Aunt Agather and the French Chef

Phrasal verbs with go

My Aunt Agather is looking for a boyfriend. I suggested a friend who is a chef. She said he once
went out with a chef. She didn’t want to go through that experience again. She has met him
the
year before. His name was Jean-Paul, he was a famous French Chef. She wanted to impress
him but she didn’t know anything about cooking so she went on a cookery course. On the first
day she bought the necessary ingredients for the first lesson, some milk. It was very expensive,
the price had gone up! Prices are always going up, she thought. And when she opened the
carton,
she realised it had gone off! Then the teacher arrived! It was her boyfriend. She decided to
carry
on. He went through the first recipe. “This is a famous English recipe that goes back to the
Romans.” Explained Jean-Paul. It was very complicated. Aunt Agather knew she could never
make it. Then the teacher went out of the room. She suddenly had an idea. She stuck her fork
into the electric socket. Bang! The lights went out, and then the alarms went off. Then the
sprinklers went off. It was chaos. Aunt Agather never went back to the cookery class and she
never saw Jean-Paul again.

Exercise 1. Match the phrasal verb with the definition

1. Go through an experience b. Explode(Bomb), become unlit (lights), start

2. Go off (alarm, bomb, lights)
3. Go out with someone
4. Go on a course/trip
5. Go up (prices)
6. Go back to somewhere
7. Go back to the eighteenth century
8. Go through an exam
9. Go off (milk)
10. Go out of a room/building
a. Have an experience
working (alarm)
c. Return
d. Do a course, have a trip
e. Examine an exercise or exam from beginning to
end
f. Become sour, not fresh
g. Leave a room
h. Be the boy/girlfriend/partner of someone
i. Have it’s historical origin in (the eighteen
century)
j. Increase, rise (intransitive)

Read through the story with a partner and see if you can remember which verbs go in
each gap.

My Aunt Agather is looking for a boyfriend. I suggested a friend who is a chef. She said he
once ________ a chef. She didn’t want to ________ that experience again. She has met him
the year
before. His name was Jean-Paul, he was a famous French Chef. She wanted to impress him but
she
didn’t know anything about cooking so she ________ a cookery course. On the first day she
bought the
necessary ingredients for the first lesson, some milk. It was very expensive, the price
had________!

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Prices are always________, she thought. And when she opened the carton, she realised it
had________!
Then the teacher arrived! It was her boyfriend. She decided to carry on. He ________ the first
recipe.
“This is a famous English recipe that ________ to the Romans.” Explained Jean-Paul. It was
very
complicated. Aunt Agather knew she could never make it. Then the teacher ________ of the
room. She
suddenly had an idea. She stuck her fork into the electric socket. Bang! The lights________,
and
then the alarms________. Then the sprinklers________. It was chaos. Aunt Agather never
________
to the cookery class and she never saw Jean-Paul again.

Ask you partner these questions. Use the phrasal verbs in your answers.

1. Have you ever been in a building when the fire alarm went off? What did you do?
2. Would you ever go out with someone who was very famous? If not, why not?
3. Have you noticed that prices are going up? For what things?
4. Can you think of somewhere you have been to on holiday that you would like to go back
to?
5. Have you ever accidentally drunk milk that has gone off?