Speaker 1: I got up early this morning because I needed to
head out early. As I was heading to my office,
I ran into one of my coworkers who was heading
over to the deli for breakfast, so I decided to
head there with her. Okay, let's head into this lesson.
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 seven seventy six.
Head Fraser verbs. Today, we're going to look at frasal
verbs that use head as a verb to mean go. Interestingly,
this usage of head comes from the idea that your
head leads your body when you move in a certain
direction right, your head tells the rest of your body
where to go. There's also a connection between head and sailing.
In the old days of sailing ships, there was a
carving of a goddess at the front of the ship
with the head facing front. I guess when the captain
told the crew to head north or head south, they
knew he meant go in that direction. And still these
days we have a ton of frasal verbs using head.
So let's get the party started with head out, which
means to leave, like I need to head out early
today because I have a doctor upon By the way,
I should mention that when we use the word head
as a verb, it's a regular verb. The past tense
is headed, like I headed out at three o'clock in
order to catch my flight. So head out means to
leave and head back. You guessed it to return, like
that was a great lunch, But I think we need
to head back to the office. Or we've been hiking
for two hours. Let's head back to the campsite. If
you happen to run into a friend on the street,
you can ask them where are you heading to head to,
like go to talks about the destination, like I need
to head to work early tomorrow morning for a meeting.
I bumped into my friend j Jac as I was
heading to work this morning. So head out means to leave,
head back means to return, and head too tells us
where you're going. Next up is head in or head into,
which means to enter a place, like why don't we
head into that pizza shop over there and grab a slice?
Otherwise we can head into that coffee shop over there. Next,
let's talk about heading up into You may have heard
someone say something like I need to go up to
the bank after work. We use up with verbs of
motion when we talk about going to a place that
is familiar to both the speaker and the listening, and
it works the same with head Like if I said
I need to head up to the bank for getting lunch,
it means that the listener knows which bank branch I'm
talking about. You may say something like this to a coworker,
I'm going to head up to the deli. Do you
want anything? It means that your coworker is familiar with
which deli you're talking about. By the way, head up
has one other meaning, which is to lead a group
or lead a project in the workplace, like after her promotion,
Miss Swift is heading up the entire accounting division. Come
to think of it, If you're so good with using Instagram,
I'm going to ask you to head up the new
social marketing team. Next is head over, which means to
visit a place. Head over also has the feel or
nuance that the place we are going to visit is
familiar to the listener. Head over same as go over
sounds a bit weird, though, doesn't it. I remember when
I was a little kid, my mother mentioning something like, oh,
tomorrow we're going to go over Uncle Tony's house, and
I was fascinated, go over my uncle's house? How maybe
we can fly somehow? But then I found out that
go over and head over just mean to visit a place,
and the proper combination of words would be go over
to or head over to a place, like why don't
we head over to Jack's office and see how he's doing?
But quite often in casual conversation people admit to like,
let's head over Jack's office and see how he's doing,
and now it's time for me to head out. Keep
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