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You probably know by now I like to make lists in my daily life lists, which will benefit you.

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So what I do is when I'm talking to natives or watching the TV or listening to the radio or whatever.

If I hear a useful phrase, all verbs, something which is maybe a little bit abstract, a bit different, something you wouldn't learn in school.

But I know that natives use a lot in our daily lives.

Then I'll write them down on.

I'll share them with you in a video, and that's what I'm doing today.

Now, today, these air ALS things I've heard in the past few weeks on they are mostly including the word up Fraser verbs with the word up.

But also I have to really useful words slash a phrase which you can use, which I'll do at the end of the video.

So stay tuned for that now, As you know, usually I'm teaching pronunciation.

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But if you're just here for some casual learning on, you want to learn Cem Fraser verbs on some expressions, Then let's get started on.

We're going to start with something my sister said to me not long ago.

Now this was about her son, my nephew.

He's young on.

He was crying.

He was very upset and annoyed because he wanted something which she couldn't give him.

He just wanted something he was.

He was very annoyed.

And you know what kids are like.

When they want something, they will cry.

They will scream.

They will shout on my sister said to me, Elliot, he's playing up again or he's been playing up all morning.

To play up simply means to be making a fuss, to make a fuss, to be angry, to cry, to scream, to shout, to argue just to cause a big fuss over something which you're annoyed about or upset about so to play up really useful, very common phrase, a verb.

You don't have to just say it about kids.

You can say it about adults, too.

Maybe an adult might play up because they are fed up off, something fed up, fed up.

Now, before we continue on and explain what fed up means, I want you to listen to how I say it fared up.

Now I'm not leaving a gap between those two words.

They're almost becoming one word fed up the reason why on the same goes for play up before a swell most Fraser verbs the first word will end with the continent on the next word tends to usually begin with a vowel.

So this means that we can connect our speech.

This is called linking.

We borrow the last continent.

From the end of the first word on, we bring it on over to the beginning of the next word fed up, fed up.

So it becomes one nice word, really.

A group of sounds fed up, but what does it mean to be fed up of something?

It means you've had enough.

Maybe something has really been annoying you or just something has happened and it's really just made you fed up.

You've had enough.

You don't want any more.

You're down.

Your sad on your just fed up.

So, for example, I heard this from one of my students the other day.

He was practicing a sound with me, and he's really, really struggling.

He's from China on.

He's really, really struggling with learning the er sounds and we've been talking on wechat.

Now when you join my course, you can talk to me on WhatsApp or Wechat if you're in China.

Andi.

He was sending me voice messages, practicing with the lessons in the course, and he kept saying that this particular sound wrong on at the end.

He just said, Elliott, I'm fed up.

I'm fed up.

I've had enough of this sound on Do This simply means I'm sick of the sound.

I don't want it anymore.

I don't want to deal with it anymore.

It's just annoying me now.

Now, Luckily, I convinced him to keep trying, and now he's actually pronouncing it very, very well.

But I was very impressed that he used fed up, and I said, How did you know that phrase?

He said Well, I watch lots of British TV, and I heard this phrase, this phrase all verb and I really like it.

How about dress up?

Dress up?

So lots of people think dress up means just to put clothes on, But actually the natives, it's slightly different.

If there's an event, let's say a party I've been invited to.

I will want to know if I need to dress up for the party so I might ask someone, Do I need to dress up for this party on?

That simply means Do I need to wear something formal?

Maybe a shirt and a tie and a jacket for ladies, maybe a dress and some heels.

That's what dressing up is.

It means to wear something more formal rather than casual attire.

So that's what we might ask someone.

Do I need to dress up?

Or, for example, we had a great wedding last week.

Everybody was dressed up.

Everybody looks fantastic, you know.

So dress up, but also you can dress up in a costume.

Let's say you're going to a Halloween party that could be a dress up event where everybody has to dress as ghosts, zombies, vampires to dress up in a costume is also a way of using that phrase a verb.

So tell me, do you enjoy dressing up for smart occasions wearing a nice suit tie or dress?

Or did you more of a person who likes to dress down to wear things that you're a little less form?

Let me know in the comments below.

Do you prefer to dress up or dress down for an occasion?

Next is makeup.

Now I'm not talking about the makeup you put on your face to make your features look accentuated and beautiful.

I'm talking about making up a story that's the first one to make up a story.

If you make up a story, it means that you're creating something which isn't true.

It's not really so, for example, telling lies he was making it all up.

That means he was pretending it.

None of it was really.

He created this story so you could say it in an argument.

Say to someone, Stop making things up.

That's not true.

On it means to create things which are not true to say things which are not true.

OK on you could make up a story, create a story of things which are not true.

But also, you can make up with someone after an argument.

So it's similar to break up.

If you break up with someone, that's when you are in a relationship with someone.

You are together, your your partner's on.

Then you break up.

Meaning you stop being lovers.

Okay, But let's say you've broken up.

But now you've decided, actually, after some time apart, you now want to make up.

That means to get back together.

But it could also mean to become friends again after an argument or to say you're sorry.

Make up, okay.

To say things to each other, to make it better to make up.

Okay.

So you could make up a story.

You could break up with someone and you could make up with, um now one other word, which I thought was really useful.

I heard this on the news the other day on this Was someone saying that they were gobsmacked.

I was gobsmacked when I found out the news.

Gobsmacked.

Okay, so, firstly, gob, this is actually a word.

This is a slang word for mouth.

Your gob.

Okay, so I'm talking right now.

and noises are coming out of my God Smack.

What does it mean to smack?

That's a smack.

So God, smack is a bit like when we're shocked or can't believe something.

So to be gobsmacked means to be shocked.

Surprised?

You can't believe something.

Okay, I'm gobsmacked.

I can't believe it.

And finally, this one's very, very hard to explain.

So please bear with me on this is when somebody says he turned around and said, You've probably heard this before somewhere and had no idea what people are saying.

But let's say I'm explaining to my friend about the conversation I had with a stranger on the street.

Andi, uh, this stranger was just casually talking to me.

Andi Then he you know, we were talking about politics about Brexit, you know, British stuff.

We were just having a nice chat on.

Then he turned around to me and he said, Are you e t j English?

He turned around to me and he said, This is something we use when we want to kind of suddenly change what we're talking about.

So we'll be building up the story, building up the conversation which were having on then we want to say to our listener on, You know, after all of this conversation, he turned around and said, And usually it will be something shocking, which they said, or something weird or something very, very complicated or something very different to what we were originally talking about.

Usually it's something with some kind of impactful result.

When somebody turns around and says, I know my explanation isn't the best is probably one of the hardest expressions to actually explain.

It's just something we do.

We just say he turned around and said on That's it.

Those are my You know, it's only a few Fraser verbs and a few expressions, but it's amazing how much detail you could go into, and we haven't even started on the pronunciation yet.

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