In today’s class, Teacher Robin is giving you 10 essential phrasal verbs that you can use at work. You can participate by writing in the comments. Enjoy!
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Exercise
Tap all the highlighted words in the transcript below ⇩ to see their definitions.See Transcript 
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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Exercise
Fill in the correct phrasal verb in the correct tense: stayed behind – switch on – working on – called off – take on – work out – pushed back – come up with – bring up – carried out. ⇩
Grammar
Phrasal verbs
This gives the original verb a completely new meaning.
English has many verbs of this type. Some common examples include:
Verb + preposition
listen to = I listened to a CD. (to hear)
look for = Jennifer is looking for her lost T-shirt. (to search)
look at = Look at that plane! (to focus)
Verb + adverb
wake up = We wake up at seven o’clock every morning. (to awaken)
take off = take off your shoes when you enter my house. (to remove)
drop off = Please drop me off at the next corner. (to leave something and continue moving)
Verb + adverb + preposition
get on with = There is some noise outside, but I will get on with the class, anyway. (to continue despite obstacles)
come up against = Your plan will come up against some opposition from our boss. (to face or encounter difficulty)
As we can see, phrasal verbs can often be summed up in a more formal, single verb (in parentheses).
Phrasal verbs can be separable or non-separable. With a non-separable phrasal verb, we cannot divide the parts of the structure.
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Find Robin’s class on interview tips in the collection below.
Robin. This presentation was incredible. I learnt more phrasal verbs, thank you for that. I will do the homework that you indicate us. 1 In my job called off to work in form presencial. 2 The classes pushed back until the next month. 3 I brought up an interesting idea in my department for feel better during quarantine. 4 My partner came up for to come back our places of job. 5 We will take on when arrive our places of job because we need care of our health. 6 I stayed behind last Sunday because I made my virtual… Read more »
Thank you for your comment. 🙂
Hi Robin! This was an incredible class and very useful. Thank you 🙂
I’m so happy you loved it!
Many phrases verb is used with(something) in the middle but you didn’t use it on the examples, on the example I need to work out the solution, aren’t you reapeting “solution” thank you for your attention
Best of luck!
Congrats for this live! I’ve enjoyed a lot these phrasal verbs for work.
Thank you for your comment. 🙂
Thanks teacher Robin. I’ve just remembered the Beatles’ song “We can work it out”. Now, it has a new sense fot me.
That’s great!