Shadowing Practice: Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs - English Speaking Practice - Learn English Speaking with Video

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We got phrasal verbs. We're going to do some  vocabulary speaking practice. Let's jump right into it. When you recover from or overcome  something, you get over it. Get over it.
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Recover from it. Overcome it. Get over it. Did you  get over your cold last week? Yeah, I got over it.
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No, I'm still getting over it. Let's take a look  at an example sentence. Drinking a lot of water helps in getting over an illness. Drinking a lot  of water helps in getting over an illness. Say it.
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When you complete or endure an experience,  you get through it. Get through it. Did you get through the marathon? Yes. I got through it.  I completed it. I endured it. I got through it.
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Alisandra can't get through a morning without  coffee. Alisandra, you can't get through a morning without drinking coffee. Got to have your  coffee, huh? I know lots of people are like that.
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Alisandra's one of those people. She can't get  through a morning without coffee. How about you?
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All right. When someone or something  annoys or bothers you, they get to you.
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Do they get to you? Yeah, they get to  me. Or it can be it like it gets to me.
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Like he's always he's always telling  me what to do and it gets to me.
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It annoys me. It bothers me. People who don't  clean up after their dogs really get to me.
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People who don't clean up after their dogs.  I guess they're talking about poo poo.
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They don't clean up their dogs  poop. That really gets to me.
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When you gather socially, you get  together. Get together. Gather socially.
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The volleyball team is getting together  for dinner after practice. Say it.
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Simple enough. Let's get together. When you  donate something or give something for free, you give it away. Give it away. Give  something away. Give away something.
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You can break up phrasal verbs, huh? and say  give away my basketball to my friend or give away give my basketball away. You can put words  in the middle of some of them you can break into separate them and some of them  you can't difficult I know.
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Let's let's take a look here. Mindy  gave away her prized doll collection.
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So if we if we separated that, how would we say  it? Mindy gave her prized doll collection away.
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Mindy gave her prized doll collection away.
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Okay. When you accept defeat, quit or  surrender, you give up. Don't give up.
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Did you give up? Don't give up. Don't accept  defeat. When you accept defeat, I think I think the first time I read that when you  accept defeat, that's that's one word. That's one concept. Accept defeat. When you accept  defeat, quit or surrender, you give up.
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Karen, spelled with a C, that's unusual. felt  like giving up every time she saw the scoreboard.
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Her team was not doing well. Or maybe  she's playing and she's just looking at the scoreboard and she feels like giving up.
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When you stop consuming or doing  something, you stop doing. Stop doing often a habit. When you stop doing a  habit, you give it up. You give it up.
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Mitch gave up chocolate because of his  migraines. Oh, yeah. I've heard some people get migraine headaches when they eat chocolate.  That would be a curse. Because I love chocolate.
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Mitch gave up chocolate because  of his migraines. Say it.
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How about let's try and separate that one. Mitch gave chocolate up. Mitch gave  chocolate up because of his migraines.
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All right, moving on. When you disobey,  contradict, oppose, or fight something, you go against it. What's the past of  go? Went. He went against something.
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What do you go against? I went against  it. I I went against my father's uh suggestion. I I'm trying to add  lib make up sentences on on the fly.
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A group of students went against the student  dress code yesterday and wore ripped jeans.
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You cannot wear ripped jeans at this school.  They went against the school dress code.
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Okay, next one. When you agree with or  pretend to agree with pretend to agree with, you don't really agree with it, but you pretend  you do. Then you go along with it. You go along with Just go along with it. Just pretend  that you are okay with it. Go along with it.
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Did you go along with it? Yeah, I went along  with it. Even though Cedric hated weightlifting, he decided to go along with it  because his coach suggested it.
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Cedric, you got to lift weights. Okay.  Okay, coach. I'll go along with it.
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Next. When you try to achieve something,  you go for it. It's a simple one.
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Carlos trains so hard because he is going  for an Olympic gold medal. Going for gold.
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When something continues, it goes on.
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The workers will go on digging  until they hit a water pipe.
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They go on and on and on. When you review  or look at something, you go over it.
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Marie wants to go over the study guide one last  time before the test. What does Marie want to do?
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That's right. She wants to go over the study  guide one last time before the test because she wants to make sure she is ready for the test.  So, she's going to go over it one last time.
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When you submit something, especially  an assignment, you hand it in.
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Hand it in. Hand the assignment in. Hand  the homework in. Hand the project in.
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Our teacher wants us to  hand in our essays by email.
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That's kind of interesting if you think about it  because handing in is your actual hand. You hand in, but email, you're sending it by email.  So, you could say, "Our teacher wants us to send in our essays by email." That would probably  be more accurate. But everyone says, "Hand in." Interesting.
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When you prevent someone from doing  something, prevent from doing, you hold them back. You hold them back. Don't hold  back someone from doing something if they really want to do it. If that's their dream, but if it's  a bad thing, you might want to hold them back.
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If if they're drinking too much alcohol,  you might want to hold them back.
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I wanted to become an architect, but my  dad, not my dad, my bad grades held me back.
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My bad grades held me back.
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Blame it on your grades. It was  you. You got the bad grades.
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You act like your grades were holding you back.  Wasn't you holding yourself back? Come on now.
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All right. When you consider something, you  think it over. Think it over. Consider it.
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Will you will you please consider  it? Will you please think it over?
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When his parents suggested selling his  Pokemon cards, Ysef thought the idea over.
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No, I don't think so. I'm  not selling my Pokemon cards.
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When his parents suggested selling his cards  that he had collected since he was a child, Yseph thought the idea over and  he quickly decided not to sell.
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When you dispose of something, you throw it away.
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Could you throw that old burrito away?
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It's getting stale and it's starting  to stink. Throw that old burrito away.
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When you take some benefit, take benefit from  a situation, you get something out of it.
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Did you get something out of this lesson?  Did you get something out of this lesson?
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Did you take benefit from it? I hope  you got something out of this lesson.
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Babysitting their kids was a nightmare,  but at least I got some money out of it.
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Babys watching their watching their children,  babysitting their kids is watching someone else's children was a nightmare. That means  it was an unpleasant ordeal. But at least I got some money out of it. Yeah, I got paid. I  got some money out of it. Out of the situation.
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All right, that's it. Boom. Good workout.  Keep moving forward one step at a time.
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Thank you for practicing with me. Again, let's  uh jump on to the next lesson. I think we got some uh shadowing practice, some listening  and repeating. Let's do it. See you there.

About This Lesson

You're practicing English with "Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs - English Speaking Practice" using the Shadowing technique — a method originally developed for professional interpreter training.

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