LEARN ENGLISH PODCAST: PHRASAL VERBS TO TALK ABOUT YOUR DAILY ROUTINE (WITH SUBTITLES)

in this english lesson you're going to learn really important phrasal verbs when it comes to talking about your day and the lesson is going to work like this i'm going to tell you a story about a guy called sam and i was going to talk about what he did on this particular day and to help you with this too i'm going to expand on some of the phrasal verbs and give you more examples in different tenses and this lesson is a little bit different in the sense of i want you to listen to the end

and then take the challenge that i'm going to give you later and i think this challenge is really useful and i'm going to give you some tips as well to help you complete the challenge but before we get into everything hello my name is jack from to fluency it's great to have you here today if you do enjoy this lesson then please like and share it it really does help me out and i appreciate everyone who does this and also know another couple of things firstly there are subtitles for this if you're on youtube and

also i have left the phrasal verbs the list in the description so what you can do is listen to this once without focusing too hard on the language so just try and absorb what i'm saying just try to listen and relax and then listen to it again after reading the phrasal verbs and feel free to turn on the subtitles at any time turn on is a phrasal verb there we go okay so again i'm gonna go through a story of sam in a typical day i'm gonna explain the phrasal verbs that we use along the

way along the way and then i'll have a challenge for you at the end all right so let's get started the night before sam turned on his alarm for six o'clock so we can use here turn on turned on his alarm for six o'clock now the alarm woke him up but he decided to press news like a lot of people do and he stayed in bed for an extra 15 minutes so he actually got up 15 minutes after he woke up so that's a key difference here to wake up is when you go from sleep

to being awake when you open your eyes basically and then get up is when you leave your bed and you say okay i'm gonna start the day now if you're interested i usually wake up around six o'clock and usually get up around 6 15 or 6 20. when i was a student i used to wake up sometimes at midday but these days with children and dogs i usually get up quite early alright back to sam enough about me back to sam so sam immediately jumps in the shower to jump in the shower this is this

suggests that you're doing things quite quickly to take a shower but he jumps in the shower it's quick doing things quite quickly because most people are rushed in the morning they have to rush to get out the door after the shower he puts on his suit he has to wear a suit so he puts this on and then he goes downstairs and turns on the coffee machine and then sits down with a coffee now if you can get some time in the morning to sit down with a coffee and read or maybe just meditate a

little bit or sit outside for some time with a coffee then i think that's a good morning it's quite rare for some people to get that time because they're always having to rush in the morning but sam does have this time he sits down with a coffee and he enjoys it however he sits down for too long and he ends up being late so to end up being late end up is a great phrasal verb to know we use it all the time and it just means what something happens in the end it turns out

he's late so he gets in late to work now to get in late means to arrive late and this is another example of how we use get i made a lesson on this so i'll leave a link to that in the description i'll just make a note of that but yeah sam gets in late and he often gets in like luckily his boss doesn't really care too much so he doesn't get in trouble but he tries to hurry he tries to get in on time but he usually gets in late now why his boss probably

doesn't care about him getting in late is because sam is a good worker and he knuckles down for the morning so as soon as he gets in he knuckles down for the morning now to knuckle down means just to really focus on the work you have to do so to really focus and not to be distracted not to start looking on your phone and uh doing other things he knuckles down for the morning so he's really focused on what he needs to do and he gets on with the project that he started yesterday so to

get on with a project means to continue doing something or to work on something so he started the project yesterday and he's getting on with the project today now mid-morning his boss comes in and says who would like to take on this new project who would like to take on this new project now you probably know what that means from context to take on but it means to accept to to get the project and to make it yours so if you take on a new project at work you're the one who's going to do the

new project and this is quite specific to to business talk to take on a new project in the afternoon the boss calls a meeting now sam doesn't really like meetings but he goes there and he doesn't really want to go today because he has to bring something up he has to bring something important up in the meeting and he knows it's going to be a little bit tense in there now to bring something up means to tell people something and usually when we use this it's something serious or it's not just something that's some gossip

you know it's uh something a little bit more serious and in sam's case he has to bring up the fact that results aren't going very well so he has to tell his boss and tell his workmates that results at the moment in sales just aren't going well sam puts his head down for the rest of the day which means that he just focuses again on work it's quite similar to knuckle down it's not quite as strong i don't think but yeah he puts his head down and gets on with work because he wants to get

off work early to get off work early which means to finish work early now you can ask people what time do you get off today what time do you get off today or you can say to talk about the past oh i got off work late last night it was 11 p.m before i got home and in fact when i worked in spain i used to teach in a company where people worked really long hours really long hours and then i also worked in a different company where most people got off work around 1 30

or 2 in the afternoon so it really varied when i worked in spain but anyway back to sam he wants to get off early because he's arranged to meet up with friends to meet up with friends now this is a phrasal verb to meet up that we use all the time especially talking about friends in our daily life you can say decided to hang out with friends to meet friends but meetup is a little bit more focused on the actual meeting and the time so i'm meeting up with friends tonight for example but sam is

a little bit nervous because he's heard that dave is going and well he doesn't really get on well with dave he doesn't get on with dave to get on well with or to get on with now this just means that he doesn't like dave dave probably doesn't like him they don't connect they don't have a good friendly relationship however he's decided you know what i'm just gonna go i'm just gonna go and make the most of it to have fun but the good news is sam has a great time he actually splashes out on a

very fancy dinner which means spends a lot of money to splash out on something this means to to spend money on spend more than you normally do on and it's it's a way to treat yourself in a way so someone might say oh i splashed out on this very expensive suit but i love it it's what i've wanted for a long time or to splash out on a fancy dinner to splash out on drinks it's we we tend to use it when we're buying something that's has some luxury to it it's not necessarily necessarily something

