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 9th 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. GO OUT
  2. SHOW UP
  3. BUMP INTO
  4. LET DOWN
  5. RULE OUT
  6. CALL OFF
  7. MAKE UP FOR
  8. ACCOUNT FOR
  9. CHECK OUT
  10. KNOCK OFF

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 10th 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.Anna: "You'll never guess who I met yesterday."
Will: "Who?"
Anna: "Sally from school. I her at the supermarket. She's married and got 2 kids now."

2.Nobody is buying these TVs in the store. What I think we should do is to $200 from their price and hopefully this will make it more likely that people will buy them.

3.When we heard that you had been suspended from school for cheating, you myself and your father. We would never have expected this from any of our children.

4.Me and John for 6 months when at university. It ended because we wanted different things. We are still friends, but nothing more.

5.I've bought you this box of chocolates to all the problems my son has caused you in class. It's not much, but it shows how I appreciate what you have done for him.

6.We what you told us about being in a hotel in France when the crime happened and they confirmed that you were there.

7.After investigating, we have that the fire in the building was intentional. There is no evidence that somebody started the fire on purpose.

8.Because of the terrible weather, we have had to tomorrow's outdoor music festival. Anybody who has already bought a ticket for the event, will get their money back.

9.Bill: "His father is in the hospital at the moment and he's been staying with him."
Sarah: "That why he hasn't been at work for the last three days."

10.Paul: "Do you think she'll at the party on Saturday?"
Louise: "I doubt it. She's got an exam on Monday and I think she'll decide to stay at home studying for it."



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.To feel disappointed (and maybe upset) with somebody when they don't do something you expected, they promised or they do something you think is bad.

2.To explain/give a reason for why something happens or happened.

3.To arrive at a place (e.g. work, home etc...) or come/go to an event (e.g. a meeting, a party etc...).

4.To invesitage if something which has been said is true or not.

5.To be in a romantic relationship with somebody.

6.When you do something for somebody to compensate for something bad you or another person has done to them.

7.To reduce/lower the price of something.

8.To unexpectedly meet somebody you know in a place.

9.To decide that something is/was not possible or suitable to do after investigating or studying it.

10.To cancel a planned event because of problems or it is no longer necessary.



Now go to the 10th 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.