MAC3 | Lesson 27 | Vocabulary

​Did you know that the mountain lion (also known as cougar, puma and catamount) is the most widespread of the terrestrial mammals in the Western hemisphere, spanning from the north of Canada to the southern Andes?

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And in Brazil, this animal is called onça-parda or suçuarana?​

​We read in the live lesson, in the text 'The rise of the urban animal', that this big cat is also becoming urban.

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The lines 24-26 say: 'And where small animals have moved in, some of their predators have followed.'

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of 'move in'?

• come into a new place and start living in it

• move from one place to get out of the way

• leave a place where you are living

​Great! 'Move in' means 'come into a place and start living in it'. But, that's not so difficult, is it?

In the following list of expressions, we have both phrasal verbs with 'move' (a verb followed by a preposition or adverb, whose meaning is different from the meaning of its separate parts) and verbs + dependent prepositions (expressions in which a verb is followed by a preposition, but not as a phrasal verb).

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Let's give it a try!

Multiple Choice

They weren't using smell, they were using the hippocampus, this exquisitely evolved mechanism in the brain for finding things. But it's really good for things that don't move around much, not so good for things that move around.

In this context, move around means...

• to leave a place where you were living

• put a negative experience behind you and start feeling positive again

• move from one place to another

• make someone feel sad, upset or emotional

Multiple Choice

I'm not a book cryer, I don't cry often reading books, but this one moved me to tears.

In this context, move someone to tears means...

• to leave a place where you were living

• put a negative experience behind you and start feeling positive again

• move from one place to another

• make someone feel sad, upset or emotional

Multiple Choice

Sure you may know a weird friend who moved out of his mother's basement into a mobile home in the forest...

In this context, move out means...

• to leave a place where you were living

• put a negative experience behind you and start feeling positive again

• move from one place to another

• make someone feel sad, upset or emotional

Multiple Choice

I've overturned every stone. I've tried to work on this. We don't share a common vision. We're not willing to work on it. And this is the end. That's the moment when you end a relationship and you move on...

In this context, move on means...

• to leave a place where you were living

• put a negative experience behind you and start feeling positive again

• move from one place to another

• make someone feel sad, upset or emotional

Multiple Choice

...the impact that you as a being have on other people, and how you might need to move over to make space for other people.

In this context, move over means...

• move from one place in order to get out of the way or let another person in

• start going

• hurry up, go more quickly

• come into a new house and start living in it

Multiple Choice

We'd better get a move on, because we've got a bus to catch.

In this context, get a move on means...

• move from one place in order to get out of the way or let another person in

• start going

• hurry up, go more quickly

• come into a new house and start living in it

Multiple Choice

Only after her mother moved to an apartment could Tate move in with Austen, when she was in her mid-forties and Austen was 51.

In this context, move in means...

• move from one place in order to get out of the way or let another person in

• start going

• hurry up, go more quickly

• come into a new house and start living in it

Multiple Choice

But eventually, she got the duck out of the road, she moved off the street, and the car continued autonomously.

In this context, move off means...

• move from one place in order to get out of the way or let another person in

• start going

• hurry up, go more quickly

• come into a new house and start living in it

​Time to recap and write down.

​move around - to move from one place to another.

move to tears - to make someone feel sad, upset or emotional.

move out - to leave a place you were living.

move on - to put a negative experience behind you and start feeling positive again.​

​move over - in this context, move from one place in order to get out of the way or let other people in.

get a move on - to hurry up, to go more quickly.

move in - to come into a new house and start living in it.

move off - to start going.​

​Now, let's practise! Complete the sentences with the prepositions.

​Remember that practice makes perfect! You can practise more in MAC3 book page 146 exercises 8, 9 and 10.