Learn English Vocabulary and Phrasal Verbs with “LOOK” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Hi. I'm Gill at www.engvid.com, and this lesson is on the useof the word “look”. And I'd like to thank King Future who requested thistopic on the engVid's Facebook page, so thank you very much. I hope you're watching. Thanksfor suggesting it, because it's an interesting word. And we're going to be looking at fivedifferent ways of using the word “look”. We have three here. These are all verbal uses.We also have the use of “look” as a noun and also combined with other words in the secondpart of the lesson. So, okay, let's have a look at how to use the word “look”.Okay? So, first one is the obvious one, to use youreyes. Look. Look at that. Look at that picture .

On the wall. Look both ways… When you'recrossing the road, look both ways before crossing. Okay? Just to make sure there are no carscoming, look both ways before crossing. And: “Look at that! Look at that!” just tellingsomeone: “What's that? Look at that.” Or: “Look at that picture.” Okay. So justthe simple “look”, using your eyes. Second way, a bit different, this means toappear like something, to appear something. So: She looks tired today. She appears tiredtoday. She seems to be tired today. Okay. So that's to appear. She looks tired today.Or, more happily: That cake looks nice. I'dlike a piece of that. My favourite chocolate cake looksvery nice. So, that cake looks .

Nice. It's a sort of a hint thatyou would like a piece. Okay. Right, so then moving on, phrasal verbs whereyou combine “look” with a preposition to create a new meaning. So, we have 10 phrasal verbshere to illustrate how it can be used. So, first of all: “I'lllook after you.” Okay? So “look” with “after”,it means to take care of somebody. Don't worry. I'll look afteryou. Okay. Right. And then a fairly simple one, if you go into a shoe shop andthey say: “Can I help?” And you say: “I'd like to look atsome shoes, please.” Okay, so very simply, to look at someshoes. If you're buying anything .

In a shop, you ask to look at something.Okay? Slightly different meaning: “She's always looking back at her childhood.”Okay? Looking back in time, in history. She's maybe 70 years old now. She's always remembering her childhood,looking back and telling people about it. So, looking back in history.Okay? Another one: “I'm looking for my hat.” So if there's something you're tryingto find, you're looking for it. Okay? Then instead of “looking back”, we have “looking forward”: “We'relooking forward to our holiday.” .

All right? We're anticipating. We really wantto go soon. We want to have a nice holiday. We're really looking forward to it.It's in a lovely place, lots of sunshine, andnice food and everything. Okay. Right. Now, the next one maybe thisis one you get on the holiday, and you say: “Oh. Isn't this lovely? Thehouse looks onto the sea.” So you're stayingin a house, you look out of the window and there is the seastraight ahead of you. So the house looks onto the sea. You can see the seastraight through the window. Right. Now, if you're waiting for the postman… Andsometimes, you know, the postman in this .

Country anyway, they don't knock, they don'tring, they just… They fill in a card, thinking that you're not athome and they say: “We tried to deliver somethingfor you while you were out”, and they fill in this card and they putit through the letterbox, and they haven't even tried to ring or knock. And yougo to the front door or sometime later, you see: “Oh. What's this card?” You pick it up.”What? The postman was here? He didn't ring.” So, next day I better get that postman, I'mgoing to tell him what I think of him. Well, not really. Probably best not to get intoan argument, but anyway, you might say to your friend who'swith you at home: .

“Will you look out for thepostman, please?” Okay? “To look out for”, so we've got two prepositionsthere. If you look out for somebody, you don't want to miss them. If you see them through thewindow, you go to the door quickly and say: “Oh. Could I have a word, please, about that cardyou put through yesterday? I was in, actually.” Okay. Would you lookout for the postman? Next. Okay, you go into a shop and maybe itfeels a little bit… You're not sure that you can look around. Maybe it's a very expensiveshop, an antique shop or something, and you're not sure it's okay to just look round,so: “May we look round the shop?” Okay. You say it to the assistant there.”Is it okay if we look round the shop?” .

