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  • Hi, there. My name is Emma, and in today's video, I am going to teach you

  • some phrasal verbs about getting dressed and putting on clothes. Okay? So it's about clothes.

  • What's a phrasal verb? A phrasal verb is when you have a verb and you have a preposition.

  • So it's a verb plus preposition is a phrasal verb. Students usually hate phrasal verbs.

  • There's so many of them in English and they're very difficult to remember.

  • So, in this video, I'm going to teach you maybe 12 or 13 phrasal verbs

  • that will really help you to improve your English.

  • So let's get started. The first verb I want to teach you is: "dress up". Okay.

  • "Dress up". What does it mean "to dress up"? When you dress up, maybe you have a hot, hot date.

  • Maybe there's the boy or the girl of your dreams and you want to look good -

  • you will dress up, meaning you will wear something that looks extra good.

  • So, for example, right now, I'm wearing this sweater, not dressed up. If I wanted to dress up, oh, look here,

  • maybe I would put on this nice dress. Okay? So dress up. Here's my sentence:

  • "I have a date. I have a date. I should dress up tonight." Okay.

  • "Zip up". So again: "dress up", "zip up". What does "zip up" mean? Well, I'll show you.

  • Did you see that? "Zipping up" means you have a zipper and you pull it up.

  • "Zip up! It's cold!" Mothers love to say this to their children:

  • "Zip up your jacket so you won't be cold."

  • Very similar to zip up, is: "button up". When you "button up" something, you don't zip up, you have buttons.

  • So let me show you. So I will take off my sweater and I will put on a new jacket with buttons.

  • Okay, so if I button up my jacket... Maybe... Where is the button?

  • Okay, here we go. Just like this. Okay? So I buttoned up my jacket. Okay, good.

  • "I should button up my jacket."

  • The next expression I want to teach you: "do up". So all of these: "up", "up", "up", "up".

  • If you "do something up", it means you either button it up or you zip up.

  • "Do up" means the same thing as "zip up" and "button up". "I must do up my jacket."

  • Means: I should button up my jacket, do up your jacket. Okay? It's all the same.

  • "Have on". "What do you have on right now?"

  • It means the same thing as: "wearing". What are you wearing? What do you have on?

  • Pay special attention, the preposition is: "on". Okay? So tell me, what does Emma have on right now?

  • Emma has a hat on. Well, it's not exactly a hat; it's a shower cap. I like to take baths,

  • so this is for the shower.

  • "Put on". "I put on my hat."

  • Okay? When you put something on, it's just putting on. "I put on my hat."

  • What's the opposite of: "put on"? Oh, I don't have it here. Well, you will see it in a moment.

  • But I put on - "take off". I took off my hat.

  • Next expression: "throw on". "I threw on my hat."

  • Can you guess what this means? If I "throw it on", it means I do it quickly. Okay?

  • "I threw on my hat and I ran out the door.", "I threw on my hat and I went to school.",

  • "I threw on my jacket and I went to school." So it means you put on clothes very quickly.

  • I'm going to take off my hat. I think it's a little too colourful.

  • "Try on". What does it mean "to try something on"? If you ever go to a store and you see:

  • "Oh, look at that dress. It's the most beautiful dress." I'm going to try it on, meaning

  • I'm going to put it on at the store to see if I like it. So "try on" is for shopping.

  • You usually go to a small room, a fitting room, and you see if you like the outfit by putting it on.

  • So it's about stores. "At the store, I tried on a shirt.",

  • "At the store, I tried on the shoes, I tried on the hat." So this is the expression: "try on".

  • Again: "on", "on", "on", "on". And the first four were: "up", "up", "up", "up".

  • It's very important that you use the correct prepositions. If I say: "Do down", or: "do in", or: "do off"

  • these maybe don't make any sense or they have different meanings.

  • So the preposition is what makes the meaning. So let me teach you some more expressions about getting dressed.

  • Okay, so I already explained: "take off", but I wanted you to see how it's spelt. "Take off"

  • I took off my hat, now I have no hat. "I took off my jacket."

  • Means to take off your jacket. Okay, so it's the opposite of: "put on". I put on my hat

  • and I took off my hat.

  • Another really good phrasal verb to learn is: "kick off". Sometimes when you go home,

  • your feet hurt, you've been wearing your shoes all day, you take off your shoes,

  • you can also say: "you kicked off your shoes." So, in... It's specific to shoes. You don't kick off your shirt,

  • you don't kick off your sweater. You "kick off" your shoes, meaning: you take off your shoes.

  • "She kicked off her shoes when she went home."

  • "She kicked off her high heels." You know high heels, they're those uncomfortable, tall shoes?

  • "She kicked off her shoes."

  • "Wear in". So you know the verb: "to wear". When you "wear something in", it means

  • you have something that's new and it's sort of uncomfortable. Sometimes when we buy new shoes,

  • they're kind of tight, they're a little bit uncomfortable. The more we wear them, the more comfortable they become.

  • So when we talk about wearing in something, it means we take something new,

  • wear it a lot until it becomes comfortable. So, for example:

  • "My feet hurt"-because I'm wearing new shoes-"I need to wear my shoes in."

  • Meaning: I need to put on my shoes many times, walk in these shoes until they become comfortable.

  • "Hang up", okay? Just like hanging up the phone. Click. We have this expression for getting dressed.

  • "Hang up", what does it mean? Well, let's see if you can guess by my example:

  • "Don't leave your clothes on the floor. Hang them up."

  • So "hanging up" means when you put your clothes either in a closet, when you take them off the floor

  • and you put them high up, usually in a closet so they don't wrinkle,

  • so your clothes stay and look nice. So that's: "hang up". When you put your clothes in the closet,

  • you hang them up. And again, look carefully at the prepositions. "Up", "in", "off", "off".

  • It's very important to remember the prepositions because otherwise, it changes the meaning.

  • So I hope you come visit our website at: www.engvid.com. You can do a quiz there where you can practice

  • these phrasal verbs. With phrasal verbs, it's very, very important to practice so you start

  • to really think every time you see: "hang up", you know what it means. Okay? Phrasal verbs you need to practice a lot.

  • So visit our website to practice these verbs. Until next time, take care.

Hi, there. My name is Emma, and in today's video, I am going to teach you

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