9 Confusing Driving Phrasal Verbs in English (+ Their 9 Opposites)

Описание: Did the police pull you off, or pull you over? Phrasal verbs in English are confusing. Unfortunately, we use them all the time, especially when we talk about driving. In this English vocabulary lesson, you will learn VERY common driving phrasal verbs and their opposites so you can understand real English conversations. You’ll learn expressions like back up, pull up, drive off, pick up, drop off, slow down, speed up, run out of gas, and fill up. I also explain useful expressions like get in, get out, back into a parking spot, pull into a parking spot, and get pulled over by the police. Watch the lesson, learn the expressions, and try the quiz to see how many you remember. And please… slow down and drive safely. https://www.engvid.com/18-driving-phr...

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In this lesson:
0:00 Driving Phrasal Verbs (and their opposites!)
1:20 back up
3:02 drive forward
3:22 pick up
3:43 drop off
4:04 slow down
4:16 speed up
4:37 drive off
4:53 pull up
5:18 back into
6:02 pull into
6:33 get in & get out
7:05 run out of gas
7:29 fill up with gas
7:57 drive back
8:16 get there
8:49 get pulled over
9:35 didn't get caught

Transcript:
Ronnie, here, you, with me, let's do this. Phrasal verbs, yes, horrible, aren't they? So, I always tell my students, "Hey, if you're really at an advanced level in English, forget about the idioms, nobody uses those, but one thing we do use a lot, phrasal verbs. They're confusing because you can go up, you can go down, you can go over, and they have different meanings, and what you think is the opposite quite exactly isn't. So, for example, you can turn on and turn off something, that's great, but nothing's that easy all the time with phrasal verbs in English.

So, this one is specifically for driving, and I'm going to teach you the opposites. What's the opposite of driving? Not driving, yeah, no, not a phrasal verb. What's a phrasal verb? Mm-hmm, a phrasal verb is a verb plus a preposition, a preposition are things like up, off, down, into, in, all these fun little tiny words that make your life hell.

So, the first one, back up, and of course I have a story for you about this. It was 2008, my best friend and I were driving away in Ireland on the wrong side of the road or the right side of the road, depending how you look at things, anyways, the opposite side of the road of what I'm used to in Canada, and, you know, we rock up to our little beautiful Irish Airbnb or hotel, and I'm like, okay, so this is great, we made it, we didn't kill anyone, no sheep ran us over, and I'm just going to park. Okay. Actually, I'd be this way, wouldn't I, because it's the other side, and I'm like, oh, man. Usually the cars that I've driven my entire life have P for park, D for drive, N for neutral, R for reverse, and then some other things. There's an alien one if you want your spaceship to go further.

Long story short, I couldn't find the damn reverse. Like, the R was there, but I'm like, there's no how to... I could not get this car to reverse. I could not back up the car. Thank god Irish people are cool. Patrick comes out, he's like, I just need some help down there, I was like, yeah, you know. I know how to drive, and I've driven here, but I can't get the car into reverse, I can't back up the car. There's a button, like a button that you press to make the car go backwards, I was like, thank you. So actually Patrick, like, backed up the car into the parking spot, and I downed a pint of Guinness. It was a great day, great story. So back up means to go in reverse.

The opposite of that is it's really easy and sensible, it means to go or drive forward. So, you know, you're like... Or just drive. You're driving forward, you're going, or you're backin' up, see? You would think, like, back down, back over, no, doesn't work like that.

The next one is pick up and drop off. So if someone says, hey, I will pick you up at 7, that means the person who's driving in their car, or this side of the road, it doesn't matter, okay, is going to go to your house or your location, and you are going to go in the car and drive together. Nice. To drop off, the person's had enough of your shit and just gets you out of the car. To drop someone off means you leave the person, you're like, bye. So you get out of the car, and the driver doesn't, and you're stranded, or you're like, whoa, thank god I'm out of that car.

Slow down. Slow down, Ronnie? Slow down means reduce speed. Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket? I did. Slow down, reduce speed. So you're like, slow down, slow up. No. Speed up. I don't know, could we speed down? […]