 Hello students it's Shayna your teacher from espressoenglish.net and our phrasal verb of the day is tell someone off. Okay this S-O in the middle stands for someone. Before I get into the lesson I wanted to answer a question that some students have been asking which is which espresso English course is right for me. Well some of that depends on what you want to work on because I have courses on all the different areas of the language from vocabulary to grammar to pronunciation speaking listening and much much more but the best way to find out which course would be most suitable for you is to take a free sample lesson. I've made free samples from all of my courses and all of my ebooks available just click on the link in this video or in the video description to try out the lessons. Alright let's learn what it means to tell someone off. I have three possible definitions on the board and only one of them is correct so as I describe the situation I want you to post a comment and tell me if you think tell someone off means a disagree with someone B order someone to leave or C reprimand someone. Let's say you have a friend and she has a boyfriend and one day she and her boyfriend have plans to eat dinner at a really nice restaurant so your friend gets to the restaurant on time and she sits down at the table and she's waiting for her boyfriend and 10 minutes go by and 20 minutes 30 minutes go by and the boyfriend isn't there yet and your friend is getting worried because what if he got into a car accident or some sort of emergency happened so she calls him but he doesn't answer his cell phone and she's waiting and waiting and finally after an hour her boyfriend arrives and she says where on earth were you and he says well I was playing some video games with friends and I lost track of time and so she starts to tell him off she says I can't believe you made me wait for an hour how could you be so inconsiderate video games are more important to you than your own girlfriend in fact she told him off so loudly that everyone else in the restaurant looked at them to see what was going on based on this example what does it mean to tell someone off a B or C post your answer in the comments and I'll tell you what's correct in just a moment tell someone off means see to reprimand someone so reprimand means to speak strongly to someone when they did something bad they did something wrong or their behavior was unacceptable so in this example the boyfriend arriving an hour late for dinner with his girlfriend was unacceptable was inconsiderate it hurt her feelings and so she told him off she made a whole bunch of strong comments about how bad his behavior was I hope now you understand what it means to tell someone off why don't you try to use this phrasal verb in your own English so if you can post a comment under this video and tell me about a time when you told someone off or when someone else told you off again reprimanded you or you reprimanded someone else for bad or unacceptable behavior and again if you'd like to take free sample lessons from all of my courses and ebooks click on the link to get access to those thank you for joining me and I'll see you in the next lesson