1. Phrasal verb Definition & example Phonetics transcription Bring up To look after a child and educate them until they are old enough to look after themselves. EG: Lucy’s parents died when she was a baby. Her grandparents brought her up . | br ɪ ŋ ʌ p | Grow up To gradually change from being a child to being an adult. EG: She grew up in Boston (=lived there as a child) | ɡ rə ʊ ʌ p | Make up To invent something (EG: story, game) Judy’s story is hard to believe. I’m sure she made it up. | me ɪ k ʌ p | Come back To return | k ʌ m bæk | Make out To look something in the distance | me ɪ k a ʊ t | Pick up To lift something or someone by using your hands. EG: Those books don’t belong on the floor. Will you help me pick them up? | p ɪ k ʌ p | Set off To start a journey EG: We set off for London just after them. | set ɒ f | Drop off To deliver something to a place, usually in a car, often when you are going somewhere else. EG: Yes. I can take those letters to the post office. I’ll drop them off as I go home from work. | dr ɒ p ɒ f |

2. Phrasal verb Definition & example Phonetics transcription Save up (for sth) To keep money so that you can buy something with in the future. | seɪv ʌp | Cut down (on) To reduce the amount of number of something | kʌt daʊn | Dress up To put on a formal or special clothes for special occasion, or to put them on someone else. | dres ʌp | Stand out If someone of something stands out, they are very noticeable because they look different or behave differently from other people or things. | stænd aʊt | Put on To put a piece of clothing onto your body. | ˈpʊt ɒn | Take back If a shop takes back goods that it has sold to you, it agrees to give you your money or goods for them because they are damaged or unsuitable. | teɪk bæk |

3. Phrasal verb Definition & example Phonetics transcription Switch/turn sth on To turn on an electrical device (eg. A light, radio) or an engine by using a switch. | swɪtʃ ɒn| |ˈtɜ:n ɒn | Switch/turn off To turn off an electrical device (eg. A light, radio) or an engine by using a switch. | swɪtʃ ɒf| | tɜːn ɒf | Turn (sth) up To increase the amount of something, especially sound or heat, that is produced by a machine (eg. Television, oven) | tɜːn ʌp | Plug in To connect a piece of electrical equipment to a supply of electricity or to another piece of electrical equipment. | plʌɡ ɪn | Go off If a warning device (eg. Alarm) goes off, it suddenly makes a loud noise. | ɡəʊ ɒf |

4. Cut out If an engine, machine, or piece of equipment cuts out, it suddenly stops working. | kʌt aʊt | Back up To make a copy of computer information so that you do not lose it. | ˌbæk ˈʌp | Type in To put information into a computer using a keyboard. | taɪp ɪn | Print out To produce a printed copy of a document that has been written on a computer. | prɪnt aʊt | Log in To connect a computer to a system of computers by typing your name, usually so that you can start working. | lɒɡ ɪn | Log out To stop a computer being connected to a computer system, usually when you want to stop working. | lɒɡ aʊt | Scroll across/down/up To move text or other information across/down/up a computer screen in order to view a different part of it. | skrəʊl əˈkrɒs daʊn ʌp |

5. Phrasal verb Definition & example Phonetics transcription Get away To go somewhere to have a holiday, especially because you need to rest. | ˈɡet əˈweɪ | Set off To start a journey. | set ɒf | Get on To go onto a bus, train, aircraft, or boat. | ˈɡet ɒn | Stop off To visit a place for a short time when you are going somewhere else. | stɒp ɒf |

6. Check in To show your ticket at an airport so that you can be told where you are sitting and so that you bags can be put on the aircraft. | tʃek ɪn | Check out To leave a hotel after paying and giving back the key of your room. | tʃek aʊt | Get in If a train, plane, or other vehicle gets in at a particular time, that is when it arrives. | ˈɡet ɪn | Pull in If a train pulls in or pulls into a station, it arrives there. | pʊl ɪn | Pull out If a train pulls out, it starts to leave a station. | pʊl aʊt | Stop over A short stay in a place that you make while you are on a longer journey somewhere else. | stɒp ˈəʊvə |

7. Phrasal verb Definition & example Phonetics transcription Clock on To record the time you arrive at work, usually on a machine with a clock. | ˈklɒk ɒn | Clock off To record the time you leave work, usually on a machine with a clock. | ˈklɒk ɒf | Take sth off To spend time away from your work. EG: I decided to take some days off next week. | teɪk ɒf | Bring forward sth To change the date or time of an event so that it happens earlier than planned. EG: The meeting has been brought forward from 10 May to 3 May. | brɪŋ ˈfɔːwəd |

8. Fit in sb/sth To find time to do something or to see someone | fɪt ɪn | Be pressed for sth To have very little or not enough of something, especially time or money. | bi prest fɔː | Run out If a document or official agreement runs out, the period of time it lasts for comes to an end. | rʌn aʊt | Hang out Informal. To spend a lot of time in a particular place, or to spend a lot of time with someone. | hæŋ aʊt | Mess around To spend time playing or doing things with no particular purpose. | mes əˈraʊnd | Hang on Informal. To wait, especially for a short time. | hæŋ ɒn |

9. Think back To think about things that happened in the past. | θɪŋk bæk | Be left over To exist from an earlier time. | bi left ˈəʊvə | Hold someone up To delay something or someone. | həʊld ʌp | Drag on If an unpleasant or difficult situation or process drags on, it continues for too long. | dræɡ ɒn | Pass by If time or period of time (eg. Week) passes by, it goes past. | pɑːs baɪ | Lie ahead If an event or situation that will cause problems lies ahead, it will happen in the future. | laɪ əˈhed |