Name: PHRASAL VERBS for the weekend! | A Saturday in London!!! | Daily British English
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Here's another video for you about phrasal verbs.

Now I've never made a video about phrasal verbs properly before.

When you learn English at school, you probably don't realise that the spoken English language is very, very different to what you learn in your lessons at school.

And grammar is not so important when you're trying to communicate and you realise how many of these phrasal verbs we actually use.

It's been a slow kind of journey of them taking over.

You see, there's a phrasal verb, "taking over."

It's been a slow process of them sort of coming into the language.

Very often, phrasal verbs just make everything easier.

They require less words to make the same point.

I don't even want to think about how difficult it would be to say "wake up" if I didn't use the phrasal verb wake up.

But there was a time where we would have said arose or became awake or started the day.

So I use hundreds of these things a day and I use them without even noticing.

And so when my students don't use them and they use a formal word instead,

it really grates on me because I suddenly realise how informal and how kind of friendly and warm the language has become with these phrasal verbs.

So instead of learning great big long lists of phrasal verbs, I think it's much more effective to learn them by context.

And today, I'm going to show you all of the phrasal verbs that you will need or that will come in handy for a typical day on the weekend.

If you're an early bird, you might just spring out of bed but if not, you might fancy having a lie in.

Now to lie in is to sleep or lie in bed longer than usual.

I love lying in particularly on Sundays. That is my special day of rest, right?

It is a day of rest Sunday so everyone should lie in.

So when you eventually get up, you start to get ready for the day.

You pick out your favourite outfit for the day, put it on and then you put on other things like makeup, sun cream, perfume, jewellery,

hair clips, hairspray, a hat, sunglasses and some shoes.

Then after a quick breakfast, or if you're anything like me you'll skip breakfast and just have coffee instead, you'll head out into the summer sunshine.

You head down the road towards the bus stop and you get on a bus.

You sit down on the top floor because it's a double-decker bus --my favourite kind of bus -- and you put on your headphones and turn up your favourite music.

You look out the window and take in the sights as the bus drives through London and you just chill out for a bit.

You get off the bus and you make your way towards your favourite cafe.

And when they ask you if your coffee is to have in or to have out or take away, you say, "Take away, please."

And then you make your way slowly to the park.

You sit down on a rug in the park and spend a good couple of hours there.

You whip out the novel that you're currently reading and you just sip your coffee and kick back.

The sun comes out properly, so you lie down and sunbathe for a little bit.

Everything is just truly wonderful in that moment.

And now it's time for you to go and meet your friend.

You meet up with an old friend that you haven't seen in ages, and you have lunch in an amazing new cafe that has just opened up in East London.

You've been meaning to try this cafe out for a while so you're really, really excited to try what they have.

You sit down and you really catch up with your friend.

You order, of course, smashed avocado on toast.

I joke about it but it's the most delicious thing ever.

You hang out with this friend for at least an hour and a half to two hours.

People in London are so busy so you literally have to plan months in advance if you want to see a friend these days.

You say goodbye to your friend and then after lunch, you wander around the shops for a bit and you're just quietly browsing the clothes in H&M when suddenly you bump into an old colleague from work.

This happens so often in London I don't even know how.

It's such a big city yet I always bump into someone I know when I go into H&M.

And you catch up briefly, have a bit of small talk and then you go on your way.

You decide to head home but then you come across a really cool Japanese supermarket.

That's the great thing about London. You're just walking along and you can just suddenly come across or find an amazing shop that you were not expecting to find.

There's just so many hidden gems in London.

You decide to pick up some things from the Japanese shop for dinner because you're eating in that night so you may as well have something interesting.

You realise your phone battery is running out but that's okay. You can just buy a magazine to flip through on the bus.

A much better use of time than scrolling through Instagram I think.

You get home and you decide to put your feet up because you've done a lot of walking that day.

You put on a vinyl, a jazz music vinyl, and you just chill out for a second, and then you pour yourself a glass of white wine.

You turn down the lights just to create a bit of atmosphere, some ambience.

After dinner, you decide to turn in and get an early night.

It has been a lovely, calm, relaxing day.

You do some yoga before bed to properly relax and then read a bit more of your novel and then you turn the lights off, and it's goodnight to the world.

So that was literally my day about three weeks ago and I don't go to London very often anymore because I don't live there and so when I do go, I have such a great time and I just love it.

Okay, let me give you some tips for how to pronounce phrasal verbs.

The most important thing to tell you is about blending.

So, what we do is we blend the verb and the preposition together, and that again, you guessed it, is to make it easier to say.

We just want everything smooth easy to say.

Anyway, this is really easy when the verb ends with a consonant and the preposition starts with a vowel which is obviously very, very often.

For the phrasal verbs with turn, we've got turnoff, turnoff. It becomes one word.

Don't say turn off, turn off. It's not as natural.

We want this to sound really natural because if you're going to use phrasal verbs, you may as well sound natural because that's the whole point of using them.

Similarly, in turnin, we've got turnin. It becomes one word, turnin.

And the phrasal verbs with get, we've got getup, getup, not get up. It's getup.

Sounds like a completely different word, doesn't it, when you think of it like that.

So yes, just remember to blend them together.

So I hope you enjoyed that video. A little bit different to usual.

But as I told you before, I've got loads of ideas, so just be prepared for all these wild videos to come.

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Comment down below if you liked it, let me know, just give me any sort of feedback that you'd like to give. I'm all ears to all of it.