Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 282

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• 00:09

  Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome back to my podcast where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the english language so it can help you with grammar or phrasal verbs, expressions, idiomatic phrases, all aspects that will improve the conversation that you can have from a business perspective, or indeed just personal, individual conversations with your friends, colleagues, family.

• 00:32

  So we do this in many, many different ways.

• 00:34

  And of course, we also focus on pronunciation because that's a very important part of improving the quality of your English and how people receive you.

• 00:43

  Okay, so people don't like me to talk too much in the introduction, so I can spend more time making some explanations.

• 00:49

  So I'll give you my contact details at the end of the podcast.

• 00:52

  So let's get straight to it.

• 00:54

  So what are we going to cover in this podcast?

• 00:56

  Well, we're going to talk about play.

• 00:59

  So now, play can be a verb to play, and that's what we're going to focus on.

• 01:04

  But of course, it can also be a noun, like a play, as it would be in the theatre.

• 01:10

  But as I said, we're going to focus on phrasal verbs using play.

• 01:14

  And as you all know and should know by now, phrasal verbs are made up of a verb, in this case, play, and then a preposition.

• 01:22

  So we're going to have the fixed verb here, play all of the time.

• 01:27

  And then we'll use different prepositions and I'll explain them with examples.

• 01:32

  Okay, so let me give them to you.

• 01:34

  Play against, play along, play around, play back, play at, play on, play up or play down, play with.

• 01:55

  Okay, so I'll give you some examples.

• 01:58

  A play is quite an easy word to play.

• 02:00

  We can play a game, a game of football.

• 02:03

  We can play a board game.

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