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If you are in the intermediate or in the advanced English learning range and you just feel like you can't make progress and when you speak with NATO speakers, you're not feeling super confident in your English.
Today's video is for you. I'm going to teach you 22 useful phrasal verbs, English speakers like myself. are using phrasal verbs in every single English conversation.
So you need to study these. These will be useful to you.
You're an adult English learner, so learning from dictionary or textbook just is not going to work anymore.
It's not going to help you feel confident while speaking.
Studying chunks of language in the way that native speakers speak is going to be useful.
So let's study 22 phrasal verbs. Let's get started.
Let's start out with some phrasal verbs that contained up.
So the first phrasal verb on our list today is to board up.
To board up is a pretty literal phrasal verb when you board up your house, you're placing boards or wooden boards over your windows and over your door.
The most common way that we use this phrase over is a natural disaster when there's a hurricane or a tornado or any sort of storm with strong winds.
We might board up our house in order to prevent the windows and doors from breaking the glass from breaking.
However, house. Or you might board up your house to prevent thieves or robbers from coming into your house.
Another way that we use this phrasal verb that's pretty common is if a house is abandoned, so it looks like nobody has lived there for a long time. and you're not able to really get in and out of the house, you can say the house is boarded up.
So, a board up is a pretty straightforward phrasal verb, but it's very useful as well.
The next phrasal verb on our list is a little less literal.
You can say that you're going to soak up something with a sponge.
The phrasal verb is soak up. So if you feel some juice, you're going to soak it up with a towel or soak it up with a sponge.
That means you're going to absorb the liquid.
How do we use soak up in our everyday conversations?
Well, if you're really enjoying an experience, or you're enjoying a moment without being distracted, you can say you are soaking up the experience or soaking up the moment.
If you live in a cold place like I do, you might take a vacation during the winter and when you go on a vacation to a warm place, you are soaking up the sun.
That means you are just enjoying the experience so much, you're not distracted, you're not thinking about other things, you're just enjoying the moment, you're soaking it up.
To soak up my tears. walk up. A lot of times we use phrasal verbs just because it's so subtle and how they change the verb that native speakers just start actually using them because you know when you're able to just play around with language.
You're just changing the verb or changing what you want to say slightly.
So instead of saying, I'm going to walk to the store.
You could say to your friend, hey, I'm going to walk up to the store.
Do you want to come? So when we add up here, it means we're going to go.
We're going to walk on our feet. But it also is just implying like it's pretty casual.
It's a quick walk. Another way that we use a walk up is just when you're going to carefully approach something. or maybe you're a bit nervous.
For instance, maybe you are about to go on stage at some sort of convention and do a speech.
You might be a little nervous. So you could say, I was a bit nervous walking up to the stage or when I had to walk up to the stage.
This means approach. the stage, instead of just saying, I was a bit nervous when I had to walk to the stage.
Walking up means you're approaching, you're approaching carefully or slowly.
So walk up is pretty versatile and another phrasal verb that we use in a bit different way, but sometimes the same is to come up. come up to someone.
So you could say you're going to walk up to someone or come up to someone.
That means you're going to approach them.
And oftentimes, if you say I had to come up to the teacher or I had to come up to the stranger, it means you're kind of approaching them, asking them a question.
So maybe you're at work and your manager comes up to you to ask you what you're doing for the day or to ask you for help on something.
It means they're approaching you. My manager came up to me today and I got a bit nervous.
It means they just approach you to have a conversation. or maybe a teacher might say, if anybody has any questions while they're taking the test, come up to my desk or come up to me.
This means approach me. We're going to go on to some phrasal verbs that contain around.
These are some more important phrasal verbs.
So listen carefully. So the first one, I probably think that you haven't heard of this one yet.
It's to dance around. Usually you say you're going to dance around a subject or dance around a topic.
If somebody dances around a topic, it means they're kind of avoiding talking about it by, you know, distracting you, talking about other subjects or topics.
