Hey everybody, welcome to another phrasal verb episode.
I hope you're doing excellent.
I hope that you're ready to learn a couple more phrasal verbs in English.
And before we start, I want to mention that I'm probably going to scale back the phrasal verb episodes to just two per month now.
When you scale something back, that means that you do less of it.
So I'm going to scale it back to just two phrasal verb episodes per month.
Instead of every Friday, it will be every other Friday.
So one Friday, there will be a new episode.
The next Friday, no phrasal verbs.
And then the Friday after that, another phrasal verb episode.
So it's been a lot for me to do it every week up to this point.
These episodes are actually harder for me than all of the other types of episodes the normal ones, advanced ones, the bonus ones.
These phrasal verb episodes require the most work on my part.
They're the least natural, because I have to use these phrasal verbs in all these different sentences and I have to come up with different stories or ways of including them in my sentences.
And these are the most work, let's say, and I want to dedicate some more time to something else.
I'll probably actually announce it pretty soon, but I'm going to dedicate some time to something else, but I want to keep going with these phrasal verb episodes.
So I'll just have two per month now.
I'm sure that's enough for most of you.
You already have my normal episodes every week and a lot of you also listen to my bonus episodes and advanced episodes.
So You have plenty of content for me.
So I just wanted to announce that that in the future it will be just two phrasal verb episodes per month, every other week.
Alright, in today's episode we're going to look at the phrasal verbs barge in and base on.
So, first let's start with barge in.
This means to enter a place and interrupt what's happening.
For example, I could say, I can't believe he just barged in and started yelling.
So what I'm saying here is that I can't believe that the man just entered into the room or the house or the office or whatever and just started yelling.
He just entered in suddenly. and just interrupted whatever was happening and started yelling, okay?
He barged in.
And the other phrasal verb is base on.
This means to use specific information as a basis for something else, okay?
For example, I could say, I base my beliefs on the Bible, okay?
So what I'm saying here is that the basis or the foundation for my beliefs, my beliefs come from the Bible.
Okay?
That's the basis.
That's where they come from.
All right?
So now I'm going to talk about two different things and I'm going to use these phrasal verbs again and again in different sentences.
So by the time that i'm done, you should have a really good feel for both of these phrasal verbs.
Okay, first let me talk about kids and some adults uh, barging into rooms unannounced.
Okay, when they just come into the room without knocking and interrupt what's happening.
If you have children, you are probably familiar with this depending on how old your kids are, right.
If your kids are at the age where they can walk and interact with you um, Let's say three four, five.
You're probably fairly familiar with this, right?
Kids often barge into rooms and they don't really have A sense of privacy or announcing that you're coming in by knocking.
It's something they have to learn because it's not natural for them.
They just naturally barge into different rooms.
So one thing i thought of was that throughout my time teaching, i've had a lot of students who have had kids like barge into their room or their office while they're having a class with me.
I have one student in particular that I've known him for years.
He has a daughter that was a lot smaller when we first started classes together.
She's older now, of course uh, but uh, it was like she would barge into the room um, maybe half of the classes, and she would want to, you know, come in and uh, you know, be with her dad or ask him for something or whatever reason, but she would always barge in and kind of interrupt the class.
And I always thought it was cute.
For me, it was always adorable to watch his little daughter barge in and come up to him.
For him, I think it was a little less cute.
He wanted to focus on his English class.
But obviously it was just a 20 second distraction or whatever.
But that's happened in many classes that I've had with students.
And sometimes it's not just a child barging in.
Sometimes it's actually an adult.
I've experienced that before, where I'm in class with someone and another adult barges in and kind of interrupts the class because they don't know what's going on.
They don't know that the student is in a class, right?
Um, i remember, for example um yeah, having a student and uh, i think it might have been one of their parents or something like that, who was a little bit older age, and they barged in during our class and wanted to kind of look and see what was going on, what their son or daughter was doing, because for them it was kind of curious and that their child was talking to some stranger on the computer and they just wanted to peek their head in and see what was happening.
When you peek in or peek your head in, it's like when you put your head forward into a room or something to see what's happening.
Or maybe you just kind of position your head forward to see what's going on on the computer screen that someone else is using, or whatever.
