Name: Learn Phrasal Verbs the Fun Way!
Uploaded: 2017-12-10T11:34:10.000Z
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hello and welcome back to real English with real teachers with myself Charlie and

Harry how you doing really good really good Chas how you doing today I'm very

well thank you I'm ready to learn some phrasal verbs in

stories me too yeah English is absolutely full of

phrasal verbs we think that you need to know as many of them as possible so that

you can get by in English welcome to real English with real teachers with Harry and Charlie

Charlie before we before we get going are you really going to record a video

like this don't you think you look a bit bit scruffy what oh do you think I need to

go spruce up I think yeah I think you should spruce up look at me I'm wearing

a nice shirt and you're just looking a bit looking a bit shabby is that to your

satisfaction sir have I spruced up enough now that's a lot better that's a

lot better so Charlie has spruced up to spruce up that's a nice one isn't it Charlie what

does that mean it means to get neater or to improve your appearance so if you are

looking a little bit worse for wear or a little bit less impressive than you

should then you can say oop I need to spruce up and go put a shirt on

maybe if you're going to a wedding or if you're recording a YouTube video and you

want people to look at you and think oh Charlie looks nice and formal then you

need to spruce up I hope they look at me thinking he looks nice and formal for my

YouTube video you do you look nice maybe I should do my top button up

spruce up a bit Oh so it's top button even more spruced up I yeah I think it

is I think it is so Charlie you know I've started

going to gym again oh yeah yeah well I am I'm being really careful not to

injure myself but I am trying to bulk up a bit because I I I'm aware that I look

quite weedy especially in t-shirts and I want to fill out the the sleeves a bit

more so I'm really looking to bulk up you want to bulk up okay so you're

thinking at the moment you look too thin too thin and you need to get big exactly yeah

okay and if I was to eat lots of cake would I be bulking up hmm

no you'd be putting on fat so you wouldn't be bulking up because when you

bulk up you're putting on muscle so I don't know what would we say if you're eating

lots of cakes what expression could we use for that don't be such a

fatty I think you're you're piling on the pounds

- yeah that's it exactly yeah I don't I don't want to pile on the pounds

I want to I want to bulk up but also if I if I didn't want to bulk up I just

wanted to look more toned and have more muscle definition what could I say

then I want to get ripped I want to look ripped is that what you mean yeah I

want to get ripped yeah or to tone up I want to tone up so when you are fully

bulked up and you're a meathead do you think that you'll be able to fool around

with a lot more women you never know yeah not all girls are shallow and

they're looking for big meatheads to fool around with umm but it's possible

that my I'll have a better better sex life when I've bulked up what do

you think perhaps perhaps yeah I don't know have you got the have you

got the moves though because along with the looks you've got to have the moves

so I don't know when you were when you were younger and you were learning how

to how to flirt were you able to score to be honest I've never really had the

moves but I've got the moobs and that's why I'm hitting the gym

moobs being man boobs moobs so this this meaning of fall around is to engage in

some kind of naughty sexual activity with with someone of the opposite sex or

or someone of the same sex depending on your preferences did you did you fall

around much when you're at school Charlie ah so you're meaning fooling around in

misbehaving not being a good child yes did you mess around did you waste time in

lessons not concentrating I imagine you were a you're a goody two-shoes

you're actually on the money there I I was a goody two-shoes I did not fool

around much I was a bit too scared to fool around but I was with friends who

did fool around a lot in the non-sexual meaning they would

misbehave and I would stand there being good but pretending to be the friend

that is also misbehaving so you were like the innocent bystander just

observing the naughtiness yes exactly that I like I like the phrase as

well you're on the money to be on the money that's quite nice it means

like when when another person has said something correct and you want to say

yeah that's exactly it you've hit the nail on the head you can

say you're on the money you're just right

I was actually quite a naughty kid myself and I was fooling around a lot and

to the point where I wasn't really learning

much I didn't want to take up new things so now that I'm older I really

want to take up these new things like I've just taken up the guitar ahh you've

taken up the guitar so you've picked it up well yeah I have picked it up

yeah but I've started playing the guitar I've started occupying my time by doing

it so it's when you when you start a new hobby okay so can I say I've taken up

the coffee mug no you could say I've taken up coffee bean picking that

that's a hobby you know in like in the jungles in in Brazil or something maybe

you go there and you go coffee bean picking do you pick coffee beans yeah yeah

I mean I suppose you do I mean that's a very it's a bit of a bizarre hobby but I think

it would be quite an interesting one it's more exotic than taking up the

guitar certainly is certainly is yes I've recently taken up learning German that's

a good example isn't it to take up a new language yeah yeah and so you could say

take up learning German could you also say I've taken up German yeah I've taken

my dad's recently taken up art actually as you saw in the last live lesson we did he's taken up drawing

all sorts of interesting things I like that phrase as well all sorts of something

mmm yeah like a variety all varieties of art

yeah so your father's just taken up art and you have taken up a bit more travel this

year haven't you you're excited to go somewhere

I am yeah with you actually yeah with me me yeah where are we going

we're going to Pisa in Italy and I believe if Charlie has the guts we're

going to hire scooters and go on an adventure on these vespas on the

Italian scooters over to a seaside town I've got I've got guts I've guts what you talking

about Harry I know I know you've got guts but Charlie one thing we're gonna have

to do is maybe take some Italian lessons like before we go to brush up on on our

Italian don't you think yeah I mean I've actually been trying to brush up on my

Italian but your Spanish could come in handy couldn't it

yeah yeah it could come in handy yeah apparently there's like 80% lexical similarity

between Italian and Spanish so it could definitely be really useful but

apparently there's loads of false friends so I could try and say something but it has a

totally different meaning so it could be quite confusing but yeah we're gonna

have to brush up on those Italian skills aren't we how are your lessons going

the the lady that I started with actually moved away and changed jobs I

think or she just said that yeah she went into early retirement yeah yeah exactly

so I can't brush up on my Italian there but we should just clarify that brushing

up on something is improving an already existing skill so for me I'm not there

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Learn Phrasal Verbs the Fun Way!

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