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Speaker 1: It's time to kick off another podcast, English Lesson, So

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boot up your iPod and fire up your headphones. We're

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about to dive into a bunch of fraseal verbs that

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talk about starting something.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Jan and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven ninety one.

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Fraseal verbs related to starting It's been a while since

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we looked at fraseal verbs, and since the start of

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the year, I've been thinking about kicking off a lesson

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with them. For today's podcast English Lesson, Let's have a

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look at a group of phrasal verbs related to starting something.

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I've kind of categorized these start frasal verbs into a

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few groups, and I think it would be fun to

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kind of go through them that way. So let's start

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with technology. Like technology back in the good old days.

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Do you remember in the nineteen nineties when you had

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to boot up your computer, You know, the days of

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floppy discs and dial up internet, boot up the computer.

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But you know, it's interesting because we really don't say

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that anymore, do we. Booting up a computer was like

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when you started the machine, inserted some floppy discs, and

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waited a while for the desktop to show up. I

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know that computers still boot up, but it happens in

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the blink of an eye, and luckily without those floppy discs.

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In a similar way, we have fire up, which also

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means to start a machine. Like on a hot summer evening,

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you can fire up the grill and have a barbecue,

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or you fire up the oven something that gets hot.

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You can fire up even a heater, even though there's

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no actual fire, you can still fire it up. You're

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firing up the pizza oven. And in a figurative way,

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you can say that you fire up a group of people.

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When you fire up a team at work or a

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bunch of your friends, you get them excited and enthusiastic

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about something you fire them up. Speaking of being enthusiastic,

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when you start a task or an activity eagerly, you

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dive into it. My mom couldn't wait to dive into

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that book when she brought it home from the library.

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I downloaded a new language learning app so I can

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dive into learning Japanese writing me. It's interesting. When I

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was a student, I didn't like to study, but now

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as an adult, I love to dive into whatever I'm learning.

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And then when it comes to the basic activation of

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anything electronic, we have turn on or switch on. Both

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of them have the same idea of getting the machine

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ready for use. You can turn on the TV, or

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switch on a light, or turn on the air conditioner,

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switch on the computer, and so on. With turn on

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and switch on, you're giving energy to those machines. And

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speaking of energy, when you have a sudden burst of

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action or emotion, maybe you will break into song, which

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basically means that you suddenly start singing, or when you

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hear a funny joke, you can break into laughter. That

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happens to me a lot when I watch a comedian

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like Iizmo. Next up, let's talk about starting a journey.

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When you do that, you can set off. You can

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set off on a trip or set off for a

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place like Nick set off on his road trip early

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in the morning to avoid traffic. And this morning, my

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sister set off for the airport she's going to Florida,

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and then setting off on a cruise for ten days. Well,

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I hope you got fired up from these phrasal verbs.

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Keep in mind the best way to remember vocabulary like

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this and any other word or phrase in English is

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to take that word or phrase, write it in a

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sentence that's true for you or true in your world,

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