Harry how you doing really good really good Chas how you doing today I'm very

well thank you I'm ready to learn some phrasal verbs in

stories me too yeah English is absolutely full of

phrasal verbs we think that you need to know as many of them as possible so that

you can get by in English welcome to real English with real teachers with Harry and Charlie

Charlie before we before we get going are you really going to record a video

like this don't you think you look a bit bit scruffy what oh do you think I need to

go spruce up I think yeah I think you should spruce up look at me I'm wearing

a nice shirt and you're just looking a bit looking a bit shabby is that to your

satisfaction sir have I spruced up enough now that's a lot better that's a

lot better so Charlie has spruced up to spruce up that's a nice one isn't it Charlie what

does that mean it means to get neater or to improve your appearance so if you are

looking a little bit worse for wear or a little bit less impressive than you

should then you can say oop I need to spruce up and go put a shirt on

maybe if you're going to a wedding or if you're recording a YouTube video and you

want people to look at you and think oh Charlie looks nice and formal then you

need to spruce up I hope they look at me thinking he looks nice and formal for my

YouTube video you do you look nice maybe I should do my top button up

spruce up a bit Oh so it's top button even more spruced up I yeah I think it

is I think it is so Charlie you know I've started

going to gym again oh yeah yeah well I am I'm being really careful not to

injure myself but I am trying to bulk up a bit because I I I'm aware that I look

quite weedy especially in t-shirts and I want to fill out the the sleeves a bit

more so I'm really looking to bulk up you want to bulk up okay so you're

thinking at the moment you look too thin too thin and you need to get big exactly yeah

okay and if I was to eat lots of cake would I be bulking up hmm

no you'd be putting on fat so you wouldn't be bulking up because when you

bulk up you're putting on muscle so I don't know what would we say if you're eating

lots of cakes what expression could we use for that don't be such a

fatty I think you're you're piling on the pounds

- yeah that's it exactly yeah I don't I don't want to pile on the pounds

I want to I want to bulk up but also if I if I didn't want to bulk up I just

wanted to look more toned and have more muscle definition what could I say

then I want to get ripped I want to look ripped is that what you mean yeah I

want to get ripped yeah or to tone up I want to tone up so when you are fully

bulked up and you're a meathead do you think that you'll be able to fool around

with a lot more women you never know yeah not all girls are shallow and

they're looking for big meatheads to fool around with umm but it's possible

that my I'll have a better better sex life when I've bulked up what do

you think perhaps perhaps yeah I don't know have you got the have you

got the moves though because along with the looks you've got to have the moves

so I don't know when you were when you were younger and you were learning how

to how to flirt were you able to score to be honest I've never really had the

moves but I've got the moobs and that's why I'm hitting the gym

moobs being man boobs moobs so this this meaning of fall around is to engage in

some kind of naughty sexual activity with with someone of the opposite sex or

or someone of the same sex depending on your preferences did you did you fall

around much when you're at school Charlie ah so you're meaning fooling around in

misbehaving not being a good child yes did you mess around did you waste time in

lessons not concentrating I imagine you were a you're a goody two-shoes

you're actually on the money there I I was a goody two-shoes I did not fool

around much I was a bit too scared to fool around but I was with friends who

did fool around a lot in the non-sexual meaning they would

misbehave and I would stand there being good but pretending to be the friend

that is also misbehaving so you were like the innocent bystander just

observing the naughtiness yes exactly that I like I like the phrase as

well you're on the money to be on the money that's quite nice it means

like when when another person has said something correct and you want to say

yeah that's exactly it you've hit the nail on the head you can

say you're on the money you're just right

I was actually quite a naughty kid myself and I was fooling around a lot and

to the point where I wasn't really learning

much I didn't want to take up new things so now that I'm older I really

want to take up these new things like I've just taken up the guitar ahh you've

taken up the guitar so you've picked it up well yeah I have picked it up

yeah but I've started playing the guitar I've started occupying my time by doing

it so it's when you when you start a new hobby okay so can I say I've taken up

the coffee mug no you could say I've taken up coffee bean picking that

that's a hobby you know in like in the jungles in in Brazil or something maybe

you go there and you go coffee bean picking do you pick coffee beans yeah yeah

I mean I suppose you do I mean that's a very it's a bit of a bizarre hobby but I think

