IELTS Speaking for Success - 🔎 Phrasal verbs with UP

Episode Date: May 17, 2021

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Lift me up, lift me up. Hello, darling. Yeah. I'm Rory. And I'm Maria. I'm not Maria. You're Maria. Hello, love.

There we go. Thank you. And welcome into our special episodes on phrase of verbs. Our special free episode on phrase of verbs. Yeah, we've just released a whole course on phrase of verbs, pod course, podcast, podcast, plus course. We have four. 15 pod lessons on different phrasal verbs and with different prepositions. So we group them according to their propositions.

For example, phrasal verbs with up, phraser verbs without, back, and there are 15 nice lessons. Inside every episode, we discuss the mechanics of different prepositions and what they add to the phrasal verbs. So, for example, phrasal verbs with up are sometimes used to talk about creating things like make-up or draw up, drop a plan. But they can also be used to talk about dividing things, like cut up, split up, slice up, yum, yum, yum. Also, in every episode, I test Rory's knowledge on a phrase of verbs, in the form of a quiz.

I give Rory's sentences without phrase of verbs, and he has to rephrase them using a phrase of verb. If you'd like to find more about the course, about our podcast, click the link in the description or go to. to SuccesswithIOS.com slash podcourses. Let's get cracking. Today we're going to be talking about phrase of verbs with up. Yes.

So you better listen up while we talk about it. That's the name of a song. Lift me up. Lift me up. Is that the one by Moby? Because I was thinking of the one by Shania Twain. How does it go? Rory, come on. I'm not singing.

However, we can't. It's a pod course, not a karaoke course. Thank God. Right. Then I have a phrase of verb podcast quiz for you. Yes. So what we'll do is we'll tell you what we're going to focus on, which you might have guessed, is the phrasal verbs with the preposition up. Before we start discussing phrase of verbs with up in more detail, I'm going to test Rory's knowledge about phrase of verbs with the particle up.

I'm going to give him sentences without any phrasal verbs. and he should use phrase of verbs. He should paraphrase the sentence to use a phrasal verb. Rory, are you all ready? I'm revved up and ready to go. Woo! So, the first sentence. You need to put on some smart clothes for our recordings.

Does that mean I need to dress up? Yeah, dress up. What does dress up mean? It means that you, well, dress in a very fancy way. to get ready for something. Yeah. Last night, it was my birthday, so I dressed up. Was it your birthday last night?

No, I'm lying. Okay. So I put on some smart clothes. Number two. We should make our episodes more interesting and attractive. Does that mean that we should jazz them up? Yay, well done. Jazz something up to make something more interesting or attractive.

For example, I jazzed up the food with some spicy sauce. Or for example, you can also say, I should really jazz up my PowerPoint presentation. So to make it super interesting. Number three. Rory, you need to behave with courage or conviction and take this exam. Does that mean that I need to toughen up? Very close. Harden up?

No. No, you can see. that but I have something else in mind. What do you have in mind? Man up. Ah, okay. You should man up. Yeah, if you man up, you start behaving with courage or conviction.

For example, you need to man up and get what you want. It is important to point out that toughen up and harden up are the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. Number four. Oh, I hate when all these ads appear on my screen. Are you sick of having to put up with them? Ooh, that's a good one.

Put up with them. And actually put up with that a multi-something. Do you mean a multi-part, fraser verb? Okay, yeah, put up with, because there are two propositions. Something else, something about ads, so I hate when these ads appear on my screen, appear. Is that when they pop up? Yay, well done.

So if something pops up, it appears. For example, we have endless advertisements ads pop up. Right. Rory, well done. You've passed the test. You have an A. That's good to know. What about this preposition up? What does it add to the verbs? Well, it does sort of four main things, doesn't it? There are extra things, but the four main things are, well, we'll talk about that in more detail now. Yeah, so to make it easier for you to understand the phrase of EPS with Up, we're going to break them down into four meanings.

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So the first meaning, the preposition up means to divide something. Or to break something into small parts. Yeah, or equal parts, yeah, small equal parts. So, for example, we can say... Break up? Or split up. When we talk about a relationship, you can also split things up into groups. So you're taking them from one hole and putting them into...

different parts. Yeah, about relationships. I can say, last month I broke up with my boyfriend. For example, break up. That's sad. But what's not sad is our jokes. And if you like our jokes, then you might crack up, which means to break a smile and you sort of split your face with a smile. Yeah. For example, every time I listen to IELD-Speaking for Success podcast, I crack up. Is it correct? So I laugh a lot. The form is correct. I don't know if people crack up at our jokes. If they do, they might need to have their taste questions. I was cracking up doing lectures at university. I was cracking up. I was laughing out loud. You're clutching my stomach on the floor.

