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Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to our lesson today.
I have a super fun one. We are talking about shopping phrasal verbs.
Of course, these are very useful phrasal verbs because
we have to go shopping all the time.
We need food. We need clothes. And that is why these verbs will come in very, very handy.
Because we can use them all the time. So let's begin.
The first one is SELL OUT.
So this means...they sell out it means they don't have it any longer.
That the store doesn't have something any more and it's not available to buy.
And many times we use it with "of." They sell out of something.
So maybe you go to the store and they sold out of mushrooms.
It happened to me the other day. They sold out of hummus, or eggs, or something.
This is also a very common word to use with different events.
For example like a show or a concert.
Number two is TRY OUT.
And this just means to test something to see if you like it.
And of course this is going to be more applicable to shopping trips
that involve clothes or shoes.
Because you want to test those items out before you buy them.
Number three is PICK UP.
And this just means to buy or grab something from the store.
When you pick something up from the store you're not spending a long time in there.
You are just grabbing what you need and leaving.
Easy as that.
Number four is almost like number three but slightly different.
It's PICK OUT.
Not pick up, pick out.
And it has a completely different meaning.
It just means to choose.
This is why phrasal verbs are so complicated.
It's because you switch the preposition and suddenly the meaning changes.
But pick out means to choose one thing.
Number five is MARK DOWN.
And this one is among my favorite ones because
when stores mark something down it means they reduce it in price.
Which calls for a happy dance.
Happy Dance! They marked down the prices.
That's...I'm sorry about that.
That's really what it means. The price goes down. It's marked down.
I love this dress, and they marked it down 50%.
Number six is to LOOK AROUND.
And this one can also be fun. It just means to browse around without a plan.
You don't have a shopping plan.
You're not there to just go in, buy something, and get out.
You're just looking around. You just want to see what they have.
Maybe you can get a new dress. Maybe some new shoes.
It doesn't matter. You don't have a plan. You're just looking around.
Number seven is to SHOP AROUND.
And when you shop around, you compare prices between two or more stores.
And we usually do this with more expensive items.
Like a TV, or a computer, or a phone, or things like that.
That are worth a lot of money.
We don't want to go in the first store we see and buy it.
We want to shop around.
Number eight is SHELL OUT.
And this means to pay a lot of money at once.
And maybe sometimes a price that just doesn't seem or fair or too much.
So this one is not among my favorite phrasal verbs
because nobody wants to shell out a lot of money at once.
Number nine is to BLOW MONEY ON (SOMETHING).
And this is also not among my favorites
because it means kind of to spend money wastefully.
Number ten is TAKE BACK.
And it means to return something to the store.
Now I think Wes will agree that I do this a lot.
Or I used to do this a lot.
If it's defective or it doesn't fit right, many times we can take it back.
Okay, now that we've learned it's time to practice.
So in the comments, write down the answer to one of these questions.
Let us know. And you can answer all three questions if you like.
I hope you found these phrasal verbs useful.
In fact, I'm sure you did because they're very, very useful phrasal verbs
and we go shopping all the time.
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