Learn Phrasal Verbs through Stories in English with Pictures.
The phrasal verb stories are the key to helping you understand the verbs that have multiple meanings.
A persistent problem area for students is phrasal verbs. This story activity presents the verbs in a context helping the students to work out the meaning. It is also memorable so it’s easier for students to remember them too.
Phrasal Verb Story 1 | Phrasal Verbs through Stories
- Run out (of time)
Meaning: Use up or finish a supply of something
Eg: We ran out of fuel.
- Come up (with an answer)
Meaning: To be mentioned and need to be considered
Eg: A number of interesting points came up at today’s meeting.
- Going through (a divorce)
Meaning: To experience or suffer something
Eg: She’s been going through a bad patch recently.
- Bring (this problem) up
Meaning: To mention a subject or start to talk about it
Eg: Bring it up at the meeting.
- Looking forward to (university life)
Meaning: To be thinking with pleasure about something that is going to happen (because you expect to enjoy it)
Eg: I’m looking forward to the weekend.
- Live up (to my expectations)
Meaning: To do as well as or be as good as other people expect you to
Eg: He failed to live up to his parents’ expectations.
- Put up (with a boring routine)
Meaning: To build something or place something somewhere
Eg: Residents have put up a great fight against plans to build a new road.
- Taken aback
Meaning: To shock or surprise somebody very much
Eg: I must admit that I was taken aback when I heard we weren’t receiving ourbonuses this year.
- Getting by (on a teacher’s salary)
Meaning: To manage to live or do a particular thing using the money, knowledge, equipment, etc. that you have
Eg: How does she get by on such a small salary?
- Turned out (fine)
Meaning: To happen in a particular way; to develop or end in a particular way
Eg: Despite our worries everything turned out well.
Phrasal Verb Story 2 | Phrasal Verbs through Stories
5 Essential Phrasal Verbs with “GIVE”:
1. Give away
Meaning: To give something for free
Eg: I gave the old clothing away to Tom.
2. Give in to
Meaning: To stop resisting something
Eg: The government has said all along that it will never give in to terrorist threats.
3. Give up
Meaning: To stop doing something
Eg: His wife finally persuaded him to give up smoking.
4. Give up on
Meaning: To lose hope about something
Eg: His teachers seem to have given up on him.
5. Give out
Meaning: To give something for free
Eg: People are giving out free samples.
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Nagy
Tuesday 4th of April 2023
If there any more like this
Ravi kiran
Thursday 9th of April 2020
Ok
Ravi kiran
Thursday 9th of April 2020
A story contain idioms phrasal verbs and confusing words