Speaker 1: The other day, I got this ballpoint pen that's made
of cedar wood. Wow, it really gives off a nice smell.
And at the store they were giving away a free
notebook with every pen you buy. Nice right. I won't
give away the name of the shop though, because if
they get too many customers, they may give up that promotion.
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 John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael
here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.
And this is Happy English Podcast Episode eight seventeen. Phrasal
Verbs with give, Hello and welcome thanks for joining me
for another episode of the Happy English Podcast. I'm your
English teacher Michael, and I'm so glad you've decided to
tune in and check it out. I love helping you
learn frasal verbs. And today we're gonna look at a
bunch of frasal verbs that use the verb give. These
are all pretty common in everyday English, so make sure
you listen to the whole episode so you can catch
them all. And let's start with a nice one give away.
When you give something away, you give it to someone
or a place for free, usually as a donation or
as a gift, like we're giving away old clothes to
the shelter this weekend, or the radio station is giving
away free concert tickets. You might also hear something like
I gave away my old phone to my nephew. So
when you don't sell something but you give it to
someone just because you're a nice, kind person, that's giveaway.
But check this out. Give Away has another meaning too.
It can also mean to reveal someone's secret, sometimes by accident,
like I can't believe Greg gave away the ending of
the movie I don't even want to watch it anymore,
or like when you talk to the company's competition, be
careful not to give away our company secrets. Or if
you've got a surprise birthday planned, you need to make
sure you don't give it away when you talk to
the birthday girl. So, depending on the context, giveaway can
show that someone is being generous or someone is being
kind of a spoiler. Context is king, that's for sure,
especially with phrasal verbs that have multiple meanings like this
and now let's talk about give out, which also has
two different meanings. In the first one, give out means
to distribute something to a group of people, like the
teacher gave out the homework sheets at the end of class,
or they're giving out free samples at the New Bakery
on Broadway. When my friend Nick ran a marathon, there
were plenty of volunteers giving out water bottles to the runners.
So at any time something is being handed out to people,
that's give out. We also use give out when we
talk about machines or electronic equipment that stops working. When
something gives out, it means that it breaks down, like
during the Zoom call last week, my old IBM laptop
finally gave out, or even worse, the air conditioner gave
out in the middle of a heat wave. That's rough, right.
You can also use give out to talk about your body,
like when we were hiking, my knees started to give out,
So in this case, give out means something just quits
on you. Another phrasal verb with two meanings is one
you've probably heard a lot give up. First of all,
give up means to stop trying, like I can't solve
this pseudo goop puzzle, I give up. Or when you
are at a race, you can cheer on your friend
don't give up you're almost at the finish line. You
can even use give up when you're talking about relationships
or projects, because sometimes you've reached your limit. We gave
up on the idea of launching an iPhone app after
too many delays. The second meaning of give up is
more about quitting a habit, like I gave up smoking
when I was twenty five, or my sister is trying
to give up sugar for a month. If you want
to sleep better, you should give up scrolling social media
before going to bed. So in this context, give up
means to stop doing something, usually something that's not so
good for you. Next up is give back, a nice
phrasal verb that means to return something. When you give
something back, it could be something you borrowed or rented,
or maybe something that isn't yours anymore, like I have
to remember to give back the library books by Friday,
or something that I told one of my friends the
other day, Hey, thanks for letting me use your charger,
I'll give it back tomorrow. In addition to that, and
even in a more community sense, people say things like
I try to give back to my community by volunteering
once a month, so whether it's things, time or energy,
giving back is a good thing. Okay, let's move on
to give in. Give in means to surrender or to
stop fighting something, and it's not necessarily in a dramatic way.
Give in is often just about finally agreeing or letting
something happen. For example, if you're watching your weight but
you couldn't resist that delicious cake, you could say I
wasn't going to eat dessert, but I gave in and
had a slice of cake. Or the kids kept begging
and their mom finally gave in and said yes to pizza.
You could also say Jack didn't want to come to
Kada okay with us, but after some good old fashioned
peer pressure, he gave in. So give in is about
letting go and saying all right, fine. Now here's a
slightly different one. Give off. Give off means to emit
or put out something like a smell, heat, or light,
like I got a candle that gives off a nice
vanilla sent or at the campground the campfire was giving
off a lot of smoke. We can even use give
off when we talk about people. You could say that
someone gives off a certain vibe, like the new sales
guy in the office gives off a weird energy, don't
you think. So the next time you smell something strong
or notice a certain mood, think give off. Well, it
looks like I gave away all of the give phrasal
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