we need but it's something we want so he splashes out on a very fancy dinner but he's cutting back on sugar so he didn't get a dessert to cut back on sugar this means to try to reduce the amount of sugar that you eat to cut back on something people say i'm cutting back on going out at the moment or i'm cutting back on sugar i'm cutting back on alcohol i'm cutting back on coffee because they feel these things aren't good for them and if they cut back on them then they're going to feel better

and things are going to be better so to cut back on something means to reduce your consumption of something or to reduce doing something now here's where it gets interesting sam runs into an old friend from school her name is emma so he runs into emma from school now to run into someone means that you meet them by chance so when you meet up with friends this is arranged over text or whatsapp you say hey do you want to meet up tonight sure let's meet up at six cool great but to run into someone is

when you just go oh oh hey emma i haven't seen you for a long time how's it going how are you oh great so to run into someone means to meet somebody by chance and sam has let's say a little crush on emma he's always liked emma and he's at the part of his life where he wants to take some risks so in that moment he decides to ask her out and he asks her out he does it he does it i bet you're wondering what does she say well she says sure so sam on

his way home is on cloud nine he decides to walk through the park to go home because he needs to sober up a little bit so walk through the park is going into the park and enjoying the surroundings in this case and to sober up this is a great phrasal verb to know it means to go from the drunk state to the non-drunk state so if you drink too much you are drunk and to sober up is that time it takes to go to the non-drunk state so after walking through the park he gets home

at around eight o'clock and decides to switch on the tv so you can switch on the tv or turn on the tv two phrasal verbs they mean the same thing but here's an interesting one he then flicks through various tv shows okay so he flicks through tv shows which means you know when you're on netflix or prime or whatever app you use to watch tv to flick through means to just scroll and to see what's on what you want to watch and a lot of the time people spend too much time flicking through tv shows

not sure what to watch but sam decides to watch something and he's he's not really watching it to be honest because instead he just scrolls through instagram so you flick through netflix and tv shows but you scroll through instagram and that just means when you're just going down and looking at posts and looking at pictures and looking at pictures then you like it and you go on someone else's picture and then you check that out and then you see something else and to scroll so when you're on your phone you scroll and then when he's

doing that a friend calls but he doesn't want to answer so he i don't know if that ever happens to you but then he texts them just say hey can i call you back can i call you back so to call back means to return a phone call call someone back he watches a little bit more tv he's still on instagram a little bit too and then he remembers that he hasn't worked out today he hasn't exercised so to work out means to exercise so he warms up on his exercise bike and works off some

extra calories from dinner and then he gives up because he's feeling lazy so those are three phrasal verbs to warm up on an exercise bike means to get your muscles get blood into your muscles so then you can exercise quite hard to work off extra calories means to burn calories in this case to work off extra calories and then he gives up because he's feeling lazy he's had too much food he's a bit tired it's a bit late so he gives up he stops exercising but there's one last thing he does before going to bed

he puts the kettle on so put on the kettle he gets out a cup he gets out his new tea he then tosses in a tea bag he pours the hot tea the hot water sorry to make tea and then he waits for it to cool down before drinking it okay so get out a tea bag get out a cup i think you can understand that toss in a tea bag very specific here you can put in a tea bag but if you're in the uk you might toss it in which means to throw it

in i am not very good at throwing tea bags into cups i just can't quite get it in there i'm usually quite good at sports but when it comes to tossing in tea bags i can't do it but then he waits for it to cool down so for it to cool down to go from hot to cold so you warm things up in the microwave you heat things up on the stove and you wait for things to cool down because you don't want to drink boiling hot tea you don't want to drink tea that's really

hot some then goes to bed and turns on his alarm clock for the next day and then he puts on a podcast to put on a podcast and falls asleep listening to it which you might be doing right now all right so those are the phrasal verbs for today i hope you found that useful again what i recommend you do and i'll talk about the challenge in a second is to go to the description read these phrasal verbs okay and read the sentences as well if you have to turn on subtitles and maybe listen to

this a few times i'll leave a auto chapter in the description so you know where to start the story and where to end the story okay so then you can just go straight to the story again and just listen to that part without listening to the introduction now the challenge are you ready what i recommend you do is this go to the description read the phrasal verbs and then talk about your own day and use these phrasal verbs or use as many of these phrasal verbs as possible so to read these phrasal verbs and to

write out your own sentences using the phrasal verbs that you've just learned in this lesson and then this is the important part as well get feedback on your writing there are various ways to do this and i highly recommend getting the app that i recommend i'll leave a link to it in the description because it's going to correct your writing for you it's going to tell you if you use the wrong tense if you use the wrong preposition if you don't use the correct object or pronoun etc it is really useful if you want to

practice writing on your own the other way is to find somebody who can go through this for you and i'll leave some resources for that so that you can try various programs out to see if they work for you but the key here is to just practice writing i highly recommend that everybody practices writing as much as possible on a daily basis if they can even if it's just writing down some of your thoughts and what you did yesterday but the task for today is to write your own sentences using these phrasal verbs to tell

your own story about what you did yesterday or what you normally do or what you're going to do tomorrow or what you're currently doing today use different tenses use these phrasal verbs that way you'll know if you truly understand the phrasal verb and how to use it and then also it's just going to help your grammar and your writing in general so again i hope you found this useful if you did then please like and share it with a friend it really does help me and if you're new here on youtube then subscribe subscribe and

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