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How to Teach Phrasal Verbs

How to Teach Phrasal Verbs

Do your students love phrasal verbs? Probably not, right? Phrasal verbs are tricky. They’re difficult for students, and therefore difficult for teachers. Teaching phrasal verbs doesn’t have to be painful, though. Follow these 13 tips to make teaching phrasal verbs a bit more manageable.

Phrasal Verbs with Multiple Meanings Practice Exercise

Phrasal Verbs with Multiple Meanings Practice Exercise

The exercise below tests your knowledge of phrasal verbs with multiple meanings. For each number, write the phrasal verb that can be used in all the sentences. Write your responses in the base infinitive or infinitive form (e.g. “to turn up” or “turn up”).  

Phrasal Verbs with Multiple Meanings Answers

Phrasal Verbs with Multiple Meanings Answers

  1. give away/gave away 2. takes up/take up 3. passed out/passed out 4. Turn down/turned the offer down 5. turns up/turn it up 6. make something up/made up 7. pick up/pick me up 8. gave up/give up 9. check out/check out/check it out 10. take back/take back 11. turn things around/turn around 12. back […]

Business English Conversation Lessons: Phrasal Verbs

Business English Conversation Lessons: Phrasal Verbs

In this conversation lesson, students are introduced to some phrasal verbs for business. Students then participate in a small group discussion which requires them to use some common phrasal verbs. Introduce phrasal verbs to your students and then have students do the conversation questions.   Phrasal Verbs Introduce phrasal verbs by writing some sentences on the board […]