Learn phrasal verbs about thinking and learning.
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Phrasal Verbs About Thinking And Learning
Welcome back to my English lessons where I try to give you a better understanding of the English language. I try to help you with the grammar, improve your vocabulary, help you with English expressions. And today, we’re going to talk to you about phrasal verbs. And in particular, we’re going to talk to you about English phrasal verbs about thinking and learning. So thinking and learning phrasal verbs.
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INSANITY: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I’ve got 10 of them. I’ll go through them and then I go back and give you an example. So you’ll be able to understand, hopefully, how English phrasal verbs about thinking and learning are used.
So number one
brush up (on)
Meaning: to improve something that you previously knew, to try and make it a little better or just to refresh your memory
You need to brush up on the rules of the road before you take your driving test.
We can brush up on some way of dealing with Excel spreadsheets if we haven’t used them for a while.
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come around to
Meaning: to finally agree and change your mind about something
When our wives ask us to do something and we are not really in agreement first but eventually we’ll come around to their way of thinking because it makes life a little easier.
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come up with something
Meaning: to find an answer, a solution etc
We want you all to come up with at least two novel ideas as to how we’re going to get this product launched.
- come up with ideas
- come up with suggestions
- come up with a plan
He came up with a brilliant plan to save the company.
Together they identified the problems and came up with a plan to address the issues.
figure out
Meaning: to work out, to understand or solve something
Okay, let’s go through this together. We’ll figure it out.
I just can’t figure out that man at all, I don’t know what he wants.
Phrasal Verbs About Thinking And Learning
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make out
Meaning: to understand or to see something clearly
I am just not able to make out which bus it is, I have to wait till it comes a little bit closer to me.
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mull over
Meaning: to take time to think about something to be sure that you make the right decision
Let me mull over the suggestion.
Look, let me mull it over for a few days and see can we get away for a few days.
Phrasal Verbs About Thinking And Learning
piece together something
Meaning: to assemble the pieces of something, such as a jigsaw puzzle
When we have a problem, or we have something that we can’t really understand, we try to piece together the information that we have to try and form a picture that will give us a better understanding.
The police will piece together the evidence that they have, some fingerprints, some other evidence, and they slowly, step by step recreate a crime scene.
Don’t worry, I’ll piece together a manual for the new system.
to swot up on
Meaning: to study something very hard
When we are preparing for an exam, we study really hard, we swot up on something prior to the exam so we can get as much information as possible into our heads.
I’ve got a big presentation to a new client in two weeks, so I’m going to swot up on the company. Who they are? What do they do?
Phrasal Verbs About Thinking And Learning
Our next is simply to
think over something
Again, a bit like to mull over.
Meaning: to go away and think about something properly before making a decision
I’m going to take a couple of days off next week, give me time to think over that proposal.
I’m going to have a couple of days off next week and I’m going to think over my future, what do I want to do?
And then finally,
think through something
Meaning: to look at all the issues from every side, from every angle before making a decision
Could I have a few days to think this through? I really need to look at it. Is that the right thing for me?
Okay, so that’s our English phrasal verbs about thinking and learning. Let me give them to you one more time. 10 of them in total:
- brush up on
- come around to
- come up with
- figure out
- make out
- mull over
- piece together
- swot up on something
- think over
- think through
Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed it and you can find one of those thinking and learning phrasal verbs or two that you can use sometime in your next English conversation.
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