And they say: “Yes”, usually, becausethey want to sell you something. Yeah. Okay. There aresome shops apparently where they don't like peoplecoming in, and they say: “Oh no. I don't think we'vegot anything for you.” Very strange. But anyway. Maywe look round the shop? Okay. Next one: “He was lookingthrough some books.” Okay? So maybe he's gota pile of books, trying to decide which one to read maybe and justlooking through that one, looking through that one and that one, trying to decide: “Whichone shall I read next?” So you're looking .

Through one at a time. Okay? Andthen finally in this section: “I look up to my boss.” Okay? So again we have two prepositions here: “lookup to”. To look up to someone is if you… If you admire them, respect them, you thinkthey really do a good job. You would like to be… Do your job as well as they do theirs.They inspire you, they impress you, you like working with them. So: I look up to my boss.I think he's really great. Okay? Right. So that's the first partof the lesson, and now we'll move on to look atsome nouns and other uses. Okay, so let's continue with theword “look” as a noun. Okay? So: .

“a look”, “the look”, a noun. So, for example: “Hegave her a strange look.” Meaning he lookedat her in a strange way. But you can give someone a look,like that kind of thing. Okay. Strange look. He gaveher a strange look. Okay? And similarly, theway your face looks: “She has that lookon her face.” Okay? “That look”, which means: “Ah.I know what she's thinking.” You know, a particular look. Maybe a friend whoevery now and again likes to go out shopping and .

Spend a lot of money becausethey're a bit bored maybe, so: “Ah. I know she's gotthat look on her face. She's going to go off shopping in aminute and spend hundreds of pounds. I know that look.” Okay, so that's the idea with that one.And finally here: “Can I have a look?” So “a look”. If some friends are lookingat some photographs from somebody's holiday and they haven't sort of asked you:”Would you like to see?” But you… You want to see what the pictures are like, and so youcome up and you say: “Can I have a look?” .

So, that's what you say. “A look”.Can I have a look? Right. Okay. So that's as a noun. Okay, so moving on to the final examples, otheruses of the word “look” and where they're sometimes combined with a longer word used in aparticular way. So, for example, if somebody says about somebody: “She's a looker!” it meansshe's very beautiful, very pretty. She's a looker. Okay? That's quite a colloquial, slangway of saying it. A little bit more formal, this means the same thing: “She'sgood-looking.” She looks good. She looks beautiful. Pretty. She's good-looking. Okay? So theymean the same thing, but this one is very informal, this one is more formal.Okay? .

And then, sadly, she's not been very wellor she's got… She's now 10 years older or something: “She'slosing her looks.” So losing your looks is whenyou have been very beautiful or very pretty, but then as youget older or if you've been ill, you can lose yourgood-lookingness. Okay? So, losing. Losing your looks.Okay. And then a word that uses “look” in it: “alookout post”. “Can you see the lookout post?” This is some post where it's quite high up,you maybe go up a ladder or something and you stand at the top. It could be like on abeach where the… The people who rescue .

People who are having difficulties in thesea, they run out and save them. So there's the lookout post sometimes on the beach.So: “Can you see the lookout post?” So “lookout post” is where you look out from. Youlook out from that position, so that's why it's called lookout, always one word. And then also using this word “lookout”in a slightly different way: “I'm on the lookout for agood second-hand car.” So that means I'm looking out for.Like we had: “Can you look out for the postman?” this has nowturned into a noun. I'm on the lookout. I'm searching for a good second-hand car. “Second-hand”is when someone else has already used the .

