¿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. |
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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. |
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