U1/ Phrasal Verbs

Practise and improve your skills or knowledge of something

Ex: She took a two-week course to ......on her Spanish before she went travelling around South and Central America

• brush off

• brush up

change your opinion or decision because someone has persuaded you to agree with them

ex: They have started ......... our way of thinking and are less hostile.

• come across

• come around to

Nobody could COME UP WITH a satisfactory explanation for the accident.

Come up with means...

• suddenly have an idea

• think of something such as an idea or a plan

accept something and try to deal with it

• face to face

• face up to

The police couldn't FIGURE OUT how the burglars had got into the warehouse.

Figure out means...

• find out

• figure on

suddenly have an idea; discover something by chance

• hit upon

• hit out at

see, hear or understand someone or something with difficulty; suggest, imply

• make up

• make over

• make out

• make in

She said that she'd had to MULL IT OVER before deciding.

Mull over means...

• think carefully about something over a period of time

• think of something such as an idea or a plan

learn the truth about something by considering all the seperate bits of information you have

• piece of cake

• piece together

solve a confusing or complicated problem by thinking carefully about it

• piece together

• puzzle out