A) Match the following phrasal verbs with their definitions:
1. to ask out
2. to bear out
3. to break out ( of unpleasant things)
4. to carry out´
5. to check out
6. to count out
7. to come out
8. to die out
9. to draw out
10. to drop out
11. to eat out
12. to figure out
13. to find out
14. to hand out
15. to iron out
16. to leave out
17. to make out
18. to miss out
19. to pass out
20. to pick out
21. to point out
22. to put out
23. to run out
a) to ask for a date
b) to confirm the truth
c) to start usually suddenly
d) to complete a plan
e) to follow procedures for leaving ( a hotel)
f) to exclude
g) to appear
h) to disappear completely / to become extinct
i) to prolong something ( usually for beyond the normal limits)
j) to withdraw from / to stop taking part in a competition, a social group…
k) to have a meal in a restaurant
l) logically find the answer to a problem
m) to discover
n) to distribute
o) to remove small problems or irregularities
p) not include
q) to pretend
r) not include or fail to include
s) to faint / lose consciousness
t) to choose / to select
u) to draw attention to something or someone
v) Extinguish a cigarette, a fire, etc.
w) to use all of (something) and have no more left
B ) Replace the underlined words using the phrasal verbs above.
find out – fall out – come out – put out
1. The fireman manage to extinguish the fire.
2. His new book will be published next week.
3. He never discovered why the accident happened.
4. It´s very disgusting to see friends disagree and quarrel for some time.
C ) Complete the sentences with phrasal verbs from A:
1. Mary has a new boyfriend: Joe _____________ her _____________ last night.
2. Helen´s alibi was _____________ by her sister.
3. The second World War _____________ 3 September, 1939.
4. The attack was successfully _____________.
5. She _____________ and took a cab to the airport.
6. I don´t want to go you can _____________me _____________.
7. When the news _____________ , everyone was shocked.
8. The great dinosaurs _____________ millions of years ago.
9. I thought that speech would never end. The speaker couldn´t have said everything important in 5 minutes, but he _____________the speech _____________ for over an hour.
10. Mark _____________the race because he felt tired and ill.
11. I´m too tired to cook tonight. Why don´t we _____________?
12. For a long time I couldn´t understand the problem but finally _____________ out.
13. I went to the library to _____________ all I could about life and work of Luis de Camões.
14. The teacher the worksheets to the class.
15. the management team _____________ the tax problems before they gave the project the OK.
16. He was _____________ of the side because he hasn’t been playing well.
17. He _____________ that he was ill so that he didn´t have to go to school.
18. You have _____________ a word here!
19. When the air-conditioning stopped working James found it difficult to breathe and _____________.
20. mark´s grandmother especially liked her birthday card because he had _____________it _____________ himself.
21. I _____________that I would be on holiday anyway.
22. He _____________ his cigarette before entering in the building.
23. On the way home from work, Miles _____________ of gas.
KEY:
C
1. asked her out
2. borne out
3. broke out
4. carried out
5. checked out
6. count me out
7. come out
8. died out
9. drew…. out
10. dropped out
11. eat out
12. figure it out
13. find out
14. handed out
15. ironed out
16. left out
17. made out
18. missed out
19. passed out
20. picket it out
21. pointed out
22. put out
23. ran out
B
1. put out
2. come out
3. found out
4. fall out
A
1. a
2. b
3. c
4. d
5. e
6. f
7. g
8. h
9. i
10. j
11. k
12. l
13. m
14. n
15. o
16. p
17. q
18. r
19. s
20. t
21. u
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