Common Phrasal Verbs: Examples, Matching, and Practice

This pdf provides explanations, examples, and practice activities for 7 short (under 1/2 hour) lessons introducing just under100 very common phrasal verbs.

It includes:
• lesson suggestions, teaching notes, and a complete explanation of how to play the memory games included,
• a brief explanation of the use of phrasal verbs in English,
• three short conversations for student pairs to read aloud with follow-up matching activities for the meanings of the phrasal verbs used,
• a brief explanation and practice with separable and inseparable phrasal verbs,
• examples and practice with phrasal verbs using ‘up’ (both those with obvious meanings and non-obvious idioms), as well as ‘down,’ ‘on,’ ‘off,’ and ‘out,’
• classroom phrasal verbs,
• an assessment using phrasal verbs that have been practiced,
• answer sheets for all exercises,
• and four memory games to reinforce 32 of the most useful phrasal verbs studied (probably introduced at the end of lessons 2,3,5, & 6.)