It's a row. Kick some A. A lot of times politicians are professionals at doing this.
They're asked a question and they dance around the question, they dance around giving an answer by just talking about something really general or changing the subject entirely.
So if someone dances around the question, it means they're not going to answer it and they're going to distract you from even noticing that they didn't tell you an answer.
Or maybe you are with a friend and you have plans for later so you don't want them to ask you, oh, what are you doing later?
You might. kind of dance around the subject there by talking about next weekend or saying, well, what are you doing later or something like that?
You don't want to directly answer the question.
You're dancing around it. Another phrasal verb that I use quite frequently is to shop around for something.
If you shop around for something, it means you're going to look in multiple different places either to find what you like or to find the best price on something.
You could have shopped around. So if you're in the market for a new car, it's quite smart to shop around for different prices on the same car because oftentimes people are not.
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Or if you are looking for some new clothes, maybe you're not exactly sure what kind of clothes you want to buy, maybe you're not sure of your style in the moment.
So you might shock around and see what's available at all different kinds of stores.
Sometimes I was a big sister growing up to my brother.
And I would boss him around. Big sisters are known for bossing around their siblings.
This phrasal verb to boss around just literally means to tell someone what to do.
And it's quite negative to say that someone is bossing another person around.
It implies that they're very controlling.
You won't boss me around anymore. I won't boss you around so if you say stop bossing me around This you know you have to be careful with this phrasal verb because it means that the person is being way too controlling there being way too bossy is what we call a person that bosses someone around and oftentimes females Have a problem with being called you know bossy or bossing people around because you know, it's just a little bit sexist we view males as the natural leader.
So if they're being bossy, we don't tend to call them bossy or embossing people around.
So again, just be really careful how you use this phrase of where I'm in cure being. fair in your judgment if someone is being bossy or bossing around.
Let's go on over to the phrasal verbs containing over today.
These are also really important ones that I use in my everyday language.
The first one is to skip over. I use this in two ways in my daily conversations.
So if you're going to skip over something, it means you're just going to admit it.
You're entirely going to skip it. You know, let's skip over a few chapters in the book or let's skip over the first half of the movie and watch the second half. means you're not going to watch it, you're just going to fast forward.
Another way that I use skip over is just mean to change subjects really quickly.
So let's skip over this part of the conversation.
You know, we've talked about this enough. let's move on.
If you're skipping over to different subjects, it means you're just kind of limited on time perhaps.
If someone is trying to teach you something or tell you about something and you already know parts of it, you can say, oh, we can skip over that part.
I've actually already learned that or already heard about that.
We can skip over it. So this is a super useful phrasal verb or completely skip over to blow over is a very you know it's not slang, but it's definitely a more casual phrase that means for something to be forgotten after some time.
Oftentimes when we're in big arguments where someone If, you know, nobody apologizes.
Sometimes we just wait for the argument or the confrontation to blow over.
So it's like, we kind of just forgot about why we were fighting it blew over.
Another way that we literally use the phrasal verb to blow over is when we're talking about storms passing after some time the storm blew over.
So that means the storm ended and went somewhere else.
Do you think for one moment they're going to let this thing just blow over?
I would say that the most common way we use the phrase verb to blow over is for, you know, something to be forgotten like an argument, mainly an argument between two people. or if two people are fighting, I hope it blows over soon, which means I hope they forget about it or it just becomes, you know, not so important or so impactful on everyone.
So when we use the phrasal verb to pull over, we are talking about being in our vehicle, being in a car typically, and going to the side of the road.
If a police officer is behind you with their lights in the United States, they want you to pull over.
You are probably in trouble. Maybe you were speeding.
Maybe you didn't stop at a stop sign. You're probably going to get pulled over and be given a ticket, which is a citation, which is something that you have to pay because you broke the law.
So that's a very common way that we use poll over.
Another thing that we say is, oh, can you poll over?
I want to get something to eat. Maybe there's a restaurant or a fast food restaurant. off the road just shortly.
