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True Stories
a) Look at the stories and facts below. For each b) All of the stories contain more phrasal
of the numbers 1 to 13 you have to decide if verbs. How many phrasal verbs can you
the information is true or false. Choosing the find
correct definition for the phrasal verb in the
box will help you do this!
c) How many of the phrasal verbs can you
replace with other verbs For example in
number 2, If you are having problems
pickinu up English changes to If you are
having problems learning English.
had come up with the idea
for a new material first.
There was an argument about
different name and he asked the farmer if he could
neither the scientists in New York nor the scientists in
-1 any ideas. "Well, I gave up trying to
train this horse a long time ago," the farmer said,
London would back down. I To make sure that the
"This is a horse that makes you so angry that some
two groups didn't fall out, the Du Pont Company
reached a compromise and called the new material
NY (for New York) + LON (for London), or NYLON.
True (no longer keep to your position
in an argument)
days you feel like you want to murder it, so why
don't you call the horse 'murder', that would be
just right." The businessman decided that
"murder" was not a very suitable name for a horse,
so he turned the word around and called the horse
"Red Rum" which is "muR-deR" spelt backwards. In
the 1980s, Red Rum became the only horse to win
Britain's most important race, the Grand National,
True (think of)
(it is made up of approximately
a million different words) most
English people using
only 1 per cent of the words
I
True (just manage)
Roosevelt. The President had famously
an invitation to go bear-hunting because he thought
it was a cruel sport. "I'm a friend of
all the bears in all the woods of
House in 1871 (he was the first President to live
America," he said. And that's
there) he wanted the house painted in the three
why toy bears are known as
colours of the American flag, (red, white and blue).
"teddy bears" or "teddies".
However, when the builders turned up they told the True (refuse, reject) C
President that the local shops in Washington had
red and blue paint and they only had
white paint left in stock. So the President reluctantly
gave in and had the whole buildin
painted white, and within a few
days the President's official
residence became known as
the number of people with heart disease has gone
the "White House".
up so dramatically in western countries.
True (just bought)
False (not have any left)
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