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FESTIVE
PHRASAL
VERBS
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1 Warm up

In pairs, discuss the following questions.

1. What is a phrasal verb? Can you give an example?

2. What are some common activities people do during the festive season?

3. How do you usually get ready for a celebration?

4. Think about a New Year’s Eve party. What are some things people might do to celebrate the New
Year?

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2 Phrasal verbs
Part A: Study the questions and match each underlined phrasal verb with its meaning below.

1. Are you looking forward to Christmas?

2. Do you often put off buying Christmas presents until the last minute?
3. Do you put up decorations during the Christmas period?
4. Do you hang up stockings on a Christmas tree?
5. Do you enjoy wrapping up presents?
6. Are you going to give something up for the New Year?
7. Have you ever ended up somewhere you didn’t expect to be on New Year’s Eve?
8. Do you plan to go out or stay in on New Year’s Eve?
9. Do you usually bump into old friends over the Christmas period?

a. place something somewhere so that everybody notices it

b. attach something somewhere from the top of the object
c. take part in a social activity outside the home
d. finally found yourself in a place that you didn’t intend to go to
e. meet by chance
f. delay, postpone
g. stop doing something, for example, a bad habit
h. waiting for something with pleasure
i. covering something completely with paper material

Ask and answer the questions with a partner. Try to use the phrasal verbs in your answers and get
more information by asking further questions, for example, ‘Why/Why not?’, ‘Where did you end up?’,
‘What are you going to give up?’ etc.

Part B: Now complete the phrases below and make an original sentence for each phrasal verb, selecting
one of the choices or using your own ideas.

1. look forward to a. a sign/a poster/a painting/a notice

2. put up b. at a party/in a strange part of town/in the wrong street
3. put off c. your homework/cleaning the floor/doing the dishes
4. hang up d. a birthday party/the end of the week/the winter
5. wrap up e. your boss/your teacher/your doctor
6. end up f. a gift/a toy/a bottle of wine
7. bump into g. an umbrella/a coat/a hat

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3 Same verb, different meaning

Part A: Some of the phrasal verbs can have more than one meaning. Use one phrasal verb from
Exercise 2 in the correct form for each pair of sentences. Each phrasal verb has a new meaning in the
second sentence. Try to guess what it means.

bumped into bumped into gave up gave up go out

go out hang up hang up wrap up wrap up

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A) I was really surprised when I Mike on New Year’s Eve. I hadn’t seen
him since we were at school together.
2
B) I the wall on my way to the bathroom. I think I had too much wine
this Christmas.

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C) Can you that bottle of wine? It’s a present.
4
It’s getting late. Let’s have this meeting and go home.

5
D) I hardly ever during the week. I’m just too busy.
6
When the lights , I will fall asleep like a baby.

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E) Jim smoking last year. He hasn’t smoked since then.
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When Claire decided to exercise every day, she stuck to it and never .

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F) You can your coat over there.
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He was complaining on the phone about the present I gave him, so I decided to .

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Part B: Complete the following definitions with the phrasal verbs from Part A.

bump into give up go out hang up wrap up

1. hit an obstacle accidentally

2. stop doing what you had decided to do, for example, because it is too difficult

3. end a telephone conversation by putting the receiver down

4. finish or conclude something

5. stop burning or shining

4 Listening comprehension
Listen to the following passage and answer the questions below. You may listen to the passage twice.

1. What was Anna looking forward to?

2. Why did Anna have to put off some of her preparations?

3. What decorations did Anna put up and hang up?

4. What was Anna doing when she decided to give up her habit of procrastinating?

5. Why did Anna end up staying home on Christmas Eve?

6. What had Anna planned to do on Christmas Eve instead of staying home?

7. Who did Anna bump into at the grocery store?

8. How did Anna and Tom spend their evening after they bumped into each other?

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5 Talking point

Discuss the following questions.

1. Have you ever hung up on someone who was being rude?

2. Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Do you usually stick to them or do you give up very quickly?

3. What things do you put off until the last minute (apart from buying presents)?

6 Optional extension / homework

Write ten original sentences about any festive time you like using the phrasal verbs from this lesson.

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4. Listening comprehension

Speaker: Anna was really looking forward to the holiday season this year. She had planned
everything meticulously, but as the day approached, she had to put off some of her
preparations because she got really busy at work. She still managed to put up the Christmas
tree and hang up some decorations around the house.

Speaker: One evening, while wrapping up gifts for her family, Anna decided to give up her habit of
procrastinating and promised herself to be more organized next year.

Speaker: On Christmas Eve, she ended up staying home because the weather was terrible. She had
planned to go out with her friends, but they all decided it was safer to stay in. However, the
evening turned out great when she bumped into her old friend, Tom, at the local grocery
store. They hadn’t seen each other in years and ended up spending the evening together,
reminiscing about old times.

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Key

1. Warm up

10 mins.
Students discuss the given questions in pairs or small groups.

2. Phrasal verbs

Part A:
5 mins.
Students first complete the questions individually. Go through the answers. The second part of the activity can
be adapted for all learning environments. In a one-to-one or Skype-based lesson, simply ask your student the
questions.

1. → h. 2. → f. 3. → a. 4. → b. 5. → i. 6. → g. 7. → d. 8. → c. 9. → e.
Part B:
10 mins.
In the last part of the exercise, students can work individually and check in pairs. This activity gets the students to
use the phrasal verbs in a more general context. Elicit the first sentence from a strong student, e.g. ‘I really don’t
look forward to the winter. It’s very cold’, ‘I put up a ‘Do not disturb’ sign on my hotel door.’

1. → d. 2. → a. 3. → c. 4. → g. 5. → f. 6. → b. 7. → e.

3. Same verb, different meaning

Part A:
5 mins.
Students try to complete the gaps with the correct phrasal verb form task 2. Monitor and assist if needed.

1. bumped into 2. bumped into 3. wrap up 4. wrap up 5. go out 6. go out

7. gave up 8. gave up 9. hang up 10. hang up
Part B:
5 mins.
Students now match used phrasal verbs to the new definitions.

1. bump into 2. give up 3. hang up 4. wrap up 5. go out

4. Listening comprehension

10 mins.
This exercise helps students practice listening for specific information and understand the context in which the
phrasal verbs are used.

1. The holiday season. 2. Because she got really busy at work.

3. She put up the Christmas tree and hung up some 4. She was wrapping up gifts for her family.
decorations around the house.

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5. Because the weather was terrible. 6. She had planned to go out with her friends.
7. Her old friend, Tom. 8. They ended up spending the evening together,
reminiscing about old times.

5. Talking point

5 mins.
Explain what a ‘resolution’ is: a commitment that a person makes to a personal goal, for example giving up a bad
habit. Point out the structure ‘hang up on someone.’

6. Optional extension / homework

10 mins.
Students come up with 10 sentences using phrasal verbs about some festive time they like (birthday, Christmas,
New Year, etc.). Monitor and support if necessary.

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