Active Vocabulary
Exercise 1. Learn the following phrasal verbs and insert them into the text below. Put the verbs into the appropriate tense.
Drop off – to take someone to a place and leave them there;
Check in – to register at a hotel;
Check out – to leave and pay for your stay at a hotel;
Pick up – to go and fetch someone from a place and take them somewhere else;
Set out – to start a journey;
Take off – when a plane leaves and begins to fly;
Get in – when a plane arrives on an airport;
Get away – to leave to go somewhere for a break or holiday;
Get on – to climb on board;
Speed up – to increase speed;
Look around – to explore what is near you, in your area;
Hurry up – to rush and not waste time;
Go back – to go the place someone is leaving from to say goodbye;
See off – to go the place someone is leaving from to say goodbye;
Look forward – to look forward to something that is going to happen in the future.
Summer break in the USA
The day I left for the USA my family (1)___ me___. We had breakfast on the airport but we had to (2)___ so that I wouldn't miss my flight. It was a teary goodbye, but I was (3)___ to new experiences in the USA. After I (4)___ the plane I made myself comfortable and sent a few last minute goodbye text messages. I thought of how much I wanted this holiday and that I just needed to (5)___ from it all. A short while later the pilot announced that all electronics were to be switched off, for we were preparing to (6)___. As the plane was (7)___ on the runway I sat back and took pleasure in brute force and strength of the momentum the plane was creating to lift itself up from the ground. When our plane (8)___ at JFK Airport in New York there was already a taxi waiting to (9)___ me ___. The taxi (10)___ me ___ at the Holiday Inn where I would meet up with my friends. After I (11)___ to the hotel we all went to Time Square, where we (12)___ for the rest of the day. The next day we got up in the early hours of the morning and did some sightseeing. That night we were exhausted and went to bed early. The next morning we (13) ___ after breakfast, rented a car and (14)___ on a cross-country road trip. It would be another 3 months before I would (15)___ home.
Unit 2 Active Vocabulary
Phrasal verbs with COME
Come about – to appear;
Come across – to find/meet by chance;
Come along – to hurry up;
Come back – to return to memory, to become fashionable again;
Come forward – come forth;
Come in – enter, to become fashionable;
Come into – inherit;
Come off – to succeed, to take place as planned, to cease being joined to smth;
Come on – to begin working, to progress;
Come out – 1) to go on strike, 2) to begin to blossom, 3) to be revealed, 4) to be published; 5) to appear;
Come round – 1) to visit casually, 2) to recover consciousness, 3) to change one’s point of view;
Come to – to amount to a total;
Come up – 1) to rise to the surface; 2) to be mentioned, 3) to occur;
About
across along back before forward from in
into off on out round to up
A boomerang is a hunting weapon. It is shaped so that it will come _____ to a person who throws it. 2. “Where do you come ______?” “Thailand”. 3. Please come ___ ! Make yourself at home. 4. F comes ______ G in the alphabet. 5. Why don’t you come ______ to our house for a dinner on Saturday? 6. The sergeant asked for volunteers, but only three came _____. 7. Just look at these old photographs. I came _______ them when I was clearing out an old cupboard. 8. “What magazine is that?” “It’s a literary magazine called The bookworm”. “How often does it come _______?” “Monthly”. 9. Oh dear! Pollution, global warming, the hole in the ozone layer: I don’t know what the world is coming ___! 10. “Come ____, Philip. Everyone else has finished except you!” 11. We’re all going out for a pizza. Would you like to come ____? 12. I hear that Michelle has come ______ a lot of money. Her rich aunt died and left her half a million. 13. Every time the subject of holidays comes ______, Ruth and her husband have an argument. 14. Pauline is working on a plan to covert her farmhouse into a bed and breakfast place. She reckons she’ll make a fortune if it comes ______. 15. There has been another crash on the freeway just south of LA. How did it come ____?