IELTS Speaking for Success - 🔎 Testing Rory's knowledge of Phrasal Verbs

Episode Date: April 26, 2023

In this episode we give you 11 really cool phrasal verbs to use in your IELTS exam and your daily life. Tune in and have a great day! - Get exclusive episodes on IELTS Speaking parts 1, 2, and 3: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Book a class with Rory here: https://successwithielts.com/rory Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s08e33 Our IELTS Writing podcast: https://linktr.ee/wfspremium Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2023 Success with IELTS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

But it's gross, it's gross, no, no. Hello, lovely, I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we're the host of the AILT Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. We started this podcast to give you joy, happiness, gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high Ild school. Band-night score.

So, Rory, there's no coincidence. There's no joke. I know, that is quite the coincidence, because we don't need a coincidence with this episode. Oh, it's a special episode. And you're listening, in every episode, we give you the latest I-L-speaking topics, right? But the thing is that French topics will come out

all the first of May. Okay, so we are waiting for the super latest, freshest, IEL-speaking topics, and today is going to be a special episode for you. And with what, Rory? What are we discussing? Oh, is it something beginning with P that I like to advertise? Phapap Fragal verbs.

It begins with a P, but it starts with a fess out. Yes, this week's episode is all about basal verbs. If you would like to hear and would like to learn more about phrasal verbs, you're very welcome to check our full course, where we've created a framework that will help you learn and understand what basal verbs are, how they work, and how you can use them to improve your. fluency, speaking English, all while having fun along the way.

The link is in the description, but it's also in my head. Successwithiles.com forward slash podcourses. So why do you need phrase of verbs, dear listener? Because we've run out of topics. That's why you need though. Phrase of verbs can help you improve your vocabulary, okay? Phrase of verbs are idiomatic, they are cool. They might be difficult to use, but believe me, they are natural. Nature speakers do use phrasal verbs.

So this episode is for you to give you cool phrase of verbs to use in your IOTS exam and also in your English life. So here's what we'll do in this episode. I'm going to test Rory's knowledge of phraser verbs. That's my favorite part of this episode. Testing and I just speak out. And it's a real test because I have no idea what's coming. Yes, you're listening. Rory has no idea what phrase of verbs are in there.

I know what they are, though. And we're going to give you 11 really useful phrase of verbs. All right. So 11 sentences, 11 phrase of verbs in our form of a test. So keep listening till the very end. Okay. So Rory, I'm going to give you a sentence without a phrase of verb. Okay.

And you should think what phrase of verb you can use in this sentence. Okay. Are you ready? Okay. No. Number one. It's the Nissan Black Friday event where you can... Wait, wait.

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Let's imagine that's what. We discussed conditional sentences, your favorite. Oh, God. Hold on. You never said there would be imagining involved. You said there would be a test, so I have to do the test and imagine. That is not fair. Yeah, so context, context on.

We discussed conditional sentences with you, this if I were, and Rory, you were wrong. You made a mistake about this conditional sentence. It was the third conditional, but you said it was the second. That does sound like me. So you need to deal with it more bravely and admit that you were wrong. There's a couple here. So I have to toughen up and admit I was wrong.

Okay, very close. What else? Or I have to man up or I have to harden up. Yeah. Well done, well done. You have to man up. But you will notice all of these have the word up. in them, which is like a symbol of rising to the occasion.

Oh, that was difficult. Yeah, so man up to man up, like behave with courage, behave with conviction, behave bravely. Basically, the opposite of how I'm behaving right now. Could you give us some examples? Where can I use this man up? We could use them in different forms. So, I was terrified of taking the IEL's exam, but I just had to man up and deal with it. Yeah, or if, for example, you see that your friend is weak and your friend is like,

I don't know what to do. You say like, okay, you should man up. Man up, come on, like, man up and do stuff. And Roy told us that this phrasal verb is with up. We grouped the phrase of verbs according to this particle or proposition, up. So we have a lot of groups with different propositions. and the first phrase of up is man up.

