Hey everybody, welcome to another phrasal verb episode.
I hope you're all doing excellent and I hope that you're ready to learn a couple phrasal verbs in English.
So in this episode we're going to look at two phrasal verbs.
The first one is bear with and the second one is beat up.
So let's start with bear with.
When you bear with someone, you are patient or tolerant with that person.
So we always use this with someone, like bear with me.
I had to bear with him.
So for example, I could say, bear with me for a minute while I find my notes.
So in this sentence, I'm telling you to be patient with me.
Wait for me patiently to while I find my notes.
OK, it's like a nice way of saying just hold on one second.
Be patient.
Sorry, I'm going to do this really quick or something like that.
So that's bear with me or bear with someone.
And the other one is beat up.
So this means to attack and injure someone badly by hitting or kicking them repeatedly.
So for example, I could say, the bully beat up the new kid.
This means that the bully hit or kicked the new kid many times until they were injured pretty badly.
We don't usually use beat up if the person has a weapon.
Okay, we use it if the person is hitting or kicking the other person.
So that's beat up.
Alright, now I want to talk about a couple different things that will allow me to use these phrasal verbs again and again in different sentences.
And you can just listen and hopefully by the end of this episode you will feel much more comfortable with these two phrasal verbs and hopefully you'll be able to use them in your own speech.
So first, let me talk about something that didn't really happen, but there is some truth to it.
So this is a fictional story, but it's based on a true story, so I'm adding in some details that didn't really happen.
So this is the story of me dealing with a certain government agency I won't say which one, but I was dealing with the government because I had sent them a check like money, right.
And it looked like they never cashed my check, meaning they never actually deposited the check in their account.
That was a problem because I had a deadline that I needed to observe.
I needed to send this check in before that deadline.
I was a little concerned when I saw that the deadline had passed.
It seemed like they hadn't received my check.
So I had to call them and talk to a representative.
And so I talked to someone who worked for the government and said I told him the situation and he said okay, bear with me while I pull up your records.
And I had to bear with him while he searched through their records.
I had to bear with him while he talked to some other people and I had to bear with him while he.
He just figured out what was going on, right.
And I waited for him and he asked me some different questions about the check.
There's like a specific number on the check, on each check.
So he asked me about the number.
I told him that.
I told him some other information.
And then after a while, he just said, bear with me for a minute.
I'm going to put you on hold.
That happens a lot when you talk to representatives who can't quite figure out your situation right.
I had to bear with him while he put me on hold.
By the way, when someone puts you on hold, that means that they don't hang up the phone, but they put you on hold, meaning you hear like a little song or something, or maybe you just don't hear anything.
Like you can't hear them on their end of the phone.
That happens when they want you to wait while they do something, so I had to bear with him while he put me on hold and he came back and asked me some more questions.
I was pretty sure that they weren't going to find my check at this point, but I continued on answering his questions and He told me to bear with him while he looked through their recently received checks, because he said that maybe they would find it in the checks that had just come in that day or the day before and they just hadn't cashed those checks yet.
So I had to bear with him while he checked all that.
And then he couldn't find anything.
And then he told me one last time to bear with him while he talked to his supervisor.
And so I had to wait for that and bear with him while he put me on hold one more time.
And he came back and concluded that they didn't have my check.
So that was a little frustrating.
And this part that I'm going to tell you right now is actually true.
This actually happened.
So they told me that the check wasn't there, like it got lost in the mail or something like that.
So I paid again, but this time online, through their online system, and I just moved on.
And then, I think a couple weeks later, I noticed that they had cashed my original check.
So they had actually received my check and I don't know what they did with it if they lost it or misplaced it and then found it again or I have no idea but they cashed my check later, when I had already paid online.
So they charged me twice.
So that is my story of dealing with that government agency.
There was...
Some truth to it, as you've seen, but obviously I threw in some details that weren't true, just to allow me to use our phrasal verb while I was talking.
Let me talk about one other thing now.
This is real.
This is true.
Let me talk about...
The fights that would happen quite frequently when I was in high school, I guess I shouldn't say really frequently because there were probably a few notable things. fistfights each year if i remember correctly a fistfight refers to a fight where people are actually hitting each other with their hands they're punching each other etc so i think there were probably a few each year that were notable there were probably more than that in terms of just overall scuffles, like a scuffle could just be like a little fight between people where they're pushing each other or whatever.
But in terms of like fistfights that were serious, there were probably just a few notable ones each year.
For a number of reasons.
You know, high schoolers get in fights because of girls, because of boys, because of insults or who knows?
Or maybe to just show others that they're big and tough.
I don't know.
But there would be fights back in my high school days.
And my high school was located pretty close to this canyon area, this kind of little nature area where people would go to actually fight each other.
