Brief Summary
This video by Profe Lao focuses on teaching 23 common English phrasal verbs, essential for fluency. The lesson includes explanations of phrasal verbs related to clothing (put on/take off), transportation (get on/get off, get in/get out), directions (come in/come out, go in/go out), and everyday actions (look at/look for, turn up/turn down, turn on/turn off, pick up/drop off, show up, work on, go up/go down). The video emphasizes the importance of understanding context and nuances in phrasal verb usage, providing examples and clarifying common confusions.
- Covers 23 common phrasal verbs.
- Explains the importance of context in understanding phrasal verbs.
- Provides examples for each phrasal verb to illustrate usage.
Profe Lao introduces himself and explains that he will be teaching 23 common English phrasal verbs. He emphasizes that while there are many phrasal verbs, these are essential for everyday English and fluency. The video aims to make learning manageable by focusing on a select number of high-frequency phrasal verbs.
The phrasal verbs "put on" and "take off" are used for clothing and items worn on the body. "Put on" means to wear or apply something, such as clothes, hats, earrings, or sunscreen. "Take off" means to remove something, like clothes or makeup. The past tense of "put on" remains the same, while "take off" becomes "took off" in the past tense.
"Get on" and "get off" are used for modes of transport with an aisle, such as buses, airplanes, boats, trains, subways, bikes, motorcycles, and horses. "Get on" means to board, while "get off" means to disembark. The past tense of "get" is "got," so one would say "I got off the plane."
"Get in" and "get out" are used for cars and vehicles without an aisle. "Get out" can also translate to "salir" in specific contexts, particularly when exiting small, enclosed spaces like a car, pool, or cardboard box. The distinction between "get out" and "leave" is that "get out" often implies a sense of being trapped or needing to escape a confined space.
"Look at" means to direct your gaze towards something or someone. "Look for" is the most common translation of "search," used when trying to find something, such as keys or a child. While "search" is also used, it is more technical and often used in the context of the internet.
"Turn up" and "turn down" are used to raise and lower the volume of music, TV, or any device with volume control. They can also be used to adjust the temperature of air conditioning or a heater.
"Turn on" and "turn off" are used to activate or deactivate devices or lights. These phrasal verbs are generally applicable to anything that you would "prender" or "apagar" in Spanish.
"Pick up" means to collect someone or something, while "drop off" means to leave someone or something. The object or person can be placed in the middle of the phrasal verb, such as "pick my kids up" or "pick up my kids."
"Show up" translates to "arrive" or "appear," particularly in the sense of appearing. While "arrive" can be used, it is more common to use "get" with the destination. "Show up" emphasizes the action of appearing, and can be used sarcastically if someone arrives late ("Nice of you to show up").
"Work on" means to dedicate effort to something, such as a project or personal development. It is similar to the Spanish phrase "trabajar en algo."
"Go up" and "go down" are used in a literal sense to describe movement upwards or downwards, such as going up or down a mountain. They can also describe numerical increases or decreases.
"Come in" and "go in" both mean "enter," but their usage depends on the speaker's location. "Come in" is used when the speaker is already inside the space, inviting someone to enter. "Go in" is used when the speaker is outside the space. Similarly, "come out" and "go out" both relate to exiting, but "go out" emphasizes the act of going outside, often into the open air.
Profe Lao concludes the video, encouraging viewers to continue learning and emphasizing that these are just some of the many phrasal verbs in English. He encourages beginners to look up translations and understand phrases in context, reinforcing the importance of active learning.
