EXERCISE 17. Phrasal verbs. (Group F)
Directions: Work in pairs, in groups, or as a class.
Example:
SPEAKER A (book open): Don't stop. I'm enjoying your story. Please go
SPEAKER B (book closed):... on.- If I'm sitting and then get to my feet, I stand....
- If you don't feel like staying at home, you go....
- When you put on nice clothes for a special affair, you dress
- If you're not tired at night, instead of going to bed you stay
- When you play soccer, sometimes you fall....
- When a fax machine stops working, you say that it broke..
- You walk to a chair, and then you sit....
Switch roles. - If you relax into the chair, you sit....
- If nuo people end a relationship, they break....
- After you stop sleeping in the morning, you get....
- If you continue to do something and don't stop, you go....
- If a war begins, you say that it broke....
- If I invite you to enter my house, I say, "Please come... ."
- If you eat at a restaurant instead of at home, you eat....
- If you ask someone to speak more loudly, you ask them to speak....
- When someone arrives for a meeting, you say that he or she shows....
- When you decide a problem is impossible to solve, you give....
- An airplane increases its speed on the runway, and then it takes....
(a) Lsst night some friends dropped in.(b) La's drop in on Alice this afternoon.(c) We dtvpped in on her last week.Some two-word verbs (e.g., drop in) can become three-word
verbs (e.g., drop in on).
In (a): drop in is not followed by an object. It is an
intransitive phrasal verb (i.e., it is not followed by an object).
In (b): drop in on is a three-word phrasal verb. Three-word
phrasal verbs are transitive (they are followed by objects).
In (c): Three-word phrasal verbs are nonseparable (the noun
or pronoun follows the phrasal verb).446 APPENDIX 1