means, to criticize them and to keep talking to them and asking them to do something. Has

it ever happened with you? Has it ever happened when your mom tells you, “come on cut your

beard, cut your hair”, that’s when she is ‘going on’ at you. Okay so this is

what the lesson is about today. Today we are going to find out what are the different ways

in which people speak. Sometimes people speak constantly without a stop, what is that called?

Well if you want to know then keep watching with me, my name is Michelle and let's start.

So here we are, where we have a lot of phrasal verbs with us, all these are phrasal verbs

which are a combination of verbs and a preposition together, okay? So the first one that we have

is to go on at someone, okay now, the one that I started the lesson with, is a different

one and that is to go on at someone which is very different from ‘go on’ or ‘going

on’. So going on is when someone keeps talking about a topic constantly, when they don't

stop. So if someone is talking about a topic constantly then they are going on at it. So

to talk about a topic without stopping. Right so people often go on about topics that they

are very excited for, for example somebody who just did their exams she could say, “ah,

I know”, you know if someone has done their exams they would tell you about how great

they went. So obviously you could say that I know you did well in your exams but would

you just stop going on about it, which means would you just stop talking about it endlessly.

Another way of using going on is by saying, “oh, he's going on about his job for so

long”. Which means that he's talking about his job for so along about his new job. Okay,

so this is to ‘go on’ for you we can also use it in the form of ‘went on’, okay?

‘Went on’, so to went on means he went on about his job which means he did not stop

talking about it. Okay now the next one we have is, ‘keep on’. Keep on means to go

on talking about something it's almost like going on, okay, so now we have a lot of phrasal

verbs with ‘on’ which have similar meanings which means to go on about something. So keep

on is just another version of going on without any changes in the meaning but yes of course

the change is with the verb, instead of ‘go’, we have ‘keep’ and we can use it in a

sentence to say that, “please don't keep on talking about your new job”, which means

stop talking about your new job. Okay, so ‘keep on’ is same as ‘goes on’. Alright

now the next one is ‘bang on’. Okay, bang on. Now this is again another way where someone

goes on talking about the same topic, okay? But in a very boring way, yes. This is the

difference between ‘goes on’, ‘keep on’ and ‘bang on’. So when someone is

bang on talking about something, it means that the conversation is very boring and you

don't want to hear them, okay? For example there are people who are gym freaks okay,

and they love exercising so they would talk about it all the time. So maybe that person

would be like always talking about gym, always talking about exercises, so you could say,

“she's always banging on about the benefits of exercising”, okay? Which means she's

talking about it and it gets you feeling bored. Talk in a bored way about something. Now we

have another alternative to, ‘bang on’ and that is to ‘rabbit on’. Okay so I

really don't know what rabbit on has in connection with rabbits, okay, I don't know but yeah,

‘rabbit on’ has the same meaning as ‘bang on’, which means to bore someone with your

long conversations, long talks. So you could say that, ‘hey, what is your sister rabbiting

on about?” Means, what is she constantly talking about for so long and boring us all.

Okay, now with this we look at the next phrasal verb and that is, to ‘drone on’. So drone

on is more of American Way of talking about a person who is going on talking, okay? Someone

who is going on talking. These four have a very similar meaning and as an example for

drone on you could say, “I had to listen to Michael droning on about the law.” So

this is ‘drone on’ for you, a formal way of talking about speaking for too long, usually

used in the US So drone on, used in the US. Okay now the next one is where I started the

lesson, ‘go on at someone’. So going on at someone means, to criticize someone and

ask them to do something for you, okay? Go on at someone means to criticize someone to

do something for you. So like I said in the beginning of the lesson, “she's going on

at me about cutting my hair”, okay? Or if you're gaining weight and your sister keeps

pestering you to lose weight and to change your diet, you could say, “I wish she'd

stop going on at me about my diet”, okay? Which means she would stop criticizing you

for your diet and your weight gain. Okay now the next one we have is to, ‘bring up’.

