Consume media from 2021 onward. Watch Ted Lasso (2021), read The Economist May 2021 issues, listen to podcasts like "All Ears English" from 2021. Every time you hear a phrasal verb, check your PDF. You’ll notice the 5,000 list is not random—it mirrors real usage.
| Resource | Phrasal Verb Count | Best for | |----------|--------------------|-----------| | Oxford Word Skills (Advanced) | ~1,000 | Systematic study | | Cambridge Phrasal Verbs Dictionary (2nd ed.) | ~6,000 (with corpus examples) | Reference | | McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs | ~2,500 | Intermediate learners | | Anki Shared Deck “English Phrasal Verbs – 500” | 500 | Spaced repetition | | Reverso Context (online) | Unlimited (real examples) | Seeing usage in news/movies | 5000 phrasal verbs pdf 2021
