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The old-fashioned way to learn English vocabulary was to make a list and review it everyday. That is still a basic way to study.  Now use new technology to listen to this story, and you can hear the words you are studying in context.  

Hearing phrasal verbs in context makes it easier to understand and remember them.  You review your vocabulary list everyday. Like your list of vocabulary, you must listen everyday.  

After you listen to the story, use some of the phrasal verbs to say something about your own life.  Make your own story.  Make your own story come to life in as yo ulearn English vocabulary.  

Do you have a story like Jakub's story?  A story of love?  and comedy?

Listen to Jakub's story to hear about his love, his funny situation, and his interesting friend.

Jakub's Love

Verb list
1. stay over           to spend one or more nights in a place away from home.
2. mix up                to confuse things or people and mistakenly identify one as the other
3. take over            to obtain or assume control of something, or gain control of something from somebody else
4. get away            to escape from somebody or something
5. make up             to invent an excuse, fact, or story

Bruce






To listen the slower version, click below.



Jakub loves to read letters from his girlfriend.  In her last letter she asked if she could come visit and stay over at his parents house. There was a mix up of letters, and his best friend Miklos got her letter.  Miklos told her to come and stay over, and she did.  It was a big problem because she tried to take over the house, and Jakub's friend was very upset.  He tried to make up a story to his parents about why she came.  They got very angry and finally Miklos and the girl had to get away before his parents got even more angry.  Now Jakub looks forward to every letter because these problems are so much fun to laugh about later.

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