Phrasal Verbs and Idioms

MAKING HEADWAY Phrasal Verbs and Idioms Workman Oxford University Press Making Headway Upper-Intermediate Phrasal Verbs and Idioms Graham Workman Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street. Oxford Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Bombay Buenos Calcutta Cape Town Dar Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan OXFORD and OXFORD are trade marks of Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 435509 8 Oxford University Press 1993 First published 199 3 Third impression 1996 No unauthorized photocopying rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system. or transmitted. in any form or by any means. electronic. mechanical. photocopying. recording, or otherwise. without the prior written permission of Oxford University Press. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not. by way of trade or otherwise, be lent. hired out. or otherwise circulated without the publisher`s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Typeset by Wyvern Typesetting Limited. Bristol Printed in Malta by Interprint Acknowledgements Illustrations by Baverstock Caroline Church Paige Bill Location photography by Rob Judges The publishers would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce photographs: Barnaby`s Picture Library Channel 4 News Format Partners Photo Library Impact Photos Ltd Network Photographers The Telegraph Colour Library Ltd Contents Foreword 4 Introduction 5 Introductory unit 7 Getting down to work 13 Looking round a flat 19 Healthy body, healthy mind 24 A place of your own 29 Getting away from it all 3 3 Family relationships 38 You are what you wear 4 3 A narrow escape 48 Getting on in life 53 A nightmare journey 59 What`s in the news? 64 Across a crowded room 70 Tapescripts 76 Answer key 88 Foreword Students of English realize very early on in their learning career that prepositions present a problem. They collocate with nouns. past participles, and verbs, without rules or logic. Students simply have to learn that interested is followed by in, and good is followed by at. and go home has no preposition. Multi-word verbs, or phrasal verbs as they are often referred to, present a very special problem. English can make verb and particle (preposition or adverb) combinations easily and freely. The word particle has been used throughout this book, in order to avoid having to make the distinction (to most students. the word after the verb in a multi-word verb is always a preposition). Multi-word verbs exist throughout the language. They express everyday actions such as Turn on the light: they can also have a variety of meanings such as Things worked out well. We worked out the problem. She worked out in the gym, been able to him out. and The price works out at 10. Given the complexity of the area. the surprise is that learners are keen to master it. They seem to sense that multi-word verbs are a vital component of English, and spoken English in particular. There is also the feeling that an understanding of common idioms will increase their comprehension, though most students instinctively avoid trying to produce them. The best time to address these areas is at upper-intermediate and advanced levels, when students already have a certain grammatical and lexical foundation. This book goes a long way to helping students to unravel the complexity of multi-word verbs, preposition and adverb collocations. and idiomatic expressions. Students will find staged guidance in understanding the systems, and are given a variety of exercise practice in recognition and production. Phrasal Verbs and Idioms will find its place in self-access centres, for learners to study on their own: and teachers will welcome the texts, listenings, explanations, and exercises. hare clear aims and are highly accessible for thorough classroom exploitation. John and Soars Series editors ... - tailieumienphi.vn