Welcome English Learners. It’s week three of our phrasal verb lessons. Just like in the first two lessons we will learn three more phrasal verbs. I will give you definitions and example sentences, and you will practice these phrasal verbs every day this week.
Ways to Use Your New Phrasal Verbs
Here are some ways that you can and should practice these phrasal verbs
- Use them in a conversation. This could be in class, or on the street, (if you live in an English speaking country).
- Try them out on a friend who is also learning English
- Write them in a sentence. You can post your sentence here in the comment section and I’ll correct what I can.
- Google the phrase to see how other people use it.
Just use the phrases every day, in whatever way you can.
This Week’s Phrasal Verbs
- Pull apart
- Look ahead
- Make do with
Pull apart – means to separate two or more, objects, people, or ideas apart. For example if a piece of paper was glued to a table, one may pull the piece of paper away from the table. In that instance the paper and the table would be, being pulled apart. Or, if a woman’s handbag is pulled, she will be pulling apart both sides to open it.
- We need to pull apart these boxes.
can also be used to talk about people or animals. If two people or animals are fighting one may step in to pull the two apart.
- Once the fight started everyone tried their best to pull the two dogs apart.
Pull apart – means to separate two or more, objects, people, or ideas apart. For example if a piece of paper was glued to a table, one may pull the piece of paper away from the table. In that instance the paper and the table would be, being pulled apart. Or, if a woman’s handbag is pulled, she will be pulling apart both sides to open it.
- We need to pull apart these boxes.
can also be used to talk about people or animals. If two people or animals are fighting one may step in to pull the two apart.
- Once the fight started everyone tried their best to pull the two dogs apart.
Make do with ~ means to accept something that is less than what you wanted, or what is less than ideal.
- The family had to make do with eating just bread for dinner, as they didn’t have any other food.
- He isn’t my first choice for the job, but I guess I’ll have to make do with him.
Look ahead ~ means to plan ahead for something. This is used when someone is talking about planning for the future. It can be an hour in the future or 100 years into the future.
- If we look ahead just 10 years into the future we can see that the country will be very different.
- We’ve looked ahead and believe that the company won’t survive for more than a few more months.
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