Episode 11: Phrasal Verbs for Business VI
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Welcome to the last in the phrasal verbs series! I really hope you’ve found this series useful!  When you complete this session, you will have covered 50 phrasal verbs, together with real business examples. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. All the very best! Paul Here is the full transcript: Phrasal Verbs for Business, Part Six. Hi, there. I’m Paul Urwin and welcome to the Business English Community podcast where the world of business meets the English language. We discuss culture, strategies, techniques, vocabulary, grammar and much, much more. Find out more at businessenglishcommunity.com. Hi, Paul here. Hope you’ve had a fantastic week so far and welcome to episode 11 of the Business English Community podcast. This is the last in the series on phrasal verbs, so I hope you’ve been enjoying this series. I hope you’ve been finding it useful. As always, please let me know if you have any questions on phrasal verbs or anything else related to Business English for that matter. A couple of quick reminders before we get started. If you haven’t downloaded your free training from the Business English Community website, I really suggest that you go and do that. And also, on the website, you will find the full transcripts, the full texts of every single podcast so you can read along at the same time as you are listening. That can be a really useful exercise. Just go to businessenglishcommunity.com. Click on podcasts at the top. Find the podcast that you’re listening to if you’re not listening already directly from the website. And when you click on the podcast, you will see the full transcript there, so very, very useful and a very worthwhile exercise. Okay, we’ll let’s get cracking with today’s 10 phrasal verbs. Well, number one is to note down, to note down, to write something down, normally so that you won’t forget it. Let me give you an example. He carefully noted down the client’s name and address. He carefully noted down the client’s name and address. He carefully wrote it down so that he wouldn’t forget it. Important to mention here the difference between noted down and just noted. If you just note something, you make a mental register. You remember it, but you might not necessarily note it down. I could say the same sentence, he carefully noted the client’s name and address, and that doesn’t necessarily mean that he wrote it down. But noted down definitely means to write down. That’s number one, to note down. Number two, to get together. Well, this has a couple of different meanings. The first one is to meet up physically with a person or persons such as, let’s get together at the conference next week. Let’s get together at the conference next week. But as well as meaning to meet up physically or in person, it can also relate to a meeting of minds if you like, or an agreement on some particular topic. So, I might say something like, Mike and Diana really need to get together on this. Mike and Diana really need to get together on this. Meaning that Mike and Diana need to come to some form of agreement. They don’t necessarily need to meet physically but they need to agree on their ideas or agree on a particular direction. Number two, to get together, that can mean to come together physically or mentally. Number three, to lay off. This is to make someone redundant, to make someone redundant. They lose their job but they’re not being fired. They’re not being sacked. They’re being made redundant because there is no longer a position for them at the company. She’s not happy at all, she’s just been laid off. She’s not happy at all, she’s just been laid off. Number four, to keep up with. Well, if you’re going to keep up with someone, you’re going to keep alongside with them. You’re going to keep pace with them. And this can be used, for example, in
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