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Hello and welcome to six-minute vocabulary with me, Catherine.

And me, Rob. Hello. In this show, we're going to find out about multi-word verbs.

That's right. We're looking into verb phrases that are made up of more than one word.

And if you'd like an example, Rob and I have used three of them already.

It's incredible. We have, yes.

Catherine, you said, looking into and made up of.

Yep. And Rob, you you said find out about.

And some people call this type of multi-word verb a phrasal verb.

They do.

And in this programme, we'll look at lots of multi-word verbs.

We'll explain what they mean.

There'll be a quiz.

And we'll leave you with a top tip for learning vocabulary.

So let's get started by listening to Andre, a student from France who's studying in London.

Yep, and he's talking about his weekend.

Here are two questions for you while you listen.

First, did Andre meet up with his friends?

And second, Andre's English is pretty good, but it sounds a bit unnatural.

Why is that? Here's Andre.

I wanted to rendezvous with friends at the shopping centre, but I couldn't find them.

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