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Phrasal Verbs with UP 4

If someone 'beats you up', they hit and kick you and hurt you a lot.

• The muggers beat him up badly.
• I was beaten up so badly that I was off work for a month.

If you 'bottle up' a feeling or emotion, you suppress them and don't express them.

• If you bottle up your feelings, you will make yourself ill.
• I was angry but I bottled up my feelings during the meeting.

If you 'call someone up', you phone them.

• I tried to call you up earlier but there was no answer.
• Call me up when you get a chance.

If something 'crops up', it happens unexpectedly.

• Something has cropped up. I am going to have to work late.
• If a problem crops up when I am away, give me a call on my cell phone.

If you 'freshen up', you wash and make yourself more presentable.

• I need a minute to freshen up before we meet them.
• When they arrive, they will probably need a few moments to freshen up after the journey.

If your eyes 'light up', they become excited.

• Her eyes lit up when she saw the dress.
• His eyes lit up when he saw her wearing the dress.

If you 'own up', you confess to something.

• Nobody has owned up to starting the fire.
• He owned up to being a big fan of Britney.

If you 'polish something up', you improve it.

• The basic report is fine but you need to polish it up a bit.
• I must polish up my Japanese before we go to Tokyo.

If you 'speed up', you go faster.

• We need to speed up production. It is taking too long.
• Can you speed up a bit? I am going to miss my train.

If you 'tighten up' something, you make it more secure.

• We need to tighten up security in the light of these threats.
• We need to tighten up our quality control system. There have been too many mistakes.

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Phrasal Verbs with OUT 4

If you 'show somebody out', you show them the door out of the building.

• My secretary will show you out.
   
• Could you show Ms Smith out?

If you 'set out', you start a journey or activity.

• We need to set out early if we want to get there in time for lunch.
   
• I set out to be an architect but ended up a zoologist.

To 'set out' can also mean to give all the details or a full explanation.

• She set out all the facts clearly in her presentation.
   
• The contract clearly sets out your terms of employment.

If you 'cross something out', you draw a line through it because it is wrong.

• You can't just cross out things you don't like in the contract. We need to retype it.
   
• Just cross out her name and put your own in its place.

If you 'miss out' on something, you don't get something that you would like that other people get.

• I missed out on the bonus because I'd not met my sales targets.
   
• There are some real bargains in the sales. Make sure you don't miss out.

If you 'pass out', you lose consciousness.

• He had too much to drink and passed out.
   
• It was so hot that I thought I was going to pass out.

If you 'pass something out', you distribute it to people in the room.

• I'm going to pass out a copy of the letter for you to study.
   
• Could someone pass out these papers, please?

If you 'point someone or something out',  you indicate where they are, either by speaking or by pointing your finger.

• If Diana is at this party, I'll point her out to you.
   
• Martin pointed out several mistakes I had made.

If you 'point something out', you tell them a fact they did not know, usually relevant to the current discussion.

• Harry pointed out that our sale in China were rising rapidly.
   
• I must point out that this new system has several disadvantages.

If you 'share something out', you divide it into smaller amounts and give one part to each person.

• We shared out the bonus between seven of us.
   
• You need to share out the work equally between you.

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Read the email carefully and check out any vocabulary you don't know. Dear Mr White, Thank you for your recent job application. I'm afraid to say that we have received a large number of applications from candidates more obviously qualified for the job than you appear to be. You have not been shortlisted for this particular job. However, we have retained your job application in our files and will contact you if a vacancy appears that seems to be more in line with your qualifications and experience. We would like to offer you our good wishes for your continued search for a suitable job. Yours sincerely, Conny Black Executive Vice-President Now try these two exercises. (You will probably need to click at the top of your browser to allow these programs to run.) What comes next? In the first exercise, you have to rewrite the text in the correct order. You have to choose 'what comes next'. Email Writing In the second exercise, you have to fill in all the missing words. Tip- try 'the' first. Email Writing

 

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More vocabulary on the important topic of money. This time, we look at what you receive when you are unable to work in a typical country within the European Union:

When you are ill and unable to work, you may claim statutory sick pay. This is the minimum by law.

• If you have a work contract, you can claim statutory sick pay from your first day of work.
• When I was ill, I claimed statutory sick pay which was much less than my salary.