That's peek in or peek your head in.
So that can happen with adults too, where they barge in and kind of interrupt a little bit because of whatever reason.
So many people barge into rooms, offices.
Many people come in unannounced and just barge.
Do it for whatever reason.
For me, I'm going to try to train my kids to always knock first before they enter into a room where the door is closed.
I don't want my kids barging in unannounced to different rooms.
It's just something good to teach people, right?
To knock first and to respect privacy, not just barge in whenever they want to enter a room or whatever.
So I think it's a good lesson to teach your kids.
So that's what I'm going to do.
All right.
The other thing I want to talk about is my diet, and I always have to say this when we use the word diet in English, it doesn't only refer to a temporary period where you're restricting what you're eating.
That's one definition of diet, But the other usage of the word diet, which we use all the time in English, it's used to refer to just what you eat normally.
We say things like the standard American diet.
It just means what the standard American eats throughout their day.
What do I base my diet on?
Where do I get the information for my diet?
Who do I model my diet after?
What do I base my diet on?
Well, this is hard because, as you probably know, there is no consensus when it comes to nutrition, meaning everyone contradicts everyone, and there are studies that contradict other studies.
It's really frustrating because it's just impossible to arrive at a perfect conclusion where you can say I know for sure that these foods are good, these foods aren't good, these foods cause this, these foods cause that.
And It's just impossible because you'll see so much conflicting information.
You'll see people that have completely different diets, and yet both of them have amazing health.
They've cured their different conditions that they had.
So coming up with the perfect diet for yourself is, is not easy.
So what do I base my diet on?
Well I come from the perspective that I think everybody's body is different.
I think some people have more damage to their body than other people and more damage to their gut, their intestines or their organs or whatever.
Some people have different types of autoimmune conditions.
Other people don't.
So everybody's body is different.
And because of that, different things work for different people.
All right.
I come from that perspective.
So I don't think that someone else's diet is going to be perfect for me just because it's perfect for them, right?
However, I have to get some information and learn and at least have some basis for my diet, right?
So first of all, I base my diet on science.
I try to construct my diet based on what scientific studies have shown to be healthy and unhealthy for different types of people.
So that's a big one, of course.
I also base my diet on the diets of other people that have a philosophy or lifestyle, maybe both similar to mine.
So people I can identify with.
And that's also because some people's diets are based on their ethical beliefs that are different from mine.
Or some people have personal opinions about eating, about nutrition that are different from mine.
So I don't want to base my diet on their diet, because they have completely different reasons for their diet that I don't agree with.
So I don't want to just use their diet because they say it's good if their opinions and beliefs about food are different from mine.
So I try to also base my diet on really healthy people who have a somewhat similar philosophy, lifestyle opinions, things like that, just so it might match me better.
So that's another one.
I also base my diet on the Bible since I'm a Christian.
And of course, we can get some different information from the Bible about foods that people ate, or foods that look to be like good food because people ate them in the Bible, or whatever like, for example, honey.
You know, some people don't want to eat honey.
Other people do want to eat honey and like, for example, I read about John the Baptist in the Bible eating honey and I think oh, honey is probably not a terrible food for me personally.
So that's something I can get from the Bible.
Or when the Bible talks about the land flowing with milk and honey, right, in a positive way.
So I can use that to kind of help me decide, oh, I think honey's okay for me, right?
And then lastly, but this is one of the most important things, I base my diet on how I feel, right?
How my body reacts to different foods.
After eating certain foods, my body doesn't feel well.
And so I know that that food might not be good for my body, right?
And with other food that I eat, my body does great afterwards.
So I think that's one of the most important things because all of our bodies are different.
So it's important to see what you react well to, what you don't react well to, and also base your diet on that information, right?
So that's a really important one, in my opinion.
So i hope that, as i talked about these two things, you were able to hear these two phrasal verbs again and again, and maybe now you feel comfortable to use them in your own speech, or at least you can identify them when you hear them, when other people use them, And I want to encourage you to start using my advanced podcast episodes, in which I speak fast, but I provide the transcript, of course.
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All right.
Thank you so much for listening to this episode.
And I'll talk to you in the next one.
