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    Phrasal verb Childhood

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Growing Up In The 90s

(1) Keisha: Listen
You [vocab word=grow up]grew up[/vocab] in the 90's, right, dad? Tell me about your childhood.

"90's" means 1990s.

(2) Mike: Listen
Sure. I grew up in a small city. I [vocab word=get up]got up[/vocab] at around 7 in the morning to go to school. We had to go to school from Monday to Saturday.

"Grow up" is a phrasal verb. "Grow" is a verb and "up" is an adverb. "Grow up" means to become an adult. Mike grew up in Asia, and in some Asian countries, you had to go to school on Saturdays before 2000s.

(3) Keisha: Listen
Oh, wow. 6 days a week.

Monday to Saturday

(4) Mike: Listen
Yeah. And, most families didn't have [vocab word=internet]internet[/vocab] or cellphones back then.

"Cellphone" is a compound noun ("cell" + "phone").

(5) Keisha: Listen
How did you [vocab word=look up]look up[/vocab] information for school or order a pizza?

"Look up" is a phrasal verb (verb + adverb).

(6) Mike: Listen
Kids went to the library to look up information. We called up the pizza store on our [vocab word=landline]landline[/vocab] to [vocab word=order]order[/vocab] a pizza.

"Call up" is a phrasal verb (verb + adverb).

(7) Keisha: Listen
That was a very different time, huh.
(8) Mike: Listen
Yup. No Facebook. No Twitter. No Snapchat.
(9) Keisha: Listen
How did kids play with each other back then?
(10) Mike: Listen
We [vocab word=set up]set up[/vocab] a date and time to play on the phone. Then, we went to each other's house. Sometimes, we [vocab word=meet up]met up[/vocab] at the shopping mall.

The kids talked on the phone and decided a date and time to play.

(11) Keisha: Listen
You didn't have a cellphone. So, what did you do when you couldn't find your friends at the mall?
(12) Mike: Listen
We used a pager. It sends a short text, like "AT NORTH ENTRANCE"

See the picture of a "pager".

(13) Keisha: Listen
That's an interesting [vocab word=piece]piece[/vocab] of [vocab word=technology]technology[/vocab]...

"A piece of technology" has a collective noun ("piece"). "Technology" is not countable. So, we cannot say "a technology". We say "a piece of technology" to mean "1 technology".

(14) Mike: Listen
If I still couldn't find my friends, I just [vocab word=give up]gave up[/vocab] and went home. It was a very different time indeed.
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Growing Up In The 90s

(1) Keisha: Listen
You [vocab word=grow up]grew up[/vocab] in the 90's, right, dad? Tell me about your childhood.

"90's" means 1990s.

(2) Mike: Listen
Sure. I grew up in a small city. I [vocab word=get up]got up[/vocab] at around 7 in the morning to go to school. We had to go to school from Monday to Saturday.

"Grow up" is a phrasal verb. "Grow" is a verb and "up" is an adverb. "Grow up" means to become an adult. Mike grew up in Asia, and in some Asian countries, you had to go to school on Saturdays before 2000s.

(3) Keisha: Listen
Oh, wow. 6 days a week.

Monday to Saturday

(4) Mike: Listen
Yeah. And, most families didn't have [vocab word=internet]internet[/vocab] or cellphones back then.

"Cellphone" is a compound noun ("cell" + "phone").

(5) Keisha: Listen
How did you [vocab word=look up]look up[/vocab] information for school or order a pizza?

"Look up" is a phrasal verb (verb + adverb).

(6) Mike: Listen
Kids went to the library to look up information. We called up the pizza store on our [vocab word=landline]landline[/vocab] to [vocab word=order]order[/vocab] a pizza.

"Call up" is a phrasal verb (verb + adverb).

(7) Keisha: Listen
That was a very different time, huh.
(8) Mike: Listen
Yup. No Facebook. No Twitter. No Snapchat.
(9) Keisha: Listen
How did kids play with each other back then?
(10) Mike: Listen
We [vocab word=set up]set up[/vocab] a date and time to play on the phone. Then, we went to each other's house. Sometimes, we [vocab word=meet up]met up[/vocab] at the shopping mall.

The kids talked on the phone and decided a date and time to play.

(11) Keisha: Listen
You didn't have a cellphone. So, what did you do when you couldn't find your friends at the mall?
(12) Mike: Listen
We used a pager. It sends a short text, like "AT NORTH ENTRANCE"

See the picture of a "pager".

(13) Keisha: Listen
That's an interesting [vocab word=piece]piece[/vocab] of [vocab word=technology]technology[/vocab]...

"A piece of technology" has a collective noun ("piece"). "Technology" is not countable. So, we cannot say "a technology". We say "a piece of technology" to mean "1 technology".

(14) Mike: Listen
If I still couldn't find my friends, I just [vocab word=give up]gave up[/vocab] and went home. It was a very different time indeed.
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