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podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we are
doing a vocabulary vocabulary spotlight. We are in or under the vocabulary
spotlight. And we're going to do three phrasal verbs using the verb give. So
there actually I have like six here, but we'll do three today and we'll do
three in another episode. Social, the first one is to give up something. What
is to give up? You give up means it can either be in the context of you make a
sacrifice like I gave up eating red meat. So you kind of gave up something that you
wanted in order to reach a goal usually or for some purpose or reason. It can
also mean accepting defeat like I was in this race and everyone was ahead of me
and I was way in the back. And so I just gave up. Yeah, yeah, two. Yeah. Yep. And
that one kind of dovetails nicely with the second one, which is give in, which
can also mean to surrender or yield or to give up. So sometimes these
overlap a little bit. But yeah, give up, we like I gave up smoking. You know, I
quit. That's it. I gave up. I quit. But what about give in? So give it. Sorry, go
ahead. No, no, you go ahead. I would say I think it usually implies yielding to
something or someone else. So you want to watch the newest action movie and your
wife wants to watch a romantic comedy. And you know, she's like, you picked the
movie last time. And get you and you know, she'd like make your own dinner tomorrow
whatever. You're like, okay, okay, I give it to your desire to watch the
drama and the comedy. It's not really what you wanted to do. But yeah, it's what
she wanted to do. And for whatever reason, you yielded to her desire to do
something else. And that's usually what giving in means you can also yield to
your own desires. So if you have a goal, I'm not going to eat chocolate for a month,
because I'm on a diet. And you gave in and ended up eating the chocolate, you kind
of yielded to your own desire over your goal. So it can be context of yourself too.
Yeah, to give in is to surrenders to surrender to some kind of desire. Like what you said,
I gave in and I ate the chocolate. I didn't want to, but I did it. I surrendered. Or like
you said, you've got two movie action movie in the romantic comedy and she wants that.
And so I give in, okay, I give in. Let's watch your movie. That's fine. That's fine.
You know, what do they say? What's the expression? Happy wife, happy life.
Yeah, I hate that expression actually, but people use it sometimes. What about give back
to give back? Give back. I'm really coming away. People use it is giving back to your own
community. So let's say that you are a business and you profit off of the local community,
supporting your business. When you give back to the local community, that kind of looks
like sharing some of your profit with them in some kind of way could be that you throw
a big event, a community festival or something and you sponsor it. Or it can also be give
back in the sense of I have this cook bottle here and I gave it to Jack and I'm like, hey,
could you give that back to me? You just return something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Actually,
you're interesting. It's interesting because your brain went to the more sophisticated,
the more complex, the more after I said that and I was like, oh, I'm probably thinking
about the simple one and I just went to the other. No, no, I'm glad. I'm glad. I think
our students are listeners out there like, you know, to get both of the perspectives of
it because yeah, give back and just mean to return something. Like I took a book from
the library, I borrowed it and then I gave it back, you know, like I returned it. But
giving back to your community is a very common expression. We do that, you know, to give
back is to like to donate money to charity, to donate time to, you know, causes that
are, you know, time at your church or your mosque or something like that. So to give
something back to the community is definitely another way that we use that expression,
that phrasal verb. So all right. Well, that takes us. That's the end of those.
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