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What do these phrasal verbs all have in common today? Let's talk about education and how you can have real conversations about this topic using high level phrasal verbs.

Hey, how's it going? We are on video in today's episode, we haven't done a video episode together yet. This is exciting. Oh, I know it's always fun to do something for the first time. So it's fun to be will be on YouTube together. Just you and I. It'll be good.

Yes. Very cool. Very cool. Awesome. So what are we getting into today already? Let's let our listeners know.

So this is the second episode of our Phrasal Verbs series. If you guys missed it, go check out the first one.

We talked about phrasal verbs you'll use for travel in episode fourteen eighty nine. Yes.

And this is our second one. This is based on one of our listeners questions. Adrian had this great question about phrasal verbs and what's the best way to learn them.

And we were talking about how sometimes it's really tough if you try to pick one verb and learn all of the phrasal verbs that it could have.

Yeah, I mean, he said in his question, I'm really struggling every day. Right. With different terms. And I can totally feel that right. We could feel that in our listeners and our students. We can memorize vocabulary words all day long. But if we don't know how to really use them, we get in trouble, especially with phrasal verbs. Right, Elbrus?

Yeah, exactly. Like if you take the verb take, right. Yeah. I think of all the verbs that you can use, all the phrasal verbs with every particle. Take up.

Take on, take away. Take over, take out, take off, take into. Take four. Take with.

You're stressing me out. Stop, stop. It's too much. I'll have a totally different meaning. Right. It's just too much. So if we attempted to memorize that list it just wouldn't work guys. And I bet that that is actually what a lot of our listeners are doing right at the moment. They're trying to memorize these lists. Guys, stop doing that. It does not work, OK, phrasal verbs or something unique about English. But you can do it if you learn it by.

By what? How should we do it, Aubrey?

So this is one really great way is to try to learn it by thinking about a situation that you'll use them in and brainstorming all the phrasal verbs that will come up in that situation. Yeah.

So today we're going to talk about education, taking a class, which is interesting because last time we were talking about how travel has changed so much with tech. It's a really different from when we were younger. And it's the same with education. It's gone so much more online, much more convenient.

Most classes, the average class that I would take would definitely be online today.

Oh, my gosh. And things have changed so much with Corsaro, with you. I mean, there are so many platforms where we can learn something online nowadays. Any skill we want. It is so cool.

It really is. I know it's true.

I actually just signed up for this world literature course.

I will go into the details, but just for fun, I'm like, wow, I know that's actually like offered to my daughter through this thing because of online school.

And I was like, I want to check that out.

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All right. Yes, definitely. So the first variable we're we're going to talk about is be into which this is a very native natural way to talk about something you're interested in. Yes. Could say, oh, I'm really into this book that I'm reading right now or I'm into this article or documentary I just watched.

This is so common. I have to say, this is one of if this had to be on the list of top twenty most natural phrases, it would be on that list in my mind operate because this happens all the time. Right. Maybe different podcast that we're into. I go on these little kicks where I get interested in something and I just binge on that podcast and then I just move on.

That's exactly right. I don't say I am interested in that. We just don't we say I'm into it.

Oh, I'm really into learning about fruit dehydration lately. That's random.

But I am because I've been I'm off sugar, so I've been driving a lot of fruit. I got a dehydrator and there's all these tips and tricks of what you should put in to make like fruit leather.

So I'm really. And of that, lately, you should come back and report, we should do an episode on this hobby, I would be interested to know the result. So is that so you're drying out the fruit to take the sugar out of it? Is that what you're doing or.

Well, you just because I can't eat, I'm doing a food competition where I can't eat anything with actual artificial sugar added sugar at all.

So I'm just like apples and plums and peaches and strawberries pureed basically kind of like an applesauce and then you just flatten it on a sheet and you make fruit leather.

So even though fruit has like natural sugars, that's allowed. Luckily, yeah.

When you dry it like dried pineapple is like candy.

It's good. Oh, good. OK, so that's becoming the sweet. The sweet that you're getting in your diet. Yes, that's my sugar replacement is really good. A lot of people could learn from that. How do we get sugar out of our diet? But we could talk about that another day. That's a big topic, especially in this country. Right.

But it's good to point out that you can talk about being into anything. Right. It doesn't have to be a book you're reading or a movie, anything you're interested in.

You just say I'm really into that lately.

