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Vocabulary: moving and movements

Moving! Making moves or having them made by others... MOVE: here is an important word symbolising LIFE. There are many different kinds of movements. They express a transfer which can be made in all directions and in very different ways.

To move To change places (schools/ houses/ ...) To carry

To MOVE: changes meanings when adding adverbs (in phrasal verbs).

to move about	to move along
to move apart	to move aside
to move away	to move back
to move forward	to move in/ out
to move in on	to move off
to move on	to move on to
to move over	to move past
to move up	to move towards

Objects must then be carried, transported, and put somewhere else.

to carry	to bring
to shift	to transport
to bring closer	to bring nearer
to take	to remove
to withdraw	to extract

To lift To push// To pull To drag

to lift something	to raise stg/ sby
to heave stg up/ along	to lower
to lift stg down a shelf	to take stg down from a shelf
to pull stg out	to drag/ to pull

To throw, I threw, thrown (Here, "hurl"= to throw up= to vomit) To fling, flung, flung

to throw stg to sby	to throw stg at sby
to hurl stg across the room	to throw stg out
to fling stg out	to chuck stg out

To fetch a ball To scatter marbles To pick (up)

to scatter	to pick stg up
to fetch	to transfer stg from/ to
to let sb in	to let sb out
to escort	to change places *

To change places: isn't followed by a preposition; "places" takes an "s" (as there are 2 places, the one before, and the place following the movement!)

Drawing or taking something off= to withdraw (money) // to remove a stain/ some paint...

to withdraw money from an ATM to remove a stain

These are some of the most common expressions of movements you'll need in everyday life. Now, you'll have to use them in the test.

I'm sure you won't mix them up... Here is THE FORCE.

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