| LESSON OVERVIEW
In this lesson, your students will learn 10 phrasal verbs with ‘over’ and discover what kind of meanings ‘over’ connotates. This will help them learn other phrasal verbs in the future by giving them some logical patterns to look for.
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MEANINGS
To discover the meaning of the phrasal verbs, students read sentences and have to match the phrasal verbs they include to their meanings. In phrasal verbs, ‘over’ can add a certain type of meaning and students’ task is to match phrasal verbs from the previous exercise to general meanings that ‘over’ brings to them.
PRACTICE
Students need to do a fill-in-the-gap task to use newly learnt phrasal verbs. Finally, the last task is a production stage activity where students need to use new phrasal verbs while discussing a series of questions.
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On page 27, D. should be “start your career over”, not “start over your career”. You could also say “start over in your career”, but as it is now, there’s no “in”.
Hmm, you’re right. We’ll fix that. However, I couldn’t find why this phrasal works the way you say. I was pretty sure that it’s a separable transitive verb.
“Start over” by itself is intransitive, and when it’s used in a transitive sense, it’s the kind of phrasal verb that must be separated (“start something over”). https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/start-over “Do over” is another one that works the same way (but “do over” is only transitive). You can’t say “do over the project”.
Here’s another article about it: http://random-idea-english.blogspot.com/2013/04/phrasal-verbs-that-are-always-separated.html
Thanks for the links and your comment. PS I love ‘Random Idea English’ 🙂
nice little lesson with a few little error
hand over just means to give someone something (not by offering it them)
start over just means begin again (doesn’t necessarily mean life or job)
Happy to hear you like the lesson 🙂 Thanks for the suggestion! We’ve just simplified the definitions and updated the worksheet.
Thank you for the lesson!
i think there’s an error on slide 10 sentence C – shouldn’t it be ‘competitor’ rather than ‘competition’?
Hi! In this context, ‘competition’ works well, so no need for change 🙂
Was this made with chat gpt?
Hi! No, the lesson wasn’t created by AI. As you can see at the top of the page, it was written by Stan.