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Hi again. Welcome back to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. Today's lesson is phrasal verbs.
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Okay? We have phrasal verbs with the verb: "turn". Again, remember: just like vocabulary,
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remember them, practice them, use them over and over again, you will remember them very
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well. And again, remember: phrasal verbs: usually or almost always more than one meaning.
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Okay? So keep that in mind. Let's start with: "turn on". So, of course,
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all of you have some sort of electronic equipment at home; you have appliances, you have stereos,
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you have lights. You want to "turn on" lights and then you want to "turn off", dark. Okay?
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So that's the easy one. "Turn on": put power to, as it were. Slang: to "turn on" means
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to get someone excited. Okay? Or to create an interest in. So, if a woman is wearing
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like a nice summer dress with like really thin straps, and like very loose, it's a turn-on
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for a lot of guys. Here, I'm using it as a noun, a "turn-on". That woman knows how to
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turn on men. Men can turn on women in other ways, hopefully not with a summer dress at
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the same time. Okay? It's slang. Be careful with it. Something turns you on, it gets you
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excited. But you can also turn on... a teacher, hopefully, will turn his students on to the
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subject that he's teaching or she's teaching. If you want your student to study history,
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you have to turn them on to it; make them interested, make them excited about it.
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"Turn off", again, the opposite. "Turnoff", notice here: hyphen, here: no hyphen for the
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nouns. But to "turn off" means to make someone lose interest or to disgust someone, to make
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someone go: "Ulgh, no I don't want any of that." Lose all interest, lose all excitement,
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not be able to do anything. It's a turnoff, so something turns you off, like a bad smell
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will turn you off in pretty much any situation. Okay, "turn up". Now, if you have a stereo,
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you want to "turn up" the volume, make it louder. Okay? The opposite will be "turn down".
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I didn't write it here, but "turn down": lower, "turn up": raise the volume. But "turn up"
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can also mean to discover. Okay? So, I was reading through the book, I was doing some
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research and an interesting piece of information turned up, something I wasn't expecting. Okay?
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But "turn up" also means to appear. I invited a lot of people to my party, but twice as
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many turned up, means appeared, they came. Interesting.
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"Turn over": again the physical, you turn something over like if you're cooking a steak;
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cook it on one side for two minutes, turn it over, cook the other side for a couple
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of minutes, so flip. But "turnover" in terms of like business, if you have a restaurant,
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you want to turn over your tables as many times as you can, means you want to rotate
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their use. So somebody comes in, they eat, you clean... They leave, you clean up, you
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get the next person. So this table has a good turnover. Okay? You can use it more than one
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time; it's like rotating the cycle of its use. Then we talk about "turnover". A good
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restaurant must have a high "turnover". If it doesn't, then it must have very expensive
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menu prices or menu items or it will go out of business. McDonald's, for example, has
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huge turnover. That's why they make so much money; always busy.
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"Turn around": sorry to show my back to you, but I turned around and now I turned around
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again to face you. Okay? So that's again, the physical, so the physical turn around.
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But "turn around" can also just mean change. So last week, my boss agreed to give me a
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raise, but this week he turned around and decided not to; he changed his mind. Okay.
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"Turn in": so when your teacher gives you a test, you write the test, at the end of
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the class you have to turn it in; submit. Sometimes we say "hand in", it's the same
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thing. You can also "turn in" a criminal to the police. So you know that this person did
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something bad, you call the police, say: "Yeah, he did it." So you turn him or her in to the
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police. Now, also used in slang - and don't ask me why because I don't know -, "turn in"
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also means go to sleep. Okay? "Oh, I'm tired. I think I'll turn in. Goodnight." Go to sleep,
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turn in. "Turn to": when you're having a hard time
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and you're not sure... You need to speak to somebody, you need to have someone to help
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you, you can always "turn to" your friends or your family. Okay? Means approach them,
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go to them, tell them your problems. It's very important to have people to turn to at
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hard... in hard times. Okay. "Turn out". "Turn out" as a verb, now it could
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mean to push outside, like at nighttime, you... like Fred Flintstone, ever watch those cartoons?
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He turns out the cat. Not as common. But "turn out" can also mean to result. Okay? So, again,
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I did some research and it turns out that my thesis was completely wrong. I have to
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start all over again. Okay, not a good idea, but it happens. So "turn out", result, usually
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accidental result. Now, "turnout", completely different from "turn out". "Turnout" is attendance.
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Okay? So I invited many people to my party and the turnout was great -- means many people
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came. Okay? Now, I did forget to put "turn down". I apologize
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for that. I will put it right now. So "turn down" means to reject. So I asked this girl
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out for a date and she turned me down. Okay? She wasn't interested, maybe I turned her
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off somehow. Who knows? But she turned me down. And I don't have a date, too bad for
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me. Anyway, if you want to practice these some
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more, go to www.engvid.com. You'll find a quiz there that you can practice these. And,
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of course, check out my YouTube channel and subscribe if you like. And I'll see you again
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real soon. Bye.