English phrasal verb quiz: Part 16

In the YouTube videos Phrasal Verb Daily, numbers 151 to 160, you learnt the meaning or a meaning of the following 10 English phrasal verbs:

1. SIGN UP
2. DEPEND ON
3. MISS OUT
4. PUT OFF
5. ALLOW FOR
6. MOVE ON
7. TALK DOWN TO
8. SCROLL DOWN
9. SLIP OUT
10. THROW UP

To make sure that you don't forget what each of these means or can mean (because some have more than one meaning), do the online exercises/quizzes below.

In the first exercise, you have to choose which of the above phrasal verbs is correct for the sentence. Use the context of the sentence(s) to help you decide which one is correct.

In the second exercise, you have to match each of the 10 phrasal verbs to their meaning (e.g. 'to leave a bus, plane or train').

In both exercises, you should only use each of the 10 phrasal verbs once.

P.S. If you haven't watched the YouTube Videos for these, I would recommend you do this before doing these exercises (click on the phrasal verb in the above list to watch it). It will help to make doing the exercises easier and make sure that you remember them.

Exercise 1

Choose the correct phrasal verb from the selection box for each of the 10 questions. Click on the "Check Answers" button at the bottom of the quiz to check your answers.

1.

Ten minutes after leaving the restaurant, he started to fell unwell. He then started talking down to throwing up slipping out depending on the food he's eaten there in the street.  

2.

Remember that I told you that I wanted to learn German. Well, I'm going to allow for scroll down miss out sign up for a German course tomorrow. Do you want to do it with me?  

3.

Claire: "I didn't realise you'd left until the lights came on at the end of the film."
Gary: "I found the film so boring, so I slipped out put off moved on threw up and sat outside after about 45 minutes of the film."  

4.

I know you are sure that she will agree to present the students with their awards, but you have to miss out allow for talk down to scroll out the possibility that she'll say no. And if that happens, who else could we ask.  

5.

If you keep threwing up signing up putting off depending on revising for your exams, you are not going to have enough time to learn everything you need to pass them.  

6.

Nancy: "Ok, so now I'm looking at the web page. What do I have to do now?"
Ronald: " Slip down Scroll down Allow for Miss out to the bottom of it. You'll find a video there. I want you to watch it."  

7.

For a year after his first business failed he suffered from depression and didn't really leave the house. But he eventually moved on depend on talked down to put off and set up a new business which became very successful.  

8.

Will: "Are we going to have a picnic in the park on Saturday?"
Matt: "That throws up signs up misses out depends on the weather. If it is sunny, we will. If it is raining, we won't."  

9.

What annoys me about most doctors is how they allow for scroll down talk down to move on their patients. They speak to us as if we were children and that we aren't as clever as they are.  

10.

Why didn't you say yes when they offered you the opportunity of going to Rome for free? You really threw up missed out put off slipped out ! You are never going to get offered something like that again.  

Exercise 2

Choose the correct phrasal verb from the selection box for each of the 10 questions. Click on the "Check Answers" button at the bottom of the quiz to check your answers.

1.

To stop letting the past or a bad experience negatively affect how you live your life and to start focusing on now and the future.

DEPEND ON MOVE ON MISS OUT THROW UP  

2.

To leave a place quietly, so most people don't notice you doing it.

SLIP OUT PUT OFF SIGN UP TALK DOWN TO  

3.

To not do something which you have the opportunity to do that would be useful/good for you or enjoyable.

THROW UP MOVE ON ALLOW FOR MISS OUT  

4.

To move down to see other parts of a web page, document or application that are not on the screen at the time.

PUT OFF SCROLL DOWN DEPEND ON SIGN UP  

5.

To vomit. Normally when you are physically ill or very nervous.

SLIP OUT MOVE ON THROW UP TALK DOWN TO  

6.

When you join and commit to participating in an organised activity or course.

SIGN UP ALLOW FOR MISS OUT DEPEND ON  

7.

To delay doing something you should do because you don't feel like doing it, don't want to do it or are scared of doing it.

MOVE ON TALK DOWN TO SCROLL DOWN PUT OFF  

8.

To speak to someone like they are less intelligent, less capable of understanding or less important than you.

THROW UP TALK DOWN TO SIGN UP MISS OUT  

9.

To say whether or not something happens (or how it happens) is determined by something else.

SLIP OUT PUT OFF DEPEND ON MOVE ON  

10.

To take something into consideration (because it could happen) when planning to do something.

PUT OFF TALK DOWN TO SCROLL DOWN ALLOW FOR  

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