Teaching
and Learning of Idiomatic Expressions and Multi-word Verbs of English in The Context
of Sudan Appendix
- 6.e SPECIMEN
FROM COLLINS COBUILD DICTIONARY OF PHRASAL VERBS WORK BOOK: UNIT
ONE AWAY
Below
are the two most important meanings of AWAY and one group of other meanings. In
all 16 phrasal verbs have been selected. Under
each of the headings you will see a list of the phrasal verbs which you are going
to practise. Some verbs appear more than once, as many phrasal verbs have more
than one meaning. You
can write other phrasal verbs with the same meaning in the space provided.
Use a dictionary if necessary. A.
Withdrawing and B. Disappearing and C. Other meanings
Separating
Making things
disappearing
break away do away with get away with
get away explain away hide away
give away fade away
put away
keep away pass away
work away
take away throw away write away
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Withdrawing and Separating
break away get away give away keep away run
away take away Two
United Party senators broke away to form the Federal Party. His
father had thought it would be good for
his character to get away from home and earn some money on his own. I
could not decide whether to keep the money he left or give it away. It
would be better to keep away and not attempt to enter the city until she
knew what was happening there. I
was frightened and I ran away from my mother and she ran after me and coaxed
me to come back. They
took my name and address, took away all my possessions, and sent me down
to the cells. ‘Look
– if you have five pocket calculators and I take two away, how many have
you got left?’ 1.
Match the sentences and phrases on the left with those on the right.
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1. I
had to get away 2. I
think of the new boy who ran away 3. She
has given away jewellery 4. The
more you keep away from the shops 5. These
men wanted to help them keep their land, 6. I
had accepted his offer because I wanted to break away - |
 A.
the less money you’ll spend.
B.
worth millions of pounds. C.
to break away from my family community D.
not take it away from them E.
One way or another, I was going to Leave Birmingham. F.
Lane chased him and caught him. |
2. Provided the best alternative from the
phrasal verbs given to fill in the space provided. 1. Panic overcame Tim now and he turned and
began to try run away across the rocks. take away run away
keep away 2. The best thing that you can do to avoid
a cold is to __________ from anyone who has one. give away break away
keep away 3. Fontaine _____________ and founded the
short-lived Nationalist Party. Broke away took away
gave away 4. I ___________ the knife __________ from
him. I don’t know how. broke away gave away
took away 5. ‘Could you ___________ early next week
though?’ ‘Yes, that would be okay.’ break away get away
take away 3. Write the correct form of the appropriate
phrasal verb in the space provided. 1. You should always keep animals
away from the kitchen. 2. France’s plan to _____________ 30 million
electronic telephone directories….. 3. She let herself out and raced down the
stairs and __________ along the road. 4. Another group ______________ from the
Labour Party the following year. 5. Let’s go out for a walk to _____________
from it all. 6. She had _____________ the children ______________
with her to her parents’ house. Bad
Jokes 4. Find the logical ending for each of the
jokes beginning on the left.
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this soup isn’t for a pig. 2. What
did the fisherman say when he caught a bus? 3. How
can you make a tea table into a meal? 4. How
do you stop a herd of elephants from charging? 5. What
happened to the little boy who ran away with the circus? |
A.
You should have seen the
one that got away! B.
Take away the ‘t’ and it becomes
eatable C.
Take away their credit cards. D.
The police made him bring it back. E.
Sir, would you like me to take it away and
bring you some that is? |
A.
Disappearing and Making this disappear
do away with explain away fade away pass away throw
away Our
medicines have not done away1 disease. All
of this can, of course, be explained away with for other reasons. The
sun’s warmth began to fade away. She
passed away2 within three weeks of her sister and mother. 30
million tones of refuse are thrown away in the U.K.
1.
