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ack on him. 7. She had planned to do a management course but since
then she had abandoned it. 8. How awfully servile that man is. He makes
me want to vomit!
10. Respond to the following using the phrasal verbs “be”, “shake”,
“push”, “throw” + a particle.
A. 1. What would you say if somebody asked you, “What are you about?”
2. What’s the difference between the sentences “He’s out” and “He’s
away”? 3. Would you help a person if he is down and out? 4. What would
you advise a person who is all in? 5. Do you always follow announcements
to learn beforehand when a new play is on? 6. In what case would you
leave a message for your friend? 7. Would you give in easily if you were
after something? 8. What does a person feel when he is back home after
a long absence? 9. Of what goods are prices up in winter and down in
summer? 10. What would you do if you didn’t want a secret to be out? 11.
What do you do when you see that children are up to mischief? 12. If the
light is suddenly off in the evening, what do you usually do?
B. 1. What must you do before taking medicine which is in a bottle? 2. Is
it easy for you to shake down in another town? 3. What happens to leaves
in autumn? 4. How can you shake off bad habits? 5. What must you do if
your mats get dusty? 6. What news can shake you up?
C. 1. Does your friend ever say to you “Now, I’ll push off.” 2. When must
you push on with your work? 3. What can be pushed through in parliament?
D. 1. What do you do with old things? 2. Is it always easy to throw off a
sense of shame? 3. When do you throw out an occasional word? 4. Why
do some young people throw over their girl-friends or boy-friends? 5. Have
you ever felt like throwing up? 6. Why should you be careful in throwing
up a job?
11. Learn the phrases listed right after the text and interpret their meaning
in the sentences from the text.
1. Edward Bear, known to his friends as Winnie-the-Pooh, or Pooh for
short, was walking through the forest one day … 2. He was humming this
hum to himself … 3. After breakfast he said it over and over to himself
until he had learnt it off by heart … 4. … He thought to himself, “There
must be somebody there because somebody must have said ‘Nobody!’” 5.
So Pooh pushed and pushed and pushed his way through the hole, and at
last he got in … 6. … And he tried very hard to look in the direction of the
larder. 7. “As a matter of fact,” said Rabbit, “I was going out myself
directly.” 8. “I thought not,” said Pooh, nodding to himself. 9. He pulled
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