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27 March 2007: Pull Expressions

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Chester is looking very beautiful and spring-like, the daffodils are out and all the trees are in flower. But they say we will have artic weather at the week end. Do other people talk about the weather as much as the British do?

Let's have some nice expressions with "pull" today!

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Exercise 1
See if you can match the expressions with their meanings in Column A.

Drag-and-drop your chosen answer into one of the spaces below. Only use each answer once.

pull your socks up	pull someone's leg	pull out all the stops	pull rank	pull strings
pull something to pieces	pull your weight	pull the wool over someone's eyes	pull yourself together	pull the other one

Column A

Column B

try to improve your behaviour or work

use the fact that you are more important than other people to persuade them to do what you want

work as hard as other people who are doing the same job or taking part in the same activity

try and trick/cheat someone by giving the incorrect information

control your emotions and feelings

trick or tease someone

to explain clearly why something written or spoken is incorrect

to use your influence in order to get something or help someone, especially when this is unfair

make a huge effort to ensure that something is successful

10:

tell someone that you don't believe what they have just told you

Drag-and-drop your chosen answer into one of the spaces below. Only use each answer once.

pull your socks up	pull someone's leg	pull out all the stops	pull rank	pull strings
pull something to pieces	pull your weight	pull the wool over someone's eyes	pull yourself together	pull the other one

Exercise 2 Now try to put the correct expressions from the previous exercise in the blanks in the following sentences. Don't forget to put the verb in the right tense.
1:	Because they wanted to impress the inspectors, the staff to make a good impression.
2:	Peter only got that job because his father and used his influence with the chairman of the company.
3:	Just . Everyone has boyfriend trouble at some time in their life.
4:	I really don't think David is at the moment. He is always pretending to be busy when he is really reading the paper.
5:	The lecturer was really horrid to me. My essay - he and told me to do it again!
6:	You can't have won the lottery! You're .
7:	Ibrahim tried to by telling me the cat had eaten his assignment but I knew that he hadn't finished it.
8:	I don't believe you had dinner with Kylie Minogue. !
9:	I think Frank when he told us we had to come to work on Saturday. Just because he is the boss.
10:	If you want to pass the exam you will really have to .

The word this week is inevitable which is an adjective used to say that something is impossible to avoid.

"It is inevitable that the advancement of the computer technology will affect people’s lives."

Enjoy spring wherever you are!
Best wishes from everyone at English in Chester

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