Hi. Let's have some fun, shall we? We're going
to do fun phrasal verbs. Yeah. No, no, no,
I know. I know your face, I know you think,
"Ronnie, how are phrasal verbs fun?" Nothing
is fun with phrasal verbs, but you know, it'll
be fun because I'm going to tell you some jokes,
and then you can tell your friends some jokes,
and you guys can all laugh, and it'll be a great
time. Yeah, I promise, I promise. Just hear me
out. Okay, so first one. Okay, ready? On the board.
That's an interesting get-up you're wearing.
Get-up means clothes. Do you think that style
will ever come back? Okay, so think about it.
What does it mean? Is it... Is it funny? Ronnie,
that's not funny. Okay, hold on, let me explain.
So, you... If you look at this phrasal verb,
"come back", it means "return". So now if I say,
"Hey, that's an interesting get-up you're wearing.
Do you think that style will come back into
fashion?" Because right now it's terribly not
in fashion. So, "come back" as a phrasal verb
here means "return". So this is an insult,
really. So your friend rocks up with this, like,
crazy outfit maybe from, well, the 80s have come
back into style or something, maybe from the 90s,
and you're like, "Whoa, hey, nice ripped jeans,
buddy. Oh, no, that's in style again." Do you
think that fashion will return and become stylish
again? Backhanded compliment, number one. Funny
as well, number two. "Oh, no, that kid just fell
down a hole." Yeah. We need to give his parents
a book on how to "bring up" children. "Bring up"
children, two meanings. One, you can physically
bring something up, like, raise it. And number
two, if you bring up a kid or children, it means you teach them manners. A lot of
people aren't taught manners these days, I think.
So, this is funny because it has a double meaning.
One, you're physically bringing the kid up out of
the hole, and two, you're teaching the parents,
like, hey, don't let your kid run around a construction site where there's holes and
they can fall down. Super funny, I know. I know, I
know. Number three, "Hey, should I put on the lamp?"
Nah. "I like that outfit you have on now." Huh? How's
that funny? Okay, okay. So, if you put on something,
like a light, it means you turn it on or give
power to something. So, in English, we can say,
I'm going to turn on the light or put on the lamp.
The second meaning is we mean it to wear clothes.
So, it's like the person saying, like, hey,
hey, should I wear this lamp? The person's like,
nah, nah, nah, don't change your outfit, it's
already cool. So, "put on" in this case has
two meanings. One is wear, and the other one
is turn on. Turn me on. Funny? Is it funny yet?
I'll do it again. "Hey, should I put on the
lamp?" Nah. "The outfit you have on is great."
Yeah, I know. Come on, they're phrasal verbs, you've got to make them fun.
Number four, is it true that tall people look down on short people?
So, maybe you know this phrasal verb "to look
down" on something is you're physically taller
than someone and you, "Oh, hello down there.
Hello, Mr. Snake. Hello, down there." So,
I'm taller than Mr. Snake. Right? But in this case, "to look down on someone"
means you think they are less than you. Maybe
socially, economically, intelligently, I don't
know. So, "to look down on someone" means to think
they are less than you. So, this works in a double
way. You decide, are these jokes funny? A way that you can learn phrasal verbs
is make jokes from them. Once you understand
that phrasal verbs have more than one meaning,
then your brain begins to go, "Oh, hey, Ronnie,
I could be a stand-up comedian and tell all these
wonderful jokes with phrasal verbs." I'm going to
be right back with some more of these so you can
continue your laughing spree. And I'm back with
more horrible jokes. They are horrible. They're
horrible, but you're learning English and you're
learning phrasal verbs and it's not boring, so
stick with it. Yes. Okay, so I was reading about
the negative effects of drinking, so I gave up
reading. Honky, honk. So, it should say I was
reading about the negative effects of drinking,
so I gave up drinking, but to make it funny,
I just decided to stop reading so that I could
keep on drinking. Got it? So, "gave up", do
you know what that means, that phrasal verb?
I gave up drinking, I gave up smoking, I gave up
running, I gave up exercising, I gave up dieting.
If you give something up, it means that you
quit. So, the funny thing is I quit reading,
but I'm still drinking. Oh, yeah. It's not
so much the work I like, said the bus driver,
it's the people I run into. Honk, honk. Bus
drivers out there, be careful. Okay, so if you
run into someone, this has two meanings. The
first one, what you probably imagine is a bus
can actually hit or run into you. So, the first
meaning is the bus driver actually hits people.
It doesn't happen a lot. Bus drivers are usually,
you know, pretty well trained. I did recently hear
a story about a bus driver hitting a pedestrian.
"Pedestrian" means a person walking. I can
guarantee you with 99.9%, no doubt, that this
human was walking, holding their cell phone.
Get off your fucking phone when you walk across
the street, unless you want to die. Number two,
if you run into someone but you don't hit them, it
means you meet them by chance. So, oh, you know,
I was at the supermarket, oh, and I ran into
Tommy. Like, "Tommy, what are you doing here,
dude? Oh, you getting some tomatoes? Yeah, nice.
Nice tomatoes, Tommy." So, to run into someone
means you meet by chance. So, this is why it's
funny. The bus driver meets a lot of people by
chance and could also maybe hit them if they're
using their phones and not watching when they're
crossing the street. Put your phones away, people.
Meet by chance. Okay, next one. Oh, I put change.
No. Chance, chance, chance. C-h-a-n-c-e. See,
another thing is about learning English is you're
afraid to make mistakes. Look at me. I make
mistakes all the time. Don't ever be afraid to
make a mistake. Okay? It's cool. You're good. Got
you. Number seven. Oh, this is cute. What did the
big candle... Candle's, like, a thing like this.
It has a flame, you light it. Sometimes they smell
good. By the way, I make my own candles. They're
in the shape of this. If you want to buy one,
hit me up on my website. Anyways, what did...
Hello? Hello? Hello? What did the big candle
say to the little candle? "You're too young to
go out." It's only funny because it's a candle,
because if a candle goes out, it means it's extinguished.
So, if you extinguish a flame, it means you
put... Bye-bye. Bye-bye, fire. But in the second
meaning, it's like an adult talking to a kid or
a mom talking to a child, saying you're too young
to go out, and this means... Meaning, it means,
like, to go out to party or hang out with your
friends. Let's try it again. What did the big