The document lists various phrasal verbs with examples illustrating their meanings and usage. It covers verbs like 'pick up', 'cheer up', 'take up', 'look up', 'break up', 'brush up', 'blow up', and 'show up', demonstrating different contexts in which they can be used. Each entry includes a definition along with a practical example.

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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