If you're listening to our podcast, you might cut it up into small pieces and listen to them one part at a time. but you're probably more likely to cut something up like food for example cut it up cut like cut up a steak can I cut a presentation up you can cut a presentation up it happens with my scissors talking about steak that you might cut up you might also need to mash up the potatoes so you break the potatoes down from being one big potato into a paste mash it all up you can also slice up things

When you take a lemon. Slice up the onions to get them ready for your steak. Yeah? You can slice up a lemon too. Lemon. Do you have lemon on your steak? I thought you had lemon with fish. Why not, you know?

To jazz up your steak, you can slice up some lemon. Yeah. So slice is like small, like thin pieces, so slice it all up. Everyone likes steak, though. So you might have to divide it up into equal parts to share amongst people. But maybe you're not so accurate. You might tear it up. instead, which means to rip something.

And usually when you tear something up, it's not an equal part. You have it in different parts and you destroy it. So with your bare hands like tear it up, bra, the steak. So it can mean to divide things or break them up. But it can also mean to make things better. More attractive or more exciting. Yes. So our podcast might cheer you up.

Yeah. Or... Oh, come on. Cheer up. Like feel better, right? We want you to feel better. You might want to brighten up your day to make it better, to make it, well, nicer. Yeah, like brighten up when the weather improves.

Your mood improves. Like, oh, it rained all week. And then in brightened up. So the weather brightened up. Can people brighten up? People brighten up. Usually when we talk about brighten up, we're talking about people's moods, actually. I rarely hear it talked about in terms of the weather.

But when it brightens up, the sun comes out and your room might get stuffy, so you'll need to freshen up. Yeah, to freshen up. Can I say it fresh up? No, it's always freshen. To freshen up, wash your face, brush your teeth, change your clothes, to be kind of like, oh, God, all fresh for work or school, freshen up. For example, I need to freshen up. Like, I need to wash my face and get all fresh. And once you've freshen up, you might liven up, which means that you're more alive, your mood is improving, and you have more energy. So kind of like, I'm going to liven myself up.

Liven myself up. When I want to liven up, I drink an energy drink. Ooh, yeah, liven up to make something more interesting, exciting, or to improve someone's mood, like to feel more energetic. If you liven something up, you improve it or make it more interesting or lively, right? lively. And if you want to liven up someone's mood, you could talk them up, which means to talk about them in a very, very positive way, almost

exaggerated. So for example, whenever I'm in a bad mood, you always talk me up. I talk you up. No, you talk me up to different people, I imagine. So I talk about you in a positive way. I talk about you

and say that you are the best of the best, of the best, of the bestest Rory best. So I talk you up, right? So I describe you in a positive way. And that will spice up my reputation. So if you spice something up, you make it more interesting or more exciting. Yeah, I usually say, like, how can we spice up our IELs classes? How can we spice up our podcast? So if you spice something up, you make it more interesting, more exciting. You can spice up your life, spice up your sex life, spice up your trip to an exotic country or spice up your relationship. But in order to afford that trip to a country, you'll need to save up some money,

which means that you will have to, well, just collect money for some kind of future purpose. Like, I'm saving up for Christmas, I'm saving up for a trip, I'm saving up. What am I saving up for? For a Gucci bag? No. You're saving up for a Gucci bag. I'm saving up for university. Hmm, Robbie is saving up.

Different priorities, but equally, valid. The Gucci bag will last forever, but university will come to an end, which we can also use up to mean. So up can mean to finish or to stop something. You can finish up university, which means that you finish it completely. Or you can wrap something up, which means you bring it to an end. Yeah, wrap something up, like to sum up, let's sum up or let's wrap it up. Like wrap you wrap a present. I'm terrible at wrapping presents, so halfway through, I usually give up Oh, never give up

Keep going, keep going, worry Yeah, we keep going with this episode And we never give up Give up, stop trying, quit So for example, give up Learning, English No, don't do that So give up doing something

But if you don't stop giving up Then you might wind up Or end up Feeling frustrated Which means that you become Or that you do something that you didn't plan to do And wind up, Roy, that's your favorite one, wind up.

Yeah, wind up can be lots of different things, actually. So it can mean to bring something to an end, or it can mean to irritate someone. But usually I mean it to bring something to an end. I rarely wind people up. Yeah. So. Vania's looking very suspiciously at me now. So we can say end up, wind up.

