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Vocabulary: moving and movements - English lesson
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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