You can say let's pull over there. So we all use pull over if we're. actually just pulling to the side of the road or we're getting off the road for just a short amount of time.
We're not driving a far way along. from, you know, the busy road that we're on.
So pull over. It's a really driving centric phrasal verb that we use.
I know this isn't the best time, but when you get a chance to pull over.
Another driving phrasal verb that is pretty common is to run over.
So if you run over an animal, it means you have hit it with your car or you might be saying, I ran over you know, garbage on the road or something like that means you went over it with your car. eczema isn't always obvious, but it's real.
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Copyright 2025. If a person got run over by a vehicle, it would be very bad.
They would get very injured or maybe if a car hit you very fast, you could say that car ran over us so fast, you'd be probably pretty as well.
You might want to warn someone, hey, don't cross the street.
You might get run over the cars aren't stopping.
This means you would get hit by a car. There is one other way that we use the phrase over run over.
It's when we're going to quickly review something like some information like Let's run over our speech before we have to go on stage.
This means we're just going to quickly go through the speech or go through our notes that we're using for the speech. to fight over if you're a parent, maybe your kids are fighting over the same toy over and over again.
That's like my kids or if you are competing for something you're fighting over it.
So you could compete for attention maybe You want someone to pay attention to you rather than the TV or rather than another person.
You could say, I am fighting over their attention.
This means you're trying to gain their attention.
You're trying to win their attention. If you have an issue with someone and you're trying to figure out who's right and it becomes a bit of a conflict, you could say we're kind of fighting over who's right in this situation.
So it includes either two people or you're fighting over, you know, something against something else.
The next phrasal verbs on my list today contain a way.
So the first phrasal verb, be really careful with it because it can hurt someone's feelings if you say it to them and it's go away.
If you say go away, it's a command that means please leave.
Leave now. Even if you say please go away.
It's not very nice. It's not kind. So be careful with this one.
And if someone tells you to go away, it's a bit rude.
It's a rude way to say like. Oh, could you give me a moment?
Could you excuse me for a moment? That would be the polite way to say go away.
Go away! Go away! Maybe if you have a really good friend or maybe your husband or wife, they know that you're not trying to be rude.
You might say, go away. I need to concentrate real quick.
Maybe if it's something very important that you're doing.
Now another way that we use go away is if something disappears.
So for instance, if you have a headache, your head hurts. and it goes away, you can say my headache went away.
My headache went away after I drank some water or after I took some medicine. or if there is bad weather outside and then it's sunny later in the day, you could say, oh, the bad weather finally went away.
So we use this phrasal verb to mean that something has just gone or disappeared.
Now, a phrasal verb that's not too different is to fade away.
When we say that something fades away, it means it gradually disappears.
It's usually when we say that a color is faded, I mean, you can kind of see it, but maybe not really.
Maybe the color has washed out of your favorite shirt or something like that.
So we call it faded. When we say that something fades away, it means it's slowly, slowly going away.
The color in my shirt faded away after I washed it a few times. and gradually started to become less vibrant or less bold.
If you say that a sound faded away, it means it got quieter and quieter very gradually. fading away.
If you say that your happiness has faded away, it means you've been slowly becoming depressed or sad for some reason.
And another really common way we use to fade away. is when we're talking about our memories.
Maybe a lot of time has passed, so our memories of something has faded away.
Maybe You can't really remember what it's like to be in school because it's been so long.
You could say, ah, my memories have really faded away from school.
This means, you know, I used to remember what it's like, but it's just been so long.
They've gradually disappeared. To give away, right now on my to-do list, I need to give away a lot of things in my house or at least try to sell them.
This means you're going to donate things if you give them away or give them to people that actually need them.
Oftentimes, my kids outgrow, which is a bonus phrasal verb here.
It means they get too old for their toys and they don't really want to play with them anymore, so I try to give them away. to people who have younger kids or give them away to a charity that will sell them and make money for the charity.
If you want to say that somebody is giving out something for free, even outside of a charity context, you can say, oh, they're giving away.
