Svolgi tutti gli esercizi con attenzione al contesto delle frasi. Per ciascun phrasal verb prova prima a indovinare il significato dal contesto, poi verifica con un dizionario monolingue se necessario. Lavora in inglese e rileggi sempre le risposte ad alta voce per controllare la naturalezza del suono.
- Read the sentence and choose the best meaning: "My grandfather brought up five children on a teacher's salary."
- A) abandoned
- B) raised / educated
- C) mentioned briefly
- D) carried upstairs
- Which sentence uses the phrasal verb correctly with a pronoun object?
- A) Please turn off it before you leave the lab.
- B) Please turn it off before you leave the lab.
- C) Please turn off them before you leave the lab.
- D) Please turn it off it before you leave the lab.
- In a formal academic essay, which alternative would best replace the phrasal verb in "Scientists are looking into the causes of the pandemic"?
- A) investigating
- B) looking after
- C) glancing at
- D) running into
- The phrasal verb "look after" (to take care of) is separable, so we can correctly say "look the baby after".
- Vero / Falso
- Three-part phrasal verbs such as "put up with" or "look forward to" are inseparable and the object must follow the whole verbal block.
- Vero / Falso
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Complete with the correct particle: "The meeting was postponed; they decided to put it ___ until next Monday because the director was ill."
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Complete with the correct particle: "I can't ___ up with this noise any longer — I'm going to complain to the neighbours tonight."
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Complete with the correct particle: "While I was tidying the attic, I came ___ an old photograph of my great-grandmother."
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Complete with the correct particle: "If you don't understand a word in the passage, you can always look it ___ in a dictionary."
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Match each phrasal verb on the left with its meaning on the right. | Colonna A | Colonna B | |---|---| | call off | to recover from an illness or shock | | get over | to have no more of something | | run out of | to resemble an older relative | | take after | to stop functioning, to collapse emotionally | | break down | to cancel an event |
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Rewrite the sentence replacing the underlined verb with a suitable phrasal verb: "The teacher decided to cancel the trip because of the bad weather."
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Explain in English the difference in meaning between "take off" in "The plane took off at dawn" and in "He took off his coat as soon as he entered the room".
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Write a short paragraph (about 80-100 words) describing a recent personal experience of overcoming a difficulty, using at least five phrasal verbs of your choice. Underline the phrasal verbs and indicate in brackets whether each one is separable, inseparable or three-part.
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Choose the phrasal verb that best fits the context: "After months of training, all her efforts finally ___ and she won the regional championship."
- A) paid off
- B) put off
- C) took off
- D) fell off
- Translate into natural English using a phrasal verb: "Non riesco più a sopportare questo rumore."