It wouldn't always happen like this, obviously.
A lot of times these fights would just occur at school, like spontaneously maybe.
But sometimes they would plan to fight and they would say I'll see you in the canyon after school, meaning we're going to fight each other.
So sometimes we would hear that about a fight that was gonna happen after school and people would walk over to this canyon when school was out and at that time video on phones was a pretty new thing, if i remember correctly.
So not everyone had their phone out recording, but I think that a few people were able to record some of these fights.
Like when I was a senior in my last year of high school, I think some people had phones that could take video and people would try to record these people beating each other up, right.
That's what people do nowadays in public.
If they see someone beating up someone else, they might take out their phone and start recording instead of helping them.
I'm obviously exaggerating.
Not everyone does that. you know what I'm saying.
Many people, when they see someone beating up someone else or they just see any type of fight, their first reaction is to take out their phone and start recording.
At that time, That was kind of a new thing to record on our phones.
But I think I remember seeing one video uploaded to YouTube or Facebook or something, where the two people were beating each other up.
Or I think one person was beating up the other person.
It was pretty clear who won the fight in that canyon.
So I think I remember seeing a video.
There are probably multiple videos of every fight that happens in that canyon.
Assuming the people in that high school still fight in that canyon.
I don't know, but it's likely it was like a tradition that carried on uh, from one year to the next right.
So uh, i think i might have only gone to that canyon once um, when there was a fight.
I vaguely remember it.
When you vaguely remember something, It means that you don't remember it very clearly.
You just have like a blurry memory of it.
So I vaguely remember walking over there once when there was going to be a fight, but I can't really remember.
Maybe I just wasn't as interested in seeing people beat each other up, and that's why I didn't watch more of those fights.
I don't know.
I don't know if I've necessarily been someone who really likes watching fights or whatever, but I remember seeing my friend, who was a girl, fight another girl uh at school once.
I distinctly remember that, and i remember them beating each other up, grabbing each other by the hair.
They were on the ground, it was nasty, it was like a rough fight and i remember them throwing punches at each other in the face and i'm sure both of them were bleeding.
It was not a pretty sight.
But I remember watching them beat each other up.
That was like the fight I remember the most from my high school days.
But, like I said, there would be several fights every year.
That would be pretty notable and people would get suspended from school because of that.
When you're suspended from school, that means that you have to stay home from school for a certain number of days and that stays on your permanent record.
So it looks really bad when people look at your record later on and see that you were suspended from school.
That's a pretty serious punishment.
So whenever people would get caught fighting, they would get suspended from school.
I've never fought someone else in terms of a fist fight.
I'm guessing that I would probably be...
Not very good, let's say, because I just don't have experience with fighting.
I'd probably get beat up if I fought someone who knew what they were doing.
I don't know because I've never had to fight someone.
So I'm not sure if I definitely get beaten up, but I would guess that if someone knows how to fight they would probably beat me up, because I don't have that experience.
However, I do want to learn something. some basic fighting skills.
I would like to learn to defend myself better in combat.
And so I would like to take some type of classes.
I'm not sure what type of classes exactly, but I think it's a good skill to have, especially for me, because I want to defend my family.
So I should learn some basic skills when it comes to self-defense and things like that.
So hopefully I'll never get beaten up and I won't ever have a situation where someone is threatening me or my family with physical harm.
I hope that never happens, but of course it might.
So it's good to at least learn some skills, right?
So who knows, maybe I'll take some classes sometime soon or something like that.
But I hope that as I was speaking, you were able to hear me use the phrasal verbs bear with and beat up many times.
And hopefully you feel like you definitely know how they're used now.
And maybe you can try to use them in your own sentences.
And, of course, just notice them when native speakers use them, and you'll be able to identify them better now.
And, by the way, if you've never used my advanced episodes before, I encourage you to try them out, because you need to be able to understand native speakers when they speak fast.
That's the key to understanding well, understanding people when they speak at normal speed, right?
In these phrasal verb episodes and in my normal episodes, I speak slowly and clearly, so I
It's not exactly how people will talk to you in real life.
So I recommend that you try out my advanced podcast episodes and you can start to practice with those to get accustomed to real English spoken fast.
So the link to sign up is down below.
And I also recommend that you try out my U.S.
Conversations podcast in which I talk to other native speakers from around the country and, And we have conversations at normal speed.
This is great practice that will help you get your ears accustomed to listening to more than one person talking at normal speed.
It's not easy, but this is something that you'll need to get better at.
And it's an essential skill.
So definitely try those two things out.
Both of those links are down below in the description.
Okay.
All right.
Thank you so much for listening to this phrasal verb episode, and I'll talk to you in the next one.
