Speaker 1: It's time to kick off another podcast, English Lesson, So
boot up your iPod and fire up your headphones. We're
about to dive into a bunch of fraseal verbs that
talk about starting something.
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 ninety one.
Fraseal verbs related to starting It's been a while since
we looked at fraseal verbs, and since the start of
the year, I've been thinking about kicking off a lesson
with them. For today's podcast English Lesson, Let's have a
look at a group of phrasal verbs related to starting something.
I've kind of categorized these start frasal verbs into a
few groups, and I think it would be fun to
kind of go through them that way. So let's start
with technology. Like technology back in the good old days.
Do you remember in the nineteen nineties when you had
to boot up your computer, You know, the days of
floppy discs and dial up internet, boot up the computer.
But you know, it's interesting because we really don't say
that anymore, do we. Booting up a computer was like
when you started the machine, inserted some floppy discs, and
waited a while for the desktop to show up. I
know that computers still boot up, but it happens in
the blink of an eye, and luckily without those floppy discs.
In a similar way, we have fire up, which also
means to start a machine. Like on a hot summer evening,
you can fire up the grill and have a barbecue,
or you fire up the oven something that gets hot.
You can fire up even a heater, even though there's
no actual fire, you can still fire it up. You're
firing up the pizza oven. And in a figurative way,
you can say that you fire up a group of people.
When you fire up a team at work or a
bunch of your friends, you get them excited and enthusiastic
about something you fire them up. Speaking of being enthusiastic,
when you start a task or an activity eagerly, you
dive into it. My mom couldn't wait to dive into
that book when she brought it home from the library.
I downloaded a new language learning app so I can
dive into learning Japanese writing me. It's interesting. When I
was a student, I didn't like to study, but now
as an adult, I love to dive into whatever I'm learning.
And then when it comes to the basic activation of
anything electronic, we have turn on or switch on. Both
of them have the same idea of getting the machine
ready for use. You can turn on the TV, or
switch on a light, or turn on the air conditioner,
switch on the computer, and so on. With turn on
and switch on, you're giving energy to those machines. And
speaking of energy, when you have a sudden burst of
action or emotion, maybe you will break into song, which
basically means that you suddenly start singing, or when you
hear a funny joke, you can break into laughter. That
happens to me a lot when I watch a comedian
like Iizmo. Next up, let's talk about starting a journey.
When you do that, you can set off. You can
set off on a trip or set off for a
place like Nick set off on his road trip early
in the morning to avoid traffic. And this morning, my
sister set off for the airport she's going to Florida,
and then setting off on a cruise for ten days. Well,
I hope you got fired up from these phrasal verbs.
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