Easy English Podcast Talking About Phrasal Verbs (Episode 10)

coffee break English season 1 episode 10 hi everyone and welcome to coffee break English I'm Josie and I'm Mark and this is the final episode in this season of coffee break English and we're heading to Australia yes we're off to talk to Matthew about surfing in Australia and what about the language point for this episode Josie well we're going to look learn some common phrasal verbs in English ah phrasal verbs excellent let's get started over to you Matthew if you like surfing then Australia is the place for you there are beaches all over the country

where you will always find Surfers hanging out some of the best places to surf include prali Bay in Western Australia and Byron Bay in the East surfing started in Australia in 1915 when Duke Kahanamoku from Hawaii brought the first surfboard to the country and showed the locals how to use it to ride the waves every year there are lots of Surfing competitions in Australia and professional Surfers come from all over the world to take part but it's not just professionals who enjoy surfing more than 2.5 million Australians regularly surf as a hobby surfing isn't just

a fun sport it's a great way to work out and it brings with it a positive lifestyle and a relaxed way of thinking about the world lots of different people in Australia surf students business people mothers fathers and grandparents some people get up early put on their swimsuit or wet suit and surf in the morning and others prefer to surf in the evening after work to switch off after a busy day however Australians who go surfing must watch out for sharks there are sharks living in a lot of places around the coast and it is

important that servers know how to stay safe while they're in the water it's best to go to protected beaches where there is a lifeguard some beaches also have shark alarms which go off if someone sees a shark in the water once you have some surfing experience it's easy to enjoy the waves but if you've never surfed before it can be difficult to learn it's important to keep on trying and be ready for the waves to knock you down but don't give up and try to enjoy it as Phil Edwards a famous American Surfer said the

best surfer out there is the one having the most fun thank you Matthew so Mark have you ever tried surfing I've not tried surfing but I have tried wind surfing ah and are you good at wind surfing I did fall in quite a lot I have to admit what about you have you ever tried surfing I have tried surfing I tried it once in Portugal and the waves were very very big and I was very bad at surfing okay let's go back through our text if you like surfing then Australia is the place for you

there are beaches all over the country where you will always find Surfers hanging out yes so Matthew says you can find Surfers hanging out at lots of beaches to hang out is a phrasal verb and a phrasal verb is a verb which is made of more than one word so in this case hang and out but what does hang out mean Mark if someone hangs out somewhere they spend a lot of time in that place or with those people exactly so you can hang out at the beach you can hang out with your friends with

your family okay some of the best places to surf include prev B and Western Australia and Byron Bay in the East surfing started in Australia in 1915 when Juke Kahanamoku from Hawaii brought the first surfboard to the country and showed locals how to use it to ride the waves yes so this man from Hawaii Juke Kahanamoku that's quite difficult to pronounce isn't it I hope you're pronouncing it correctly yes we we might not be but anyway he brought the first surfboard so a surfboard is the thing that you stand on when you surf and he

showed the locals how to use it to ride the waves so this expression ride the waves it just means to to surf on the waves to to travel on the waves okay every year there are lots of Surfing competitions in Australia and professional Surfers come from all over the world to take part so take part is is another phrasal verb and what does take part mean Mark you could say to participate to be part of something that's right exactly so usually we use take part with uh a competition like in this case professional Surfers come

to take part in surfing competitions in Australia they come to participate good but it's not just professionals who enjoy surfing more than 2.5 million Australians regularly surf as a hobby surfing isn't just a fun sport it's a great way to work out and it brings with it a positive lifestyle and a relaxed way of thinking about the world yes so work out is another example of a phrasal verb and to work out means to do exercises or to train in order to make your body stronger so if you go to the gym you work out

and there's another interesting word in this sentence lifestyle what's a positive lifestyle Josie H so your LIF style is basically the way that you live your life so if you have a positive lifestyle you do lots of good things that keep you happy in your life okay lots of different people in Australia surf students business people mothers fathers and grandparents some people get up early put on their swimsuit or wet suit and surf in the morning and others prefer to surf in the evening after work to switch off after a busy D okay we have

lots to talk about in this sentence because we have three phrasal verbs let's start from the beginning some people get up early so get up means to leave your bed after you've been sleeping in the night so these people get up early they put on their swimsuit or wet suit what does put on Mean Mark you put on clothes onto your body exactly so when you get dressed in the morning you put on your clothes so these Surfers they put on their swimsuit or their wet suit what's the difference between a swimsuit and a wet

