The World Cup and Phrasal Verbs

Posted on by Jessica Ojeda de SELVA

In this video I explain common phrasal verbs and real English from comments that I took from a forum talking about the World Cup.

I’d love to know what you think about this English phrasal verb lesson! Let me know in the comments section below!

Comments from the forum:

  • For those living under a rock, England and the USA just moved on into the next round!
    • to move on – to advance
  • Now Canada….you need to get your shit together and make it into another World Cup. I am disappointed in us as a nation.
    • to make it – arrive
  • If the USA keeps it up and pulls a WC win by the end of this, I expect Glenn Beck to get down on all fours and lick the cleats of Captain America.
    • to keep something up – to continue doing something (can be positive or negative)
  • That game nearly gave me a heart attack. USA was able to make it despite these refs, but I suspect that they’re going to give USA plenty more bullshit in the next round.
  • I totally see this happening. But hopefully they can pull it off despite it all.
    • to pull something off – to succeed in doing something difficult
  • Great game! I go for the USA obviously, but I also love Spain. From time to time, I go for France, but they pissed me off this year (WTF FRANCE?) So, go USA and SPAIN. WOOHOO
    • to piss someone off – to make someone angry
  • I still am not over the fact that Ireland failed to qualify. That was some first-class bullshit.
    • to be over something/someone – to have recovered from a previously bad state (i.e. the flu, a cold, the loss of a loved one, a divorce, or Ireland not qualifying!)

Also, I just happened to stumble upon an AWESOME World Cup English dictionary including 55 pages of soccer terms! Just had to share it with you!

Ejercicio de Phrasal Verbs

[QUIZZIN 26]


27 thoughts on “The World Cup and Phrasal Verbs”

  2. [..YouTube..] hello excuse me I’m from nicaragua can you teach me about phrasal verbs because i don’t understand how to use. I speak in spanish my difficultive is about phrasal verbs you can explain me in spanish excelent your video.

  3. [..YouTube..] prhasal verb belongs to avanced level. new words are being added all the time .not all types of english are the same.lots of new technical words come into the language.english is used in many different context everything is relative.it gives us a snapshot. i think novels you dont use in conversations. what else cant you use in conversational english?

  6. [..YouTube..] thank you very muchl teacher you should post more videos with more common phrasal verbs like these that i already learned. It was very easy to understand. Greetings my dear keep that very good job up. haha you see

  7. [..YouTube..] thank you very muchl teacher you should post more videos with more common phrasal verbs like these that i already learned. It was very easy to understand. Greetings my dear keep that very good job up. haha you see

  9. [..YouTube..] Do you know what? You are the best English teacher I´ve ever seen, congratulations ! ! ! I´ve learnt a lot, but I´m sure I have a lot to learn. Thank you for your help.

  18. [..YouTube..] Hola Jessica, muchas gracias, me acaba de esclarecer que in tambien puede significar de en el ejemplo: I’m dissapointed in us as a nation instead of of.

  19. [..YouTube..] Hola Jessica, muchas gracias, me acaba de esclarecer que in tambien puede significar de en el ejemplo: I’m dissapointed in us as a nation instead of of.

  20. [..YouTube..] Ok, I promise that I’ll try to explain it to you in Portuguese(very close to Spanish) later. Right now I can’t, but I need you to remind me so that later when I have some time I’ll write here some stuff for you.

  21. [..YouTube..] Ok, I promise that I’ll try to explain it to you in Portuguese(very close to Spanish) later. Right now I can’t, but I need you to remind me so that later when I have some time I’ll write here some stuff for you.

  24. [..YouTube..] I want know to use “So” and “Such”…? I don’t understand them. Could help me.? Please.! :'( if any explain it in spanish. it would be excellent.

    Thank you..!!

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