PHRASAL VERBS - try these

07/01/2013 11:57

 

How can I study phrasal verbs and prepositions as an ESL student?

Read a lot (ESL primers, storybooks, magazine articles, film subtitles...). 
And listen a lot (radio, podcasts, songs, TV shows, friends' stories...). 
But especially read a lot.

With my students I've generally found that the best way to PICK UP phrasal verbs is to treat them like any other word: when you COME ACROSS one you don't know, LOOK it UP in the dictionary and use it as much as possible. Yes, you could try to learn with a vocabulary book, but vocabulary is more useful and usable when you learn it in context. 
*a good online phrasal verb dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/

The biggest problem is WORKING OUT if a verb with a preposition following somewhere actually is a phrasal verb or not - they're hard to notice if you're not expecting them. Keep your eyes open for them and you'll notice them everywhere. :-)

 

ONLINE PRACTICE WITH SELF-CORRECTION

https://a4esl.org/q/h/idioms.html

https://www.english-test.net/esl/learn/english/grammar/ii191/esl-test.php

https://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/

 

AND MORE

 

  1. 4. Some transitive phrasal verbs are separable. The object is placed between the verb and the preposition. In this Phrasal Verb Dictionary, separablephrasal verbs ...
    englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html
  2. 2) Browse the Dictionary. Click on a letter above to see phrasal verbsbeginning with that letter. You will get a list of phrasal verbs and their definitions.
    www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs

 

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