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Phrasal verbs - English lesson

Phrasal verbs

Examples

Look out! There is a bus coming.	I came across a strange creature yesterday.	The Space Shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986.

to give

IS DIFFERENT FROM

to give up

Useful particles to build phrasal verbs: out, across, on, with, up, out, down, by, over, round, through, along, behind...

Take up

to sit down

Please sit down to relax a while, and have
a cup of tea.

She is doing sit-ups. (Gymnastics)

to sit up

1. To rise from lying down to a sitting position.

2. To sit with the spine erect.

to run past)

These men run past Tower Bridge.

to ride back

After shopping, Lucy rides back home.

to pour down

It has been pouring down all day long.

to die out

Giant Pandas are dying out.

to eat up

You’re not going out until you’ve
eaten up your dinner.

to tidy up

David! I want you to tidy up
your room at once.

to put out

The fireman is trying to put out the fire.

to take after

Does this boy take after his father?

to make out

Can you make out the plane through
the fog?

to fall through

Heavens! All my plans are falling through.

A phrasal verb can have several meanings

to make out	(to discern) (to understand) (to manage)		Blow-up
to blow up	(to explode) (to enlarge)

Not always the same particle

Put		Look
to put away		to look after
to put by		to look ahead
to put off		to look back
to put on		to look for (sb/sth)
to put out		to look up
to put up		to look forward to

Particles + prepositions

The children are looking forward to Christmas.
John is looking forward to seeing his friend Bob again.
How to get on with a difficult boss!

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Choose the right particle.

My friend Sarah has missed the last bus. I will put her for the weekend.
Because of bad weather we have asked the boss to put the meeting until Monday.
Wait a minute, I'm coming. I have to put the car
I've heard that Tommy is putting £ 20 every month to buy a new bike.

J'ai appris que Tommy mettait de côté 20 livres chaque mois pour acheter une nouvelle bicyclette.

I have looked my mobile phone in my office, in the car, under the bed but I can't find it anywhere.
Look and tell me I'm not dreaming, I've seen an alien behind us.
Many people keep hens to supply eggs. But like all animals, looking chickens takes an effort.
You have misspelled the words 'dumbbell' and 'mischievous'. You had better look them in a dictionary.

During the storm, the captain couldn't the dangerous reefs and the ship sank.
All my plans when I found out that it was not possible to get a loan to restore the old mill.
The other day, I an old friend of mine. I hadn't seen him since he got married.
Peter learning Mandarin two years ago, but after a few lessons he .

Say if the words in blue are correct or incorrect.

After the party the house was a real mess. It took me five hours to tidy up it . .
At the end of the day we rode to the stable back .
As I was walking through the forest a deer ran past me and quickly disappeared.
Children, it's late. Put your toys away and put your pyjamas on .

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