Phrasal Verbs activity

Phrasal verb revision:

Head for, carry out, fill in, join in, run through, bring up, give in, leave/miss out

1.       The new teacher had to _____________________ a document.

2.       I wanted to ____________________the Math’s club.

3.       I _____________ my cousin, because her parents were dead.

4.       They ______________ a cloud of smoke.

5.       We always _____________ to what you want to do.

6.       When we make groups I walys feel _________________, nobody wants me with them.

7.       We _________________ the chairs from our class to the other class.

8.       The dog escaped, we think he ____________ the fields where the sheep are.

Come across, stand for, run into, look after, look into, look up, get over, pick up, take after

1.       I was going to the supermarket and I ____________ my neighbour.

2.       When my sister finished volleyball, I went to _________ her ______up.

3.       The investigator was ___________ the crime.

4.       When I met Alex, he___________ as a good student.

5.       When my parents are gone, I have to ________________ my little brother.

6.       Mr. Eady, what does I.C.T. ________ ¿

7.       Manu and Carlos had a fight, but a month later they still hadn’t ________.

8.       I_______ at the bird in the sky.

9.       I look like my grandfather, I ________ him. 

Sort out, work out, turn off, put off, drop off, let down, give up, tell off

1.       You have to ___________ your room if you want to go to the party tomorrow night.

2.       You must ___________ the ocmputer if you don’t want the battery to run out.

3.       I____________ my brother when I didn’t win the competition.  

4.       Last night my mum had to _______ my sister at a party.

5.       My friend ______ the show because it was raining.

6.       Every day I ________ at the gym to get fit.

7.       Yesterday, I had to solve a Maths equation, but it was so difficult. In the end I __________ and had to ask the teacher for the answer.

8.       My mum ______________ today because I got kicked out of the school.

More inversions.....

Complete the second sentence so it means the same as the first one, using a inversion structure.

1.      I saw only then the problems we were facing.
        Only……………………………………………………

2.     I have seldom read such beautiful writing.
        Seldom……………………………………………………

3.     He didn't realize that he had lost his wallet till he got to the shops.
        Not……………………………………………………

4.     I shall never forget your honesty.                   
        Never…………………………………………………… 

5.     They not only damaged your car, they destroyed all the street lamps.
        Not……………………………………………………

6.     We had hardly began playing when it started to rain.
        Hardly……………………………………………………

7.     The example could be explained in no other way.
        In……………………………………………………

8.     We had no sooner cleaned the car than it started raining.
        No……………………………………………………

 

The never-ending…. relative clause!!

As you have been told in previous lessons, the use of relative clauses helps to clarify the meaning of some sentences, but you have to be aware that an excessive use of relative clauses is ineffective. To prove this, you were asked to come up with a sentence including the maximum number of relative clauses, defining or non-defining. These are some of the results. As you will see, it is quite hard to follow them, they are just too long and provide too much information. 

Ms. Ros & Ms. Lamb:

-          When we went to the beach we saw a woman who was swimming in the sea with a pink swimsuit that she had had for a year and her brother, who had given her the pink swimsuit she was wearing, was buying a towel because he didn’t have one as his sister, who was selfish, wouldn’t share the one that she had with him.

Mr. Cerdó:

-           I had a cousin whose half-step sister worked in a house which was located in the middle of the city whose owner was very rich and had more than ten cars which were all Porsche that could reach the three hundred km per hour and the guy who drove them was always stressed because he was the one who had to buy spare parts for them and had to pay everything with his own money which made him a little bit scared at the beginning but the guy who had the job before him gave him some advice which was very useful and told him where to go to buy the spare parts that he might need.

Ms. García & Ms. Van:

-          Elena, whose sister lives in England, was born in Saint Louis hospital which has recently been shut down, which makes her really sad and her mum, who lives with her younger brother, who has a mental illness which prevents them from being able to visit her sister, is trying to cheer her up, but none of this is having any result on Elena.

Passive: interrogative & indirect complement

Passive Interrogative:

Passive Indirect Complement

Causative exercises

1. My sister went to the hairdresser's yesterday to……………………………… . (hair/cut)

2. I think I should take my car to the mechanic to ………………………….. (steering/repair)

3. For their wedding, the bride and groom ………………………….. and everybody thought it was delicious. (beautiful cake/make)

4. My boss ………………., he can't do anything right now. (laptop/repair)

5. "Shall we repair the motorbike?" "No, let’s ………………………..." (it/repair/mechanic)

1. The mechanic changed the battery in my car.

_______________________________________________________________________

2. The hairdresser cut my hair in a brand new shocking style.

_______________________________________________________________________

3. A painter has repainted our house.

_______________________________________________________________________

4. A friend of mine, who’s an IT expert, is going to repair my tablet very soon.

_______________________________________________________________________

5. My shirt is being cleaned at a dry cleaner’s.

_______________________________________________________________________

6. The road has just been rebuilt for the new shopping centre.

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