Phrasal verbs and context
Learning English Vocabulary
BBC
4.5 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
A guide to multi-word verbs and prepositions that can change the meaning of phrasal verbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Want to improve your pronunciation? |
| 0:03.4 | Our new video series, The Pronunciation Lounge, |
| 0:06.4 | helps you hear, recognise and produce English sounds, words and phrases. |
| 0:11.8 | Find all the episodes on our website and practice your listening and speaking skills. |
| 0:16.6 | Visit BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:20.2 | Six minutes vocabulary. From BBC LearningEnglish.com. Six-minute vocabulary. |
| 0:22.7 | From BBC Learning English. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to six-minute vocabulary. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm Neil. |
| 0:30.7 | And I'm Catherine. |
| 0:36.5 | In this program, we're looking at multi-word verbs like move in, move on, move out and get on. |
| 0:45.1 | And we call these phrasal verbs. |
| 0:47.1 | And prepositions like in, on or out, can completely change the meaning of phrasal verbs. |
| 0:56.1 | So we'll be looking at these verbs in sentences to help us understand their meaning. |
| 1:01.5 | Let's start by listening to Robin. He's having problems with his housemate Pete. |
| 1:06.7 | And here's a question for you while you listen. Why is Robin unhappy with Pete? |
| 1:12.4 | Pete moved in three months ago. |
| 1:14.8 | We got on well at first. |
| 1:16.5 | We were friends. |
| 1:17.8 | But now it's terrible. |
| 1:19.6 | He's so messy. |
| 1:20.9 | And he keeps disturbing me when I'm trying to get on with my college work. |
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