Exactly. So guys definitely write that one down if you want to, you know, connect with that native speaker to sound natural. Again, like you said, Aubrey, if you say I'm really interested in X, it's boring. It makes you further at a distance from the person because it's too formal.

OK, good. OK. Yeah, exactly.

And then how about take up this is another one where you we won't say, oh, I'm starting to doubt the whatever or something we often will say I'm going to take up like I'll take up volleyball or take up a new sport or a new hobby means you're going to like take on a new challenge or a new task.

Exactly. Exactly. Like when I lived in Japan, I tried to take up karate or as they say, karate, but it didn't work out so well. You got older, not like it or you weren't good at it. What happened? It was just bad at it. And the equipment was so heavy it was weighing me. Dad, I just felt like it wasn't for me. But I wanted to try to take up something new. You know, when you travel, you live abroad.

You want to do something different, something interesting. Yes.

And I noticed when I was describing it, I used to take on and we do use that a little differently. I would say, like I'm going to take on this challenge.

But if it's something fun, like a hobby or a sport, we say, I'm going to take it up, I'm going to take up this fun thing, I'm going to take on a challenge that that could be an episode in itself that we could do another day around the nuance difference between take on, take up guys, write that down and understand that there are differences. And you want to get to the level where you can know those differences.

That's where we want to get you. That's really good. Really good. Yeah. Yeah, that's for sure.

And then another one we use a lot when we're talking about taking a class, something that would happen in class is go over, meaning to check something carefully. Right. I go over my say really well before I submit it. Yeah. Really common in classes.

Teachers would say this all the time, all throughout the years of education for sure.

Yeah. Yeah. And a teacher would explain when they're discussing something they would maybe say, I want to go over the instructions with you. Right. So you probably if you've taken an in-person class, you've likely heard this phrasal verb go over.

Oh for sure. For sure. Yeah. That is one of the most common phrases that teachers use. Absolutely. And then there's read up on this, I feel like is more about kind of becoming a student, like educating yourself on something independently, right. Exactly right.

Researching or studying something by reading about it a lot. Right.

As you'll often hear someone else say, like, oh, I've been reading up about whatever topic. Right. Obesity and I have discovered these interesting facts. That's a great way to start a conversation when you want to talk to somebody about something you've been reading up on. Yeah.

And there are other phrasal verbs. What comes to mind, you know, the phrasal verb to buff up on something, to buff up on it. That's another less common. But I took up my Yeah. Spanish before I go to Mexico or Polish.

Polish up Polish. Yeah. Yeah, something like that. Polish up. Polish up my Spanish. Same thing. Right. If you feel like you have knowledge of something but you're a little rusty so just like you would buffer polish metal that that rests on it. We do the same thing with information and knowledge shortlisting.

So we could cover that another time too. I'm getting lots of episode ideas here. All right.

I know each one of them are going to be so many, like sample sentences. You could spend a whole episode, but I loved it. If you think about, you know, if you're going to take a class or talk to someone about something you're learning about, it'd be great to have knowledge of all of these. So you have this really full, interesting conversation full of these great native phrasal verbs. Exactly.

You have a more dynamic conversation. And, you know, like I said, that person is going to sound going to be more interested in hearing what you're learning. What is the content? If you can introduce it in an interesting way, it's all about how you introduce it, right? Exactly right.

So native and natural to say, oh, I've been reading up about and then whatever you've read an article about recently, that's just probably the best way you could start an interesting conversation that makes me really interested in what you're about to tell me.

Exactly.

Reading up on it means you've looked into it a little bit and you have something interesting to say about it.

Yeah, and I know our listeners love to do this. You guys are kind of self educators, right? You guys take learning into your own. And so this will be especially applicable to your conversations, right? Definitely. And then the last two are more common for an in-person class, but also online, I guess, because you would say like a first for hand out, you say, oh, a teacher is going to hand out some books or hand out treats before a class yesterday.

Mm hmm. Right. Right.

And in or turn in, we also use for online classes, if I'm going to hand in my assignment.

Interesting. I think even if we're like digitally submitting it, we still say hand in, don't you, Lindsay?

Yeah, I think I would. And then it's also interesting that maybe this is too much for our listeners for today. But we'll talk about another day on an online course. You would see the word get, you know, get the handouts as a as a noun and that becomes like a PDF.

Make sure you download the handouts before you finish today.

