Hey English learners, welcome to another phrasal verb episode.
I hope you're doing well today and that you're ready to learn two new phrasal verbs.
The first one is chip in and the second one is churn out.
So first let's define these phrasal verbs and hear an example of each one.
Chip in means to contribute money, time or effort to something that a group of people is trying to accomplish or purchase.
For example, I could say, if we all chip in, we can finish the rest of the cleaning today.
Here I'm saying that if we all contribute, if we all do our part, we can finish the cleaning.
So we're all participating and contributing some of our own time and effort to the cleaning.
So that's chip in.
Churn out means to produce large quantities of something very quickly.
For example, I could say, it's amazing how many politicians that college churns out.
So here I'm saying that.
That college constantly producing politician after politician.
This happens in the US.
Certain universities are known for producing many of the future politicians, so they churn out politicians, okay.
So now I'm gonna talk about a couple different things and use these two phrasal verbs again and again, And so you can hear them used in different sentences.
And this is a natural way for you to learn these phrasal verbs. while practicing your listening.
And if you need the transcript for this episode, it's in the description below the episode.
So first, let me talk about different types of group efforts.
One of the things that comes to mind when I think of group efforts is fundraisers.
A fundraiser is where different people contribute money so that they can help someone or do something important.
So for example, there might be a fundraiser to help pay for someone's medical bills or something.
So different people chip in.
They contribute money so that they can help that person pay for their medical bills, because it's really expensive, maybe.
And I can think of different fundraisers at my church where different church members chip in to help people when something happens.
Like, for example, when someone gives birth, a lady has a baby.
We often have a fundraiser where people chip in and they help pay for meals for that family for a couple weeks maybe, because obviously when a baby is born it's hard to to cook meals and do all that.
So we usually have fundraisers where people chip in to help pay for meals for families that recently had a baby.
So that's an example of a fundraiser.
Another type of group effort is cleaning up.
I have to deal with this every day because I have young children, and young children need to be taught to clean up after they're done playing.
So I recently bought my son Legos and it's very important to clean up after playing with Legos because there are so many little pieces that can get everywhere and they end up under the couch and all over the floor.
And so we always tell our kids that they need to clean up when they're done.
Everyone needs to chip in.
It's not just my son.
My daughter also needs to learn to chip in and help clean up because she plays too.
She's very young, but we're teaching her the importance of chipping in and cleaning up when we're done playing.
So That's another group effort.
Another thing I thought of is when you go on vacation with different people, other families maybe, or other single people, whoever like.
When we went to a couple different places in Mexico last year, we went with my family.
We went with my sister's family for part of the trip.
And my dad was with us throughout the whole trip.
And we all chipped in to pay for the accommodations.
So we all paid for part of the Airbnbs where we stayed.
So it was important that we all chip in so that we could get an airbnb that was big enough for all of us, with enough rooms.
So we all chipped in to pay for that.
Another group effort that came to mind when i was thinking about this is preparing for a party.
My son had a birthday party a few months ago, and preparing for a party, especially a kid's birthday party, It takes a lot of time and effort and we all chipped in.
My wife me, my mother-in-law, who was here.
We all helped in some way or another so that we could actually work, host people at our house and prepare this party.
But it required a lot of effort, but we all chipped in and helped organize it and it was a success.
So it was a good team effort.
And lastly, i thought of buying a gift for someone.
So sometimes, for example, my sister and I chip in to get something nice for my dad, like a gift for his birthday or Father's Day.
So because we both chip in, we can get something nicer for him, maybe.
So that's something we do in our family, and there have been times when we've chipped in with more than just us, maybe my dad, my sister and me we all chip in to get something for someone else maybe.
So if you do it like that, you can get a nice present for someone that you might not be able to afford by yourself.
So that's kind of like a group effort where everyone can chip in.
Now let me talk about something else.
Let me talk about some different products, different things that are produced by different companies.
The first thing that came to mind when I thought of a company that just churns out product after product is Amazon.
I like Apple products, and so I have a computer and a phone, but my phone is not one of the newer, nicer phones.
I actually don't really like the big phones because they don't fit well in my pocket.
They're hard to handle.
So I have one of the smaller, cheaper Apple phones.
But it seems to me like Apple... churns out phones and computers just so quickly.
Every year there's a new phone, a new computer.
It's amazing how quickly they churn out all of these advanced technological devices.
I can't really speak for the quality of all these products that Apple churns out.
I'm not an expert on this, but I'm happy with my devices.
But of course I'm sure some people might criticize Apple The fact that there's a new phone every year and there might not be a big difference between this year's phone and last year's phone.
It might not seem that much better.
But nevertheless, Apple churns out phones every year.
There's always something new.
Another type of company I thought of is like big car companies.
They churn out new vehicles.
Every year there's a new model or they come out with new series of cars and I can't believe how many different cars there are even just one company's different cars like.
They come out with a So many different types and different trim levels.
Like one model of car might come in different trims, like some of them have more luxury or better features or accessories than the lower levels.
So there are so many different cars and these companies just keep on churning out more and more vehicles.
They have to do this because their competitors also do this.
So car companies are constantly churning out vehicles.
Fast food restaurants, they have to churn out burger after burger after burger super fast.
That's why it's called fast food.
It's pretty amazing if you go through a drive-thru where you order without getting out of your car.
You order your food and and then you pay for it, and then you pull up to the next window, meaning you drive to the next window and stop, and then they have your food ready.
It's super fast.
They churn out so many hamburgers and other types of food so fast.
It's pretty impressive actually.
And speaking of food, i remember when i worked at my university dining hall.
This is where the students can go and eat and it's on the college campus.
I worked at that dining hall for almost two years And I remember, specifically for breakfast, the cooks at the dining hall churned out so many scrambled eggs.
They churned out a lot of scrambled eggs.
They just kept coming out with more and more trays of scrambled eggs.
And, to be honest, it was kind of gross, because when you eat scrambled eggs that have been made in large quantities It doesn't really taste as good as when you just scramble them yourself, or it might not have the best texture.
It might seem really rubbery, like rubber.
But I remember that dining hall churning out just so many scrambled eggs and I never wanted to eat them because it just didn't seem like the eggs were good quality just based on how quickly they were churning them out, how much there was.
It wasn't my favorite thing to eat for breakfast there.
But yeah, that dining hall turned out a lot of scrambled eggs and other things as well, not just eggs.
And then in general, some companies turn out tons of low quality products that they sell for very cheap.
You can find types of products that seem really cheap and you don't know how good the quality will be, because the price seems really cheap.
But there are companies that specialize in churning out tons of low quality products and selling them for cheap, and they're able to do this because they make these products for cheap.
They don't spend a ton of money on each product, they make them for cheap and they sell them for cheap, so of course, the quality usually suffers.
But some people can only afford to buy these low quality products And, to be honest, I often buy these low-quality products, especially clothes.
Like when I buy shirts or shorts, I often buy the cheapest ones that companies have just churned out in mass quantities for cheap.
And to be honest, the quality is not great, but...
I don't want to spend a lot of money on clothes usually.
So some companies churn out tons of low quality products, but other companies focus on creating fewer products.
But those products are better, the quality is better, and so, instead of just churning out a bunch of cheaply made products just to sell more items, they focus on improving their items that they sell and making them better and not having so much variety.
They just focus on making the best quality products that they can.
So those are two different models.
Some companies churn out the cheap products and other companies make fewer, better quality products.
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