ANKARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

2023-2024 ACADEMIC YEAR – SPRING SEMESTER

PRE FACULTY/ WEEK 4

THURSDAY
GRAMMAR: PHRASAL VERBS

A. Complete the sentences using the phrasal verbs below.

1. add up: calculate the total of two or more numbers

2. dress up: wear a costume
3. find out: discover
4. get away: escape, flee
5. let in: allow someone to enter a place
6. pass out: lose consciousness; faint
7. put on (weight): gain weight
8. run after: follow; chase
9. take back: return something in order to exchange it
10. wear out : to make someone tired; exhaust

1. At the annual Carnival of Venice, people______in specially made 18th-century-style clothes and
put masks over their faces.
2.Gerald_______the toaster_____to the shop yesterday, because it didn't work when he plugged it in.
3. Emma's homework has_______her_______so she is going to take a break for the evening.
4. Two of the prisoners_______, but the guards caught the other four.
5. The men on the door of the nightclub didn't_____Charles______,because he looked under 18.
6. Baby elephants weigh around 100 kilograms at birth, and they______about an extra kilogram every
day after that.
7.My husband______the figures______wrongly;we actually still owe the bank another €5,500.
8.In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust, Margaret is so shocked when the Evil Spirit confronts
her in the cathedral that she ________.
9.Koray_____the minibus, because, just after he had got off it,he realized that he had left his wallet on
it.
10.Towards the end of the novel Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Pip_____ that his fortune has
come from Abel Magwitch.

B. Replace the italicized phrasal verbs with a verb from the list. Pay attention to the verb form.

discover faint follow

exhaust flee return
1. Some Sri Lankan Tamils have successfully got away(_______)from the fightingin their homeland.
2. A lifetime guarantee allows the user of a product to take(_______)it back at any time.
3.Alex had left June’s flat in tears, so she ran after(_______)him down the stairs.
4.The race today really wore(_______)me out,so Iwill train harder for the next one.
5.According to Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club, many people have passed out(______)at his
public readings.
6. The British writer and actor Meera Syal has found out(_______)that both her grandparents had
actively opposed British imperialism in India.