¿Has oído hablar de los famosos Phrasal Verbs? “Los phrasal verbs son estructuras verbales compuestas por dos partículas: verbo + adjetivo, adverbio o preposición que sirven para definir acciones o estados específicos.” British Council.
Son tantos y tan parecidos, que es normal confundirlos o no acordarse de algunos, ¡pero no te preocupes! Aquí tienes la lista completa de phrasal verbs para B1 que debes manejar. Todo es ponerse y practicar.
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Para que los puedas estudiar fácilmente y los entiendas a la perfección, ponemos a tu disposición el listado de los 57 phrasal verbs imprescindibles para el B1 de inglés.
Aquí tienes el listado de Phrasal Verbs de B1 que debes saber para tu exámen
| PHRASAL VERB | MEANING AND EXAMPLES |
| Break down | Stop working Ex: My car broke down yesterday. |
| Break up | End a relationship Finish for the end of the course Ex: I broke up with my boyfriend last week. |
| Break into | Enter by force Ex: The thieves broke into my neighbour’s house |
| Check in | Register for a hotel room Ex: You have to check in after 12.00pm. |
| Check out | Depart the hotel Ex: We needed to check out before 10.00am. |
| Fill in | To complete information such as your name and personal details Ex: Could you fill in the missing information please? |
| Find out | Discover Ex: I didn’t find out the right answer |
| Get rid of | Throw away Ex: I don’t like gettind rid of old clothes |
| Give back | Return something to someone Ex: I’ll give you your book back soon |
| Give up | Surrender Ex: Never give up. Keep trying! |
| Give something up | Stop doing something that you did regularly Ex: Candy got bored with her Job and decided to give it up. |
| Go on | Continue doing something Ex: Please go on with your exercises |
| Go out | Leave your house and go somewhere Ex: I love going out at weekends |
| Grow up | To change from being a baby and become an adult Ex: I grew up in a small village |
| Look after | To take care of somebody or something Ex: I love looking after my granddaughter |
| Look for | To search for something or someone Ex: I’m looking for my glasses. |
| Look forward to | To feel excited about something Ex: I’m looking forward to seeing my friends |
| Look into | To try to discovert the facts about something Ex: The police is looking into the crime scene |
| Look out | Use for warning someone to be careful Ex: Look out before crossing |
| Look up | To admire someone Ex: I look up my grandfather, he is great |
| Plug in | To connect a piece of equipment to an electricity supply. Ex: The printer will never work, if you don’t plug it in. |
| Put away | To put something in the place where you usually keep it when you are not using it. Ex: Children shoud put their toys away when they are not using them. |
| Put back | To put something in the place it was before it was moved Ex: Can you put the book back when you finish with it? |
| Put off | To change the time or date of something so it happens later that it was planned. Ex: They had to put off their wedding because the bride’s mum had an accident. |
| To put out | To make something stop burning. Ex: It took the fireghter 3 hours to put the fire out. |
| To ring up | To phone someone. Ex: I will the hotel and book a room. |
| To run out of | To use all of something and not have any left. Ex: I’m sorry I ran out of tea. Would you like something else? |
| Set off | To start the day, to leave Ex: We set off early to avoid traffic. |
¡Ya has llegado a la mitad del listado de phrasal verbs! Queda un último empujón, ¡ánimo!
| PHRASAL VERB | MEANING AND EXAMPLES |
| Set out | To start a journey Ex: We set out early to arrive at the airport on time. |
| Set up | To start something such as a business, organizaton or institution. Ex: The group plans to set up an important factory. |
| Take off | To remove a piece of clothing To leave the ground for a plane Ex: Please take off your shoes. They are dirty! |
| Take up | To start doing something such as a hobby,interest and job. Ex: He took up jogging a week ago. |
| To try on | To put a piece of clothing in order to see how it looks and whether it fits. Ex: What a lovely dress? Why don’t you try it on? |
| To turn down | To reduce the amount of sound, heat or light produced by an electric equipment by pressing a buttom or moving a switch. Ex: Can you turn down the radio please? I’m trying to concentrate |
| Turn on | To make an equipment start working by pressing a buttom or moving a switcher. Ex: Please, turn on the tv, I want to watch the film. |
| Turn up | To increase the amount of sound produced by an equipment by pressing a buttom or moving a switch. Ex: Can you turn the radio up a bit? I can’t hear the news. |
| Work out | To do physical exercise as a way of keeping fit. Ex: He works out at the local gym every day |
| Bring up | To look after a child until he becomes an adult. Ex: She brought up 3 sons on her own. |
| Carry out | To do a particular piece of work,research etc. Ex: They carried out many experiments to prove their theory. |
| To carry on | To continue doing something. Ex: He moved to London to carry on his work. |
| To get back | To return to a place after you have been somewhere else. Ex: They had been on holidays and I think they got back yesterday. |
| To get off | To leave a bus, plane, train. Ex: I always get off at the same bus stop. |
| To get on with | To have a good relation with someone. Ex: She didn’t ge ton with her parents and moved out. |
| To hand in | To give something to a person in authority. Ex: All essays must be handed in by Monday. |
| To hand out | To give something to different people in a group. Ex: The teachers handed out the exams |
| To hang up | To stop using a telephone at the end of a conversation. Ex: I lost the connection and hanged up the phone. |
| To pick up | To go to a place where someone is waiting and take them to the place they want to go. Ex: Can you pick me up after the party? |
| Put on | To cover a part of your body with a piece of clothing or jewellery so that you are wearing it. Ex: Dorothy put on her coat and went out. |
| Put Through | Connect someone to the person they want to speak on the telephone. Ex: Can you put me through to accounts department,please? |
| Turn off | To stop a piece of equipment working by pressing a button or by moving a switch. Ex: You can turn off the tv, I’m not watching it. |
| Be over | To finish Ex: The class is over children, you can go home. |
| Stay up | Not to go to sleep Ex: You could stay up all night without getting tired. |
| Get on | To get into a bus, train and plane Ex: I get on at the first bus stop |
| Get on with | To have a good relationship Ex: I get on very well with my friends |
| Get off | To get out of the bus, train and plane Ex: I always get off at the last bus stop |
| Get into | To get on a private vehicle: taxi, car, ambulance… Ex: I got into the taxi quickly to arrive on time. |
| To get out of | To get off a private vehicle; taxi, car, ambulance. Ex: When I got out the taxi, I had already forgotten my umbrella. |
¡Ya has acabado! Esperamos que no haya sido tan duro como esperabas y recuerda que, este tiempo invertido en el aprendizaje de los phrasal verbs, te ayudará mucho a que apruebes tu próximo examen de B1.
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