suit mark a wet suit covers more of your body and probably keeps you warmer that's right yes um but these Surfers they put on their swimsuit put on is quite an interesting phrasal verb because it's possible to separate it when we use an object in this case some clothes with the verb we can put this object after the verb or in the middle that's right so we can say put on their swimsuit or or put their swimsuit on and both work that's right now there's another phrasal verb in this sentence to switch off after a

busy day that's right so in this case switch off just means to to relax after a busy day so I could ask you mark how do you switch off in the evening after a busy day I like to sit down and put on some music and relax that sounds lovely and you used the verb put on put on some music but you weren't talking about clothes were you that's right we can use put on for clothes when you're putting them onto your body but you can also put on music or put on the television that's

right so it just means to to start the music or to start the television but anyway to switch off we said to switch off means to relax but there's also another meaning of switch off actually at the end of the day I switch off my computer I switch off the music I switch off the light and I go to bed that's right so we also use switch off for electrical things when we stop the power so what's the opposite of switch off mark when you start the power on the lights or the computer well we

see to switch on we switch on the power we switch on the computer we switch on the lights and we can also see turn on we can yes switch on and turn on they're the same and switch off and turn off they are the same so you can see that phrasal verbs have a lot of different meanings and that's what makes them quite complicated in English let's continue with the text okay however Australians who go surfing must watch out for sharks yes so here's another phrasal verb watch out watch out just means be careful or

be alert because there's something dangerous somewhere so Surfers must watch out for sharks they must be careful but what are sharks Mark sharks are very large fish with very sharp teeth that's right and they can sometimes be dangerous okay there are sharks living in a lot of places around the coast and it is important that Surfers know how to stay safe while they are in the water it's best to go to protected beaches where there is a lifeguard yes so a lifeguard we can separate this word and we can see life and guard so a

lifeguard is basically someone who guards your life who looks after you when you're in the the water okay some beaches also have shark alarms which go off if someone sees a shark in the water go off this is another phrasal verb of course and go off in this case these shark alarms they they ring they make a sound they go off that's what go off means I don't think I would like to hear a shark alarm if I were in the water surfing no that sounds a bit scary okay once you have some surfing experience

it's easy to enjoy the waves but if you've never surfed before it can be difficult to learn it's important to keep on trying and be ready for the waves to knock you down it's important to keep on trying it's important to continue trying keep on means continue and be ready for the waves to knock you down what does it mean if a wave knocks you down Mark well if you're standing on your surfboard and the wave knocks you down you'll end up in the water that's right this is what happened to me when I went

surfing oh dear but don't give up and try to enjoy it as Phil Edwards a famous American Surfer said the best surfer out there is the one having the most fun here we have our last phrasal verb in the text but don't give up give up means to stop doing something to abandon something so for example when I was at school I played the violin but I didn't like it so I gave up I stopped oh that's a shame that you give up playing the violin well instead I kept on playing the piano ah so

I continued playing the piano excellent good Okay let's listen again to our text and see if you can spot all of these phrasal verbs as Matthew reads them if you like surfing then Australia is the place for you there are beaches all over the country where you will always find Surfers hanging out some of the best places to surf include prali Bay in Western Australia and Byron Bay in the East surfing started in Australia in 1915 when Duke Kahanamoku from Hawaii brought the first surfboard to the country and showed the locals how to use it

to ride the waves every year there are lots of Surfing competitions in Australia and professional Surfers come from all over the world to take part but it's not just professionals who enjoy surfing more than 2.5 million Australians regularly surf as a hobby surfing isn't just a fun sport it's a great way to work out and it brings with it a positive lifestyle and a relaxed way of thinking about the world lots of different people in a Australia surf students business people mothers fathers and grandparents some people get up early put on their swimsuit or wet

suit and surf in the morning and others prefer to surf in the evening after work to switch off after a busy day however Australians who go surfing must watch out for sharks there are sharks living in a lot of places around the coast and it is important that Surfers know how to stay safe while they are in the water it's best to go to protected beaches where there is a lifeguard some beaches also have shark alarms which go off if someone sees a shark in the water once you have some surfing experience it's easy to

enjoy the waves but if you've never surfed before it can be difficult to learn it's important to keep on trying and be ready for the waves to knock you down but don't give up and try to enjoy it as Phil Edwards a famous American Surfer said the best surfer out out there is the one having the most fun