Study English Phrasal Verbs Easily: 

Follow These Four Steps

English phrasal verbs sound hard for many students. You can study and learn them easily here.   

Step 1 is to start believing they are easy.  Step 2 is to study a little about them.  Step 3 is to memorize their meanings.  Step 4 is to practice listening to these idiomatic expressions in the context of a story.  

Step 1.   Believe they are easy.  You can try several things to start believing English phrasal verbs are easy to learn.  

1. tell yourself they are easy.  Repeat this over and over. 
2. Imagine studying them and practicing listening to them in stories.  Feel relaxed and happy as you do this visualization. 
3. Imagine using them in your own English conversations with ease and comfort.  
4. Repeat the visualization often.  Make is clear, peaceful and feel the emotions of  happiness and ease strongly as you do the visualization; be sure to see yourself smiling.  

Study about how to use them:  can the object go between the bverb and the preposition?  Sometimes it can (separable) and sometimes it can't (inseparable).  

Learn about these two but don't memorize them too deeply; it is better to learn how to use them by listening to them in stories and mimicing the stories than to think about them (which slows down your english speaking).  

More: 

Some phrasal verbs need an object after them (transitive) and some phrasal verbs cannot have an object after them (intransitive). don't think too deeply about this point; Just be aware that there are two patterns, and then try to listen for these patterns  in the stories when you practice.  

Step 3.  Memorize the meanings for the English phrasal verbs.  Each phrasal verb story I have on this site has a list of the verbs before the story.  The meanings are there.  Read them.  read them out loud.  Write the meanings in your own notebook.  Try to draw a picture representing the meaning for  yourself. 

 Review these meanings regularly.  

Step 4.  Listen to the stories.  Read the stories.  You need to listen for the English phrasal verbs in every story.  Follow the suggested study practice I outlined on the main page of this site here.  the key point is to review, review, review.  Change stories once a week or once every two weeks.  

The Volunteer

Verb List

1. Fond of:      experiencing pleasure: liking or finding enjoyment in something
2. Tear down:  to demolish, destroy, or dismantle something such as a building
3. Pay for:       to give somebody money for work done or for goods or services provided
4. Carry out:   to do something that has been ordered, planned, or stated as a goal

Alex joined a volunteer community service group in his city. He is very fond of his neighborhood, and wants to make it even better. The group tore down an old building and now they are cleaning up. They needed to carry out this service only on weekends, and it has taken a long time. Normally his neighborhood could not afford to tear down old buildings, but with the volunteers, they didn’t have to pay for labor, so it was cheaper. Alex and his friends are proud of their accomplishment.

1.Why did Alex join a volunteer group?

2.What did the group do?

3.Normally the neighborhood couldn’t afford to tear down a building. Why could they do it this time?

4.How does Alex feel?

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