Car, but they're now selling it to anotherperson. So, second-hand car, but a good one that's stillreasonable to drive. Okay, so I hopethat's been helpful. And if you'd like to take aquiz to test your knowledge, please go to the website,www.engvid.com, and do the quiz. And please subscribe to my YouTube channel if you'd liketo keep in touch with new lessons as they come out. Okay. Well, that's all for now. See you soon. Bye.
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The verb “look” is used in many ways in English. In this lesson, you’ll learn the different meanings that “look” can have, as well as phrasal verbs that have the word “look” in them. You probably didn’t realize how this one word can express so many ideas! I’ll explain and give you examples of how these expressions are used. Want to unlock your conversational English? Look no further! http://www.engvid.com/learn-english-vocabulary-and-phrasal-verbs-with-look/ TRANSCRIPT Hi. I’m Gill at www.engvid.com, and this lesson is on the use of the word “look”. And I’d like to thank King Future who requested this topic on the engVid’s Facebook page, so thank you very much. I hope you’re watching. Thanks for suggesting it, because it’s an interesting word. And we’re going to be looking at five different ways of using the word “look”. We have three here. These are all verbal uses. We also have the use of “look” as a noun and also combined with other words in the second part of the lesson. So, okay, let’s have a look at how to use the word “look”. Okay? So, first one is the obvious one, to use your eyes. Look. Look at that. Look at that picture on the wall. Look both ways… When you’re crossing the road, look both ways before crossing. Okay? Just to make sure there are no cars coming, look both ways before crossing. And: “Look at that! Look at that!” just telling someone: “What’s that? Look at that.” Or: “Look at that picture.” Okay. So just the simple “look”, using your eyes. Second way, a bit different, this means to appear like something, to appear something. So: She looks tired today. She appears tired today. She seems to be tired today. Okay. So that’s to appear. She looks tired today. Or, more happily: That cake looks nice. I’d like a piece of that. My favourite chocolate cake looks very nice. So, that cake looks nice. It’s a sort of a hint that you would like a piece. Okay. Right, so then moving on, phrasal verbs where you combine “look” with a preposition to create a new meaning. So, we have 10 phrasal verbs here to illustrate how it can be used. So, first of all: “I’ll look after you.” Okay? So “look” with “after”, it means to take care of somebody. Don’t worry. I’ll look after you. Okay. Right. And then a fairly simple one, if you go into a shoe shop and they say: “Can I help?” And you say: “I’d like to look at some shoes, please.” Okay, so very simply, to look at some shoes. If you’re buying anything in a shop, you ask to look at something. Okay? Slightly different meaning: “She’s always looking back at her childhood.” Okay? Looking back in time, in history. She’s maybe 70 years old now. She’s always remembering her childhood, looking back and telling people about it. So, looking back in history. Okay? Another one: “I’m looking for my hat.” So if there’s something you’re trying to find, you’re looking for it. Okay? Then instead of “looking back”, we have “looking forward”: “We’re looking forward to our holiday.” All right? We’re anticipating. We really want to go soon. We want to have a nice holiday. We’re really looking forward to it. It’s in a lovely place, lots of sunshine, and nice food and everything. Okay. Right. Now, the next one maybe this is one you get on the holiday, and you say: “Oh. Isn’t this lovely? The house looks onto the sea.” So you’re staying in a house, you look out of the window and there is the sea straight ahead of you. So the house looks onto the sea. You can see the sea straight through the window. Right. Now, if you’re waiting for the postman… And sometimes, you know, the postman in this country anyway, they don’t knock, they don’t ring, they just… They fill in a card, thinking that you’re not at home and they say: “We tried to deliver something for you while you were out”, and they fill in this card and they put it through the letterbox, and they haven’t even tried to ring or knock. And you go to the front door or sometime later, you see: “Oh. What’s this card?” You pick it up. “What? The postman was here? He didn’t ring.” So, next day I better get that postman, I’m going to tell him what I think of him. Well, not really. Probably best not to get into an argument, but anyway, you might say to your friend who’s with you at home: “Will you look out for the postman, please?” Okay? “To look out for”, so we’ve got two prepositions there. If you look out for somebody, you don’t want to miss them. If you see them through the window, you go to the door quickly and say: “Oh. Could I have a word, please, about that card you put through yesterday? I was in, actually.” Okay. Would you look out for the postman? Next. Okay, you go into a shop and maybe it feels a little bit… You’re not sure that you can look around. Maybe it’s a very expensive shop, an antique shop or something, and you’re not sure it’s okay to just look round, so: “May we look round the shop?” Okay. You say it to the assistant there.