So, yeah, I mean, anything that would be handed out in an in-person class to you is still a handout, right?

It's still payment or something that you information you need to have. Yeah, exactly. And we also say turn in. I'm an expert in my work, turn in my assignment and would use this for an online class too. If you're submitting something, you can say, oh, I turned in my report yesterday, I'm so glad it's done.

Exactly what kind of student were you in school? Did you always turn in your stuff like early or on time?

Are you sometimes late? Yeah, I was the best student. I took school very seriously. I turned everything in early. If you were allowed to work ahead in like a workbook, I would get it all done as soon as I could. What about you?

Kind of similar, maybe not to that extreme, but pretty similar. I was never late on assignments. I think you and I both have a certain work ethic for sure. All of our team does really here at all hours in. Sure. To get stuff done.

Yeah, I was a little worse when I got to college because I was working full time. So they were sometimes like, I'd miss a deadline or something would happen.

But it devastated me, like I take it very seriously to be a good student and getting good grades. So if ever I didn't, it was terrible. Yeah.

So the adjective there is kind of like conscientious, right? I love that adjective. Listeners, that's a high level adjective to be conscientious to really care about, you know, getting things done that you're supposed to get done is that word.

Yeah. Yeah exactly. Did you have an on campus job when you were in college.

Yeah. Yeah. Huh. I work for the religion department actually. It was sort of a comparative religion department.

Nice as there was office where the teachers would all bring in projects and we it was me and whoever else was there, we would do their copies and their typing and proofreading.

A lot of it was interesting because they were researching for both papers and we did a lot of the grunt work for them. Interesting.

Kind of like being a clerk in a law office or something like that. It sounds like they're doing the research behind the work. Interesting. OK, like that. Yeah, it was fun. It was a great job for a student, right? Yeah. But I had a lot of jobs actually. I worked too much during school. I also worked at a fast food place or whatever, like I was working too much during school because I didn't want to have debt.

So I was trying to like pay for school as I went.

Now that's that's legitimate for sure.

Yeah. So but it's hard and it makes it hard to keep your grades up when you work. Yeah. That's tough. You have to find that balance for sure. Yeah. Interesting. Okay, cool.

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All right, so we have a role to play then, right, Obree today to show our listeners how it works. Let's do it. Yeah. Do you want to start us out? Yeah. So have you taken up anything new lately?

Yeah, I started a world history course at the community college. How's that going? I love it.

I've always been super into history, so it has been fascinating. Awesome.

We have that in common. I've been reading up on history, the history of banking, and really it's so interesting.

Do you do a lot of group working class or is it more like listening to a lecture, for example?

Some of both of the instructor will go over a topic and then hand out the assignment. We usually discuss it in a group and then write something to turn in. Nice.

Does the teacher go over the results with?

You know, that's the one thing I really don't love. We don't get our work back and a lot of it isn't graded. And I'm really into feedback. It motivates me to always be improving. So that's hard.

Yeah, I understand that. I would be frustrated by that too. Now, what about you? Any hobbies or interests you've taken up recently?

Yes, motocross is motocross and I knew you wouldn't read it ahead of time. It's like dirt bike racing.

That sounds right on, I think something like what would actually have taken instead of what I would like to see you on a motorbike, thereby increasing the maps.

I mean, I did grow up in New Hampshire, so there were kids that were always talking about their bikes and, you know, that that kind of stuff. But I'd never been on that. So it just seems so unsafe. I mean, we may have listeners who are into motocross racing. Awesome. That's got to be like a real adrenaline rush, like for thrill seekers. But I feel like injury is inevitable.

I mean, it's like everyone finds their own adrenaline rush out here in Colorado. People are really into rock climbing. And I think it's insane. I mean, it's nuts.

Oh, I love rock climbing is so dangerous, especially outside. I was always a rock climber, but I'm very safe. Harness, like double checking all the clips.

OK, but I have seen people who will like Boulder up really high. No, clipped in at all. And that's so dangerous and scary.

Oh, for sure. Have you seen the documentary Free Solo with. No, I heard about it. I want to watch that. Yeah.

I think we recommended that to our listeners in an episode a long time ago. Definitely. Go check that out, guys.

It's about a guy who's literally climbing up El Capitan without ropes, right? Just your body. No security net. So if you fall, you die.

I don't understand. I am not really a thrill seeker. I want to feel safe and secure. So that's not my game.

