Basic Phrasal Verbs student have to know at secondary school

1. BASIC
PHRASAL
VERBS
Students have to know at
secondary school

2. • ASK S/O OUT: invite on a date
• My boyfriend invited me out to dinner last
weekend
• BREAK DOWN: stop functioning,
vehicle,machine.
• Yesterday morning the car broke down, so we
couldn´t visit grandma.
• BRING UP: raise a child
• Grandma brough me up, as my mom and dad
were always working

3. • CALL UP: phone
• Call me up, please, when you are in town
• CALM DOWN: relax after being angry
• Calm down, it´s not a problem, we´ll find a
solution.
• FIND OUT: discover
• The police has to find out how things
happened.

4. • GET UP: get out of bed
• Hurry up, Peter, get up, it´s seven and you´ll be late for
school
• GIVE UP: stop trying, quit a habit
• Chinese was such a difficult language that I gave up
studying it.
• LOOK AFTER: take care of
• I´m sorry, I can´t go to the party, my mom works that
evening and I have to look after my younger sister.
• LOOK FOR: try to find
• I´m looking for my new T-shirt, but I can´t find it

5. • GET OVER: recover from illness,etc
• Peter is coming back to school tomorrow , he got
over his smallpox.
• GO OUT WITH: date
• Did you know that Richard is going out with Mary
again?
• LET DOWN : disappoint, fail to support or help
• Hi, kids, study for your next exam, don´t let me
down, please !

6. • LOOK FORWARD TO: be excited about the
future
• I´m looking forward to my summer break
• MAKE UP: invent, lie about something
• Tell me the truth,please. Don´t make up more
silly stories, I don´t believe you.
• TURN ON: start the energy, switch on
• Can I turn on the lights please?.It´s getting dark.
• TURN OFF: stop the energy flow,switch off
• I´m turning the music off. It´s too loud, and you
aren´t listening to it.