The time that the doctor signs you off for is the period of that you cannot work.

• The doctor has signed me off for two weeks.
• I was off sick but the doctor didn’t sign me off until the second week.

When you are off work, to claim sick pay, you must provide a sick note from your doctor.

• The doctor gave me a sick note to give to my employer.
• If you want to claim sick pay, you must see your doctor for a sick note.

When you are no longer able to work through illness, you can claim incapacity benefit to replace your salary.

• He will not be able to return to work and should now claim incapacity benefit.
• Stress has now replaced back pain as the main reason that people are unable to work and claim incapacity benefit.

An employer can pay occupational sick pay, that is pay more than the minimum sick pay for a certain time depending on the terms of contract.

• I haven't worked here long enough, so I don’t qualify for occupational sick pay.
• In some companies, occupational sick pay makes up your full salary for up to one month.

The minimum period of service is the time you have to have worked before you qualify for occupational sick pay.

• There is no minimum period of service to qualify for statutory sick pay.
• The minimum period of service to qualify for occupational sick pay is three months.

If you also qualify for occupational sick pay, you may be off on full pay.

• I have excellent fringe benefits. If I am off sick, I am on full pay for one month.
• Unfortunately I am not on full pay now as I have been off work too long.

When a woman is expecting a baby, she can take maternity leave and have maternity pay.

• I can take twenty-six weeks leave with maternity pay and twenty six weeks unpaid.
• To qualify for maternity pay, I have to have worked for twenty-six weeks for my employer when I am expecting my baby.

If a father wishes to stop work to help with a new born child, he may qualify for paternity pay while he is absent from his job.

• After twenty-six weeks working here, you can take two weeks leave with paternity pay.
• To qualify for paternity pay, leave must be taken when the child is born or very soon after.

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Episode 4 - Any Other Business. In this episode we look at how to chair a meeting. You can watch the video or just listen to the audio. (Học cách điều hành một cuộc họp)

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DENISE: Has everybody got a copy of the agenda?

Would you mind taking minutes John?

JOHN: Not at all.

DENISE: Good. Well, then let's get started.

First of all, thank you everyone for attending at short notice.
As you know, the objective of this meeting of the Capital Works Committee is to discuss a proposal for some urgent building work at our Southside plant. As we've got to reach a decision which may involve spending, we'll run it as a formal meeting.
Now, you've read the proposal, so without further ado, I'd like to open it up for discussion.
Perhaps if we can start with you Tan - what's your view?

TAN: Well, I'm not convinced that the work is as urgent as this report suggests, so perhaps we should.

DENISE: So, to sum up - I think we are all aware that some urgent work does need to be done, and we will need to work on a longer term plan for a major refit.

Well, if there's no more discussion - we'll put it to a vote. We're recommending that tenders be called for the urgent work needed. All those in favour?

All those against?

Then that's agreed.. Any other business?
Then we'll close the meeting. Thankyou everyone. The next meeting will be in two weeks, at the same time.



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Meetings. We love them or hate them – but we have to have them. Of course there are many different kinds of meetings –from an informal chat, to a Board meeting, or even an Annual General Meeting – and some are more formal than others – and so the language used in them changes.

Today we’re looking at a more formal meeting – and in particular at the role of the chairperson – or the person who runs the meeting.

Our Chairperson is Denise. Let’s look at how she starts things off.
Has everybody got a copy of the agenda?

Would you mind taking minutes John?

Not at all.

Good. Well, then let’s get started.
Denise first makes sure everyone has an agenda – or a list of the items to be discussed at the meeting.

Then she asks someone to take minutes – or keep a record of the meeting. Then she announces the start of the meeting – she officially begins it.

Let’s practise some useful phrases for these three purposes…
Has everybody got a copy of the agenda?

Does everyone have an agenda?

Everybody should have received an agenda.

Would you mind taking minutes John?

Could somebody take the minutes please?

Well, then let’s get started.
What does the chairperson do after formally beginning the meeting?
First of all, thank you everyone for attending at short notice. As you know, we needed to convene this meeting of the Capital Works committee to discuss a proposal for some urgent building work at our Southside plant. As we’ve got to reach a decision which may involve spending, we’ll run it as a formal meeting.