Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 563

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  Hi there,

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  this is Harry and welcome back to another podcast where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language where we look at vocabulary,

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  spoken English,

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  conversational English to help you improve your prospects for jobs with international companies,

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  whatever the reason, come to us and we certainly can try and help you.

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  And at the end of this podcast,

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  I will give you my contact details for you and for friends or family members that you think might get some benefit from it.

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  So what are we going to talk about today?

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  Well in this particular podcast we're going to take a look at some phrasal verbs and they are phrasal verbs related to behaviour and behaviour is the way we do things or the way we act.

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  So as always I'll go down through them one by one and then I'll go through them individually and I will give you some examples.

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  Okay let's start.

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  So phrasal verbs related to behaviour.

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  Cheer someone up.

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  tire someone out calm down make something up rush into something fit in with look down on stand up

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  for rely on and finally let down okay so let's take them one by one first cheer someone up but when we cheer someone up we make them feel happy okay so usually we make them feel happy

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  because they were probably feeling sad before that or feeling unhappy so to cheer someone up and here we've got the verb and the preposition split and we've got someone in the middle cheer someone up Okay,

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  so how do we cheer someone up?

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  Well, we tell them a funny story, or we tell them they're good,

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  or we tell them they did well, or whatever we do, we get them feeling better about themselves.

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  Okay, so to cheer someone up.

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