Write the correct phrasal verb to complete the following definitions. 1. If something fades away, it slowly
becomes less intense, frequent or common until it ends or disappears completely. 2. When you ________________ something you
no longer want or need, you get rid of it, for example by putting it in the dustbin. 3. If you ______________ a mistake or unpleasant
situation, you give reasons to show that it is not as bad or important as people
think. 4. To ________________ something means to
get rid of it or abolish it. 2. Match the phrases on the left with those
on the right. 1. He was seen on TV later, A. all the paperwork that is usually
Involved. 2. Her new-found enthusiasm for B. rather than throw them away running 3 Your husband sent the letter to us C. shortly before he passed away. 4 She likes to keep things, even old D. explaining away his department’s things
latest blunder 5 It would be nice to do away with E. will soon fade away
3. Choose the best alternative from the phrasal
verbs given to fill in the space provided. 1. Identity cards should be _______________,
everybody has a passport anyway. explained away done away with
faded away 2. ‘It was the last one my dad ever invented
before he _____________.’ ‘His final great
work?’ ‘Exactly, Gordon.’ passed away threw away
did away with 3. He did not _____________ the pamphlet
_______________, but he kept it in his desk. fade away throw away
explain away 4. It was vague rumour which would ________________and
be forgotten. pass away explain away
fade away 5. Well, how do you ______________the fact
that we lost so much money last year? explain away throw away
fade away Bad
Jokes 5. Find the logical ending for each of the
jokes beginning on the left. 1. They don’t throw the rubbish away A. Because it always went off when away
I was asleep. 2. Why did you throw your alarm clock B. The people who couldn’t sell away? their threw them away 3. I did my first television show a month C. They
make it into television ago, and the next day five million
sets shows were sold.
C.
Other meanings
get away with hide away put away work away write
away I’m
not going to allow Anne to get away with an offensive remark like that. He
looked at his drawings of the rocks and hid them away again. Hamish
began to put away a vast load of shopping he had brought home. They
haven’t stopped, they’ve been working away1 all day. You
just write away2 giving your name, address and enclosing three
tokens. ‘You again,
Mr. Philbean? Dear me, dear me, don’t you ever get away with anything?’ 1.
Write the correct phrasal verb to complete the following definitions. 1. If you __________something ___________,
you put it in a place where nobody else can find it. 2. If you _____________, you continue working
hard for a long time. 3. If you __________ something _____________,
you place it tidily somewhere, for example in a cupboard, drawer, or pocket. 4. If you _____________ to a company or organization,
you send them a letter asking for a product or information. 5. If you _______________ something that
you should not have done, you are not criticized or punished for doing it.
1
Beaver
away, slave away, slog away, and toil away mean almost the same as work away.
These verbs often used in a continuous tense. 2
Send
off and send away mean almost the same as write away.
2.
Match the sentences and phrases on the left with those on the right. 1.
You see, I may need somewhere
A. on the nose and got away with it 2.
Why don’t you write away
B. to hide away for a week or two 3.
He had punched a teacher
C. I’ve been working away at a book 4.
What have you been doing with
D. the two of us drying and putting
yourself?
away. 5.
We washed up in silence, Lally
E. to them and ask for a catalogue?
washing up,
Write
the correct form of the appropriate phrasal verb in the space provided. 1. I was able to keep warm as I ______________
in the snow. 2. He could make the most outrageous statements
and somehow ______________ it. 3. Albert folded the newspaper neatly and
_____________ it ______________ on the side table. 4. I had to _________________ the presents
_____________ in the bedroom, so that the children wouldn’t find them. 5. ____________________ for it. It’s cheaper by mail-order anyway.
3. Write a paragraph on the topic of your
choice, including at least one example of each of the phrasal verbs you have just
studied. AWAY Revision exercises 1. Choose the best alternative from the phrasal
verbs given to fill in the space provided. 1. You should _________ those __________
and get a pair of these.
pass away throw away run away do away
with 2. In cross-examination Mr.Stewart tried
to _____________ the Police interest in Waddell. Work
away fade away explain
away get away 3. I’ve been __________ on this project for
the last two weeks. working away giving away putting
away getting away with 4. We cannot __________from the fact that
a child is primarily an egoist. pass away break away take
away get away 5. You cannot _____________ violence by using
violence. break away do away with keep
away pass away 6. Even a baby senses, I think, that she
shouldn’t be able to ___________ such tyranny.
The habit is usually easy to break. run away hide away do
away with get away with 7. Australia, after it had __________ from
Antarctica, continued to drift northwards. run away faded away broken
away put away 8. You can __________ $20,000 a year tax-free. explain away write away give away work away 2. Now see if you can remember the meanings
of AWAY and the phrasal verbs you have been practicing. Some of the letters have been filled in to
help you. You can check your answers by
looking at the list on page 1. A. Withdrawing and B. D_s_pp_ing
and C. Other meanings S_p_ating M……..ing th…..….s
D__________ break away d……away w……
g……….away w……….. g………..away e……..p……..n away h…………d……...…away g………..e away f………….away
p………….….away k……….p away p………s away
w………..….k away r…………away t………..r……..away wr……………….away (Collins
COBUILD Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs Work Book, pp.1-8)
Eliminate is a more formal word for do away
with. 2.
You use pass away when you want to avoid saying the word ‘die’.
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