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.
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