hi students its Shana your teacher from
espresso English dotnet and the phrasal
verb of the day is perk up this is an
interesting phrasal verb and you might
not have encountered it before but today
you're going to find out what it means
before I begin the lesson I want to
invite you into my phrasal verbs course
which is called phrasal verbs in
conversation
I made this course in order to help you
learn phrasal verbs in a more natural
way so some students try to learn
phrasal verbs by just studying long
lists of definitions and that's okay but
I think it's more interesting more fun
and more effective to learn phrasal
verbs through real situations so that's
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start those lessons today if you want so
let's get to today's phrasal verb perk
up here are the three possible
definitions remember that only one is
correct and as I'm talking I want you to
think about which is the correct meaning
and post your guests post your answer a
B or C in the comments to this video and
then keep watching to find out if you're
correct does perk up mean a to become
more cheerful or lively be to cooperate
with someone or C to express strong
gratitude let me describe a situation
let's say you have a young daughter
she's three years old and one day you
take your daughter out on a lot of
errands errands are tasks that you do
outside the house like going to the
supermarket the bank and the post office
this kind of thing and by the end of all
these errands your little girl is kind
of tired because it wasn't really very
much fun for her to
go to all these different places and do
all these different errands and so she's
in the car and she's kind of tired and a
little bit in a bad mood and she's
saying that she's hungry
and then you say hey why don't we go to
the toy store and immediately she perks
up and she starts talking about her toys
and she starts asking if you can buy
something at the toy store she perked up
when you mentioned the toy store so what
does it mean to perk up based on that
situation does it mean a to become more
cheerful or lively be to cooperate with
someone or see to express strong
gratitude what do you think the correct
answer and I hope you got it from my
description of this situation is a to
become more cheerful and lively so in
this example mentioning a toy store will
make usually a little boy or a little
girl
perk up she will get happier she'll get
excited
watch your full and livelier another
example of perk up is a lot of people
say that a cup of coffee can help them
perk up in the morning so if you're one
of those people who wakes up and you
don't have a lot of energy then drinking
coffee can help you perk up and become
happier and have an more energetic right
that's what lively means is to be more
energetic we also sometimes see the
phrasal verb perk up use with other
things that are not people when
something makes a situation a little bit
happier a little bit livelier one
example would be if you're decorating a
room in your house and the colors in the
room are a little bit subdued they're a
little bit boring maybe you just have
grey and black and white okay then you
might want to add some red or some blue
or some yellow paint to perk up the
design to make it a little bit happier
more cheerful
more lively so that's another example of
perk up in a situation where it's not
involving people it's a some thing in
this case a little bit of color making
the room more lively now we have one
more expression with perk up that you
might think is a little bit strange and
that is when someone's ears perk up so
what does it mean for your ears to perk
up it doesn't mean that your ears are
suddenly excited and jumping for joy
not literally anyway here's an example
let's say you're in your office and
nearby your boss is talking with another
manager and you can hear their
conversation but you're not really
paying attention you're focusing on your
own work and then your boss and this
other manager start discussing
promotions and talking about who's going
to receive a promotion this year well
then your ears would perk up that means
you would start becoming interested and
start paying attention to that
conversation about promotions because
it's interesting to you and you want to
know of course if you're one of the
people who will get promoted so if
someone says their ears perked up it
means they suddenly started becoming
interested or suddenly started paying
attention to something they were hearing
alright I hope now you understand what
it means to perk up and I'd love to see
you use this phrasal verb in your own
English so try to post an example post a
sentence in the comments of a time when
you perked up or someone else perked up
or you could use it in the expression my
ears perked up when you suddenly heard
something of interest to you I'd love to
see your sentences in the comments and
again if you want to get a lot more
practice with phrasal verbs then make
sure you check out my phrasal verbs in
conversation course because every single
lesson also has practice exercises and
actually inside the course you can send
your sentences to me and I will check
them and correct them to make sure that
you're using all those phrasal verbs
correctly I hope you enjoyed today's
daily phrasal verb lesson
and I hope I'll see you in the next one
bye-bye
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