Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions.
Come on, let's master English.
Hello everybody, welcome back to Davey Easy English Expression the Budcast.
Coach Shane here, thank you very much for listening.
So these days we have lots of new people joining DDM and Perth.
We're really excited and especially in, I want to talk about DDM right now because students
always ask, oh, how do I learn phrasal verbs?
What's the best way to learn phrasal verbs?
And that's a great question and it's really difficult to answer.
You know there's obviously dictionaries, you can look up the phrasal verbs in the dictionary
and there are good dictionaries.
But what's interesting to me is, so when we study DDM, we are learning phrasal verbs
all the time.
And it's beautiful because we see the verbs in action.
We see the situation, we know the situation and we see exactly how the verb is being used.
And what's really great is when the same verb, the same phrasal verb is used in two different
situations and sometimes three.
And that's when my students, my DDM members, when they go, oh my God, I understand, I understand
how to use phrasal verbs.
Believe it or not, there is a trick and we talk about that in DDM.
And you can try it for free, like I always say, you can try it for free.
Just go to Let'sMasterEnglish.com and try it for free.
So today, I'm going to teach you guys a phrasal verb with five different meanings.
It's the same verb but it has five different meanings.
And this is really common in daily English.
One phrasal verb has many different meanings.
And the way to learn how to understand phrasal verbs, you can get a dictionary, you can
ask someone.
And I really think the best thing is join DDM, seriously.
All right, so what is today's phrasal verb?
To take in TAKEM.
The idea of a phrasal verb is you have an action verb TAKEM and then a participle or more
easily a preposition.
But it doesn't act like a preposition so we call it a participle.
So take in, take in.
So take, well you can imagine take something to grab it, to secure it, to take it.
Sometimes take can mean steal.
Right, it could mean that.
And in, not out, out is going away, in is coming towards.
So take in.
So how can this phrasal verb have five different usages?
Well, before I tell you the meanings, I think we need to listen to the dialogue.
So let's do that.
Where are you going?
I'm taking in these pants to be taken in.
You?
I thought I'd take in a movie with Minty.
The cat you took in?
You can't take a cat into the movies.
Total conversation.
So let's go.
Where are you going?
That's easy.
The guy says, I'm taking in these pants, PANTS, PANTS, to be taken in.
So taking TAK, ING, I'm taking in these pants to be taken in TAKEM, I am.
So if you take in something, it means you are taking something, you're carrying something
and putting it someplace, where someplace that fixes things.
So you can take in your car.
You can take in your computer.
In this case, the guy is taking in pants.
So he has some PANTS, PANTS, maybe blue jeans or something, but maybe they're too long
so he wants them to be shortened.
Okay, that's the idea.
I'm taking in these pants to be taken in.
Ah, this is what he wants done.
If you want something taken in, it means you want it reduced.
You're going to take it and bring it in, you're going to make it tighter.
So his pants, he has some pants, right?
But he used to weigh 90 kilograms.
But now he weighs 70 kilograms.
Good job.
But the problem is his pants don't fit.
But he really likes the pants.
To be in order to be taken in, reduce the waist.
So the Taylor T-A-I-L-O-R, the Taylor will make the pants the waist tighter.
So he can wear these pants.
Does that make sense?
All right.
So there's two.
I'm taking in these pants to be taken in.
You?
And the other guy says, I thought I'd take in a movie with Minty.
So to take in a movie means to enjoy.
To take in means to enjoy something.
And the idea is you're taking it.
You're taking that movie and you're putting it inside your mind.
You're taking in a movie, taking in a television show, taking in a game.
And almost always this is watching something.
You are just sitting down and watching.
It could be at home.
It could be at the theater.
It could be at the baseball park or the soccer stadium.
To take in something means to just basically sit there and take it into your mind and enjoy
it.
I thought I'd take in a movie with Minty.
Of course Minty is my cat.
The brown one.
And the other guy says, the cat you took in, the cat you took in, take past tense, T-O-O-K,
took in.
What does it mean to take in something?
It means to adopt A-D-O-P-T, especially for an animal or even for a relative or a friend.
Not really for a child.
We don't take in a child.
You could say it, but we don't really say it.
But for a relative, like a cousin who's a college student, we took him in for three months.
We adopted him.
We let him come into our house.
We took him and put him into our house for three months.
But if you take in a cat or if you take in an animal, usually you're going to keep it.
You take that animal and put it in your house.
The cat you took in, the cat you adopted, and that's true.
We adopted Minty.
You can't take a cat into the movies.
So take something into some place.
Literally means to carry it into a place that should be easy to understand.
You can't.
Now actually it's funny because in daily English, we also say you can't bring a cat into
the movies.
But Americans don't really care about the directional usage of take and bring.
So we'll kind of use both.
You can't take a cat in to the movies.
You can't bring a cat in to the movies.
We will say both, but I wanted you to concentrate on take in.
So there you go.
I have different usages of take in.
We used all the conjugation, take king, take in, take in, and took in.
So yeah, it's fun stuff.
So hopefully by listening to my explanation, you kind of have an idea on how to look at
phrasal verbs.
And again, I absolutely highly, highly, highly recommend that you join DDM or LME 365
or Perf 2.
But for phrasal verbs, DDM or LME 365 is really what I would recommend that you concentrate
on.
All right.
So that is today's lesson.
I hope that you enjoyed it.
There's a lot to take in.
Ooh, there's another usage.
There's a lot to take in.
There's a lot to absorb.
There's a lot to understand.
I just gave you six, six usages of take in.
See, you got to listen to the end.
Listen to the end.
Take it all in.
There's number seven.
Take it all in.
Listen to everything.
And then you will really be able to take in the lesson.
You'll really be able to understand the lesson.
My God, we could go on and on and on.
I'll stop.
So like I said, I want you to join DDM, LME 365, Perf.
Just go to let'smasterenglish.com.
And yeah, you can see it from there.
Or you can send me an email too.
Daily dictation members at gmail.com.
That's it guys.
Thank you very much.
Take in the conversation.
Listen to the conversation a couple more times.
And I'll be back next time.
And together, let's master English.
Where are you going?
I'm taking in these pants to be taken in.
You?
I thought I'd take in a movie with Minty.
The cat you took in?
You can't take a cat into the movies.
Where are you going?
I'm taking in these pants to be taken in.
You?
I thought I'd take in a movie with Minty.
The cat you took in?
You can't take a cat into the movies.
I'm taking in a movie with Minty.