The next one, the second one, is going to be with a different preposition. So, Rory, you do too much exercise. You go to the gym, you do too much exercise, you should do less. Well, since the last time we had something with up, this might be with something going down. Is it calm down?

Calm down. Not really, no, try again. something like to spend less or do less of something or use less of something. It's not cut down on exercise, is it? Cut down on, yes. A little bit, any other proposition that I can use. Cut down on exercise or... Cut back on exercise.

Why can't I say cut down on? That's really mean. Yeah, you can. You can. Yeah, yeah, cut down on. So if you want to reduce something, reduce the consumption of something. so I exercise too much or I drink too much coffee, so I need to cut down on coffee. So cut down on would be for physical things, like food and drink, but cut back would be activities like exercise or spending money. The third phrase of verb for you, dear listener, you can also think what phrase of verbs you can use here. So Rory writes I old's essays. And I say, Rory, your essay is massive. It's really big. You should reduce the information, so it has only one page, only the most important parts.

Why do you pick the most obscure phrasal verbs? What could just possibly be? Like, to put something all in one, like, to summarize. Like, we're talking about a word for summarize here, or a phrasal verb meaning summarize. Well, that's cut it down. No, what else can I say? Focus on the main points. Focus on is the phrase of verb, probably. No, boring. No, we need more sophistication.

We're more sophistication. Focus on is actually quite high level, but never mind. And the phrase of a verb also is about something when I make a soup, you know, cooking, a soup, and I, yeah, the soup allowed. Blomble, blah, that's a, ugh. What are you talking about? The water. boil, oh right, okay, you need to boil it down to the main features then. Yeah.

Well done. That was not clear at all. You should say you need to, to the main features or to the main points. So you should reduce the information in the essay. So the essay has only the most important parts, and we can say that you should boil it down to one page. This one is about our YouTube channel.

And you know that we started our YouTube channel, which now has, what, thousands of loyal followers. And at first, I refused to record all these videos for our YouTube channel. But then I agreed. Rory frightened me. I was scared, and then I agreed. Oh, were you frightened into doing it? Or scared into doing it?

In is correct, but what's another verb I can use? I don't know, coerced into doing it. It starts with C, yes. Oh, you caved into it. Yay! Bravo! Woohoo! I would like to point out that all of the other suggestions I made were also adequate. So being coerced into something is the same thing.

It's like someone talks you into doing it. Yeah, coerced in. Inter. Yeah or in. I'm coerced into something. Into something. So to cave in, what does it mean to cave in? Well, to cave in or to cave in to someone's demands just means that you...

Oh, that you give in! It's another brazil verb. It means that you accept it after pressure is applied. Rumi, could you give us an example? Where may be a situation when you caved in? I have caved into your demands to do this ridiculous phrasal verbs episode. There we go. Are you still annoyed about boil down?

No. I'm annoyed about the whole thing. Okay, here's another one. Dear listener, are you ready? Our Rory enjoys talking about science. So I listened to Rory's explanations about the planet, stars, the freaking nebula, and then I fell asleep while we were recording. So you didn't really fall asleep, you were just being rude.

So I would say that you switched off, but really, what you probably meant was by falling asleep you nodded off during the conversation. Yay! Well done. Super. Yes, nod off. Nod off means to fall asleep,

but to fall asleep not in your room, not in your bed, but maybe at work or in a cafe, at the cinema, the theatre, when you're listening to the opera, when you listen to Rory's voice, or my voice, sometimes you can nod off.

For example, like, after my busy day, I sat down and nodded off in front of the TV. You know, dear listener, and also Rory, you might remember, that I've been to Malaysia. I started enjoying squash when I was in Malaysia. Squash is not a vegetable, it's a kind of sport. It's not like tennis now, dear listener. It's a different kind of game. So squash. If you don't know what squash is, check it out now, squash.

