Phrasal Verbs for Work

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Hello, I’m Teacher Robin. Welcome to another live streaming class. Today we’re going to talk about essential phrasal verbs for work. So if you noticed in our previous class we talked about online job interview tips. OK, so this is related. Once you have this job that you want, I’m going to give you some essential phrases verbs that you can use at work. So I’ve chosen ten, my top ten phrasal verbs for you to use at work. You can participate in this class by writing in the comments. So let’s get started.

First, let me explain what a phrasal verb is. A phrasal verb is formed by a verb and an adverb or a verb and a preposition together. This forms a phrasal verb. So my first phrasal verb for you is “to call something off”. This means to cancel something for example “Our company called off the conference because of Coronavirus”.

The next phrasal verb is “to push something back”. So this means to delay something or to reschedule it for another date. For example, “The meeting was pushed back to next month.”

Another phrasal verb for work is “to bring something up”. This means to mention something like an idea. For example, “Make sure you bring up your proposal for the project during our meeting”.

The next phrasal verb for work “to come up with something”. This means to think of a new idea. For example, “We need to come up with a new strategy for our product”.

The next one “to take something on”. This means to agree or accept additional responsibility for something. For example, “My company will take on extra clients in the spring.”

Another phrasal verb you can use at work is “to stay behind”. And this means to stay in a place longer than you expected. For example, “I stayed behind at work last night until I finished my project.”

The next one “to carry something out”. This means to perform or to do something like a project or a study. For example, “We carried out a study to find out what our students want to learn most”.

OK, the first thing you do when you arrive at work every morning is you “switch on” your computer. So this means to push a button to make it start running so you switch on your computer and then you start to use it. OK.

Another essential phrasal verb for work with the verb “work” is “to work out” like to work something out. for example, this is to find a solution to a problem. “I need to work out the solution to our payment issues.”

And finally the last phrasal verb with the word, “work” as well is “to work on something”. So this means that you are doing it. You put effort into something. For example, right now “I am working on studying English so I can get a better job.”

OK, so those are ten essential phrasal verbs for you to use at work. I hope you found these useful and now I want you to practice by writing in the comments and using these different phrasal verbs. So try to write as many examples as you can think out and I look forward to reading your examples, your sentences. So if you don’t know about our course at ABA, let me tell you more.

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