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It'll be great, you'll love it. No, you will. I'm going to teach you phrasal verbs, and phrasal
verbs are essential. A lot of people kind of get off track and they start to study idioms. Wow,
idioms are kind of old, in my opinion, and not very useful. But, one thing that is essential
for you to understand and learn in English are these crazy phrasal verbs. What is a phrasal verb,
you ask? You did, I heard you! A phrasal verb has a verb + a preposition. So, prepositions
are things like "up, on, down, around". So, if you have a verb and a preposition together,
magically these are called phrasal verbs. And they're very confusing. A lot of people have
problems with them, because one phrasal verb can have many meanings, but I'm here to make it easy
for you and teach you about something you probably do every day. It's called your morning routine.
I don't know about you, but I have to wake up in the morning. Some of you have to wake up in
the afternoon or at night, depending on your work schedule or if you work. So, the first
thing that happens. Most treacherously and most terribly is, "My alarm goes off". In the past,
I could also say, "My alarm went off", maybe at 7:00. If you wanted to be very specific,
you could say 7:00am. But because most people wake up in the morning, you don't need to say
"am". Most people understand you're waking up in the morning. If you work a night shift or,
I don't know, you're a vampire, you could also say, "Oh, my alarm went off at 7:00pm". That's
cool, but usually we don't need to specify or we don't need to say "am", because most people
understand it's the morning time. And this is also very illogical, crazy in English. An alarm goes
off. But in reality, it goes on. Because it makes a noise. So, in English, we just like to have a
giggle and make it difficult. So, we have to say, "My alarm goes off". It means my alarm sounds or
makes a noise. And then, I turn off the alarm that went off. Don't get it? Don't worry about that.
So, my alarm goes off at 7:00. What do I do next? I wake up. That means I open my eyes and I - Oh
God, why isn't is Saturday? Why do I have to wake up? Why was I born? Then, to actually physically
leave your bed, you're going to say "get up". So, maybe you are good at getting out of bed, but I'm
not. So, my alarm goes off at 7:00, but I actually get up, which means I leave my beautiful, warm,
luscious bed, at 7:30. What are you doing for half an hour, Ronnie? Yes, I am trying to make time
stop so I can sleep longer, but it never works. And then I try to figure out all the problems of
the world and solve some English problems, but yeah. 7:30 comes again and I have to get up.
I take off my PJs. Peanut butter jam? No, PJs are the short form of pajamas or pyjamas. Pajamas are
the clothes you wear at night in your bed. You can wear them in the daytime too, doesn't matter.
They're usually funky, though. This phrasal verb we can replace with just the verb "remove". So,
you can say, "I remove my pajamas" or my PJs, but that sounds very strange. We don't
say that. If you said it, I would understand, but that's not how we speak naturally. We say,
"I take off my pajamas" or my PJs. I actually shower, okay? I - it just
wasn't a phrasal verb, so I couldn't put it in here. But after I take my shower, I need to put
on my clothes. Now, in English, we don't use the verb "wear" when we're actually getting dressed.
Which means, putting on your clothes. In some languages, you guys say, "I wear my clothes",
but we don't use the verb "wear". We say, "I put on my clothes". So, in the morning,
we put on our clothes. I take off my PJ's, I have a shower, and then I put on my clothes.
Because it's illegal to walk around naked. The next thing I do is I put in, or I can also say
I put on my contacts. Now, contacts is actually the short form of contact lenses. We don't need
to bother to say lenses. Everybody knows if you put in or put on your contacts, those are contact
lenses. Maybe you also like to wear makeup, so you can say, "I put on my makeup". You could say
apply my makeup, but again, it's not natural. We always use a phrasal verb "put on". Maybe
you want to wear glasses. Don't, please don't put on contacts and glasses at the same time. You'll
hurt your vision. But you would definitely put on glasses and you would put on jewellery. This
is a difficult word for people. Repeat after me: jewellery. I put in jewellery. As I said before,
rings, earrings, a necklace. All of these things are jewellery, and we put them on, because they're
outside of our body. So, I put on these things. Then, just to help with life, I do the most
essential thing. I turn on the coffee maker. I could say "start the coffee maker",
but because it's a button, I would say I turn on the coffee maker. "Start"
is too formal. You can start your car, but you're going to turn on the coffee maker.
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And I'll see you later. Please don't forget to shower, though. Essential, essential.