Multi-word verbs
Learning English Vocabulary
BBC
4.5 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Do you ever 'meet up with' your friend in the park? We talk about multi-word verbs.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | Do you know someone who is starting to learn English? |
| 0:09.9 | We have a new easy video series just for them, the London Letter Challenge. |
| 0:17.0 | Three teams race around London to find eight letters, which will take them to the winning crowns. |
| 0:24.0 | Watch the series on our websites now, BBClearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:32.0 | Six-minute vocabulary from BBC learningenglish.com. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello and welcome to six-minute vocabulary with me, Catherine. |
| 0:42.4 | And me, Rob. Hello. |
| 0:43.8 | In this show, we're going to find out about multi-word verbs. |
| 0:47.1 | That's right. We're looking into verb phrases that are made up of more than one word. |
| 0:52.1 | And if you'd like an example, |
| 0:56.7 | Rob and I have used three of them already. |
| 0:58.3 | It's incredible we have, yes. |
| 1:02.0 | Catherine, you said looking into and made up of. |
| 1:04.9 | Yep, and Rob, you said, find out about. |
| 1:09.4 | And some people call this type of multi-word verb a phrasal verb. |
| 1:10.0 | They do. |
| 1:13.4 | And in this program, we'll look at lots of multi-word verbs. |
| 1:14.9 | We'll explain what they mean. |
| 1:15.9 | There'll be a quiz. |
| 1:18.9 | And we'll leave you with a top tip for learning vocabulary. |
| 1:26.5 | So let's get started by listening to Andre, a student from France who's studying in London. |
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