I have received so many requests to go into a bit more detail on phrasal verbs, so I thought I would create a podcast series, and here it is! In this first session, I explain some of the theory behind phrasal verbs, together with some of the reasons why you should be learning them. In sessions 2-6 from the series (there are 6 episodes altogether), I will be going through examples of phrasal verbs in a business context. In order to get the most out of this phrasal verbs series, please let me know if you have any questions! All the best! Paul Here is the full transcript: In this episode, I will be introducing phrasal verbs for business. 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 there, Paul here and welcome to episode six of the business english community podcast. I hope you’re having a fantastic week so far and remember, if you already have an intermediate or an advanced level of english and you are looking to take your business english to the next level than this is the podcast for you. This episode marks the start of a series on phrasal verbs. Well how did that come about? I’ve been talking to lots of people recently within the business english community via email and just in general it seems everyone wants to know about phrasal verbs. So I thought I would do a series on phrasal verbs. I wanted to do something a little bit different, a little bit more detailed and also, I wanted to do something that is focused on business english. We are the business english community and we try to give business related examples to everything that we do and that is going to include this series on phrasal verbs. Of course, if you are not interested in business english but you are more interested in general english, then you should still find this series really, really useful. Now, if you listen to a conversation or you watch a video or you read a text even you’re going to find that that particular piece of content is packed with phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs are everywhere and not only are they everywhere, I think they lead to a lot of complications and confusion for non native speakers of english. There is no need for all that confusion and there is no need for all that sense of being overwhelmed. I am going to help you to really get a grip on these phrasal verbs and I can assure you that once you have completed this series, you will feel much, much better about phrasal verbs, how to use them, when to use them, and really start to build up some examples in your phrasal verbs vocabulary. Okay. Well how is this series going to work? It’s a series of six episodes. I wanted to do something really comprehensive. I wanted to do something really good, really great that is going to help you get over the phrasal verbs hurdle. There are many videos out there, there are many blog posts on phrasal verbs but I couldn’t really find a series that was going to help take students like you from having this level of confusion to really mastering phrasal verbs. And I know that’s quite an ambitious goal, but that’s what I intend to do in this series. In this first episode of the series which is episode six of the podcast, I’m just going to give you an introduce to phrasal verbs. I’m going to explain a little bit about the theory. Now, the theory might not be the most important factor, but I think it is important to have an idea before we go into the examples. And in the following five episodes of the series, I’m going to be giving you 10 examples of phrasal verbs in each one, so that’s going to be 50 phrasal verbs that we are going to cover in this series. I really hope it’s going to help you, I really believe it wi