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hello I’m Emma from English back with
another phrasal verbs lesson this week
and I wonder if you can guess what the
verb in our phrasal verb is this week
low actually
a lot of my students have trouble
pronouncing this word do you the two
consonant sounds at the start are a
little tricky to push together and so it
can sound a little bit like you’re
saying below it’s quite hard to hear the
difference between the two Lo and below
they sound very similar don’t they and
that’s because the first syllable is
unstressed in below and you can hear the
very very lazy schwa sound ah but low
below now blow my tongue is already in
the position of the all sound when my
lips part to make the buh sound
low low low is one syllable and below is
two syllables there’s a little extra
vowel sound in there that you need to
make sure that you include when you say
below and you exclude when you say low
ok I got a little sidetracked there so I
started talking about something
different to what I really wanted to
talk to you about today phrasal verbs
with blow blow so all phrasal verbs in
English
made up of a verb and either a
preposition like up or an adverb like a
part now phrasal verbs are frustrating
to learn but super fun to use once you
know how and I have made a video with my
top tips for learning the phrasal verbs
you can check it out right there but one
tip that I do want to share with you
today is don’t let phrasal verbs
overwhelm you
there are hundreds and hundreds of
phrasal verbs that you will need to
learn but today you’re just going to
focus on five and this week I only want
you to focus on those five phrasal verbs
okay
let’s crack on with the lesson starting
with blow-off now blow-off has a few
different meanings depending on who
you’re talking to my American friends
like to use this word when they’re
deliberately not meeting someone when
they’ve made a plan or they’ve said that
they would but they’re deliberately
choosing not to they don’t care about
the commitment that they made I’m
supposed to meet Sam in 20 minutes but
I’ll just blow him off but my British
friends always laugh at this phrasal
verb because it means to fight to pass
wind oh I don’t know there’s about a
hundred different ways to say that but
it’s the air that comes from your bum
did you just blow up in Australia we
rarely use that phrasal verb for
anything but we do use the expression to
blow someone socks off
which is if idiom used when someone or
something really surprises or impresses
you
he said the show blew his socks off blow
out used with candles when it’s your
birthday you’ve got to blow out the
candles on your cake Oh have you heard
of the expression to blow someone or
something out of the water it means to
completely destroy or completely beat
something to show that someone or
something is much much better than
someone else now I know that I can swim
fast but Katherine blew me out of the
water now you’ll also see this phrasal
verb as a compound noun which might
confuse you for a second
but this is a noun most often it’s used
when a car tire bursts especially if
you’re traveling at really high speeds
we were running on time but we’ve had a
blowout
so I don’t think we’ll arrive at 6 now
in Australia we also use this phrasal
verb quite frequently to describe a
sudden increase in something usually
relating to money we’ve had a bit of a
blowout we spent too much we’ve spent
too much money the government was under
pressure after the huge budget blowout
to blow up now blow up has a few
different meanings one is used when
something is destroyed by an explosion
often it’s used with bombs or cars or
buildings
the soldiers blew up the old shoe
factory as the Sun rose they saw that
the hospital had been blown up now this
phrasal verb can be separable or
inseparable you can also say they blew
the hospital up
you can also blow something up by
filling it with air like a balloon or a
tire or a beach ball the front wheel on
my bike needs blowing up can you help me
blow up these balloons when you’re
talking about a photo that you want to
make larger or bigger to fit in a frame
then you would blow it up how much will
it cost to blow up this picture now you
could blow up at somebody – which means
to become really angry at them my dad
blew up at me when I arrived home late I
didn’t mean to blow up at you before I’m
sorry
now there’s an idiom that you may have
heard before it’s when something blows
up in your face that’s when something
goes wrong unexpectedly maybe it
embarrasses you or makes you feel
ashamed I’m worried that that plan is
going to blow up in your face it’s not a
good idea will that blow up in my face
didn’t it to blow apart to blow apart is
used in a similar context when something
is completely destroyed in an explosion
it is blown apart after the gas
explosion the main factory was
completely blown apart but this phrasal
verb can also be used to show that an
idea is completely false by putting
forward another much better argument the
students explanation blew apart the
professor’s theory so the students
explanation proved that the professor’s
theory was incorrect
or not true he blew it apart completely
shattered it to blow away
so a strong wind can blow something away
right the wind blows and if it’s strong
it’s going to blow things away rubbish
trees really strong winds cars boats but
you’ve probably heard me use this
phrasal verb to say that I’m really
impressed and pleased by something I use
it all the time in fact there is another
video where you can watch me explain it
right here the fact that I’m sitting
here in my home in Australia teaching
students all around the world blows me
away well how many of these phrasal
verbs did you already know perhaps you
knew all of them but maybe you learnt a
couple of new ways to use them if you
enjoyed this lesson
make sure you subscribe to my channel by
clicking that red button right there I
make a new lesson every single week now
if you want my top tips and
recommendations for using and learning
phrasal verbs then make sure you check
out this video right here or just check
out some of my other lessons on that
playlist there thanks for watching and
I’ll see you next week
bye for now