What's the past of wind up? Wound up. Wound up. Ooh, so I'm... He warmed me up. Like, he irritated me. Yes. Yeah, or I can say that

I wound up living in New Zealand near the Fiji Fiji islands, so other kind of New Zealand and the Fiji islands are like 5,000 miles apart No, the Fiji is over there and the Cook Islands I really want to go to the Cook Islands

So I want to wind up living in the Cook Islands This is really unusual for a Russian person You have no sense of scale No It's somewhere there You're just Making things up

Which means that we've moved on to our next part of the meaning in Yusuf Up, which means to emerge or start something or create something. So if you make something up, it means that you've just created something that's probably not true. We make up a lie, a reason, an excuse. A story? Stop making up these excuses. So make up to imagine. None of our explanations are made up, though.

No, that's true. You should believe everything we say. Exactly. Our podcast was dreamt up by Vanya. It means that he invented something or had an idea. To dream up to have an idea or invent something. For example... Well, I dreamed up the podcast.

Not you. Vanya. Vanya dreamt up the podcast. Yes, but I came up with all of the examples to string this together. So when you come up with something, it means... Well, when you come up with an idea, it means that you create the idea initially. or to begin with, but something can also come up in the course of a conversation. So it just means that you weren't planning on talking about it, but the thing appeared. So, for example, you can say,

Oh, I came up with this genius idea how to spice up our podcast. Exactly. Or some problems came up. They appeared. Problems can come up and they frequently crop up as well. So that's the same. That they are unexpected. Yeah, but usually things, um,

crop up is more negative and come up with is neutral. Hmm. So, for example, a vacancy came up. Or problems come up. Or crop up. Problems cropped up. The problem has cropped up. Exactly.

And if you want to hear more examples, you might want to look them up in a dictionary. To look for information. To look it up. So it was Rory's birthday. and I didn't go to his birthday. I never showed up. Or I never turned up. Which means arrive or appear somewhere.

Exactly. Even after all of the lengths I went to set everything up. Which means to create something. Usually the conditions for something to happen. You set up a computer so it can work. You set up a date so that you can have coffee. You can also set up a business to start. a business, set up an organization, set up a program, set up an account.

But you can't set up a business without drawing up a plan. Whoa, which means create a written document. Draw up a plan, a proposal or a contract. You see, dear listener, this would be something really natural to say. You don't say, oh, I created a plan. I drew up a plan. So those are our main ones with up. There are some important exceptions.

For example, we frequently. mess things up in the podcast and we have to re-record things again and again. So when you mess things up, you spoil it or ruin it by accident. Yeah, mess up to spoil or ruin. For example, once Rory messed up his microphone and we recorded one hour and a half just in vain. So we messed it up. I was very frustrated. So I acted up, which meant I behaved very badly.

So you acted up, meaning like what, you were screaming, like, where are the recordings? Yes, that is. the diplomatic way of putting it. But Maria, you put up with my terrible behavior. I tolerate his horrible behavior. I put up with him. I put up with his behavior. You can say, I can't put up with this. So I can't tolerate it. So you might have to go outside and soak up the sun. Yay. Soak up means absorb, spend time doing something enjoyable. So, I'm Soak up the atmosphere, usually when you are going on holiday. Oh, I was walking down the street, soaking up this beautiful atmosphere of Amsterdam.

And after your holiday in Amsterdam, you'll need to meet me for coffee so we can... Catch up! Yeah. Ketchup means to... Well, it can mean to share information with people, but it also means to come to the same level or standard as someone. So if we're running, Maria, I will have to run fast to catch up with you. Yeah. and also there's a joke about ketchup

you know ketchup you put ketchup in your pasta perhaps or in your pizza don't do this in Italy okay but that's from a film so we should wrap things up by summarising the main meanings of the proposition up which can mean to divide or to break something into small pieces like you break up with your partner

but it can also mean to make something more attractive or exciting like to jazz up and it can mean to finish something like to wrap it up to give up smoking let's wrap it all up and lastly it can also mean to emerge

or to start something like to make it up completely so now that we've summed up all of these different ways of using the word up in the phrasal verbs with up in the next episode we're going to talk about

phrase of verbs with back but before listening to it we really recommend that you should go back and listen to some parts, write down some examples. Again, there's no need to remember all of the phrasal verbs. Just cherry-pick. Choose the verbs that you really enjoy and write them down. Maybe write us a nice message on Instagram using some of the phrasal verbs.

You can look us up on Instagram. Oh, look us up on Instagram. Yeah, and sign up for more stuff from us. More stuff. More stuff, yeah. That's the technical term. Shall we wrap up now? Yes, let's do that.

Bye.