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
Being a phrasal verb, something
„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?“.
„So tell them I was asking for them“.
ask for an answer or ask for money
„Can I have some money?“ or „Is it
ok if I go to the supermarket?“.
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
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
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.
To bring someone round is that
I'm bringing them around to the way I'm thinking.
„Bring something up“, is to approach
I'm having a problem and I'm not
really sure how I can tell my family.
So to bring something up is to
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
Normally it's to do with if you
have an arrangement with someone and
the arrangement changes because
Another situation or problem or
„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
„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
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