Yeah, I feel like. I just feel like I just can't I think some part of his brain is missing or something.

Honestly, maybe that's a thing you can reclaim very safely, like an indoor gym or even outside if you're taking all the precautions and making sure clipped in.

But or you can choose to do it and know that's death defying. Yeah, there are a few people in the world that do that anyway. Side point here. Yeah, right. Let's go back to the role play here. What do you think, Aubrey? What do we do here? The first one, what did I say?

Yeah, you asked me if I had taken up anything new lately, so.

Yeah, just that first when we talked about to take up a hobby or a class or anything that you're starting, you could say, have you taken up anything new? Yeah.

And this is interesting, this next one. So you you put super in the middle of something, right? So you said I love it. I've always been super into history. That's so natural, right? Yes. Yeah.

We tell our students over on Eilts Energy all the time. We're like use super as sleighing in part one of the exam because it's the easiest way to emphasize something and throw in that sling so you get the variety you need for vocabulary.

That's right. And it's so native and natural, like you said. So you have be into OK, I said you can say, oh yeah, I've always been super into that too.

It does make it really it immediately increases that vocabulary score maybe pronunciation. Right. So guys, by the way, you know, go over and download, subscribe to the World's Energy podcast. I'll bring Jessica over there three days a week. Getting you ready for Eilts.

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And then I said, I've been reading up on the history of something. Right, going taking a deep dive into some topic.

OK, and then you said and then I started talking about my class, I made this an in-person class on purpose so I could talk about some of those in person things that happened.

The instructor will go over a topic. OK, explain it, discussed it a little bit and then hand out an assignment. Yeah.

Although I guess you could say, you know, on an online course they could also Grosberg thing. Right?

For sure. Of course. Yeah, that's true. Right. They still go over the instructions with you. It's a lot of often video lectures and modules and things like that. So it all happens on online classes too.

Yeah. And then write something and then you said we usually discuss it in a group and we write something to turn in.

So again, that's like hand and you give it to your your teacher, OK. And then I asked if the teacher goes over the results with us. OK, I asked that again and then I said I'm really into feedback, meaning I love feedback. I need it to be able to learn. OK. Exactly right.

And I think this is pretty common. Right. We like oh, I need to know how I did on the last assignment so that I can improve and. Yeah.

Do better on the next one or just know how I get where I'm at. Right. Yeah, absolutely. And this time I didn't put super in there. We don't want to do too much right now, but sometimes just occasionally. And then I you ask me, have you taken up anything or any hobbies or interests you've taken up recently? Yeah, this is an interesting structure.

Right. To to start with the subject that we say. Any hobbies or interests you've taken up recently? Exactly. Exactly. So I like that.

That's more natural than saying. Are there any hobbies? Absolutely. Yeah.

It's a little more informal for just like a conversation with a friend and natives do this all the time.

We'll just use informal sentences, partial sentences. Right.

Taking on the verb, you know, just bird dropping the verb.

You'll also see it on advertisements like in the subway in New York. You see advertisements where they just drop the verb completely.

The feeling tired these days, right?

They drop you a subject or got milk, remember, got drops off the subject. I don't care who. We don't care about you. You got it. Exactly. Exactly. So you guys are allowed to do that to our. All right. So guys, remember, two things to do. Hit subscribe on the podcast to get the next episode in this series and all the episodes of all airs English and Obree.

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Right. Which is on WeChat now. Thank you again Sandy. We're so excited to be there.

So come check us out on WeChat. Awesome. So what should we leave? What should we go away with today? Well, it's just so don't get stuck with phrasal verbs.

I think some students, some listeners avoid them or are just confused about how to study them. Yes. Just like Adrianne's question.

How how do we go about this? This is a great way to pick a topic, pick a circumstance and think about all the phrasal verbs that'll happen.

So this is what we're gonna do in this series. This is part two. We have four more. So make sure you're subscribed. You don't miss any of them to learn all the phrasal verbs for all of these six different situations.

That just makes it so much easier for them to come to mind when you're in that situation. Exactly.

I wonder what the topics are for the next ones, because I feel like, you know, these are topics that we could easily get passionate about changes in education, travel, technology and travel. I wonder what's next. You guys got to come back, check it out and make sure you catch that next episode.

Yes, definitely. I will see you there, Lindsey. Sounds good. Avery, talk to you soon. All right. Have a great day. Bye.

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