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If you are enjoying my podcast episodes, 1:13 feel free to share them with your friends, with your family on social media so that they can learn and practice their English, and also, this will motivate me. This will make the future episodes of this podcast possible. 1:31 Today's episode is about phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs are very important in English, and, uh, I made a specific podcast episode about phrasal verbs. 1:43 But for those of you who don't know the meaning of phrasal verbs, phrasal verbs are just like verbs, but it's like a phrase. 1:54 It's a verb consisting of a verb and another element, like on, off, about, after, but the meaning is different from the verb itself. Think of the verb break. 2:09 Break something, you know, to break something into two pieces. But if you say break out, break in, break up, these are different than the actual meaning of the verb break. 2:25 And I made a couple of TikTok videos about three different phrasal verbs: put, turn, and move, and a lot of people loved it, so I wanted to put it into a podcast episode, 2:44 and I'm going to be making more podcast episodes about phrasal verbs because they are so important. And if you don't understand phrasal verbs, it's hard to understand the sentence or whatever you're reading. 2:59 So feel free to, uh, listen along as you learn around 30 different phrasal verbs in this episode. Let's get started. 3:11 [upbeat music] Phrasal verbs are so important in English. Sometimes, if you don't understand a phrasal verb, you cannot understand the sentence. 3:29 Think of the verb turn. To turn, you know, turn left, turn right. I'll give you 10 different phrasal verbs with turn. The first one is turn down. What's turn down? 3:48 Turn down means to reject or refuse something, like, "I turned down the job offer after thinking about it." Yeah. Turn back. What is the meaning of turn back? 4:02 Turn back means to go in the opposite direction or to return where you've come from. For example, "We turned back when we saw the storm coming our direction." We just turned back. We turned back home. Turn around. 4:18 What is turn around? Turn around. Turn around is similar to turn back. It means reverse the direction. "We need to turn around. I forgot my wallet at home, so we have to turn around and go back home to get my wallet." 4:36 Yeah. Turn in. What is turn in? Turn in means to submit or hand in something like homework, assignment, application, something. "Remember to turn in your assignment by Monday," 4:53 or, "Remember to turn in your application before the deadline." Turn off. Turn off means to stop supply of something. "Hey, turn off the light. It's getting late." Turn away. 5:10 Turn away means to send someone away. "He turned me away and told me that I was not qualified for the job." [groans] I'm so sad. Turn over. Turn over means to rotate something. Turning over. I'm turning over the pages 5:31 to find some information. Turn on, the, the opposite of turn off. Turn on means to begin functioning. "I wanted to turn on the printer, but it wasn't working." Turn out. 5:46 Turn out means result in a certain way. "Their prediction that the economy would improve has turned out to be true." Or, "Wow, this is a nice cake. The cake turned out pretty good." 6:04 Or the chicken that I cooked turned out pretty good. Turned out pretty good. It was pretty good. And the last one, turn against. What is turn against? To turn against means to change your behavior 6:21 to unfriendly, to change your behavior the opposite way towards someone. Like, "I feel like my boss has turned against me ever since I was angry in the meeting." 6:40 He has turned against me, so he's not nice to me. The verb move, like to move, right? But there are a lot of phrasal verbs using the verb move. 6:54 Here are nine phrasal verbs with move. One, move in. Move in means to take up residence in a new place, to live in a new place. 7:09 For example, my brother moved in with his wife. Moved in with his wife. They live together now. They moved in together. Two, move out. 7:24 Move out is the opposite of move in, to leave a place. You don't live in that place anymore. For example, my neighbor just moved out of his apartment. Number three, move up. What's move up? 7:42 Move up means to advance to a higher position or rank, especially in a job. Like move up means to get a promotion. She was recently promoted and, uh, moved up to the management team. Moved up to the management team. 8:00 The next one is move forward. Move forward is similar to move up. Move forward means to make progress or advance in life in general, usually like with your job or career. 8:18 You say, "I want to move forward in my life." That means I want to make progress in my life. The next one is move on. Move on means leave behind the past or to start anew, to start fresh. Move on. 8:36 I want to move on. Move away. Move away is similar to move on. It's not the same, but it's similar. Move away means to go and live in a different place. 8:48 Usually you move away, you leave your hometown and live in a different place. Move back. Move back is the opposite. Move back means to go back and live in a place where you have lived before. For example, 9:04 uh, Sarah moved back to her hometown after college. She moved back. Move over. Move over means shift from one position to another. For example, "Uh, excuse me, can you move over? 9:22 I'm trying to park my car." And the last one is move around. Move around means to change your location or your home, your home frequently, a lot. When I was a kid, we moved around a lot. 9:41 We moved around a lot. We lived in different places. Phrasal verbs are very important in English. 9:47 Sometimes if you don't understand a phrasal verb, you can't understand the sentence, so you have to learn a lot of phrasal verbs. For example, the verb put. Put, to put something in something. 10:03 Here are seven phrasal verbs with put. Put out. Put out means to extinguish. I put out, I put out the candle. 10:18 Another meaning of put out is to publish. Like, I need to put out more content on TikTok. Put down. What is put down? To put down means to enter something in writing. Put down the sentence. 10:37 Or I put down the address of the store in my phone. Put off. What is put off? Put off means to delay or postpone something. 10:51 We'll have to put off our vacation until next year, unfortunately. Put on. What is put on? Put on means to wear something, to wear something. 11:07 I just put on this jacket. Or I need to put on some sunscreen. I need to put on some sunscreen. Put up with. What is put up with? 11:22 Put up with means to endure, to tolerate, or to handle something. I don't know if I can put up with my boss's rude behavior any longer. He's just rude. I can't put up with it anymore. Put aside. 11:39 What is put aside? To put aside something means to separate something for future use. Like I am putting aside some money for emergency fund. And then put away. 11:57 What is the meaning of put away? To put away means to store something, usually in its proper place. For example, I need to put away the groceries before they go bad. Or, "Hey 12:14 Hey, put away your phone. We are in class. Put away your phone now. The verb cut. Cut, cut, cut, cut. Cut out. To cut out means to remove something. I cut out the picture from the magazine. 12:32 Cut down. To cut down means to reduce something. Like I cut down my expenses to save money, or I need to cut down on sugar. Yeah. What is the meaning of cut back? 12:50 Cut, cut back means to use less of something or to reduce size. So it's kind of like cut down. You know? Like I need to cut back on spending to save money. Or cut up. What is cut up? 13:07 To cut something into small pieces. Like I need to cut up the vegetables before I add them to the stew, before I put them in the stew. Cut through. Hmm, what is cut through? 13:23 To cut through means to make progress. Like we cut through the highway traffic to get to downtown, to get to the city. Cut through, to make progress quickly. Cut through. Cut in. What is cut in? 13:42 To interrupt someone. To interrupt someone when they're talking. Like she cut me in when I was telling a story. Not cool. Cut away. To cut away means to separate or remove something. 13:55 I need to cut away the rotten part of the apple. Cut off, to disconnect something. We were talking on the phone. 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