In this online course through watching online videos and completing quizzes, you will learn the meaning and remember 200 commonly used phrasal verbs in English. In each part of the course you will learn 10 different phrasal verbs.

What to do first

It's simple, first watch each of our short YouTube videos on phrasal verbs (which you will find listed below or on our YouTube playlist for this 13th part of the course). In each video you will see two examples of the phrasal verb being used. In each the meaning is the same. From these examples guess what the meaning of the phrasal verb is (you will be told its meaning at the end of the video).

You don't have to watch all of them in the same day, watch them whenever you have time to do them.

  1. BREAK UP
  2. TAKE OFF
  3. TEAR UP
  4. GO DOWN WELL
  5. DEPEND ON
  6. STAY UP
  7. TAKE TO
  8. GET BACK
  9. MANAGE TO
  10. WIPE OUT

Remember that in English the same phrasal verb can have many different meanings! So guess its meaning only from the context which it is used in the examples, not the individual words which make up the phrasal verb.

If you want to learn more about what to do when watching the videos, read our article about using the phrasal verbs videos.

Then do the quizzes here

After watching the videos, come back to this web page and do the below quizzes. Both of them are on the 10 phrasal verbs which watched in the videos.

In the first exercise, you have to choose which of the 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.

After doing this, go to the 14th part of the phrasal verb course to learn and remember more.

Exercise 1

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


1.Jenny: "Do you think that you'll home before my parents leave?"
Tom: "Yes, I will do. I should be leaving work at 6. So, I'll be there before they go."

2.Her career as a writer after Orpha Winfrey recommended her book on her TV show. Before that, she was an unknown writer and had only sold a couple of hundred copies of her book.

3.You know that you can us if you ever need any help or money. We are your parents.

4.Richard: "Have you finish writing the report yet?"
Louise: "Yes, I have. I stayed up until 3am last night writing it, but it's finished now. Thank god."

5.After Peter found out that his wife was having a relationship with another man, he with her.

6.Tina: "Do you have any photos on paper of your ex-husband?"
Catherine: "No, I don't. When he left me for another woman, I was so angry that I all of them with my hands and then put them in the rubbish."

7.If global temperatures continue to rise, it is feared that many species of plants and animals will be . This is something which worries many scientists.

8.John: "You two seem to have each other really quickly. You wouldn't have known that you've only just met today."
Claire: "Yeah, we are very similar types of people and we have a lot of things in common."

9.At the party I told a joke to everybody about my father and it . Everybody, including my father, laughed a lot at it.

10.Nancy: "What time are you going to to tonight?"
Geoff: "I don't know. Maybe 1am. I'll go to bed when I've finished writing my essay for university."



Exercise 2

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


1.When you like and feel comfortable with something you have just started or somebody you have just met.

2.When something (e.g. a product or a career) suddenly starts to become very popular or successful.

3.To say that you can trust/be sure that somebody or something will do something.

4.To be able to do something which is/was difficult to do.

5.When a romantic relationship ends.

6.To destroy something made of paper (e.g. a letter, a photo etc...) or cloth (e.g. an item of clothing) with your hands. Normally done when you are very angry.

7.To cause something (e.g. a type of animal) to become extinct.

8.To tell a person when (the time or day) you are going to return to a place that you are living in, staying or working at.

9.When something you do or say is liked by the people who it affects or are hearing/watching it.

10.To say until what time you will be or were awake to at night (normally used when you go to bed late).




Now go to the 14th part of the phrasal verb course to learn and remember more.



Practice

Now that you understand them, practise them by creating your own sentences in English with them.