So I started enjoying squash when I was in Malaysia. I wanted to play squash as much as possible. So I got some squash. Oh, is it hooked on? Yay, bravo. Hey, nail on the head. I got hooked on squash. Or I got hooked on playing.

Squash. Rory tell us the meaning. It's like you developed a very strong interest in squash or in playing it. So it's to develop a strong interest in something. Yes. For example, if you enjoy our podcast and you listen to it all the time, so I got hooked on listening to IOTS Speaking for Success podcast. So Rory, I'm reading your IOTS essay. Oh, God.

So Rory has written some essays. And Rorya, I'm reading your essay and I can't understand what you mean. Oh, I can't make out what you're trying to say. Yay! Nail of the hand! Make out to understand the meaning of something and when it's difficult to understand something or someone. So I can't make out what is going on at work. I can't make out what's going on.

I can't understand what's going on. Or, for example, like, the numbers are too small. I can't make them out. Or I can't make it out. Can I say, I can't make out your writing? No, it's more like an idea or something that you can see. Because you can see the writing. So it would be like, I can't make out what you're trying to say from your writing.

I can't make it out. I can't understand it. What about people? If I don't understand a certain person, so this person is a bit strange and I can't understand them so what do you say

I can't make her out no no I can't make out what you were saying because you have to be very careful when you're talking about people because make out is also a phrasal verb meaning to kiss someone romantically yeah yes we made out do not well no do that

as long as you have consent but probably not a great idea to talk about in terms of you know when you're talking about your i out six-up i think the examiner would probably get distracted Rory you seem to be a responsible person so you make an impression of being a responsible person you're m m mhm a responsible person come across as yes come across or come come over

yay come over i never would have guessed that i would always say come I think come across is more common. Yeah, but also come over, dear listener, if you want to be super cool and full of awesome and to be different from other people. Yeah, so he comes across as smart or he comes across as a responsible person. I don't like being told what to do. I don't like being ordered what to do. I don't like being bossed around. Yay, well done. Yes. That's my educated native speaker. Yeah, so boss around. So when another person bosses you around,

this person acts in a bossy manner with you. So if I boss Rory around, I act in a bossy manner. I order Rory what to do. I tell him what to do as if I was his boss. But you have never done. Hmm, okay, good to know. You haven't noticed.

One of my favorite phrase of verbs. First of all, the sentence. Rory, I wish you'd stop spending your time doing a lot of things that are not important instead of the thing that you should be doing. So stop all this nonsense, all this silly little things and do something useful. So stop. Fapping around? Yeah.

Or plastering around. Yeah. fath around or fath about. It's a UK phrase of verb, so it's used in the UK and it's really informal. So fath about. Spend your time doing a lot of things that are not important instead of doing something useful. So for example, you can say, I was faffing about all day. I was fafing around all day.

So kind of like being disorganized and not achieving very much, Roy, could you give us an example? I couldn't because I'm varied, organized and everything I do is important. What about other people? That's their problem, not mine. I'm not faffing around giving an answer to this question. Here we go. Or giving an example to this question.

It was annoying to watch them faffing about. Or I wish you'd stop faffing about and do something useful. Right. And the last phrase, pop for today. My God. So I do IOT tests sometimes, just, you know, like to keep me in the game. And yesterday I completed the test easily and successfully.

So I, mm-hmm, hmm, the test. Was it difficult to do? No, no, it was easy. Oh, you breached through the test. Yes. Well done. Yes, yes, yes. Because if it was difficult, then you would have to get through the test.

Yeah, I got through the test. test, it was difficult. But if you say I breezed, breeze, like a... Like a wind. I breezed through the test. It was easy for me. I did it successfully and it's like, bha, no problem. Rory, give us examples. Please. Well, I didn't exactly breeze through all these phrasal verbs, did I? Some were difficult, but other phrasal verbs were easy. If you want to learn more about phrasal verbs and how they're used, you should definitely

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So we'll see you in our next episodes. Bye.