I explain 5 of the phrasal verbs below in the podcast: 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10. You can listen to all ten of these phrasal verbs. They are in the order you'll hear them.
1) figure something out - try to find the answer to a problem
2) get on with something - continue an activity you were doing earlier
3) get round to something - do one of the jobs that needs doing but you don't find time for it
4) go down with something - to get ill
5) get over a bad cold etc. - recuperate from an illness
6) live up to your expectations - when something is as good as you expected it to be e.g. a product you bought
7) put somebody up - give temporary accommodation to somebody
8) stick out - something can be seen because it is showing from inside something e.g. a handkerchief sticking out somebody's pocket
9) miss out on an opportunity - lose an opportunity you did not take advantage of
10) Get round to something (repeat of nº3)
1) I’m trying to figure out what it means (Serine refers to the expression 'can't swing a dead cat in here'.
2) Please, get on with drinking your coffee. (Serine)
3) I’d like to find something else, but I just haven’t got round to it yet. (Serine refers to her waitressing job.
4) I went down with an illness – my stomach. (Serine)
5) I’m just getting over it, now. (Serine)
6) London’s not living up to your expectations, right? (David)
7) She (her sister) has put me up in her flat in Ealing. (Serine)
8) You could see his hairy belly through them. The hairs stuck out through the holes. (David. He refers to his school French teacher.)
9) I missed out there, really. Never really learnt any French at all. (David)
10) Should get my bilingual phrase book out and try to do a bit of parlez-vous with them, but I never get round to it. Too busy. (David)
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