Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs

Professora Especialista Ana Lourdes Pereira

Definition

• Phrasal verbs are phrases that indicate actions. They are generally used in spoken English and informal texts.

• Sometimes, it is difficult to understand the meaning of phrasal verbs. Before looking them up in a dictionary, it would be helpful to use the context to understand them.

Examples

• Phrasal verbs consist of a verb and a preposition or an adverb: get up, take after, write down

• Sometimes phrasal verbs consist of three elements (verb + preposition1/adverb1 + preposition2/adverb2): look forward to,put up with

Multiple Choice

A phrasal verb indicates....

• a preposition and a verb

• an action

• a informal situation

Poll

Look at the picture and try to guess what occupation do these two people have.

• actors

• teachers

• doctors

• singers

Dialogue

Who: Peter Susan

Where: On the set of their latest film.

Talking about: Working on their latest film

Read the dialogue.

S: What are you getting up to at the weekend?

P: I am going out with Tom and Catherine even though I don’t get on with them that well. How

about you?

S: Not much I guess. I’m still getting over the flu. Do you think I can get away with taking

Monday off?

P: You can ask the director…. but probably not. He’s the worst director I’ve ever worked with.

He’s really getting at us, isn’t he?

-

S: Yes, I wish we could get rid of him.

P: Yes, you’re right. I’m glad we got out of doing that last scene today because of the bad

weather. We got off lightly for once.

S: Yes, I’ve tried to get through to him that we are working too hard.

P: I know, but we shouldn’t get too wound up about it. After all we are earning 17 million each

for this film.

Multiple Choice

Are Peter and Susan enjoying working on their latest film?

• Yes

• No

Read the dialogue.

S: What are you getting up to at the weekend?

P: I am going out with Tom and Catherine even though I don’t get on with them that well. How

about you?

S: Not much I guess. I’m still getting over the flu. Do you think I can get away with taking

Monday off?

P: You can ask the director…. but probably not. He’s the worst director I’ve ever worked with.

He’s really getting at us, isn’t he?

-

S: Yes, I wish we could get rid of him.

P: Yes, you’re right. I’m glad we got out of doing that last scene today because of the bad

weather. We got off lightly for once.

S: Yes, I’ve tried to get through to him that we are working too hard.

P: I know, but we shouldn’t get too wound up about it. After all we are earning 17 million each

for this film.

Multiple Choice

How many phrasal verbs with 'get' did you see on the text?

• seven

• nine

• six

• ten

Vocabulary (st=something/so=someone)

• get up to

• get on with (st,so)

• get over (st,so)

• get away with (st)

• get at (so)

Vocabulary (st=something/so=someone)

• get off lightly

• get through to (so)

• get wound up (about st)

• get rid of (st,so)

• get out of (doing st)

Multiple Choice

Which one of these following phrasal verbs wasn't on the text?

• get at

• get away

• get back to

• get over

Vocabulary (st=something/so=someone)

• get up to - to do

• get on with (st,so) - to have a good relationship

• get over (st,so) - to recover from

• get away with (st) - to avoid punishment

• get at (so) - to criticise someone repeatedly

Vocabulary (st=something/so=someone)

• get off lightly - to experience less suffering than expected

• get through to (so) - to explain something sucessufully

• get wound up (about st) - to get angry about something

• get rid of (st,so) - to remove/throw away something unwanted

• get out of (doing st) - to avoid something you don't want to do

Multiple Choice

This washing machine is too old. We need to _________________ it.

• get rid of

• get away with

Multiple Choice

He still hasn’t ___________________ losing his job. I’ve never seen him so depressed.

• gotten at

• gotten over

Multiple Choice

I don’t_______ my mother – in- law. She’s always telling me what to do and she is really annoying.

• get out of

• get on with