Okay bring up is, it gives a very fresh feeling, doesn't it? Of course! So bring up means to

start a new topic in a conversation. Bring up means to start a new topic and when you're

having a conversation with somebody and they start a new topic you could say, “It was

you who brought up this topic I never started”. Okay so here you are telling someone that,

‘I didn't start this topic, you started this new topic. Okay and with this we look

at the next one, ‘pipes up’. Okay so when something comes out of the pipe, it comes

out very suddenly, you don't even know, so if there is water splashing out of the pipe,

you don't know when it comes, so the same way when a person pipes up, it means that

they suddenly enter the conversation when they have been silent for a long while. So

pipes up is, to suddenly enter a conversation. The other day, I was having a conversation

with my friends and we were talking about our food habits, what we like to eat and everything

and while we were having that conversation, my… we started talking about pizza, so one

of my friends, one of my friends, sorry, brought up the topic of pizza and there’s this another

friend of mine, who got so excited that she was like, “hey, I love pizza, even I want

one of those” and we were like, “Alfie, where did you pipe up from?” As in where

did you come up from? So basically she entered the conversation very suddenly and it was

very hard for us to realize like, okay she's already joined the conversation. Okay now

the next one is to ‘chip in’. So to chip in has just the same meaning as pipes up,

there's nothing different to it it's just that it's used more often in UK and it means

to add a comment to other people's conversations, okay? So in a sentence you could say, “she

chipped in with a couple of useful suggestions”, which means she added a use some useful suggestions

to the conversation. So chip in is the same thing, to suddenly talk in a conversation.

It's used more in the UK. The next one is, to ‘butt in’. “Oh so your butt is not

required there”, which means that you're not wanted in a conversation, but you still

have some comments to make. So that's when you're butting in a conversation. This is

more like a slang and used informally, okay? So again that means the same thing, to say

a comment suddenly but when it's not required or not wanted. When your comment is not welcomed.

So for an example, for butt in you could say, “she just butt in our conversation we didn't

even want to hear her, okay? So butting in is, to participate in a conversation when

somebody doesn't want to talk to you. Another example would be, “he kept butting in with

silly remarks”, which means he was giving silly remarks throughout the conversation

or sometimes if you are interrupting a conversation with somebody you could say, “hey, sorry

to butt in, but did I hear you mention about my sister?” Okay so that's how you interrupt

the conversation, when you know that you're not welcomed. Okay, so butt in is to comment

when not welcomed. Great, now the next one is, to ‘reel off’. Do you know what is

a reel? A reel on a camera. The strip on which you have all the hard copies of the pictures

which are later formed into the bigger pictures, that's what you call a reel. So it's so long

right? It's so long. The same way we have people who can reel off which means that they

can tell a whole list with their mouth. I mean they remember it so well, they've memorized

the list that they can tell it off. So if you reel off a list of things, you see a lot

of things quickly and without stopping maybe you are thinking I'm reeling off right now.

Okay, an example for this is, “he can reel off the names of all the US presidents”,

which means that, he can say the name of all the US presidents in a list. So reel off is,

to tell a list of some things. Okay, “‘speak up’, why are you so quiet?” Okay so we

use speak up when we want a person to talk loudly, okay? You could say, “Hey, could

you please speak up, I can't hear you?” you could say this over the phone, you could

say this when you're face to face with someone and you speak things that they're speaking

to softly. So speak up means to speak louder, to ask someone to speak louder. Right and

here we are speak up, but speak up also has another meaning which means to ask someone

to give their opinion in public. So for example, if you're in a classroom the teacher might

say, “if anyone of you disagrees now is the time to speak up”, which means now is

the time to give your opinion if you disagree. You could also hear this in meetings. Alright

guys, so here we are today at the end of the lesson, where you have learned a couple of

phrasal verbs that you can use to talk about speaking. So the next time you butt in, make

sure that you say, “I'm so sorry to butt in but…” Whatever you want to say after

that. Okay so I hope this was fun and you learned some new phrasal words, come back

for more lessons with me and I'll see you guys very soon, till then take care and bye-bye.