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0:00 Hello Welcome to another video with Lao who is Lao Oh it's me I grew up all my life in the United States but I wanted to learn Spanish so I did and now I 'm teaching English that's why you 're watching this video I think Okay let's get on with the video one of the most difficult things about English if not the most difficult thing I don't always say that pronunciation is the most difficult but this is one of the things that is also very difficult I chose 23 phrasal verbs to
0:50 speak today to teach there are many more that we use regularly not that with these 23 you can already speak everyday English and you're going to be fine and everything great perfect No no it's not that it's not that no but if you learn hundreds of phrasal verbs in a video you're not going to remember anything so let's talk about 23 because I said yes but anyway These are one of the most common they are super important and I believe that you cannot be fluent in English if you don't use these phrasal verbs they are so important So let's go let's go with the video let's go first we have put on Take off put on Take off for the clothes everything that you put everything that you put on your body a hat a little cap A Hat in English A Hat everything is A Hat no matter the type it is A Hat if you put on earrings you put on put earrings put on you put clothes put
1:37 ones put on your shoes put on sunscreen sunscreen you put that on sunscreen you put on sunscreen Take off Take off take off your clothes take off your makeup Take off your makeup take off it is the same in the present and past I put on I put on it is the same in English I put on I put on Take is irregular in the past it is took I took off my jacket I take off my jacket in the present I took off my jacket in the past Okay next ones now we have get on get off get on get
2:23 off it is like get on and get off so we use it for vehicles modes of transport that have an aisle that you can walk a bus an airplane eh a boat a train a subway also for things that you can ride a bike a motorcycle a horse get on get off get on the bus get off the bus get on my bike get off my bike and in the past get is got so I got off the plane I got off the Plane I got off the Plane and then we have Get In Get out these we use for cars and vehicles that don't have an aisle you can't walk a van things like that too Get out is one of the
3:09 translations of salir if you haven't seen my video called You don't know Translate these verbs in English I think that's what it's called I'm going to put that link in the description you have to watch it to understand How to translate salir into English is one of the most difficult things there are several translations of salir it's very important to understand that and it's very confusing Get In Get out is one of the translations it's not salir in any context it's for very specific contexts many times it has to do with getting out of things more or less small and very enclosed like a car for example a car is very enclosed and small Compared to a subway for example an airplane something like that bigger we use Get
3:56 In Get out for things like the pool Get out the the po if there's a cardboard box the baby gets into the box the baby got in the Box the baby got in the Box the baby got out of the Box got out of the Box it's something like that it's like something you can be Trapped like a mini jail Because look I'm going to explain something getting off or leaving the plane in general would be get off the plane but we would use get out if for example imagine you are on the plane they have already arrived they are getting off everyone is lining up leaving in a row and you have the
4:41 window seat but the person in the middle is not getting out is not getting up and leaving so you are trapped you cannot even get out of your seat you can say can't get out because it's like you are a little bit locked in a little bit trapped you are like trying to get out and you can't many times when we talk about being able to get out or not we use get can you get out no I can't get out another example to explain to understand this difference in general when we talk about leaving your house we are going to say leave today I left at 9 in the morning and well we understand in the context you are talking about that you left your house many times we focus more on where we are going
5:27 instead of where we left from so for example we say I left for work at nine I left for work at nine like I left for work to go to work at 9 I left my house but no you don't have to say I left home Yes you can but it's not as necessary or as common as I Left For work for example but in general to leave or to go out is like to Leave I left at Nine this morning left is the past tense of Leave but if someone says I need to Get out of the house I need to Get out it 's not to go out in the normal regular context no no no no no no no no no no it's not that context of being able to go out or not and it makes sense that what the person
6:12 is really saying is that they feel trapped in the house for example I've been home for three days without going out I need to get out now okay it's to emphasize the fact that you feel or are trapped and you need to get out of that box of prison where you are so that's the difference between I need to Get out of the house and I need to Leave So many times That 's the difference between Get out and Leave or another translation of leave you have to watch a video but sometimes it's simply the way we express leaving or entering a somewhat small enclosed space like a car a pool a jacuzzi a cardboard box if you're a
6:59 baby something like that and since it's English it's not always 100% all the time always there are exceptions So watch out but that's the idea more or less Okay we have to continue with the video because my day is running out the Sun Now we go to Look at That is the main translation of look it's just look when we say like Look look look only Look is just look but when you say Look at something or look at someone Look at Look at someone Look at something Why are you looking at Me Like that Why are you looking at Me Like that Why are you looking at Me Like that Look at me You're Looking at me weird stop Looking at me Why are you looking at me like that stop looking at me like that the next one is look for look for is the most common translation of
7:47 Search there is also Search to Search but that is more technical it's more on the internet you Search On Google is used sometimes but look for is even more common in general in general If you are looking for your keys If you are looking for your child looking for Kid Okay looking for your [ __ ] looking for and for for a lot of times it's like f f that's how it is pronounced f f looking for sometimes sometimes it's for when we really want to put more emphasis on the word we say For what are you looking for what you looking for but a lot of times forys for that the following are turn up turn down turn up turn down is used to raise
