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Welcome to the A to Z English podcast.
My name is Jack, and I'm here with my co host, Sochil.
And today we are going to talk about two phrasal verbs.
Take on and take off.
So, Sochil, how would you define the phrasal verb take on?
To take something on.
If you're taking on something you're acquiring, a lot of times it's used in the form of acquiring an obligation.
Like if you're at a job and your boss asks you to help with a project and you say yes, then you're taking on that project.
So you're like onboarding this obligation or job.
You're onboarding this job to your responsibilities, right?
I would say considering my schedule last semester, I had ten classes, and I think I took on too many classes.
It was a very heavy workload.
So, yeah.
So to take something on is to take responsibility for some job or some project or something.
What about take off?
Takeoff has multiple meanings.
Yeah.