Speaker 1: I went over my notes today and after reading over everything,
I found out that we haven't run through any frasal
verbs here in a while. Have we fallen behind or
is it just that I've been mixing things up? Let's discuss.
Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from
New York City, and here's your English teacher, Michael all rye.
Speaker 1: Thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael here from
Happy English and I help people speak English better. This
is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven point fifty one. Frasal
Verbs for Education. Frasal verbs are a huge part of English,
especially spoken English, and today I have a set of
ten frasal verbs that you can use to talk about education,
learning and studying. Before we dive in, let's listen to
a conversation between two high school teachers who are talking
in the teacher's office at the end of the school day.
Speaker 3: Hey, John, have you had a chance to go over
the student essays yet? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I just finished. I had to read over a couple
of them a few times because some students still haven't
caught on to the structure we discussed same here.
Speaker 3: I think they're mixing up the formatting rules. I'll need
to go over that again in class.
Speaker 4: That sounds like a good idea. And did you hand
out the project guidelines for next week?
Speaker 3: Yes, I handed them out this morning. I told them
to hand in their rough drafts by Friday so we
can give feedback before the final submission.
Speaker 4: That's smart. I'll run through the project instructions with my
class tomorrow just to make sure they don't fall behind.
Speaker 3: Good plan. I had a couple of students fall behind
last semester, and it's tough to get them back on track.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know what you mean. By the way one
student and ask me if they could look up the
project details using some extra resources online for their project.
I think it's great.
Speaker 3: Definitely, it's nice when they find out things on their own.
I'll make sure to remind my students to look up
any terms they don't understand too.
Speaker 4: Sounds like we're on the same page. Hopefully everyone will
catch on this time.
Speaker 1: And now let's have a look at these phrasal verbs.
The first one is go over. Go over means to
review or check something. For example, let's go over the
homework before we hand it in. I need to go
over my notes before the exam tomorrow. In a similar way.
We have read over. Read Over means to read something quickly,
often to check for mistakes or to check the details.
Here are some examples. Make sure to read over your
essay before you hand it in. The teacher read over
our assignments and gave feedback. The third one is catch on.
Catch on means to understand something, especially after some time.
You can catch on or catch on to something. Let's
look at some examples. They talk pretty quickly on that
TV program, but I finally caught on. Alice caught on
to the new math concepts faster than the rest of
the class. The next one is mix up, which means
to confuse two or more things. For example, a lot
of English learners mix up the meanings of affect the
verb and affect the noun. I heard that Cindy mixed
up the dates for the assignment and handed it in late. Next,
we have two hand frasal verbs hand out and hand in.
Hand Out means to distribute something to a group of people.
Here are some examples. In front of the station, they
were handing out samples of some new coffee drink. The
professor handed out the exam papers as soon as the
class started. On the other hand, hand in means to
officially submit something like homework or an assignment. Let's look
at some examples of this. Don't forget to hand in
your assignments by Friday. I handed in my essay just
before the deadline. Next is look up, which means to
search for information, especially in reference books or online. For example,
if you don't know the word, just look it up
in the dictionary. Barry quickly looked up the answer on
his phone during the class. Next, when you run through something,
you review something quickly, like a list, a schedule, or
a set of instructions. Let's run through the plan one
more time before we start. We ran through the schedule
before the school trip. If you fall behind in your
lessons or your work, you fail to keep up with that.
Here are some examples of fall behind. I missed a
week of school, so I fell behind in math. If
you don't study regularly, you'll fall behind. And finally, for today,
we have find out. Find out means to learn or
discs cover information. I found out there's going to be
a pop quiz tomorrow. We'll find out the test results
next week. Remember, you can find out information, but you
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