hello I’m Emma from English back with
another phrasal verbs lesson this week
and I wonder if you can guess what the
verb in our phrasal verb is this week
low actually
a lot of my students have trouble
pronouncing this word do you the two
consonant sounds at the start are a
little tricky to push together and so it
can sound a little bit like you’re
saying below it’s quite hard to hear the
difference between the two Lo and below
they sound very similar don’t they and
that’s because the first syllable is
unstressed in below and you can hear the
very very lazy schwa sound ah but low
below now blow my tongue is already in
the position of the all sound when my
lips part to make the buh sound
low low low is one syllable and below is
two syllables there’s a little extra
vowel sound in there that you need to
make sure that you include when you say
below and you exclude when you say low
ok I got a little sidetracked there so I
started talking about something
different to what I really wanted to
talk to you about today phrasal verbs
with blow blow so all phrasal verbs in
English
made up of a verb and either a
preposition like up or an adverb like a
part now phrasal verbs are frustrating
to learn but super fun to use once you
know how and I have made a video with my
top tips for learning the phrasal verbs
you can check it out right there but one
tip that I do want to share with you
today is don’t let phrasal verbs
overwhelm you
there are hundreds and hundreds of
phrasal verbs that you will need to
learn but today you’re just going to
focus on five and this week I only want
you to focus on those five phrasal verbs
okay
let’s crack on with the lesson starting
with blow-off now blow-off has a few
different meanings depending on who
you’re talking to my American friends
like to use this word when they’re
deliberately not meeting someone when
they’ve made a plan or they’ve said that
they would but they’re deliberately
choosing not to they don’t care about
the commitment that they made I’m
supposed to meet Sam in 20 minutes but
I’ll just blow him off but my British
friends always laugh at this phrasal
verb because it means to fight to pass
wind oh I don’t know there’s about a
hundred different ways to say that but
it’s the air that comes from your bum
did you just blow up in Australia we
rarely use that phrasal verb for
anything but we do use the expression to
blow someone socks off
which is if idiom used when someone or
something really surprises or impresses
you
he said the show blew his socks off blow
out used with candles when it’s your
birthday you’ve got to blow out the
candles on your cake Oh have you heard
of the expression to blow someone or
something out of the water it means to
completely destroy or completely beat
something to show that someone or
something is much much better than
someone else now I know that I can swim
fast but Katherine blew me out of the
water now you’ll also see this phrasal
verb as a compound noun which might
confuse you for a second
but this is a noun most often it’s used
when a car tire bursts especially if
you’re traveling at really high speeds
we were running on time but we’ve had a
blowout
so I don’t think we’ll arrive at 6 now
in Australia we also use this phrasal
verb quite frequently to describe a
sudden increase in something usually
relating to money we’ve had a bit of a
blowout we spent too much we’ve spent
too much money the government was under
pressure after the huge budget blowout
to blow up now blow up has a few
different meanings one is used when
something is destroyed by an explosion
often it’s used with bombs or cars or
buildings
the soldiers blew up the old shoe
factory as the Sun rose they saw that
the hospital had been blown up now this
phrasal verb can be separable or
inseparable you can also say they blew
the hospital up
you can also blow something up by
filling it with air like a balloon or a
tire or a beach ball the front wheel on
my bike needs blowing up can you help me
blow up these balloons when you’re
talking about a photo that you want to
make larger or bigger to fit in a frame
then you would blow it up how much will
it cost to blow up this picture now you
could blow up at somebody – which means
to become really angry at them my dad
blew up at me when I arrived home late I
didn’t mean to blow up at you before I’m
sorry
now there’s an idiom that you may have
heard before it’s when something blows
up in your face that’s when something
goes wrong unexpectedly maybe it
embarrasses you or makes you feel
ashamed I’m worried that that plan is
going to blow up in your face it’s not a
good idea will that blow up in my face
didn’t it to blow apart to blow apart is
used in a similar context when something
is completely destroyed in an explosion
it is blown apart after the gas
explosion the main factory was
completely blown apart but this phrasal
verb can also be used to show that an
idea is completely false by putting
forward another much better argument the
students explanation blew apart the
professor’s theory so the students
explanation proved that the professor’s
theory was incorrect
or not true he blew it apart completely
shattered it to blow away
so a strong wind can blow something away
right the wind blows and if it’s strong
it’s going to blow things away rubbish
trees really strong winds cars boats but
you’ve probably heard me use this
phrasal verb to say that I’m really
impressed and pleased by something I use
it all the time in fact there is another
video where you can watch me explain it
right here the fact that I’m sitting
here in my home in Australia teaching
students all around the world blows me
away well how many of these phrasal
verbs did you already know perhaps you
knew all of them but maybe you learnt a
couple of new ways to use them if you
enjoyed this lesson
make sure you subscribe to my channel by
clicking that red button right there I
make a new lesson every single week now
if you want my top tips and
recommendations for using and learning
phrasal verbs then make sure you check
out this video right here or just check
out some of my other lessons on that
playlist there thanks for watching and
I’ll see you next week
bye for now
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