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Speaker 1: I got up early this morning because I needed to

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head out early. As I was heading to my office,

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I ran into one of my coworkers who was heading

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over to the deli for breakfast, so I decided to

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head there with her. Okay, let's head into this lesson.

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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 John, 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 seventy six.

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Head Fraser verbs. Today, we're going to look at frasal

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verbs that use head as a verb to mean go. Interestingly,

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this usage of head comes from the idea that your

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head leads your body when you move in a certain

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direction right, your head tells the rest of your body

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where to go. There's also a connection between head and sailing.

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In the old days of sailing ships, there was a

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carving of a goddess at the front of the ship

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with the head facing front. I guess when the captain

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told the crew to head north or head south, they

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knew he meant go in that direction. And still these

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days we have a ton of frasal verbs using head.

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So let's get the party started with head out, which

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means to leave, like I need to head out early

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today because I have a doctor upon By the way,

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I should mention that when we use the word head

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as a verb, it's a regular verb. The past tense

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is headed, like I headed out at three o'clock in

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order to catch my flight. So head out means to

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leave and head back. You guessed it to return, like

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that was a great lunch, But I think we need

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to head back to the office. Or we've been hiking

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for two hours. Let's head back to the campsite. If

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you happen to run into a friend on the street,

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you can ask them where are you heading to head to,

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like go to talks about the destination, like I need

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to head to work early tomorrow morning for a meeting.

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I bumped into my friend j Jac as I was

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heading to work this morning. So head out means to leave,

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head back means to return, and head too tells us

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where you're going. Next up is head in or head into,

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which means to enter a place, like why don't we

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head into that pizza shop over there and grab a slice?

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Otherwise we can head into that coffee shop over there. Next,

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let's talk about heading up into You may have heard

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someone say something like I need to go up to

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the bank after work. We use up with verbs of

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motion when we talk about going to a place that

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is familiar to both the speaker and the listening, and

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it works the same with head Like if I said

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I need to head up to the bank for getting lunch,

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it means that the listener knows which bank branch I'm

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talking about. You may say something like this to a coworker,

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I'm going to head up to the deli. Do you

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want anything? It means that your coworker is familiar with

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which deli you're talking about. By the way, head up

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has one other meaning, which is to lead a group

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or lead a project in the workplace, like after her promotion,

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Miss Swift is heading up the entire accounting division. Come

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to think of it, If you're so good with using Instagram,

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I'm going to ask you to head up the new

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social marketing team. Next is head over, which means to

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visit a place. Head over also has the feel or

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nuance that the place we are going to visit is

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familiar to the listener. Head over same as go over

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sounds a bit weird, though, doesn't it. I remember when

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I was a little kid, my mother mentioning something like, oh,

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tomorrow we're going to go over Uncle Tony's house, and

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I was fascinated, go over my uncle's house? How maybe

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we can fly somehow? But then I found out that

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go over and head over just mean to visit a place,

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and the proper combination of words would be go over

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to or head over to a place, like why don't

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we head over to Jack's office and see how he's doing?

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But quite often in casual conversation people admit to like,

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let's head over Jack's office and see how he's doing,

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and now it's time for me to head out. Keep

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in mind, the best way to remember vocabulary like this

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and any other word or phrase in English is to

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take that word or phrase, write it in a sentence

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

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then memorize your sentences. By the way, Can you imagine

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