Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 453

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  Hi there.

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  This is Harry.

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  Welcome back to advanced English lessons with Harry, where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the english language, to help you with your conversational skills, your business English skills, interview skills, whatever your goals are, we're here to help.

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  And for those of you and your friends or family who want one to one lessons, well, you know what to do.

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  Just get in touch www.englishlessonviaskype.com and you can apply for a free trial lesson.

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  And we'd be very happy to hear from you and very happy to help you.

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  And in this advanced English lesson, we're going to look at phrasal verbs in particular.

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  We've got 15 advanced phrasal verbs which would be better for your day to day communication.

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  And indeed, if you are taking ielts or cae exams, then these phrasal verbs are really some of those that you would use when you're communicating with the inspector or the examiner, whoever it is.

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  And it'll make you sound really, really much, much better and you have a much better chance of scoring high in the speaking part.

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  Okay, so let's get back to our lesson, our advanced English lesson, dealing with phrasal verbs that will help you to communicate in a better way.

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  Number one, to bring up, now, this has a couple of meanings, but if we're talking about communication and conversation, bring up specifically means to raise an important point or any issue at a particular meeting.

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  So if you're sitting around the table with your colleagues or your managers, whoever it happens to be, you might say, there's something I would like to bring up today.

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  So I'd like to bring up the issue about staff appraisals, or I'd like to bring up the issue about the last report or whatever it happens to be.

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  So to bring up means to raise or introduce a topic, a point, something for discussion.

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  Okay, so now we can, outside of that, this is about business meetings, bring up.

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  But we can also bring up a child or bring up our children.

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  So that's another use of the phrasal verb bring up.

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  He brought up his children after his wife died, or she brought up the children as a single parent.

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  So you can use it in that sense means to literally grow your children.

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