1. Love and relationships
Read the following histories about love.
“Last summer, I asked my girlfriend out, but my car was broken down, and then I changed my plan. I
came to fix my car. We were holding on for the mechanic to repair my car. When he finished, we ran
away to the beach. Then, she and I went to Acapulco. However, the weather at the beach was very
horrible, ’cause it was raining and cloudy. Now, we need to set off to London!”
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Read the following commentaries that were seen to a newspaper by girls about their
relationship.
My boyfriend and I are very excited because this Monday will be our anniversary. One
year ago I started to go out with him, all this time has been wonderful”
“Unfortunately my niece Lisa and her boyfriend Simon had and argument today and she fell out with
him, it was very sad”
“Last Friday I noticed that my boyfriend had a lipstick mark on his T-shirt so I split up with him I will
never forgive him this is the ending of our relationship”
Last weekend my friend and her boyfriend had a disagreement so she split up with him but she cannot
get over him, she was very in love.
Find the correct definition of each phrasal verb
1.- Ask out a) To finish a relationship
2.- Broke down b) To invite somebody to go the cinema,
restaurant etc.
3.- Run away c) To start feeling better after an ending of
a relationship.
4.- Set off d) To start a relationship.
5.- Go out with e) To start a journey
6.- Split up f) To leave a place or a person suddenly and
secretly.
7.- Get over g) When something does not work.

2. Write with the following pictures your own story using the phrasal verbs
Life
Read the definition of the following phrasal verbs.
Phrasal verb Meaning
1.- Bring up To take care and educate of a familiar
2.- Grow up To gradually become adult.
3.- Get up to To do something, often something that other people
would disapprove of.
4.- Tell off To speak angrily to someone because they have done
something wrong.
5.- Look up to To admire and respect someone.
6.- Take after To be similar to an older member or your family.
Look the following examples:
 Marcus brought up with his grandparents because his parents died in an accident when he
was two years old.
 Alicia grew up in Italy but nowadays she lives in Manchester.
 My sister was very rebellious when she was teenager she got up to all sorts of things she
knew she shouldn’t, just to annoy my parents.
 My mother told off my sister because she broke the plate.
 My father is the most important person in my life. I have looked up to him because he is
successful and a very good father.

3.  Everybody tells her she take after her grandmother, she has the same kind of hair and also
the same constitution.
Choose the correct answer for each sentence.
When I was three years old my parents had to work in England but I _________________ here in
Mexico. I had to live in my grandparents’ so I ______________ with them, his house was very big it
had a large garden where I usually played and sometimes my grandma _____________ because I used
to brake the windows and it was annoyed for her. She used to tell me that I _____________ my
father because I was as playful as him.
When I was eleven I decided that I would be like my grandpa I always _________________ him
because he was very successful and patient with me.
Nowadays I am an important business men and every weekend I go to their house and we talk
about my childhood. It is great.
Work in pairs about your life and what you expect of the future.