There are thousands of phrasal verbs, and learners often try to learn long lists or translate them word by word. "Turn out" does not mean turning anything, so translation fails. Learners also put the stress in the wrong place and say "I'll PICK up the kids", which sounds heavy. In this episode: • The most common ones, part one • The most common ones, part two • Stress: verb or noun? • How to learn phrasal verbs • SCENE: THE BIRTHDAY SURPRISE (an invented household) • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key phrases from this episode: go on — happen, or continue; "Go on then" means yes, all right What's going on? — What's happening? Go on, tell me! — Please continue. carry on — continue come back — return go out — leave home to do something social find out — discover information set up — prepare or install point out — show or mention something turn out — end in a particular way; have a result you didn't expect give up — stop trying, or stop a habit come up with — think of an idea grow up — become an adult work out — solve or understand look up — search for information come round — visit someone's home pick UP — collect; a PICK-up — a collection, like the school pick-up set UP — prepare; a SET-up — the way something is arranged take aWAY — remove; a TAKEaway (TAYK-uh-way) — hot food you buy and eat at home break DOWN — stop working; a BREAKdown (BRAYK-down) — when a car stops working look OUT — be careful; a LOOKout — someone watching carefully warm UP — get warm or prepare for sport; a WARM-up — exercises before sport Real British English: the complete spoken course for learners worldwide — modern British accent, everyday grammar, phrasal verbs, idioms, slang, he/she/it for things, and real conversations at home. Listen, repeat out loud, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.