You're listening to the English Phrasal Verbs Podcast, where you'll learn phrasal verbs the natural way by hearing how they're used in real English conversations. Hi everybody, this is Amy from realenglishconversations.com and today I have a really cool phrasal verb lesson for you featuring two phrasal verbs that I use all the time. And if you use them, you're going to sound a lot more natural while you're speaking and you're trying to describe things that are happening.
To give you a little bit of context about what the audio clip will be referring to, this is a time when Curtis and I were in Canada. As most of you know, we live in Mexico now, but we had to go through the process. of applying to be residents of Mexico. And unfortunately, we had to go to Canada to be able to do that. So this audio clip is talking about that experience.
When we were in the process of trying to get our temporary residency application for moving to Mexico, and it ended up being a pretty complicated process for us. We were there for about 10 days. The very first day that we arrived... We had a big plan. We knew exactly what we needed to do. We had to run around to get all this paperwork and stuff.
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to register as one of our members. The phrasal verb that we heard in this audio clip was to end up. And to end up usually means a final result or the final destination. But... oftentimes that destination or the result wasn't what we planned for or what we expected. It's a little bit complicated to explain, so I'm going to give you several examples so that you can understand. So the first one that we're going to look at is how it was used in the conversation.
When we went to Canada, we thought that we understood all of the steps of the process to be able to apply to be temporary residents of Mexico. But... In actuality, it ended up being very, very complicated. It was more complicated than we expected. So we can say it ended up being more complicated than we expected.
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Even though we planned to go to the United States for our vacation, the airplane tickets ended up being too expensive, so we canceled our trip. So we can see there that the original plan was to go to the United States, but what ended up happening was they canceled that trip. because the plane tickets were more than what they expected. So the final result was no vacation to the United States.
To give you a third example to really lock this in for you guys, let's pretend that you're going out for a walk downtown and you don't really have a plan. You're just thinking about going for a walk. It's a nice day. Whatever happens throughout the day is fine. You don't really care. So you might say, we went for a walk downtown and we ended up eating dinner while we were out. This indicates that eating out...
going out for dinner, this wasn't part of your original plan, but that's what you ended up doing. So I want you to think about something that you did today or maybe something that you did this weekend. That wasn't what you planned to do, but that is what you did. It could be, for example, I wanted to study, but I ended up watching TV.
What you need to do right now is to think of an example of how you can use EndUp to really make sure that you understand it. If you're still confused, go back and listen to these four examples that I gave you and try to think. of an example again. I hope you were able to find a way to use end up to make a sentence to practice. Moving on to the next phrasal verb, it's run around. We heard to run around in this example. And a lot of people think, oh, okay, this is running.
in maybe a circle because you're running around and yeah, you can use it like that as well. For example, my son was running around outside. That means he was running without a specific destination, but he was running around. In this conversation, the context was a little bit different though. When we said that we were running around because we had all this paperwork and stuff that we needed to do.
This indicated that we were going from place to place to place and we had to go here, we had to go there. And this is another way of saying running around. In this case, even though we say that we're running, We're not actually running. We're probably walking, maybe catching the bus, driving somewhere.
But the idea is that we're moving around a lot and we're going from place to place to place. So let me give you a couple of examples so you can really understand how to use this. The first one is... I was running around all day trying to find a dress for the party. So it sounds like this person was shopping for a new dress for a party, but she was unable to find the exact dress that she wanted, so she had to go to several stores.
And this next example is actually going to use the last phrasal verb that we covered, which was end up. So here we go. Every Saturday, I end up running around all day because I can't get anything done during the week. Maybe from Monday to Friday, they're busy at their job. They can't go shopping. They can't go to the bank.
They can't do the things that they need to do. So every Saturday they need to catch up. They need to do the things that they have to do with their life and their responsibilities. So they're running around from place to place and that's what they. end up doing. Now it's your turn. I want you to try to think of an example using the phrasal verb run around. Try to think of a situation when you were really busy and you had to go to multiple locations and describe it using this phrasal verb.
right now. I think that that was a lot of really great practice to try to learn how to use these two extremely useful phrasal verbs. I don't know if you noticed, but while I was doing my explanation, I realized that I was using phrasal verbs that I haven't taught you guys yet to explain these phrasal verbs. And that often happens because phrasal verbs are so common common, it's really difficult for us as native speakers to avoid them.
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