Important, Must Know Phrasal Verbs - An English Lesson!
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- Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson where I'm going to teach you some three word phrasal verbs. As if having two word phrasal verbs wasn't enough, we have some phrasal verbs in English with three words in them. And the first two that I wanna teach you are to catch up to and to keep up with. Jen's gonna help me demonstrate this. If Jen is walking and she is ahead of me and I wanna be in the same place as her, I have to walk faster to catch up to her.

Once I catch up to her we can walk the same speed and then I can keep up with her So if I'm behind let's turn around do it again If I'm behind Jen and I want to be in the same place as her I could walk fast to catch up to her and then once I'm here I can walk at the same speed and I can keep up with her. Hi, how you doing? Okay, when you run out of milk you have

When you run out of milk, you have to go buy some more. I should show you the English side, shouldn't I? When you run out of milk, you have to go to the store and buy some more milk. Sometimes Jen and I find out that we don't have something anymore. Sometimes we run out of toilet paper. Sometimes we run out of milk. Sometimes we run out of sugar. So in English, when you run out of something, it means you had it and now you're

you don't have anymore and you need to go to the store to get some more. Another three word phrasal verb is the phrasal verb to get away with. When you get away with something, it means you do something you shouldn't do and you don't get caught. I'm going to try and get away with stealing this shovel from Jen. Hopefully she doesn't catch me. Oh, I wasn't able to get away with it. Jen totally saw that I was taking it. So sorry about that. Here's your shovel back.

So I remember once when I was in school, one of my friends got in trouble for something that he didn't do. So I went to talk to the teacher to stand up for him.

When you stand up for someone in English, it means that you defend them. You tell the truth about something that maybe they have been accused of and they didn't actually do it. So I do distinctly remember it. One of my friends said, the teacher is annoyed with me because they think I did this. So I went to the teacher and said, my friend didn't do that. I went and stood up for my friend.

So another three-word phrasal verb is the verb to get along with. When you get along with someone, it means you enjoy being around them. I think Jen and I have been married for as long as we have been because we get along with each other. Would you agree? Yes.

Okay. What is one of the reasons why you think we get along with each other so well? Because I think you're funny. I think Jen's funny too. I think we make each other laugh. Is that why we get along with each other so well? I think so. I think we get along with each other because we make each other laugh.

So when I was younger, it was more common for people to drop out of school at age 16. Not a lot of people did that, but some people would drop out of school in order to start working. Nowadays, people usually stay in school until they're done grade 12, at around age 17 or 18. And then maybe they go to college or university.

But sometimes people don't do well at college or university and they will drop out of college or drop out of university. So I think you get the meaning of that phrasal verb. To drop out of means to quit school in some form. Again, when I was younger, it was a lot more common. But these days, most people stay in school until grade 12.

In order to teach English lessons on YouTube, I need to come up with ideas. In English, when you say that you need to come up with an idea, it means you need to think of something. You need to sit and think so that you have an idea for whatever you want to do. I like to come up with ideas when I'm bored. When I'm driving and when I don't have anything else to do, I try to think and I try to come up with an idea for the next English lesson.

So hopefully this English lesson about three word phrasal verbs is a good one. It was fun to come up with it and it's fun to make it. Another three word phrasal verb is the verb to look forward to.

Many of us enjoy our birthday and we look forward to our birthday. When you look forward to something, it means you're happy about something that's going to happen in the future. Often I look forward to New Year's Eve. I look forward to starting the new year. I look forward to my birthday. Well, usually I look forward to it.

So in English, when you use the verb to look forward to, it means you're happy about something that's going to happen. You're excited about something in the future.

Over the Christmas break, my kids were all home and it was really, really loud and I had to put up with a lot of noise. I don't like noise, but sometimes I just need to tolerate it. In English, when you use the verb to put up with, it means that you are going to allow for something to happen. You're going to tolerate it. Sometimes at school, during the last week of the school year, the students are quite loud, but I just put up with it.

I don't tell them necessarily to be quiet because I know in a couple days the school year is going to be over. So when you put up with something, it means someone is doing a certain behavior and instead of telling them to stop, you just let it happen. As a dad, I've put up with a lot of noise, especially when my kids were younger, but hey, that's all part of being a parent.

Sometimes you have something that you need to do, but it might take you a while to get around to it. To get around to something means to find the time to do it. I usually get around to making my English lesson videos on Saturday or on Monday. Sometimes I don't get around to making it until late on Monday afternoon, and then it's a bit of a rush to get it finished.

So to get around to something means to find the time to be able to do it. You might have the same thing in your life. There might be something important you have to do tomorrow or the day after, and you're just trying to find a way to get around to it. You're trying to find a way to find the time to get it done.

Another three word English phrasal verb is the verb to come down with. When you come down with something, it means you're getting sick. Sometimes you come down with a cold the day before you have to write an English test. Sometimes you come down with a stomach flu and you're just not feeling very well. So in English, when you come down with something, when you use that three word phrasal verb, it means that you're getting sick.

Well, hey, thank you so much for watching this English lesson about three word phrasal verbs. I hope you were able to learn a few more verbs that you can use in your next English conversation. Also a big thank you to Jen for helping out. If this is your first time here, don't forget to click that red subscribe button. Give me a thumbs up, leave a comment below. And if you have some time and you want to learn some more English, there's always more English lessons to watch. Bye.

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