Phrasal verbs and idioms
For people who use English as a second language idioms and phrasal verbs are often the final thing to learn. There are thousands of them and their meanings are rarely obvious. These are especially important if you are working with native English speakers.
Phrasal verbs are the combination of a verb with a preposition or adverb or both, the meaning of which is different from the meaning of its separate parts. For instance, "break" has a specific meaning and so does "down" but to "break down" has another meaning entirely.
Each session follows this structure.
📌 We start with a quiz to see which of the phrasal verbs we're discussing you know already. You'll find that each session includes one or two that are more well known to English improvers and a few that are less well known. I'd far rather you try to guess and figure out the vocabulary than just give you it!
📌 Once we've talked about all of the phrasal verbs in this style we have a vocabulary bank. A page with definitions where you can read exactly what each phrasal verbs we're studying means.
📌 Next we have a series of gap-fill sentences. These are sentences with spaces for each phrasal verb that we're studying. Your challenge is to put the correct phrasal verb into the correct space.
📌 Finally an article or dialogue that includes all of this vocabulary that again requires you to add the correct vocabulary in the right spaces. Of course, you'll need to think about things like tense and subject verb agreement.
