"Your English ticket to life" Project by English teacher Iuliana Pienoiu. Phrasal verbs with "up" http://meditatii-engleza.ro/ You can also find me on Skype at: meditatii-engleza.

1. pick up
 to lift something or someone from a surface
E.g. James was not afraid of spiders so he
picked it up and looked at it carefully.

2. pick up
 to collect, to gather
E.g. In autumn we go into the forest and pick up
the overnight fallen chestnuts.

3. pick up
 to take someone in a vehicle
E.g. She waited at the station until her husband
came to pick her up.

4. pick up
 to acquire knowledge by learning or
experience
E.g. He picked up a few Italian expressions
while visiting Rome.

5. pick up
 to start something again from the point where
you stopped
E.g. We will pick up this conversation when I get
back from work.

6. cheer up
 to become less unhappy or to make someone
feel less unhappy
E.g. His friends did everything they could to
cheer him up but he couldn’t stop crying.

7. take up
 to start doing something regularly as a habit or
interest
E.g. I took up jogging because I felt I had to lose
some weight.

8. take up
 to make something shorter
E.g. Her skirt was too long so she took it up a
little bit.

9. look up
 to search a particular piece of information in a
book
E.g. You should look up any unknown word in a
dictionary.

10. look up
 to become better, to improve
E.g. Our financial situation is finally looking up.

11. break up
 to finish a relationship
E.g. Their relationship wasn’t going very well so
they decided to break up.

12. break up
 close an educational institution for holidays
E.g. All the children in Romania broke up for the
summer holidays on 15th June.

13. break up
 to break something into pieces
E.g. She broke up the bar of chocolate and gave
each one of her friends a small piece.

14. break up
 become inaudible over the telephone because
of interference
E.g. I tried to talk to her on the phone but I
couldn’t hear her because she was breaking
up.

15. brush up
 to refresh one’s knowledge or memory of a
subject
E.g. Mary took an online course to brush up her
English before she visited London.

16. blow up
 to explode
E.g. I wonder what would happen if a nuclear
bomb blew up in space.

17. blow up
 to start suddenly
E.g. The concert was cancelled because a
terrifying storm blew up.

18. blow up
 to inflate, to fill with air
E.g. George was out of breath after he had
blown up all his daughter’s balloons.

19. show up
 to attend something or to arrive somewhere
E.g. Make sure you are not going to show up
late at our first date!

20. show up
 make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed
E.g. I was upset because he was always
showing me up in front of my classmates.

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