5 ways to use 'break' - English In A Minute

Sam's going to explain 5 uses of the English word 'break'! Give us 60 seconds and we'll give you the English in this short, free English lesson.

Watch the video, then answer this question:
What does 'break' mean in this sentence?
'When my mobile breaks, I take it to a technician'?
a) stop functioning
b) surpass; do better

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[bbclearningenglish]

"What's the difference between 'advice' and 'advise'?

[Tigresa]

People is always complaining instead of being grateful. Thank you very much BBC Learning English, bye!

[veliskod]

Sam, your explanation is absolutely perfect!

[bbclearningenglish]

Easy, isn’t it? The correct answer is a) stop functioning. In this example, it means that the mobile phone is not working.

[norbairolondonolondono]

THANKS TEACHER..I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS...YOU ARE VERY LOVELY..I LOVE YOU..GOD BLESS YOU

[tuanmai]

And Break comes with many phrasal verbs - break up, break out. Especially, i mix up "break out" and outbreak all the time.

[TheGudsProduction]

My laptop was broken when I had finished reinstalling my operating system a few months ago.

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[nawarnawar]

Hi. Thank you but I have a question here: why don't you focus on fresal verbs.
There are many fresal verbs we can create from BREAK that have different meanings.

[DuongTrongHue]

You remind me about my laptop. It's not functioning for a while and get back to work suddenly. Lucky, it's not broken

[moulmour]

Short but sharp lesson! Thanks a lot for that Sam.

[fourjrn]

I can get it in a minute for real?? omg, thanks a lot <3

[sdbstar]

it's avery good video, and very useful, sadly i know all the meanings so i did not get any benifit !😥

[ashleynguyen]

does anyone wondering how can they arrange every video so that it could be in exactly one minute??

[hasanabbas]

Hi Sam
Today's breaking news is that I learned two topic from BBC Learning English.Now I will have break.

[ahmedfarraj]

Breaking news, my phone has just been broken, so I can't use it, it's broken. Anyway, I would take a break since my working on my phone breaks my leisure time.

[blissful]

Hi mam awesome video really your accent is just awesome and facinating 😎
Will you make a video on figure of speech?
👍
If you guys are agree?

[thiagonascimento]

Have a break, have a ki... Wait... What?

[davudnazarov]

*they didn't break or they aren't break please explain