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‘Mix up the mixture and put it in a baking tray.’ To mix up – to mix and mix or to get confused. ‘She fixed up her bike and now it looks like new.’ To fix up – to fix something to a high standard. ‘We have to use up all the milk in the fridge before it goes off.’ ‘We visited Egypt and so I did a lot of reading up on the ancient Egyptians before we left.’ To read up on = to do a lot of reading about a subject.
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‘Listen up people we need to rebuild the library.’ To beat up = to physically beat someone (punching). To save up for = to save money for something in particular. To eat up – to eat everything on your plate. ‘I have to tidy up my room because it is a mess!’ To clear up/ to tidy up – to put a place in order. To clean up = to clean when something is very messy. That is, teaching the phrasal verb by the prepositionand not the verb. Well, there is a way to share your deeper knowledge of phrasal verbs to your students.
LIST OF PHRASAL VERBS ESL CODE
The TEFL teacher who helps their students crack the code of phrasal verbs would be the best teacher an ESL student has ever meet in their lives. What an amazing power we native speakers have. Likewise, when we come across a new phrasal verb like ‘lawyer up’ or, ‘wind down’, we instantly understand the meaning, even though no one has told us its denotation. For example, as children we didn’t struggling to remember the difference between ‘to take up’ and ‘to take on.’ We understood it intuitively. We may not be able to explain adequately how we know what they mean but we do know what they mean. Teaching phrasal verbs is notoriously difficult because the verb often bears no relation to the meaning.Īnd yet, phrasal verbs are everywhere in English.Īnd so, on some deeper level phrasal verbs must make sense. Phrasal verbs are a verb + preposition, adverb or particle.