8:35 and lower the volume of music or TV anything that has volume technological devices Hey turn down the music Hey Can you turn up TV I can't hear Hey Can you turn up the TV I can't hear it turn turn It Up Can you turn It Up Can you turn It Down a little bit Can you turn It Down a little bit it is also used to raise like the temperature of the air conditioning or the heater surely there are other things like that at the moment but well you can imagine or you can always leave me comments and I can answer if it is used in that context or not Okay the following are turn off turn on is like turning on and turning off turn on the light turn off the light turn on the oven the oven turn off the oven turn on the air conditioning turn on turn
9:22 off I think you can use it for anything that in Spanish you would say prender or turn off I think so I don't know maybe there is an exception well surely there is an exception but many things do turn on and turn off turn on turn off I think you have the idea more or less now we have pick up and drop off pick up is to pick up Drop off is to let leave or pick up something or someone I need to Pick my kids up from School I need to Pick my kids up from School and the cool and weird maybe confusing thing I don't know about phrasal verbs is that you can put the thing or the being in the middle of the phrasal verb For example you can say pick my kids up to
10:09 pick up my children and also pick up my kids so you can put my kids ad inside in the middle of Pick Up that pick up is the phrasal verb and it goes in the middle and it also goes after as native speakers we use both both are correct so you have two options I need to Drop my kids off I need to drop my kids at school I need to Drop off my kids ya I need to Drop off my kids mm okay I'm dropping off my laundry like my dirty clothes many times we say laundry so for example if I go to a laundromat and I leave my clothes okay I'm dropping off my laundry and I'll pick it up tomorrow I'm going to pick it up tomorrow I'm dropping it off and I'm picking it up
10:55 tomorrow now we have show off show no no now we have show up show up translates to arrive or appear it's like arrive in the sense of appear because it's not interchangeable with arrive arrive most of the time it's translated in English as get get here get there get to the place get and where you're arriving sometimes we use arrive yes but it 's more common to use get with the destination the place so that's still the most common sometimes we use show up show up it's very common you always show up to work late you always arrive to work late you always show up late why do you always
11:40 show up late I always show up on time I always arrive at the correct time I always show up on time if someone arrives very late you can say sarcastically nice of you to show up how nice you looked how nice you arrived when we want to emphasize the action of appearing not arriving at the destination specifically the action of appearing many times we use show up and we use it for things also that appear now we have work on work on something like working on something work on a project I'm working on a new video yeah I'm working on myself I've been working on that for a long time now I think it's pretty easy obviously it's like Spanish working on
12:27 something I think it's the same so I do n't really have to explain this but it's very common in English so you know now we have Go up Go down uh go up and go down in the very literal sense Go up a Mountain Go down a Mountain the numbers are going up the numbers are going down Okay to finish the video I'm going to explain four that are very related We're also talking through translations of go out I'm going to give an example to explain if you're in your room and your mom or someone else if you're not a kid is outside your room if someone is outside and that person says to you Can I come in I can come in they're saying come in Can I come in because you're already
13:12 in So it's enter in the sense of come come to me enter the place the space where I already am where a person already is if you're not in your room if you 're somewhere else and you found out that someone came into your room then they say it's Why did you go in my room Why did you go in my room we use Go because you weren't in So it wasn't the context of come to me was enter in the sense of go and vice versa if you are outside the room you tell the person inside come out come out because you are already outside so come outside to me come out of the room So come in and Go can be enter but the difference is subtle if you are entering
13:59 the space where the person is or not Come out and Go out can both be go out but it depends on the specific context Go out is not really as common as students think it is used Yes of course but it is like Compared to the others not so much we use Go out a lot when we are emphasizing the fact of going outside sometimes literally outside like into the open air and sometimes just like outside the room outside of this space eh but really that is it it is it is emphasizing that you are You are not only coming out you are going outside That sounds strange no because it is like obvious that if you are coming
14:44 out of something you are going outside but sometimes when we express it we do not emphasize that idea because it is obvious no you do not have to put emphasis on that but when we want to put emphasis on that yes we would use Go out if your dog approaches the door and obviously wants to go out you tell him Ah you wan to go out do you W to go out Go outside Go out with all my explanations you're still going to get it wrong about going out we didn't decide it is how it is I mean I was born I was raised and I learned it it's not my decision I 'm just trying to explain it it's very difficult I hope this video isn't too dark I'm going to try to edit it to brighten up the light on my face
15:29 because the sun is already setting and I have to go so see you in the next video and thank you so much as always for watching it until the end I love it I love you I love you I love you And yes you can yes you can learn English I know it's crazy but yes you can yes you can and by the way as I said at the beginning at the beginning of the video these are just some very common phas of Verbs but not all of them there are many I think you already know because in general my videos are not for beginners but if you are a beginner and you watch me thank you for being here I know it can be a little difficult sometimes because I'm teaching like to students who already know more but so I don't translate everything because the idea is that I
16:14 use more phrases or less easy apart from the part that I'm teaching everything else is more or less easy I think you already know and if you don't know the task as the active students that you are is to look for translations of the things you don't understand or understand based on the context something like that Every time you see Or hear a phrase in English it doesn't come with a translation So you have to always be ready for Ah what does that mean like that's why I don't translate everything I do it intentionally so that's it friends until next time bye bye see you later bye bye