They're giving this away. They're giving away free pizza. like that.
We're going to move on to some phrasal verbs containing on.
If you cheer someone on, it means you're literally cheering for them, you're hoping that they will win And you're being loud.
You're saying, you know, you got this, you can do it.
I'm cheering you on. So a crowd at a sporting event will literally cheer on their favorite team. or if you want to tell your child or someone that you'll be at their sporting event later or competition, whatever it is.
You could say, I'll be there later cheering you on.
This means I'll be encouraging you from the crowd.
If you take something on it means you're accepting a responsibility or a task.
So if you take on a new pet, this means you're taking on all the responsibilities that come with having a pet.
If you're at work, you could use this phrasal verb.
You can say, I've taken on a lot of projects this month.
This means you've taken a lot of work from either other people or just new work that your boss has offered and you have all these responsibilities now that are in your control.
If you accept a challenge for someone, you can say, I took on the challenge.
I took on the challenge of running a marathon.
So the next phrase over, it's interesting how we use this one.
Sometimes we say, we have a crush. on someone.
This means we have a romantic interest and typically you say I have a crush on someone.
You haven't told them that you like them yet.
You know, you're just kind of thinking about them and you're talking to them about your friends.
Now, the phrasal verb that we use here is we're crushing on someone.
If you maybe like a celebrity, you could say, I'm crushing on the celebrity.
Or if you have someone, you know, a friend, you could say, I'll have a crush on my friend or you could say, I am crushing on my friend.
It's just a way to say that you have romantic feelings for this person. and obviously a crush you know it can be you seriously want to date them or it can just be you know you kind of like them but you're not sure if you're serious about it.
So this word to crush on someone or having a crush is pretty informal.
I'm crushing on someone. We're going to start off our list of off phrasal verbs with to start off.
So to start off means to begin something.
And oftentimes, if we're talking about the way that someone began their speech or began a presentation, We could say they started off talking about hard work or they started off talking about what they did last weekend.
It's just how they begin the conversation or their speech or whatever it might be.
Oftentimes, a person might literally say, I'm going to start off with a quick introduction.
This means they're going to introduce or talk about the basics about themselves.
If you're talking about your day, you might say, well, the day started off with a big breakfast and coffee.
It just means the beginning or how you begin something to start it off.
To call off means to cancel something. So if there's bad weather, you might have to call off an outdoor event.
If someone is sick and they can't go to work, They might say, I have to call off work today.
This means they literally have to call and say that they can't work because they're sick.
Call them off. If you have to cancel a trip, you might say, I had to call off my trip because of some sort of situation.
So oftentimes when we call off things, we're canceling them unexpectedly.
So it's used in professional situations and just your everyday social situations as well. off.
So if you brush off something, it means you're kind of dismissing it or ignoring it.
A lot of times people say you should just brush off criticism.
This means you should ignore mean comments or comments that are not helpful when they're just being critical. or if your boss is telling you guys that you need to do more work, you have to take on more projects.
You might bring your concerns to your boss being like, you know, we don't have enough time to finish all these.
We don't have enough resources. And if your boss just ignores you, you could say, my boss just brushed off my concerns or brushed off our problems.
This means they didn't really care and they just ignored them.
The final phrable verb today is a bit of a bonus one.
Maybe you've heard it before, but it's really important to say when someone is sleeping later than usual. they slept and are to sleep in.
Before I had kids on weekends, I would always sleep and this means I would sleep later than I usually do when I have to get up for work.
Now, sleeping in is seen as something you do on weekends or on rest days, but if you are just late and you accidentally sleep too late, We call it over sleeping, not sleeping in.
Sleeping in is relaxing and good. you guys so much for studying these 22 phrasal verbs with me.
Make sure to visit Englishwithkaila.com to check out my 6-week English course. and I have more phrasal verb videos that will be useful to you on my channel.
Make sure to check those out as well. Thanks for learning with me.
I'll see you guys in the next lesson. Goodbye!
