UNIT TWO Phrasal Verbs

give away - to give something to someone without asking for payment - to tell people something secret, often without intending to - to show someone's secret feelings - in a marriage ceremony, to formally bring a woman who is getting married to the front of the church so that she is standing at the side of her future husband, and then to give permission for her to marry give up work out work up put down to put an object that you are holding onto the floor or onto another surface, or to stop carrying someone to write someone's name on a list or document, usually in order to include them in an event or activity If you put the telephone down, you place the receiver back in the position you keep it in when it is not being used. to pay part of the cost and promise to pay the rest later to make someone feel silly or not important by criticizing to place and make a baby comfortable in the place where it sleeps to kill an animal that is old, ill or injured, to prevent it from suffering to stop or limit an opposing political event or group to reduce a price or a charge When an aircraft puts down, it lands, and when pilots put down their aircraft, they land to stop a vehicle and allow someone to get out of it or off it [1] to develop an emotional or physical state that you feel strongly, after a period of effort or time to make yourself or another person feel upset or feel strong emotions to gradually prepare yourself for something difficult to do a calculation to get an answer to a mathematical question to understand something or to find the answer to something by thinking about it to exercise in order to improve the strength or appearance of your body to be the result of a calculation to happen or develop in a particular way to understand the reasons for someone's behaviour If a problem or difficult situation works out, it gradually becomes better or satisfactory, and if you work it out, you make it better or satisfactory to spend all your time and energy doing or feeling something to stop trying to guess to stop owning and using something to stop doing something before you have finished it, usually because it is too difficult If you give up a habit, such as smoking, or something such as alcohol, you stop doing it or using it to stop doing a regular activity or job to stop having a friendship with someone to stop expecting that someone will arrive to think that someone is certain to die or to be dead to allow the police or an enemy to take you as a prisoner

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to think that someone is a particular type of person, especially when you do not know them very well to make a record that someone has promised to pay a particular sum of money as part of a collection to help people in need to think that a problem or situation is caused by a particular thing to raise something, or to fix something in a raised position to build something to fix an object to a vertical surface to increase the price or value of something to provide or lend an amount of money for a particular purpose to show or express a particular type of opposition to something to suggest an idea, or to make a person available, to be considered to provide someone with a place to stay temporarily to stay somewhere for the night to encourage someone to do something, usually something wrong to accept or continue to accept an unpleasant situation or experience, or someone who behaves unpleasantly to have a good relationship (get along with) to manage or deal with a situation, especially successfully to continue doing something, especially work to do something, often something that other people would disapprove of to start to suffer from an infectious disease to do something regularly, or to enjoy something to take part in a competition

Practice: Use each phrasal verb to fill in the gaps in suitable forms. give away give up

1. This old furniture isn't worth very much, so I think I'll just ________ it ________. 2. He made nearly a billion dollars, but after he retired he _________ most of his money ______. 3. Haven't seen that movie yet, so don't ______________the ending. 4. You can trust me with the secret. I haven't __________ it ________, 5. Forget it! This is impossible I ________________! 6. I've tried for years to have a nice looking lawn, but I've just __________________ on it. 7. When the bank robbers realized they were surrounded by police, they ________________. The suspect got tired of hiding from the police, and he __________ himself _______. 8. My father didn't ________ sky diving _____ until he was eighty-two. 9. I had to _____________ my second job because I was so exhausted all the time. 10. Toad claimed he didn't care about Sally anymore, but he _______ himself ______ when he asked who she had gone to the party with. work out work up

11. She said that living with her in-laws wasn't _______________ very well. 12. Yes, I thought your idea was terrible, but I must admit it ______________. 13. The marriage didn't _________________, and they were divorced after six months. [2]

14. The cost of the booze we need for the reception ________________ to more than $ 1,500. 15. The monthly payment on a 6 percent loan _______________ to $642. 16. Maria ______________ how much paint we will need for the living room twenty-five gallons. 17. I've forgotten how to _______________ math problems without a calculator. 18. You need to go to the airport, I need to go to work, and we have only one car. How are we going to __________ this _______? 19. The opposing lawyers ______________ a compromise. 20. I think I've ________________ a way to buy a new car without borrowing money. 21. Bob ______________ in the gym for two hours every night. I'm a fat slob. 22. I need to start ______________ again. 23. You can't lift 200 pounds on your first day of weight training. You have to ____________ to it. 24. When I started running, I couldn't go more than a mile, but now I've ___________ to five miles. 25. It took me a long time to _______________ the nerve to ask my boss for a raise. 26. If I ______________ some energy, I'll wash the car. 27. I really _______________ a sweat in the gym today. 28. Raking leaves all day sure ________________ an appetite. put down put up

29. The suitcase was so heavy that I had to _________ it ______ and rest for a minute. 30. Susie, _______ that knife ______. It's dangerous! 31. Jim hates his stepfather and _______ him _____ constantly. 32. I'm not inviting Sam to any more parties. I hate the way he ________ everyone _______. 33. ________ these knives _____ where the baby can't reach them. 34. He aimed the gun at me and said, "_______ your hands ______ or I'll shoot." 35. The teacher had _______ some posters _____ in her new classroom. 36. Our real estate agent is _____________ a "for sale" sign. 37. We need to ____________ a fence to keep the rabbits out of our garden. 38. I talked to a carpenter about ______________ some shelves in the family room. 39. The circus _______ _____ their tent outside of town. 40. The Native Americans stopped by the river and ___________ their teepees. 41. The mayor offered to ___________ half the money necessary to build a new stadium for the team. 42. Mr. Taylor said he would ____________ $3 million toward the cost of a new cancer treatment facility. 43. The union _____________ a fight when the company tried to lay off workers. 44. The Japanese ____________ little resistance when the marines landed. 45. Sam didn't have anywhere else to go after the fire, so I said I would ______ him ____ for a couple of nights. 46. The hotel desk clerk apologized for not being able to ______ us _____. get on with get up to

47. It's getting late. If we're going to finish this work today we'd better ______________ it. 48. I didn't say you could stop! _____________ your work. 49. I haven't _____________ my brother's house in Canada for a long time. 50. God knows what they _______________ while their parents are away. 51. As children, we all _____________ tricks like pinching a few apples or knocking on someone s door and running away. 52. She's easy to _______________ Eileen my interests are very much like hers. 53. She's been _____________ all sorts of mischief lately. [3]

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go in for

54. Yesterday, the teacher decided to cancel the class because most of the students couldnt they ________________ a sore throat. 55. Bryan really ______________ any kind of outdoor activity. 56. When I was a kid I ________________ football, but I don't watch it much anymore. 57. It was a nice meal, but the day after I ________________ an upset stomach. 58. Several people at work have ______________ flu. 59. In our family we don't ___________ much _____ formal meals, we usually just eat in front of the television. 60. Men don't usually ______________ displays of emotion.

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