Material unit 3
2. Travel phrasal verbs
Transcript
Hello.
My name is Emma, and in today's video I'm going to talk about
something I love, and that is travel. So, if you like travelling too, if
you're planning on going on a vacation, or if you know somebody who's
travelling, this video will be very, very helpful to you. In this video
I'm going to teach you some very important verbs. They're all phrasal
verbs, and I'll explain what a phrasal verb is in a moment. So, these
are all verbs that we use when we're talking about travel.
Okay.
So, to get started, I wanted to tell you a little bit about phrasal
verbs. What is a phrasal verb? One of the difficulties students have
with English are verbs where you have a verb and a preposition. So, when
you see a verb and a preposition together, that's a phrasal verb. Now,
you might be thinking: "What's a preposition?" Good question. I'm going
to give you an example. We have here four words, each of these is a
phrasal verb. They all have the verb "get": "get in", "get up", "get
on", "get over", and there's many more, "get away". There's tons of
them. Each of these actually can have multiple meanings, too. So, one of
the most difficult parts about English is learning phrasal verbs,
because this, the blue part is the preposition, it can change the
meaning of the verb. Okay? So, prepositions are words like: "on", "off",
"up", "down", "toward", "over", "away", these types of words are
prepositions.
So, you'll notice with phrasal verbs, they're very, very
common in conversation. They're... You can write them down, too, but in
general, when people talk they often use phrasal verbs. Okay? So,
they're very, very important, especially when you're talking about going
on a trip with your friends or family.
So let's look at some of the common phrasal verbs we use when we're
talking about trips. The first verb I want to teach you: "Drop off".
Okay? So: "drop" is the verb, "off" is the preposition, together: "drop
off" is a phrasal verb. What does this mean: "drop off"? When you "drop
someone off" it means you're taking them to a place and then you leave
them there. So, for example, maybe your friend needs to go to the
airport, so you drive them to the airport and you drop them off at the
airport. This means you take them there and you leave them in that
place. Okay? So they don't come home with you; they stay there. So, for
example, I have a friend named Frank, and when Frank goes travelling:
"We drop Frank off at the airport." So, we drive Frank to the airport,
he has all his luggage, his suitcases, and then we say to Frank:
"Goodbye, Frank, you know, have a nice trip." We drop Frank off at the
airport. You can also use "drop off" in a lot of other situations. For
example, when you were a child maybe your parents, your mom or your dad,
or maybe your grandparents dropped you off at school. This means that
they took you to school, and then once you got to school, they would say
goodbye to you and they would leave. So: "drop off" means you take
someone to a place, and then you leave them there. You'll also notice...
So, I have here the verb and the preposition. "Frank" is a name of a
person and it's in the middle of "drop" and "off". Okay? So, these two
are not together. We drop somebody off at the airport. Okay?
So,
sometimes with phrasal verbs... For some phrasal verbs you actually
separate them, and you can put the names of somebody between them; for
other ones you can't do that. For this one: "drop off", you put the name
between the two... Between the verb and the preposition.
So, now let's look at another example of a common phrasal verb. "See
off". Okay? So, again, we have "off" in both of these. "See off" is
when... It's similar to "drop off", but it's a little bit different.
Sometimes your family or your friends are going away for a long time,
maybe they're going on a vacation or a trip, so you want to "see them
off". It means you want to say goodbye to them at the airport, at the
train station, maybe at their house. So, it's that goodbye you say
before somebody goes off on a vacation. Okay? So, for example: "We see
Frank off." Frank is going to Australia, so we go to the airport because
we want to say goodbye to Frank, so: "We see Frank off" is another way
to say: "We say goodbye to Frank when he goes on his trip."