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All about phrasal verbs in English
If you want to “keep up” with other English students, you need to master phrasal verbs. In this lesson, I explain how phrasal verbs work, using “keep up” as my main example.
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markslv
Hi my friend James!!
How are you? I hope you´re well!!
My name is Marco, I have 29 years old of age, and I live in São Paulo City, Brazil.
I have watched your videos on youtube, my english is not good, but I´m learning with north-americans friends that live here in Brazil.
Your videos are fantastic!!!!
You are a excellent teacher!!!
Thanks a lot!!!
God bless you !!!
Marco from Brazil..!!
ashabi
hi.good english with the best presentation
hahaha….thanks… for your support!
markslv
Rude
Rude examples. There should be a warning “18″ or smth.
I think it is just realistic. Why pretend?
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oscar
…All through my wild days
My mad existence…
really nice song.
examples were great. it’s easier to memories and it’s more intresting because it’s unusual, though everybody are thinking about this so why don’t talk about it? can’t get it. anyway. here’s my question: why you didn’t put the apostrophe “‘s” when you wrote “i like to keep up with the WORLD EVENTS” why don’t need “s” after word “world”. because i’m thinking like this. events kind of belongs to the world so, it should be used “s”. isn’t it so? thank you for the answer.
I personally don’t see or hear anything rude or offensive in this vid at all. The examples are just normal pep talk you hear everyday. One of the things that makes James stand out from most other teachers is his humor after all. Keep up your good work, Jimmy!
Regarding the “world events”, it’s not intended to mean events that belong to the world or any sense of possession as you said. In other words, a wine event isn’t an event that belongs to wine. Rather, it is an event that has something to do with wine. So, the world events are events related one way or another to the world.
Nikolaz
elhidrologo
excellent explanation, my compliments for you teachee
The Sushi
it helped me a lot!
thank you!!
cheers
rida
i didn’t get the preposition word keep up, kindly teach again in easiest way
noureen khurshedi
hi,i have a difficulty yet.please help me more.best wishes for you.
rema22
It is a good lesson, but i’m stille have problem withe pharasle verbs. Did you help me more pleas?
kati
hi!!! i’m like to know if u can give me something like private lesson please…. the english is a problem for me because i can’t understand it good… if you can help me i’m going to be verry grateful with you
teopros
Hi. I think there was a mistake in your writing. You wrote “maintian” instea of “maintain”. I’m sorry if i’m wrong
lovely balala
pls.. can you check my grammar??
This is not right ! I haven’t been eating much. Lost my appetite and I didn’t wanna start losing weight….
zaki saad
thanks a lot but if you please speak more slowly
i’m so grateful
salma
hi my name is salma i watch your video every sunday i love how you teach. You are the best teacher i wish if you was my teacher my english is bad,but you will understand
Hi salma, Can i have your yahoo or gmail or skype id so tht we can practice english , I am frm India and I am mujtaba ahmed
Regards
Mujtaba Ahmed
mujju433
hello,
salma, i am a student from morocco. And i guess that you are from morocco too.By the way, if you any help or you need to practice english so more. i can give you my email, and then we can enhance our english together.
i am waiting for you answer.
Anas
thank you.
good luck salma.
nessaj
vietnamvipboy
yeah. good lesson. so funny. I love it
claire
Hi
Thanks for explanations … very useful and easy to understand.
Could u give us more details and examples of phrasal verbs (with prepositions down, up, about, back for instance) ???
……. cause I think it’s not really easy to understand (first) and to use (second point ahaha) because of different meanings a unique phrasal verb can have .
Sorry if I’ve made mistakes…
I think that you’re an excellent teacher !!!!
Claire.
Tanya
Hi James,
I just wanted to thank you for these lessons. I’ve recently started teaching ESL to adults on a volunteer basis. The organization has given me a curriculum and I’m good with grammar, but I’ve had no specific ESL training. I’m finding your teaching style to be an excellent example as I begin to develop my own. Thank you!
Tanya
raheem
I think that every one should to buy a phrasal verbs dictionary
yes raheem undoubtdley every learner of english need to a phrasal verbs dictionary.
you right.
nessaj
Swiss Boy
JAMES… SIMPLY THE BEST!
melmel
thanks..
the english teacher
I was terribly disappointed in this video. I have used this video service to teach a variety of lessons in my class. Not anymore. James if you believe that you have to use sex as an example to teach a lesson about verbs then shame on you. I have told my faculty to no longer use this service which they will abide by. What a waste.
Sorry to hear you won’t be using our site anymore. I am not sure what the problem is exactly, though. The website was not created for young children, and is not labeled or branded as such. If you are using the lessons in class, you surely must watch them at least once first anyway, to make sure they cover the topics you want to teach in the ways you want to teach them, correct? So when you watch the lesson, you would see whatever content you don’t wish your students to see — before they see it — and would know not to use that particular lesson in class.
