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Hi. Welcome back to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. Today's
lesson is, again, phrasal verbs; everybody's
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favourite lessons. Today, we're going to look
at phrasal verbs using the verb "take". Again,
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a quick review: what is a phrasal verb? A
phrasal verb is a verb and a preposition,
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when put together, giving different meanings.
Sometimes one, sometimes two, sometimes more.
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So, today, we're going to look at "take out",
"take in", "take over", "take up",-excuse
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me-"take after", "take back", "take off",
"take on", "take down", "take to".
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Let's start with "take out". All of you, of
course, know takeout food. You go to McDonald's,
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they ask you if you want to eat in or take
out. So, take out means to take your food
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to go. That's one meaning. Another meaning of
"take out" is the literal meaning; exactly
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what the words mean. For example, you have a
turkey in the oven. It is finished cooking.
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You take it out of the oven. Then, there is
also the slang. If you want to take someone
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out, you kill them. You see this in kind of
the mob movies. They want to take someone
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out; they want to assassinate.
Assassinate.
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I'll have to... Yeah, I'll
leave that for now. Okay.
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"Take in". What does "take in" mean? A few
meanings as well. The first is the most common
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one. If your clothes are too big, if you've
lost some weight, you might want to take in
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your shirt, or your dress, or your pants.
You take it to a tailor, and he or she will
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take it in; make it smaller, tighter. Another
meaning of "take in", for example, if you
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go outside your house and you see a cat, and
the cat is sitting there: "Meow, meow", you
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know, it's all sad and lonely. You take it
in. It doesn't mean you take it into your
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house. It, of course, means that. But more,
it means like adopt. You take it into your
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house, you give it a home, it's part of the
family. So, you accept, you take in, you adopt
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something or someone.
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"Take over". "Take over" means assume control
of something. So, for example, if I own a
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big company and you own a slightly smaller
company, but you're my competition, one way
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I can beat you is I can take over your company.
I can buy a lot of shares in your company,
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and I take over. I take control. If we're
going on a long road trip, and I'm driving
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and I'm getting tired, I say: "Oh, can you
take over the driving?" Means we switch, and
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you continue driving.
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"Take up". If you take up space, for example,
it means you use. You use space. You take
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up space in a room. Another way to say "take
up" is you start to do something new, like
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a new hobby, or you start learning something
new. So, recently, I took up Spanish. It means
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I started going to Spanish classes, and I
started to learn Spanish. Now, if you add
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"with", you can take something up with someone.
It means you can discuss. So, if you have
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a problem in your class and you're falling
behind, and you're not doing so well, take
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this problem up with your teacher. It means
go to your teacher and discuss the situation.
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See how you can fix it. Okay.
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"After". If you take after someone, means
you behave like them. It's very similar to
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look like, except it's not about physical
features; it's about personality. So, if you
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take after someone, you are similar to someone
in terms of character or behaviour. So, for
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example, I take after my mother. My sister
takes after my father. My father was a very
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hot-tempered man. My sister's a very
hot-tempered woman, so she takes after him.
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"Take back". Again, two meanings. There's
the literal meaning, so I lend you my pen.
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You use it. You finished. I take it back.
You give it back to me, it returns to me;
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I take it back. Now, if I said something really
mean to you or something not nice, or I made
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a promise and then I take it back, it means I
cancel what I said. So, if I said something
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that made you upset and I take it back, it
means I apologize. I take back the bad words
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and everything's okay, hopefully. If I made
a promise then take it back, it means I'm
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not going to do this promise anymore. Okay?
So you have to be a little bit careful about
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take backs.
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"Take off". I think most of you know the airplane
takes off. It goes down the runway, then "whew,"
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takes off. But "take off" can also mean to be
very successful or very quickly to do well.
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So, a business starts and, you know, the owners
are doing what they can, but suddenly the
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business just takes off. It becomes very popular, very
successful, making lots of money, hopefully, again.
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"Take on". If you take something on, means
you're facing the challenge. Okay? So I don't
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know how to do something, but I will take it
on. I will try to do it. I will challenge it.
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Now, you can also take someone on, means
confront. So, this guy has been bullying me
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for a long time, and I'm fed up. I don't want
to do... I can't take it anymore. I will take
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him on. I will challenge him to a
fight, and I will stand and win.
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"Take down". But if I take him on, but he's
actually much bigger than me, he might take
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me down. It means "phoo", take me down to
the ground and I'm beaten. Okay? So that's
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one meaning of "take down" is to beat someone up,
basically, or to knock someone down. Another
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meaning is to write notes. So in your class, the
lecturer, the professor is speaking, speaking
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speaking. You don't have time to read the
book as he's speaking, so the best thing you
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can do is just take down notes. Take down the
most important information. Write. Write
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it in your book.
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"Take to", a few meanings as well. If you
take to someone, means you have a sort of
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connection with that person; you like that
person, you have a feeling that you want to
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help this person or you want to be around
this person. If you take something to someone
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or somewhere, then you are just carrying it.
So I'm going to take this pen to the other
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room. Okay? In the other room is one of my
favourite students. I really took to her or
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him, or whatever the case may be.
So "take to".
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And, a little bonus - I've got an idiom. So,
this time we're looking at "take under". But
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"take under" by itself doesn't really mean
anything. In the idiom: "to take someone under
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your wing", means basically to take someone
as an apprentice or as a protégé. This
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is an excellent word. "Protégé" is like a
student, but not really a student. You're
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teaching him how to do something specific.
You're not teaching him or her in a class.
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You're showing him or her, in the real world,
how to do something. So you take this person
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under your wing, means you protect them, you
teach them, and hopefully one day they fly;
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they take off on their own.
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Okay. I'm going to put an extra "s" here because
I'm pretty sure it's two "s'", but we'll check
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that after.
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Anyway, if you want to practice these phrasal
verbs, go to www.engvid.com. There's quiz
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there. You can try that out. Of course, if you
have any questions, ask away in the forum.
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channel. And come back again soon. Bye.9790
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