Mastering Essential English Phrasal Verbs

Essential English Phrasal Verbs and Meanings

• Deal with: handle
• Take on: hire
• Go over: review
• Come off: succeed
• Look into: investigate
• Work out: find
• Set up: create
• Carry out: do
• Break into: enter by force
• Turn out: produce
• Bring out: launch
• Call off: cancel
• Quiet down: to reduce the volume
• Sit down: to take a seat
• Pick up: to collect something or someone
• Hand in: to submit
• Drop off: to leave a person on the way
• Hand out: to distribute
• Hurry up: to speed up
• Keep on: to continue
• Come in: to enter a place
• Join in: to participate
• Check out: examine / look at

Phrasal Verbs in Conversation: A Classroom Dialogue

Teacher: Good morning, students. Please quiet down and sit down. I have an important announcement to make.

Student 1: What, teacher! Are you going to give us a free class?

Teacher: In fact, I’m going to pick up your assignments. Everyone, hand in your compositions, please.

Student 2: I didn’t have to do it, teacher. I had to drop off my mom at the hospital because my brother got sick.

Teacher: Okay, Luis, but you have to hand it in tomorrow. Please do me a favor and hand out these books. Open your books to page 34 and answer the exercises. Hurry up!

Student 3: Why do we always have to work so hard?

Teacher: Because I want you to learn and be very intelligent. So, be quiet and keep on working.

Student 4: Teacher, may I come in?

Teacher: Yes, Gil, join in the class. Check out the exercises your classmates are doing and complete the page.

Student 4: Okay, teacher, I´ll try to hurry up.

Polite Requests in English

• Could you file the documents on this computer?
• Can you lend me your eraser, please?
• Would you mind checking the information again?
• Can you repeat the instructions, please?
• Would you open the window, please?

Using Phrasal Verbs in Sentences (Corrected Examples)

• The people turned out an airplane.
• The teacher deals with students because they talk too much.
• The sir took on the conditions.
• My friend put off the party.
• My sister fell through in the math test.
• She gets along with everybody.
• He came up in the conference.
• He gave up his job.
• He is watching out for the rain.
• She wakes up in the morning.