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_Lesson 18: Phrasal Verbs
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- 👨🏽🦰Alex: Hey Martha. How was your weekend?
- 👱🏽♀️Martha: It was relaxing, but for all the wrong reasons.
- - 👨🏽🦰Alex*:Oh? How come?
- “How come?” = an informal way to say “Why?”*
- 👱🏽♀️Martha: On Friday afternoon my youngest daughter (..) (..)tomberand started crying. When I (..) (..)se pencher (crouching down: accroupie)<span> </span>to (..) her (..),souleverI pulled a muscle in my back. froisser un muscle
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: Ouch! Guess your daughter’s not so little anymore. Did you see the doctor?
- 👱🏽♀️Martha: Yeah. I (..) (..) avoir de la veine – it’s nothing serious. But it was painful enough to keep me in bed all weekend. I couldn’t even (..) (..) se redresser. The kids kept (..) (..) faire irruption my room to ask for snacks and drinks, but I told them, “Ask your father. Mommy needs to (..) (..).lie down”
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: I suppose that is relaxing, in a way. How are you feeling now?
- 👱🏽♀️Martha: Well enough to be up and about, although I sure won’t be doing any heavy lifting! How about you? Weren’t you gonna take your son to the zoo on Saturday?
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: Ah, yeah – he loved it! Especially when we saw a baby gorilla that had escaped from its cage.
- 👱🏽♀️Martha:: Really?
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: It was sitting in the middle of the path, and everyone started (..) (..) s’attrouper trying to take pictures. It got scared, so it (..) (..) décamper and (..) (..) grimper a tree.
- 👱🏽♀️Martha: Did they manageréussir à to capture it?
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: Mm-hmm, but it wasn’t easy. First the security guards told everyone to (..) (..) reculer. Then the zookeepers put a bunch of bananas on the ground terre to coax attirer it out of the tree. And then it climbed down and started eating the bananas, they (..) (..) s’approcher sans faire de bruit : <strong>creep up</strong> on it and captured it with a net.
- 👱🏽♀️Martha: Well, good thing no one got hurt – including the gorilla.
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: Yeah. But now my son wants one for a pet! texte
_Lesson 18: Phrasal Verbs
for Movement_
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: Hey Martha. How was your weekend?
- 👱🏽♀️Martha: It was relaxing, but for all the wrong reasons.
- - 👨🏽🦰Alex*:Oh? How come?
- “How come?” = an informal way to say “Why?”*
- 👱🏽♀️Martha: On Friday afternoon my youngestdaughter fell downtomberand started crying. When Ibent downse pencher (crouching down: accroupie)<span> </span>to pick her up,souleverI pulled a muscle in my back. froisser un muscle
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: Ouch! Guess your daughter’s not so little anymore. Did you see the doctor?
- 👱🏽♀️Martha: Yeah. I lucked outavoir de la veine– it’s nothing serious. But it was painful enough to keep me in bed all weekend. I couldn’t even sit upse redresser. The kids keptbarging intofaire irruption my room to ask for snacks and drinks, but I told them, “Ask your father. Mommy needs to lie down.lie down”
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: I suppose that is relaxing, in a way. How are you feeling now?
- 👱🏽♀️Martha: Well enough to be up and about, although I sure won’t be doing any heavy lifting! How about you? Weren’t you gonna take your son to the zoo on Saturday?
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: Ah, yeah – he loved it! Especially when we saw a baby gorilla that had escaped from its cage.
- 👱🏽♀️Martha:: Really?
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: It was sitting in the middle of the path, and everyone started crowding round s’attrouper trying to take pictures. It got scared, so it bolted away décamper and climbed up grimper a tree.
- 👱🏽♀️Martha: Did they manageréussir à to capture it?
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: Mm-hmm, but it wasn’t easy. First the security guards told everyone to stand back reculer. Then the zookeepers put a bunch of bananas on the ground terre to coax attirer it out of the tree. And then it climbed down and started eating the bananas, they snuck up s’approcher sans faire de bruit : <strong>creep up</strong> on it and captured it with a net.
- 👱🏽♀️Martha: Well, good thing no one got hurt – including the gorilla.
- 👨🏽🦰Alex: Yeah. But now my son wants one for a pet! texte
Henry told the kids to ___________ while he lit allumer the campfire.
take a few steps away from something that could possibly be dangerous; maintain a big distance
Henry told the kids to stand back while he lit the campfire.
Tons of people ____________ Tom Cruise, asking for an autograph.
a large number of people gathers around a central point of interest
Tons of people crowded around Tom Cruise, asking for an autograph.
I’m not feeling very well. I’m going to go __________.
have your body in a horizontal position
I’m not feeling very well. I’m going to go lie down.
The first time I tried ice skating, I __________ ten times in the first ten minutes!
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The first time I tried ice skating, I fell down ten times in the first ten minutes!
To fall down
fall onto the ground or floor accidentally
I hate it when people ___________ my office without knocking.
enter suddenly and a little bit rudely
I hate it when people barge into my office without knocking.
enter suddenly and a little bit rudely
He __________ to inspect the car’s tires.
lower your body by bending your knees
He crouched down to inspect the car’s tires.
lower your body by bending your knees
Tom ___________ his towel and left the beach.
lift it up from the ground (or another surface) using your hand
Tom picked up his towel and left the beach.
lift it up from the ground (or another surface) using your hand
The teacher asked the students to __________ because the class was about to start.
go from standing to sitting
The teacher asked the students to sit down because the class was about to start.
go from standing to sitting
We got the last four tickets to the show before it sold out - we really __________!
be lucky or fortunate in a specific situation
We got the last four tickets to the show before it sold out - we really lucked out!
be lucky or fortunate in a specific situation
Everyone in the audience ___________ and cheered at the end of the performance.
go from sitting to standing
Everyone in the audience stood up and cheered at the end of the performance.
go from sitting to standing
