Phrasal Verbs Test

Vocabulary

• Complete these sentences with the correct phrasal verb from the box. There are 2 extra ones!

Put sb down break down tie in look sb up put sb up go into sth run into turn up

I RAN INTO James in a bar in the City on Friday.

Sally is putting me up for the weekend.

Don´t forget to look me up when you come to Buenos Aires

She puts her husband down in front of the children.

Her description tied in with that of the others witness

My neighbour's dog ran away last week, and this morning it turned up on her doorstep.

• Read the definitions and match with the correct phrasal verb

To make someone unhappy or depress to go into sth

To say NO to an offer or request to turn into sth

To talk about to give sth up

To persuade someone of doing sth to get someone down

To stop sth that is a habit for you to talk someone into

To become sth or s.o different to turn sth / s.o down

Grammar

1) Rewrite the questions

1. Where is she? I´d like to know……………………………………………………

2. What are you talking about? I don´t know …………………………………………

3. How did that get here? I wonder …………………………………………………..

4. Why hasn´t she phoned? Nobody knows …………………………………………..

5. Where is Stonehenge? We´d like to know…………………………………………..

6. How is Tom´s mother? I wonder…………………………………………………..

2) Complete the dialogue with must be, might be or can´t be.

Tina: Where´s Melanie? If she doesn´t arrive son we …………………late for the film.

Sara: I don´t know. She ……………stuck in traffic.

Tina: no, she ……………….stuck in trafic. There is hardly any traffic at this time in the afternoon.

Sara: perhaps she has forgotten about us. Why don´t you pone her? She ………..still at home.

Tina: The line is busy. She …………at home!

Sara: not necessarily. That ……………….her cousin, Mark. He´s staying with her at the moment.

Tina: Oh, well, I suppose she ………..at her office. I´ll try to pone her there.

Sara: No, she …………at her office.

Tina: why not?

Sara: because here she comes now!

3) Circle the correct words

1. Kate´s parents must have / can´t have been really proud when she won that prize last year.

2. Their house burnt down? That must have / can´t been a shock.

3. They must have / can´t have set off at one o´clock. They would have benn here by now.

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