Advanced English Language Conversation Skills: Phrasal Verbs

Explore four phrasal verbs—bring up, put off, make up, make out—with two meanings each: mentioning topics or raising children; offending or postponing; making up excuses or events; understanding or kissing.

Explore the phrasal verb break down through three patterns: vehicle breakdown, breaking down information for clarity, and describing emotional states, with examples like asking for clarification.

Explore the three phrasal verbs pick up, pull up, and run into, uncovering their multiple meanings—from picking up objects and people to retrieving information and unexpected meetings.

Explore travel-related phrasal verbs take off, hold up, fill out, and blow up, with meanings tied to flights, delays, customs forms, and airports.

Master iron out, take in, and turn in phrasal verbs. Learn iron out for solving problems, taking in clothing, information, and animals, and turning in assignments.

Explore phrasal verbs break up, take out, and ask out, with multiple meanings from ending a relationship and breaking up information to taking out a loan, money, or a date.

Learn how common phrasal verbs, let out, fool around, lead on, fall for, and hang on, carry multiple meanings in everyday English, with practical examples.

Explore five phrasal verbs—turn in, turn on, turn over, hook up, work out—with multiple meanings, including submitting, lighting, transforming, connecting, and solving.

Learn three versatile phrasal verbs—show up, wait up, and pull up—with multiple meanings, including appear, beat, wait, stay awake, drive up, and pull up information.

Learn three phrasal verbs — wait on, wind up, take up — with multiple meanings, from serving and postponing, to winding a clock, ending up somewhere, and taking up a new hobby.

Explore four phrasal verbs—put down, run across, get over, and settle down—with multiple meanings, from physical actions to emotional states and situational changes.

Explore how to use the phrasal verbs draw out, shake up, and kick off to elicit opinions, draw out a plan, spark change in an industry, and kick off events.

Explore travel and transportation phrasal verbs in context, including take off, break down, pick up, hang on, and blow up, with concrete examples to improve everyday English conversation.

Explore phrasal verbs in the context of schedules and making plans, including put off, pick off, turn in, let out, turn over, and work out.

Explore phrasal verbs in business contexts, including turn in, bring up, make up, make out, pick up, run into, and show up, with examples on applications, interviews, and workplace conversations.

Learn how phrasal verbs are used in studying and academics, with examples like wind up, make out, pick up, turn in, and show up, plus practice via fill-in-the-blank activities.

Explore phrasal verbs in context for home, family, and friends, featuring run into, pick up, hook up, take out, let out, and settle down, with handout to download and practice.

Explore phrasal verbs in shopping and clothes, including pick out, take off, hold up, fill out, iron out, turn in, let out, and work out, with fitting room contexts.

Review key dating phrasal verbs such as ask out, break up, and settle down, and practice them through examples and fill-in-the-blank dialogues.

Learn phrasal verbs for hopes and dreams in context, including put off, hold up, take in, pull up, wind up, take up, put down, get over, and settle down.

Explore everyday English conversation using phrasal verbs, reinforce understanding, and practice through natural speech. Ask questions, share hobbies or learning goals, and look forward to the next session.