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The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - A life in six words for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Underline the multi-word verbs in stories 1-4 below. Then match each verb with meanings a)-f).
  2. Work in pairs. Look at the extracts from a dictionary. Which verb.

Answer

a)

  • Story 1 → turned up
  • Story 2 → Gave up; took up
  • Story 3 → Settled down
  • story 4 → Set up; ran out
  1. take up
  2. run out
  3. turn up
  4. set up
  5. settle down
  6. give up

b)

  1. run out
  2. set up (something)
  3. set (something) up
  4. run out (of)