Name: 20 Advanced English Vocabulary Words and Phrasal Verbs
Uploaded: 2020-08-08T07:02:21.000Z
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Vanessa: Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

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Vanessa: Last week I shared a special conversation video with you where my husband Dan and I

Throughout this game, you learn some new vocabulary, but we didn't really explain the vocabulary

So today I'd like to take 20 of those vocabulary words and explain them in detail, give you

some examples and help you to integrate them into your own conversations.

As I was creating this lesson for you, I realized that most of these expressions we used in

the Codenames board game video were phrasal verbs.

I guess phrasal verbs are commonly used, of course in daily conversation, but especially

So I hope that this will help to expand your phrasal verb vocabulary and help you feel

Vanessa: All right, let's get started with the first expression, number one, to pick

There are a lot of different meanings for this phrasal verb, to pick up.

In fact, there are several meanings for all of the expressions that we're going to talk

about today, but I'd like to focus on specifically how it was used in the conversation.

This means to learn something naturally without studying.

This could be in a good way or it could be in a bad way.

So let me give you some sample sentences.

In the conversation lesson I said, "You'll pick it up."

That means that you'll learn naturally without studying.

Dan was trying to explain some of the rules of the board game and I said, "Ah, you'll

That means you'll learn the rules as we're playing without studying them.

You want to be able to pick up new ideas in English, new expressions.

When you're listening to my videos or when you're listening to the radio, you'll probably

Vanessa: This is positive, but we could also use this in a more negative way.

My five year old daughter picked up some bad habits when she visited our neighbor's house.

That means that maybe our neighbors were using some bad words or they were fighting with

Well, these are bad habits, so she picked up the bad habits when she visited the neighbor's

You don't want to naturally learn bad behavior, but you know, it happens.

So what we're going to do with each of these expressions is you're about to see a clip

from the original conversation where we used the expressions.

You're going to see Dan and I having that board game conversation, and I hope that it

will help you to just see how they're used in the original context.

Dan: Give each other a one word hint to guess the right word or the word we're trying to

You might know that stretching is the kind of exercise that you do before you go running.

This expression though, it's a little bit different, but it has a similar idea.

We used this expression a lot in the conversation lesson.

We were specifically talking about connecting words together and sometimes the words didn't

exactly connect so easily, so we said some words are a stretch.

This means that they might not connect so easily.

If you've already watched that lesson, then you know what I'm talking about, but it's

Vanessa: We can also say, I know that it's a stretch, but could you walk my dog for the

This is kind of a lot to ask of somebody.

Two weeks walking your dog, that's a lot of extra work.

You're also assuming that your friend is available, that your friend has time, that your friend

wants to do it, so you're adding the expression, I know that it's a stretch, but could you

So you're already letting them know, I know it's a big deal.

I know that this is a lot to ask you and you're adding that expression, I know that it's a

Vanessa: Or if you have a business meeting and your boss says, "Okay, I need all of the

Well, if there's a lot to do, you might say, "Well, it's going to be a stretch to finish

It's going to be kind of far from reality.

It's not impossible, but it's a little difficult.

It's going to be a stretch to finish the reports by three o'clock.

All right, let's see the original clips that you can see how to use, to be a stretch.

Vanessa: There are three cards here on the table that relate to that word.

Some of them might be closely related, some of them might be a stretch.

Vanessa: The next expression is, to mark off.

This is another phrasal verb and it means you're noting something as completed.

It's the same as to check off something, you are marking it off.

So let's take a look at some sample sentences.

In the conversation I said, "I'm going to mark it off."

That means that I had a list of words and I'm simply going to check that word or cross

As you can see, there are a lot of phrasal verbs that have a similar meaning ... to mark

off something, to check off something, to cross off something.

This means that I'm just noting this word is finished, this word is completed.

Vanessa: You can also say, "I feel satisfied when I mark off items from my to do list."

If you're the kind of person who likes to make lists in the morning of every day, you

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