ask for money

„Can I have some money?“ or „Is it

ok if I go to the supermarket?“.

This would be ask for.

Ask after is for someone.

We want to know how this person is.

„Back down“, if you're having maybe an argument,

or 2 people are talking and they are not agreeing

to back down is to say „ok“ it's almost like

your saying „you win“, you back down.

You are going to retreat so that the argument

or the problem dissolves, goes away.

„Break down“, is when somebody gets very upset.

It's like a sudden release of emotion maybe crying,

you have a problem and it's been building up

and eventually you break down.

You release all of this tension and

it's normally quite a sudden release,

and people cry a lot, they „break down“.

You might sometimes hear it used as a noun,

someone „had a break down“.

In this case it would mean the

pressure was too much and that

they couldn't continue, and it

was a release of pressure.

Bring someone around.

So back down, was you're having a

problem and you let this person believe

that their point of view is correct.

Bring someone around is to take this person and

change their point of view.

So you're having a problem, maybe

you're having an argument and you're saying

„I want to do this“ they're saying

„No, you can't do that“ and I say

„Ok fine“, this would be back down.

I'm saysing „I want to do this“, this

person says „No, you can't do that“ and

I say „Yes, but if I do this, then I can do this“ and

I'm changing this persons mind.

I'm getting them to start thinking like me.

I'm bringing them around.

To bring someone round is that

I'm bringing them around to the way I'm thinking.

„Bring something up“, is to approach

speaking about something.

I'm having a problem and I'm not

really sure how I can tell my family.

So to bring something up is to

begin speaking about it.

So maybe I'm having a problem

with one of the children, they

are being naughty or they are being bold

or they are not doing what I am asking them to do

and I want to bring it up with the family, with

the parents/guardians in the house.

So I approach speaking about this subject

„Is it ok if I talk to you about the children?“

So it's this action to bring a subject up

to start speaking about something.

Ok, so here's 5 more phrasal verbs

that I think you can use, that you might find helpful.

Ok so let's look at „come up“.

So come up is something that occured.

So maybe my family asks me to work on Saturday and

I agree and say „that's ok“ and then on Wednesday

I say „actually, something has come up and

I need to go to my friends house“.

Or it's a basically a problem or something

has occured, something has happened that's

changing the situation now.

Something has come up.

Normally it's to do with if you

have an arrangement with someone and

the arrangement changes because

something else happens.

Something has come up.

Another situation or problem or

another meeting has come up.

„Carry out“, is like to do, to carry out

your work, to carry out a project.

So any of the work that you do in the

house or with the children, you

carry it out. „To carry out your work“

in an orderly fashion, or to the best of your ability.

„“To drop in“, is somebody who comes to the

house just to say a quick hello.

I said I'd drop in and say hello, see how you are

so they knock on the door unexpected or

maybe you are expecting them and they

come in to say hello or you might call your friend

and say „Hi I'm going to drop in to see children“.

Sometimes the grandparents might drop in to see

the children during the week.

„Drop off“, is to leave something.

So in the morning the children are

dropped off at school or at the creche.

They're dropped off or you might drop off

a parcel at the post office or drop off

a letter at an office.

It's like to get something and to leave it somewhere else.

So it could be the children or it could be a parcel.

„Face up to“, is when you have a problem and

you have to realise the problem.

You can't hide and say „no no it wasn't me“

you have to face up to the problem and say

„Ok this is the problem.“. Here it is.

This is what I did. You face up to it.

You see the problem rather than hiding from it.

So those are ten phrasal verbs and

I hope you find them helpful, and they

are phrasal verbs that you might hear

the family use on a daily basis.