A selection of English ESL phrasal verb go printables

This worksheet is aimed at practising grammar and vocabulary skills in using phrasals with GO. The worksheet contains some meanings of the verb and five exercises to train the usage of the verbs with GO.

Phrasal verbs with GO

I prepared a handout with a list of the most common phrasal verbs that go with 'bring'. There is a meaning description in English and then a Czech traslation which must be adjusted when it is used in other languages. Enjoy and make a comment!

Phrasal verbs with 'look'

This one can be good fun both for students and teachers with two major skills at play: vocabulary and speaking. I have not attached the key on purpose - I suppose you will enjoy refreshing your knowledge of phrasals (as you see, it's a random selection of them, but I've picked the most 'learnable' ones) . How to conduct the activity without any 'bumps' along the way? Just ask the students to read out each question (or do it yourself), explain the meaning (possibly in English) and then repeat a specific question and expect some concrete answer from a chosen student. :) For this marathon you will need to have the luxury of at least 60 minutes at your disposal, but I think it's worth it!

Phrasal verbs - speaking marathon

Another phrasal verb worksheet with bingo, a story and debate. There is also an FCE reading and use of English practice test at the end. Answers are included. This time it is on the subject of relationships. I have looked it over for mistakes a couple of times, but you know how these things go. If there are many mistakes, please let me know and I will update it once I have corrected them. The final story needs some work, to be honest, but it serves the purpose.

Phrasal Verbs about Relationships

Another phrasal verbs project with mix-and-match, bingo and a debate thrown in for good measure. The phrasal verbs are typical when used about leadership and as such are good for business English. The story is all about Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the UK´s greatest engineers so, useful for engineering students, too. An answer key is provided 

Phrasal Verbs and Leadership

Another phrasal verb worksheet with bingo, a story and debate. There is also an FCE reading and use of English practice test at the end. Answers are included. This time it is on the subject of meetings. I have looked it over for mistakes a couple of times, but you know how these things go. If there are any mistakes, please let me know and I will update it once I have corrected them.







Phrasal Verbs about Meetings

FCE to CAE prep for ´phrasal verbs on the subject of education. Even a couple of American English phrasal verbs thrown in for good measure (flunk out). The usual mix-and-match, gap-fill, story with debate and bingo. Ideal for the Cambridge Grammar and Vocabulary books, ´particularly the vocabulary sections. At the end of the worksheet there is a reading and use of English part 4 test to reinforce what they have been learning. Answers at the back. There is even a picture of me on this one as I am such an egomaniac.





Phrasal Verbs about Education

[CHARADES]

Getting students up and moving in the classroom is a great way to keep them focused. Charades is a game that most students already know, so it’s easy to use for teaching phrasal verbs.



Cut up the verbs and place them into a hat or bowl. Students can draw the phrasal verb and must act it out without using any words or sign language.



Decide whether hand-raising or calling out is better for this game, based on your classroom and students. Either way, the person who guesses the phrasal verb correctly gets to go next!



[Taboo: For When Charades Gets Old]

You can only play charades so many times! Taboo is another option that not only allows you to change it up a little bit, but also affords the student an on-the-spot opportunity to speak a bit too.



Taboo is a card game that you can easily recreate in the classroom. You can either use folded pieces of paper, as in charades, or you can make your own laminated cards to reuse time and time again.



The idea of Taboo is that you must describe a word (in this case, phrasal verb), without using the words on the card. Here’s an example:



For “grow up,” a student could say, “This means when children are getting older.” The student can keep talking and giving more clues until another student finds the right answer, but they cannot use the word “grow” or “up.”



For more advanced learners, you can make the game more challenging by adding a few extra “taboo” words to each card, such as “age,” “older” and “children” for the “grow up” card.



They’ll have to be more creative in their descriptions, and might give a clue such as, “When you are born, you are small, but you do this and become an adult.”

Phrasal Verbs Charades/Taboo

A very short worksheet about phrasal verbs that relate in some way to Christmas. There is a bingo game and also a snap game included plus a link to an online quiz. The answers are on the back. Click below to go to the online game: 



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Phrasal Verbs about Christmas

Matching and Speaking activity with "look" phrasal verbs.  This is actually a  preactivity to FCE Gold Unit 3 Fact or Fiction pg 32-33 and Unit 3 FCE Maximizer pg 23, but can be used on its own.  Answer Key provided.

Phrasal Verbs With LOOK

A worksheet to teach common phrasal verbs in context. Teachers can give pairs or groups of students the sheet directly to match the situations (A) with the dialogue (B) and make it even more challenging with the CCQ in (C). 

Students can then go on to practice creating their own short sentences using each situation as a template. 

Phrasal Verbs in Context

Another phrasal verbs project with mix-and-match, bingo and a debate thrown in for good measure. The debate is based on the controversial "Setas" building project in Seville, a subject that would always ensure a lively debate. So, if you have any students from southern Spain ... An answer key is provided.

Phrasal Verbs with Through

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

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A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

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