EF45 Class 40

 

Kermit the Frog – The Muppets

 

Final day of instruction

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Attendance

·      Continue with some of the Phrasal Verb exercises, examples from homework

·      Review

·      Return ‘Self-Assessment Reflection” and “Questionaire”

·      Optional replacement quiz and/or test (last 90m)

Note: I will evaluate these quizzes and tests tonight. I will not have  time to use specific correction codes.

 

Friday, Nov. 1 – last day

Marks day

No instruction

See final marks and comments

One-on-one meetings if you want. If you don’t come to class, you can send me an email between 9:15 and 11:30 for your final mark and comments.

If you want to have some snack, feel free. I’ll be working. Please, I do not want to clean up.

 

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Phrasal Verb Exercises

Exercise 2

3. She didn't manage to select/choose/pick out ___________ anyone from the line-up as she had forgotten completely what the mugger looked like.

6. When you get to the bank, don't stop, keep going/go on/walk on/go ahead/walk further/go straight ahead___________ for another hundred metres and you will see the chemist's on your left.

-further- more, deeper, to a greater extent

She studied chemistry further at UBC.

I want to go further with my English skills.

-farther- physical distance

We walked farther up the trail.

The next town is 50km farther up the road.

8.    The sniper picked off___________ the enemy troops one by one till they were all dead.

IDIOM pick off- to compete small tasks

She picked off most of her chores for the day.

I am picking off my high school course.

 

pick up- buy, lift with your hand

She picks up the children at school.

He has to pick up some milk on the way home.

 

pick up the kids  OR pick the kids up

drop off- leave something at a place

Joe dropped off the empty boxes at the recycling depot.

I dropped off my wife at work.

You drop off your son at school in the morning. You pick him up at 3:15.

 

9.    In this snow and ice, it's so easy to fall down/ slip/ wipe out___________.

I wiped out on the ice.

She wiped out on her skis. wipe(v) out(prep) She had a yard sale.

IDIOM yard sale/garage sale-

He fell off the ladder. The ladder slipped.

She wiped out in the wet grass.

He did a lipstand on the sidewalk. She got a concussion.

concussion- traumatic brain injury

 

10.                       She wasn't interested in his money. She liked/ enjoyed/loved/ was into/fell for ___________ his sense of humour.

He fell for a woman in his class. fell in love with

I came to Vancouver on a vacation, and I really fell for it.

 

Exercise 3

1.    Don't worry about the argument you had with your sister. It will soon blow over___________.

Wait for it to blow over. It will ok in a couple of days. Give it some time.

Time heals all wounds.

Let sleeping dogs lie. Don’t bring up old arguments. The past is the past.

 

2.    We went to that new cinema first, then the pizza restaurant and we ended up/wound up___________ in the bar near the old bridge.

 

4.  Parents often worry about their teenage children racking up___________ a huge phone bill.

IDIOM rack up – incur a lot of debt

He racked up three credit cards. He maxed out all three cards. He has a amount of huge debt.

The criminal racked up a long list of charges from the police.

The little kids started racking up lies.

Liars need to have good memories.