In general, our teachers each use whatever content and approach they like. Rebecca, Alex, and Valen tend to use more wholesome examples, and James and Ronnie sometimes are a bit more risque.
Finally, James does not think he has to use sex as an example — he just chose to. If this is something you personally find objectionable, then it is just that — your own personal taste. The internet is vast and there are many kid-friendly lessons on this website and on others.
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mac
I like your being like that, and it is very good. Thank you. Keep up!!
Wajahat
Outstanding explanation
nessaj
Hi my name is anas, i am student from morocco,i really enjoyed watching your lessons on youtube. they are exellent and i learned a lot of things from it.
thank you so much.
go on …….
José de Almeida
Very goooooddd
=D
I loved that
hamad
thank you kindly
Grey
Hi, Professor James
I have seen your teaching, you should be an actor besides of English teacher, your classes are more interesting because the way you show things, Thanks a lot and keep up with your magnificent work….THANK YOU…I follow you…Thanks again
sara
hi
i have seen your teaching . its really nice. i am 28 years old but my English is not really good recently i seen ur video on youtube . now i joined ur side i hope these side help me to improve my English
God bless you
saira
hi
i like your way of teaching
tareas
hi everyone
very good examples james. keeping doing like that.
aminez
ok thx bro !!
marek911
wow this is good stuff
sergioss
I rather your videos from the rest . . . funniest teacher and you help us a lot I hope more classes about pharasal verbs they’re vey usefull, thanks . . . .
dody
hi you are good teacher and funny too but u taiking so quickly please take slowly thanks alot byyyyyyyyyy
Agata
Now i will remember “keep up” till the end of my live :P
You’re the best teacher i’ve ever saw:)
Thx Mr. James/greetings for Mr.E :)
ahmad
Hi! professor James , thank u very much for your lessons. I like your language , your speed which is very important for learners of English. We need fluency more than accuracy, so don’t care for those who criticize your speed . Since the more they listen , the better they will understand. As for the content , we will have to talk about anything in English since it is a new language . If you are in a situation talking about religious, political , financial or sexual things , you will need the right language to express the situation
Thank you very much . I appreciate all what do and present . I am a teacher of English.
Angelita
This classes are better than my classes from CESL at the University of Arizona…….and are for free…incredible.
trivs
hi….James
I love your teaching style and way of representing your content…keep it up the same way of teaching..it really works..
I have one query…once i used this sentence
SHE WAS KEPT WAKE UP ALL THE NIGHT BY THE LOUDSPEAKERS…is it wrong?
trivs
i’ve one more questiom..most of the time we know the meaning of verb and preposition in the phrasal verbs but still we are unable to find the right meaning of the sentence..so the only way to solve this problem to learn all the phrasal as you can? is it so? how do you done that?
Miriam
hi James,I was watching your video and I think that this was interesting the use of phrasal verbs,sometimes when I am reading phrasal verbs in the newspaper is difficult for me to understand some of them.I would like you could explain the use of get off for instance.
thanks you!!!!!!!!
sinemis
thank u for your help. it was useful for me
Silvio
Thank you a lot for all these funny, straight, and free lessons!
I’ve learned a lot from you.
Regards from Brazil.
Regards from Brazil
vokilong
Thanks a lot!
Your video is so interesting!
I am a Vietnamese and I really want to improve my English.
Nice to meet all of you
cherry lonzaga
hi mr. james, im a filipino, and i’m not very good in english. So, i’m very thankful for your vedio’s… it’s so helpful for me…. thanks to you mr. james.. keep up…
Jyrgakbek
Hi! I`m Jyrgal from central asia. Very interesting website, i really appreciate all what do and present. I`m learning english but i have big problem with english grammer. Can you speak vore slowly for the first time of course if you don`t mind. If i have any mistakes i really sorry, just let me know about them. Thank you, dear teachers. you are all cool….
meriam
hi teacher.
my name is meriam i have seen your video realy i love your teaching style.
i don’t speak english very well. for this think i did this site for help me .please
Wilco
What a bravo explanation of phrasal verbs! I’ve been confused by the word “up” for ages.
Your video cleared up my mind a bit. I couldnt thank you enough for that.
Keep up your excellent work! And, I love your way to make videos 2 ^^.
Wilco
Hi James,
I was wondering if you could do videos about “do”, “have” and “take”. These words are very common in daily English, but, there are tonnes of possible meanings of them. So, It would be great if you could tell all ESL students including me how to master these monsters.
Many thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Wilco
Diana
I love the way you teach english…!!
Diana
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