it would be quite an interesting one it's more exotic than taking up the

guitar certainly is certainly is yes I've recently taken up learning German that's

a good example isn't it to take up a new language yeah yeah and so you could say

take up learning German could you also say I've taken up German yeah I've taken

up german I've taken up

Japanese I've taken up arts and crafts

my dad's recently taken up art actually as you saw in the last live lesson we did he's taken up drawing

all sorts of interesting things I like that phrase as well all sorts of something

mmm yeah like a variety all varieties of art

yeah so your father's just taken up art and you have taken up a bit more travel this

year haven't you you're excited to go somewhere

I am yeah with you actually yeah with me me yeah where are we going

we're going to Pisa in Italy and I believe if Charlie has the guts we're

going to hire scooters and go on an adventure on these vespas on the

Italian scooters over to a seaside town I've got I've got guts I've guts what you talking

about Harry I know I know you've got guts but Charlie one thing we're gonna have

to do is maybe take some Italian lessons like before we go to brush up on on our

Italian don't you think yeah I mean I've actually been trying to brush up on my

Italian but your Spanish could come in handy couldn't it

yeah yeah it could come in handy yeah apparently there's like 80% lexical similarity

between Italian and Spanish so it could definitely be really useful but

apparently there's loads of false friends so I could try and say something but it has a

totally different meaning so it could be quite confusing but yeah we're gonna

have to brush up on those Italian skills aren't we how are your lessons going

the the lady that I started with actually moved away and changed jobs I

think or she just said that yeah she went into early retirement yeah yeah exactly

so I can't brush up on my Italian there but we should just clarify that brushing

up on something is improving an already existing skill so for me I'm not there

yet so I can't really say that I'm brushing up on my Italian I could say

I'm brushing up on my Spanish to go to Spain next year I have a tiny level of

Spanish but my Italian is a little bit non-existent yeah it's true yeah and you

could use it with other things not just with languages

lets say golf I haven't played golf in donkeys years but if I was to play

I would definitely have to brush up on my swing because god it's been so long

since I last played okay okay yeah you have to dust the cobwebs off yes yeah dust the cobwebs off

my old my granddad's old clubs yeah meaning the spiders webs

so Harry would have to brush up on his golf if he had a meeting

with an important person in a company and they had a golf day if you were to

have a day out with an important person to impress them on the golf course would

you would you prepare yourself in any other way I'd certainly spruce up and

if I were a woman I'd probably slap on some makeup

you don't slap on makeup being a man I don't I don't I know you do occasionally

for YouTube and for Stacey do you and Stacey still have those umm those strange

evenings where you put on makeup and parade up and down in front of the

mirror in her dress you know what I'm speechless don't know what to say to you thought you

weren't going to come out with this on camera umm no we we don't

slap on any makeup on Charlie's Charlie's gob any more

those days are past yeah those days are over have you taken up some some new some new

hobbies as I said every Thursday but if you are slapping on makeup Charlie is it

does that suggest you may be doing it carefully you are not you're doing it

very quickly for example if we are running late then I can say to Stacey

don't do it here slap on some makeup in the car

yeah you see so many girls driving around in this country anyway slapping

on makeup in the mirror it's ridiculous yeah they should actually have a law

shouldn't they they've brought a law in for phones maybe they do it's anything

that's distracting your hands I believe so yeah

but yeah so a message to everyone don't don't slap on makeup when you're driving

danger oh can we can we use slap on with just makeup

um not no we can use in other things as well if it we use it with liquids and

when it when we apply liquids to a surface be it our face or a wall or

something so if my walls needed a lick of paint a little bit of paint

what could I what could you say to me Charlie you could say I need

to slap some paint on the wall yeah say and I need to slap another coat on

quickly mmm yeah that's nice so you actually use

an object there as well slap another coat of paint on the wall oh my god the

other yesterday Charlie I went for a really long bike ride it was really hot it was piping hot

and I forgot to slap on any sun tan lotion so I'm really burnt and my arms are super

burned and my face is too and I'm yeah it hurts a little bit ouch so you should

have slapped on some sun cream and slap is actually probably coming from like

the action of slap right yeah exactly yeah the slap or at least we could

remember it that way so which verb to slap slap on thank you for joining us

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