Speaker 1: I love my watch. It's not a Rolex or anything
like that, but it was handed down to me by
my grandfather. He was a teacher too, and I remember
him telling me stories of how he would hand out
the exams to his students, wondering how many of them
would hand it back with all the correct answers. What
a nice memory.
Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from
New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you Jan, and thanks everyone. It's Michael
here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.
And this is Happy English Podcast Episode seven eighty four.
Hand frasal Verbs. Today we have another phrasal verb English
lesson to look at six phrasal verbs with hand. I
really love helping you learn phrasal verbs because they're so
common in everyday English and using them will make your
English sound more natural. The first one is hand back.
Hand Back means to return or pass something to someone
by using your hands. Like if a classmate asks to
borrow your pen, you can say something like this, yeah,
you can borrow my pen, but just remember to hand
it back. Oh, I just remembered I have a few
books that I need to hand back to the library.
Hand back. You can hand back something or hand something
back like the teacher handed back are exams and surprisingly
we all did okay. Have you ever gotten something from
an older brother or sister, or maybe one of your
grandparents passed something along to you. In that case, you
can use hand down, which means to give something to
someone younger or to a successor. And usually you hand
down something that's valuable or something that has sentimental value,
like this necklace was handed down from my grandmother to
my mom. I think a lot of jewelry gets handed down,
don't you. Bob's dad handed down his old guitar to him.
Next up, we have three phrasal verbs that talk about
how we give something to others. Hand in, hand out,
and hand off. Hand In means to submit something like
homework or a report. I'm sure when you were a student,
you probably heard a teacher say something like, don't forget
to hand in your assignment by Friday. Hand in it's
a more conversational way to say submit. Are you ready
to quit your job? If so, you need to hand
in your resignation letter to the boss. On the opposite
side of hand in, we have hand out, hand out
means to distribute something to a group of people. Like
going back to that classroom example, you can say that
the teacher handed out the quizzes at the start of class.
Sometimes here in New York City you can find people
handing out sam something like just the other day there
was someone handing out small packages of cookies. They were excellent,
by the way. In a similar way, we have hand off,
which means to pass something to another person by hand,
like at the business conference, after I was done with
my presentation, I handed off the microphone to Sarah so
she could address the crowd. During a relay race, the
runners need to smoothly hand off the baton to their teammate.
Oh and speaking of sports, in American football, the player
known as the quarterback hands off the ball to the
running back during the game. The last one is hand over.
Sometimes you need to give something to someone when you
don't want to, but you have no choice. In these cases,
you can use hand over. Handover means to give something
reluctantly or unwillingly, like when the police stopped my car.
The officer told me to hand over my driver's license
and registration. Then he handed me a speeding ticket. Oh
my goodness. Now I'm going to have to hand over
a lot of money to pay the fine. Next time,
I'd better drive slowly. Keep in mind, the best way
to remember vocabulary like this and any other word or
phrase in English is to take that word or phrase,
write it in a sentence that's true for you or
true in your world, and then memorize your sentences. Hey,
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