QUICK RESOURCE SHEET #91
Phrasal verbs
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Phrasal verbs are ubiquitous in all forms of written and spoken modern English, making the ability to understand and produce them a requisite for an adequate command of the English language…
Phrasal verbs have roots back in the earliest Old English writings, where verbs with short adverbs and prepositions were used in a very literal sense showing mostly the direction, place, or physical orientation of a noun in the sentence (Spasov, 1966; Hillard, 1971; Kennedy, 1920; Meyer, 1976), such as in the following example:
The boy walked out. (direction)
The boy stood by. (place)
The boy held his hand up. (physical orientation)
from http://www.rit.edu/~seawww/phrasalverbs/pvintroduction.html
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/vocabulary/mwverb2.shtml
“I looked at some of the problems that multi-word verbs cause students. In this second article I'll look at a range of approaches and methods that I have used to try to help my students with them.
http://www.eltnewsletter.com/back/January2003/art1072003.htm
“This article aims at teaching Phrasal Verbs …associated with syntagmatic and paradigmatic presentation of teaching grammar. The former one is based on displaying different grammatical rules and lexical items as they collocate so as to produce a meaningful text. This presentation focuses on structures and their relations. Syntagmatic presentation in this sense is contradictory to paradigmatic one which is meant to show a certain system or a systematic organisation of a particular grammar point. Paradigmatic presentation does not deal with collocations, contrariwise, it focuses only on a single paradigm…”
http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Upendran-PhrasalVerbs.html
“Using songs provides an ideal context for students to learn new phrasal verbs. The enthusiasm generated by songs will enable the teacher to discuss those phrasal verbs, which have been brought up by the students, and not those randomly selected by the teacher or the textbook writer. Making students learn the songs will ensure that they will remember not only the meaning and also how to use the phrasal verb.”
http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/
Dictionary of English Phrasal Verbs
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/phrasal.html
“Phrasal and Latinate Verbs focuses on high frequency use, presenting the verbs as they would occur in a lexicon. The 14 practice texts provide memorable contexts for learning Phrasal Verbs since they each relate to distinct themes. The verb components introduced in the worksheets are deliberately limited to the 19 most common ones - BRING CARRY COME CUT DO FALL GET GIVE GO HOLD KEEP LAY LOOK MAKE PASS PULL TAKE and TURN. All these verb components combine with particles to form meanings, which are difficult for learners of English to guess, yet very important for them to know.”
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