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- 1. BASIC PHRASAL VERBS Students have to know at secondary school
- 2. • ASK S/OOUT: 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 FORWARDTO: 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.