Phrasal verbs (practice2)

support or defend someone

• back up

• back on

When the class was making fun of me, only the teacher ​ (a)   . 

• backed me up
• backed up me

To stop working means

• to break up

• to break down

The ice cream machine at McDonald’s is always ​ (a)   . 

• breaking down
• breaking

When they accused me of ​ (a)   the computer, nobody ​ (b)   me up. They left me in the lurch. (to leave sb in the lurch means you let him down)

• breaking down
• backed
• break down
• backs

make someone happy, especially if they were previously sad

• cheer sb up

• cheer sb on

Reading always ​ (a)   on a rainy day. 

• cheers me up
• backs me up
• breaks me down

think of an idea, especially as the first person to do so, or to produce a solution

• come with

• come up with

• come up

Sahar ​ (a)   her best story ideas at night, so she writes them down before she forgets them. 

• comes up with
• cheers up
• breaks down

Match the following

• think of an idea

• back sb up

• make him happy

• come up with

• stop working

• cheer sb up

• support him

• break down