Hey English learners, welcome to another phrasal verb episode.
I hope you're doing great and that you're ready to learn a couple new English phrasal verbs today.
In this episode, I'm going to show you the phrasal verb CHEER UP and the phrasal verb CHEW OUT.
Those are the two phrases that we're going to learn today.
First, let me define these phrasal verbs and give you an example of each one.
Cheer up means to become happier or make someone else feel happier.
So it could be you cheering up or you can cheer someone else up.
So it just depends on the sentence.
For example, I could say In this sentence I'm saying that when his favorite football team loses, nothing can stop him from being sad or upset or angry.
Nothing makes him happier and he just continues to be in a bad mood.
And the other phrasal verb is chew out.
This phrasal verb is means to reprimand someone severely.
And when you reprimand someone, you criticize that person to their face and tell them they're wrong, they shouldn't have done this, or they did this badly, or whatever.
So when you choose someone out, you reprimand them severely.
So for example, I could say, the coach chewed him out for his lack of effort.
In this sentence I'm saying that the coach really scolded and rebuked him, meaning he told him how bad he was doing, he wasn't putting in any effort and he was playing poorly or whatever.
And he said this in a very severe way. a very harsh way and maybe in front of other people.
So, he chewed him out.
Okay, so now I'm gonna talk about a couple other things, and while I'm talking, I'm gonna use these phrasal verbs again and again so that you become more comfortable with them.
And remember that these phrasal verb episodes are also listening practice for you, so you should focus on listening and trying to understand everything that i say.
So, of course, the transcript is in the description below this episode, in case you need it.
Okay, let's talk about what cheers me up When I'm down.
When I say, when I'm down, I'm saying when I'm sad, upset, in a bad mood, or whatever.
So, of course, my family cheers me up.
Thankfully, I have a great family, a wife and kids who always make me feel better, and When I'm down, they always cheer me up.
When I'm sad or when I'm not feeling well.
My kids in particular have so much excitement and they're just excited, always laughing and smiling, and of course that cheers me up.
If i'm having a bad day and i go be with my kids and they are laughing and playing and doing silly things, Obviously this cheers me up.
This helps me feel a little better.
When I hear their laughter, it really cheers me up.
It's very contagious, as we say, meaning they laugh and it makes me laugh.
It's really hard not to laugh when i hear them laugh, so their laughter cheers me up and their overall cuteness.
They're so cute and it's hard to stay in a really bad mood when your cute little kids are doing cute things.
It tends to cheer you up.
Of course, another thing that cheers me up is going to church and being among my friends at church worshiping God.
Of course, this cheers me up.
Many times, when I am not having the best week, or maybe negative things happened or I'm not feeling well, I go to church and it cheers me up.
And then at the end of the day, I'm feeling great.
So going to church, worshiping God, being with my friends at church, that definitely cheers me up.
Another thing that cheers me up when I'm down is doing physical activity.
So walking, hiking, exercising, these are all things that put me in a better mood.
And I think many of you can relate to this when you're not feeling well mentally.
Maybe if you do some exercise, suddenly you feel a little bit better. exercise will do that.
It will help cheer you up when you're down.
So if you're having a rough day, if you're not in a good mood, one thing you can do.
It's very simple you can just take a walk and get moving, be in motion and, And it will help clear your mind.
Maybe you'll be able to organize your thoughts and you'll feel like you're in a little bit of a better mood afterwards.
I find that this always cheers me up, and it doesn't need to be walking or hiking, any kind of physical activity like gardening or whatever it may be.
It can definitely help cheer you up as well.
And one other thing that cheers me up is being outside on a sunny day.
I love the sun, as most of you already know, and it always helps me be in a better mood when i see the sun shining.
It cheers me up, even if things aren't going very well in my life.
Just being outside on a sunny day, being in nature, or just outside in the city.
It definitely helps my mood.
It helps me feel better.
It cheers me up.
So this is another simple solution.
If I'm not doing too well on a certain day, I can just say to my wife let's all go out and do something, go somewhere, and when we do that, That tends to cheer me up.
It cheers her up when she's not having a good day.
It puts us all in a better mood.
So this is definitely one of the things that cheers me up.
And now let me talk about some times when I have been chewed out or when other people around me have been chewed out.
Thankfully, I have not had many experiences personally with getting chewed out, just a couple, and I think they were sports related.
So I played basketball when I was younger and there were some games that and practices when we weren't doing very well, or maybe we weren't trying hard enough, perhaps or we weren't following the plan and we got chewed out.
I can remember some instances of this, especially with one or two coaches that we had, because I had a number of different coaches and some of them were nicer and some of them weren't.
And a couple of them who weren't the nicest and were more prone to exploding, meaning they were more likely to explode on us.
Those coaches would sometimes chew us out.
And I was probably included in a few of those instances where the coach was not happy with us and was yelling and telling us how bad we were playing.
And we felt so bad afterwards.
So that was not fun.
But that's something that happens sometimes when you play sports.
So it's not completely out of the ordinary.
And I have been chewed out a couple times by my parents when I was young.
This did not happen often.
There were probably only a few instances where I was really chewed out, where my parents just really told me how bad the thing was that I did, or whatever.
I tried to be a pretty good kid and obey and not get into trouble.
But of course, there were times when I did wrong things.
And when I got reprimanded by my parents, I deserved it.
So if I ever got chewed out by them, it's because I deserved it.
They didn't just get mad at me for no reason.
It's because they love me and they didn't want me to do these bad things, or they didn't want me to disobey, or whatever.
And so I was able to learn lessons from them when they chewed me out, got mad at me.
And when I say they chewed me out, that might not be the fairest statement, because they didn't yell and scream at me.
It was a little lighter than than that, of course, so maybe I shouldn't say that they really chewed me out, but they reprimanded me and rebuked me, and so I remember feeling really guilty on a couple of occasions because I had done things that I knew I shouldn't have done and my parents were disappointed, and I learned lessons from that.
So if your parents reprimand you, or even if they chew you out, even if they go overboard, I'm sure there are still lessons to be learned from this.
And then lastly, in school.
I don't think that I have ever been chewed out in school.
I've been lightly corrected, of course.
Throughout that many years of school, there are probably gonna be at least a couple instances where the student gets lightly corrected.
But thankfully, I never got chewed out because I was a pretty good student.
But students around me got chewed out.
And when they did, they deserved it.
I'm not just talking about them doing poorly in the class and not doing well on tests.
They didn't get chewed out for that.
Uh, they would get chewed out for disrupting the class misbehaving, disrespecting the teacher.
Uh, You probably know that kids, teenagers more or maybe 12 year olds, 13 year olds, 14 year olds they can be really disrespectful sometimes.
And I even saw this recently.
I was at the mall and there were many students there and this security guard was having to tell them to stop doing certain dumb things they were doing.
And I remember seeing these teenage girls being so disrespectful to these adults.
It really irritated me to see how disrespectful they were to these adults and of course that happens sometimes in school, Especially with substitute teachers, when the main teacher is sick and a substitute teacher comes in to teach the class.
Many times the students can be really disrespectful.
So when they get chewed out in those situations, they deserve it.
So that happens in school and it's pretty obvious why that happens.
All right, I hope that as I was talking, you were able to hear these phrasal verbs used again and again and hopefully you feel comfortable with them now.
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