Phrasal verbs

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2Reading: Nina's terrible MondayReading comprehension
3. 3A new meaning?Grammar exercise
4. 4Find the phrasal verbsGrammar exercise
5. 5How phrasal verbs workGrammar rule
6. 6Can it split?Grammar exercise
7. 7Where does it go?Grammar exercise
8. 8Answer with it or themGrammar exercise
9. 9Questions for your teacherGrammar exercise
10. 10Say it naturallySpeaking practice
11. 11Silly rules for the world's strangest hotelSpeaking practice
12. 12About youGrammar exercise
13. 13Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: the right small wordGrammar exercise
2. 2Homework: quizGrammar exercise
3. 3Homework: my worst morningDiscussion

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

A few questions about you before we start.

1. What time do you usually get up on weekdays?
2. What is something you always put off?
3. Who do you get along with best in your family?

Grammar rule

How phrasal verbs work

Verb + a small word

A phrasal verb is a verb and a small word (up, off, on, out, in, down, over, away…). Together they often have a new meaning: look up a word = check it · run into someone = meet them by chance.

With or without an object

Some phrasal verbs need an object: I turned off the TV. Others don't: The plane took off. My alarm didn't go off.

Can it split?

	With a noun	With it, them, her…
Most verbs with an object: put on, turn off, pick up, look up, figure out	put on your coat / put your coat on	put it on (not put on it)
Some never split: run into, get on (a bus), get off (a bus), get over (a cold), look after	ran into Mr. Diaz	ran into him

Three words

Some have two small words: run out of, get along with, come up with: We ran out of gas.

A good dictionary shows you: pick someone up means a pronoun goes in the middle; run into someone means it never splits.