Learn more phrasal verbs so you can communicate smoothly with Americans and Canadians. In this intermediate English class, I will teach you the meaning of “hold on”, “go on”, “take on”, “bank on”, “look down on”, “check in on”, “try on”, “turn on”, “put on”, and “go back on”. You can listen, learn, and repeat to practice. After the video, take the quiz at https://www.engvid.com/10-on-phrasal-verbs/ Want more? Get my book, 100 Practical English Phrasal Verbs! https://www.englishalex.com/product-page/100-practical-english-phrasal-verbs

In this lesson:
0:00 10 "on" Phrasal Verbs in English
1:40 hold on
2:30 go on
3:45 take on
4:46 bank on
6:10 put on
7:34 look down on
9:29 try on
10:29 turn on
11:33 go back on
13:06 check up on
14:10 Review & Conclusion

Transcript

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Hey everyone. I'm Alex and you are watching engvid.com. That's E-N-G-V-I-D.com. Thank you for joining me today for this lesson on 10 phrasal verbs with the word "on". So this is an ideal lesson for intermediate and upper intermediate English learners. And if you want to learn more phrasal verbs, maybe you are familiar with my book. If not, check out 100 Practical English Phrasal Verbs. This book is available in PDF, e-book, and paperback format. I like the PDF because you can search for things very easily. But I also love paper books because listen to that. Yeah, I love the sound that books make. So 100 Practical English Phrasal Verbs, over 900 examples, 20 context-based lessons, a lot of examples. Like check that out. Look at that. There's a lot of stuff going on there and it's all useful, all practical. So check it out. It's at EnglishAlex.com. Check out the link that is attached to this video. All right, let's begin.

10 "on" phrasal verbs.

You have held on long enough.

So "to hold on" means to wait. This is very commonly used as a command. So if I say, "Hold on, hold on, hold on," this means wait, wait, wait. So for example, "Can you please hold on for five more minutes?" So just repeat after me, "Hold on." Yeah, very good. It's often used in this context. So if I'm talking on the phone and someone interrupts me, it's very common for me to say, "Hold on, hold on. Just hold on one second." Or maybe I tell the person to hold on one second. Okay, I'm not finished with my phone call. So just wait, just wait.

Next, "go on." So "to go on" means to continue or to move to the next stage of something. So for example, "They went on arguing for another 30 minutes." This means they continued arguing for another 30 minutes. So in terms of moving on to the next stage of something, you can tell someone to, okay, move on to part three of your presentation. Okay, so like go to the next stage, move on to part three. We need to, if you want to say we need to continue, like we need to go on, or you can also say move on. In this case, we need to move on, like go to the next stage. Okay, so repeat after me, "They went on arguing for another 30 minutes." I know, I gave you a long sentence and it was probably a surprise, but that's okay. We need long sentences. We need challenges to help our brains to develop and to continue to grow.

"Take on", "take on". So if you take on something, you accept it. It's a challenge, usually, something that you agree to do. So you can accept a task or extra work. So if your boss says, "Hey, Alex, I need you to do this project." Like we, it's very important. And I say, "I'm sorry, I can't take on more projects." Like I can't accept more work at the moment. So if you take something on, you can take on a challenge. You can take on a project. You can take on a job or a task at your job. So repeat after me, "I can take it on." This means I can do it. Okay, I can accept this, this work, this project, this task.

Okay, next we have "to bank on something" or "to bank on someone". So if you bank on something, you place your hopes in it or you place your confidence in it. Now, hopes and confidence are two slightly different things. For example, they're going to win. You can bank on it. Okay, so you are very confident in this case. So you're very confident that the team, your favorite team is going to win the game. You can bank on it. You can take money to the bank that they are going to win. It's a for sure thing. So if you say like, if you hope for something, it's like, "I'm banking on this making a difference." Like, "I'm really hoping that this is going to make a difference." Like this decision or this thing that I changed or that I bought or something. I'm banking on it making a difference. I'm hoping for it. I have some confidence that it can do it.

Another synonym for "bank on" that you might be familiar with is "count on". So you can count on something or someone. You put confidence in them or you hope. In them and yeah, to bank on, to count on. […]