HOW TO TEACH PHRASAL VERBS

Don’t think that phrasal verbs are difficult to learn, they are phrases that we say every day in conversations without even knowing that they are phrasal verbs.   There is a huge list of phrasal verbs, but I’ll teach you the most common ones in an easy and funny way to learn them.

What are Phrasal verbs? 

These are compound forms in which a verb is followed by an adverb or a preposition.  These are widely used expressions, sometimes we can deduce their meaning from the meaning of the verb and that of the preposition or adverb which accompanies them, for example:

 Run away -> "Run" = "to run". "Away" = "far away".

But at other times it is not possible to deduce the meaning and the only option will be to memorize them.  For example:

 put me up for tonight? 

The phrasal verb 'put up' here does not mean to build (as in putting a fence up). It has, however, an idiomatic/figurative meaning. It means to let someone stay in your house.

For more information, look at the following video