Do you think phrasal verbs SUCK? Yeah, they usually do. But in this lesson, I’ll show teach you phrasal verbs like “come back,” “bring up,” and “look down on” — with a few bad jokes thrown in. Scientists say that if you laugh while learning, you will retain more knowledge. But they also say the planet will melt within 50 years, so maybe retaining knowledge shouldn’t be your priority? But anyway, in this video you’ll get some laughs (maybe), and by the end, you might actually know more phrasal verbs than you started with. Impress your friends with your new language skills... or at least confuse them, because maybe your friends don’t speak English. Take the quiz on this lesson at [ Ссылка ]
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In this lesson:
0:00 Learn Phrasal Verbs the FUN way
0:27 come back
1:43 bring up
2:41 put on
3:51 look down on
5:10 gave up
6:08 run into
8:17 go out
TRANSCRIPT:
Hi. Let's have some fun, shall we? We're going to do fun phrasal verbs. Yeah. No, no, no,
I know. I know your face, I know you think, "Ronnie, how are phrasal verbs fun?" Nothing
is fun with phrasal verbs, but you know, it'll be fun because I'm going to tell you some jokes,
and then you can tell your friends some jokes, and you guys can all laugh, and it'll be a great
time. Yeah, I promise, I promise. Just hear me out. Okay, so first one. Okay, ready? On the board.
That's an interesting get-up you're wearing. Get-up means clothes. Do you think that style
will ever come back? Okay, so think about it. What does it mean? Is it... Is it funny? Ronnie,
that's not funny. Okay, hold on, let me explain. So, you... If you look at this phrasal verb,
"come back", it means "return". So now if I say, "Hey, that's an interesting get-up you're wearing.
Do you think that style will come back into fashion?" Because right now it's terribly not
in fashion. So, "come back" as a phrasal verb here means "return". So this is an insult,
really. So your friend rocks up with this, like, crazy outfit maybe from, well, the 80s have come
back into style or something, maybe from the 90s, and you're like, "Whoa, hey, nice ripped jeans,
buddy. Oh, no, that's in style again." Do you think that fashion will return and become stylish
again? Backhanded compliment, number one. Funny as well, number two. "Oh, no, that kid just fell
down a hole." Yeah. We need to give his parents a book on how to "bring up" children. "Bring up"
children, two meanings. One, you can physically bring something up, like, raise it. And number
two, if you bring up a kid or children, it means you teach them manners. A lot of
people aren't taught manners these days, I think. So, this is funny because it has a double meaning.
One, you're physically bringing the kid up out of the hole, and two, you're teaching the parents,
like, hey, don't let your kid run around a construction site where there's holes and
they can fall down. Super funny, I know. I know, I know. Number three, "Hey, should I put on the lamp?"
Nah. "I like that outfit you have on now." Huh? How's that funny? Okay, okay. So, if you put on something,
like a light, it means you turn it on or give power to something. So, in English, we can say,
I'm going to turn on the light or put on the lamp. The second meaning is we mean it to wear clothes.
So, it's like the person saying, like, hey, hey, should I wear this lamp? The person's like,
nah, nah, nah, don't change your outfit, it's already cool. So, "put on" in this case has
two meanings. One is wear, and the other one is turn on. Turn me on. Funny? Is it funny yet?
I'll do it again. "Hey, should I put on the lamp?" Nah. "The outfit you have on is great."
Yeah, I know. Come on, they're phrasal verbs, you've got to make them fun.
Number four, is it true that tall people look down on short people?
So, maybe you know this phrasal verb "to look down" on something is you're physically taller
than someone and you, "Oh, hello down there. Hello, Mr. Snake. Hello, down there." So,
I'm taller than Mr. Snake. Right? But in this case, "to look down on someone"
means you think they are less than you. Maybe socially, economically, intelligently, I don't
know. So, "to look down on someone" means to think they are less than you. So, this works in a double
way. You decide, are these jokes funny? A way that you can learn phrasal verbs
is make jokes from them. Once you understand that phrasal verbs have more than one meaning,
then your brain begins to go, "Oh, hey, Ronnie, I could be a stand-up comedian and tell all these
wonderful jokes with phrasal verbs." I'm going to be right back with some more of these so you can
continue your laughing spree. And I'm back with more horrible jokes. They are horrible. […]
