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16 February 2007: Phrasal Verbs

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day and that you received lots of cards, flowers and of course chocolates!

Here in Chester we have had lots of snow but this week the daffodils are beginning to appear by the canal and there are crocuses in people's gardens. Spring may well be on its way.

We still need lots more entries for the competition. Well done to those of you who have sent your entries in but there must be many more of you who would like to come back to Chester for a FREE two week course. We have extended the deadline to make sure that everyone who wants to enter has time to do it. You must get your entries in by April 4th. Go on, have a go, you might easily be the winner and be able to return to Chester to visit your favourite language school.

Enter the Competition!

Tuesday 20th February is Pancake Day so I hope you all get your frying pan out and make a few pancakes. I expect Jo's class will be making theirs in the kitchen downstairs as usual.

I thought we'd have another look at phrasal verbs this week as this is an area people still have problems with! The first ten are easy; the next eight get more difficult!

Exercise 1
Replace the word in brackets at the end of the sentence with a phrasal verb chosen from the box below. You may need to change the form of the verb.
When I come to London next week will you please    for the night? (give someone a bed for the night)
If we    in plenty of time we should get there before evening. (start a journey)
When David's father died he used the money he inherited to    his own bakery business. (start up a business)
I wasn't looking forward to telling him he had failed the exam so I    until Friday. (delay doing something)
Everyone was relieved when he    the idea of finishing work an hour early. (suggest)
Once she had decided to find a new job she    looking in all the papers to see what was available. (begin doing something with energy and enthusiasm)
John is so sensible; he tries to    some money every week towards his summer holiday. (keep something in order to use it later)
His new Porsche must have    a good few pounds! (costs one a great deal of money)
It took the fire-fighters three hours to    the fire started by the vandals. (extinguish)
Can you please    the books where you found them? (replace)
Exercise 2
The dog was so old and ill that we had no option but to have him   . (to kill kindly)
She isn't really angry with you. She's just   . (pretend)
This year's results will have to be    the loss we made last year. (compare)
The government are using the television to    the idea of a healthy diet. (explain an idea in a clear way)
He claims that he did not have the drugs and that the police are   . (organising things so that it someone is blamed for doing something illegal)
I can't stand the way he is always trying to   . (criticise)
What really    from the other students is his ability to remember facts so easily. (make someone different)
The rules and regulations are all    by the governing body. (state officially how something should be done)

Hope you got all those right.

The word this week is obesity which is the noun we use to describe the condition of someone being dangerously overweight.

"The government is worried about the number of young people suffering from obesity in Britain and is trying to advocate a healthier life style."

Have a good week and don’t forget to enter the competition.

Best wishes from everyone at English in Chester.


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