How to describe someone's personality

Useful Phrasal Verbs

15 Most Useful Phrasal Verbs

1. “Call off”: to stop–”call off the search”–and used when phoning in to work. “I called off today because I’m sick.”

2. “Look up”: search for. “I’ll go online and look up ‘phrasal verbs’.” “Look me up the next time you’re in town.”

3. “Get away with”: escape blame/punishment. “He sure got away with that”, or “the crook got away with 50 dollars”.

4. “Pull through”: used in discussing health–”The surgery was rough, but he pulled through”, or “the victim of the chicken attack pulled through with no lingering injuries”.

5. “Break up”: usually refers to relationships–”Fred and Matilda are going to break up”–but variations can be used to show an emotional state. “When Matilda dumped Fred, he was pretty broken up about it.”

6. “Blow out”: a tire flattens while driving–”Mel had a blowout on the way to work”–and it indicates a lopsided sports score. “It was a blowout; the Packers beat the Bears 24 to 3.” It is also used to indicate anger: “Ed broke Bob’s window, and Bob had a complete blowout when he saw it”.

7. “Give in/give up”: relent or surrender. “She did not want to go, but the kids pestered her until she gave in.” “The robber gave up when the cops cornered him.”

8. “Put up with”: endure, such as “Tom put up with many jokes when he rode his ostrich to work”.

9. “Look down on”: a person who feels superior to others is said to “look down on” them. “Dog owners sometimes look down on cat owners, which is silly, because cat owners sometimes look down on dog owners.”

10. “Turn into”: become something else–”caterpillars turn into butterflies”. It is also used in driving: “after you pass the park, turn into the school parking lot”.

11. “Carry on”: continue. “After the accident, the police told the bystanders to carry on.” It is also a rant–”when she spilled her milk, she carried on about it for hours”.

12. “Look after”: attend to–”babysitters look after children”, or “please look after that task I gave you”.

13. “Pass out”: faint–”Bennie became dizzy and passed out”–or “to give”: “Frankie passed out newspapers”.

14. “Put off”: postpone. “He put off painting and cut the grass first.” It is also used to describe an aversion: “Norm was stranded in the woods for 3 days with only a box of candy bars, so he’s put off by chocolate for now”.

15. “Look forward to”: anticipate. “I look forward to meeting with you,” or “kids look forward to the holidays”.

Look

Interview

Parts of the body

Parts of the body

Positions

Read this, if you can

Fingers name

Food

The house

Babbling like a child

Babbling like a child

Balmy in manner as a bland southern morning

Be like the granite of thy rock-ribbed land

Beauteous she looks as a water-lily

Beautiful as the dawn, dominant as the sun

Beauty maddens the soul like wine

Beheld great Babel, wrathful, beautiful, burn like a blood-red cloud upon the plain

Beneath a sky as fair as summer flowers

Bent like a wand of willow

Black as a foam-swept rock

Black his hair as the wintry night

Blithe as a bird [blithe = carefree and lighthearted]

Bounded by the narrow fences of life

Bowed like a mountain

Breaking his oath and resolution like a twist of rotten silk

Breathed like a sea at rest

Bright as a diamond in the sun

Bright as a fallen fragment of the sky

Bright as the coming forth of the morning, in the cloud of an early shower

Bright as the sunbeams

Bright as the tear of an angel, glittered a lonely star

Brilliant and gay as a Greek

Brisk as a wasp in the sunshine

Brittle and bent like a bow

Bronze-green beetles tumbled over stones, and lay helpless on their backs with the air of an elderly clergyman knocked down by an omnibus

Brown as the sweet smelling loam

Brute terrors like the scurrying of rats in a deserted attic

Buried in his library like a mouse in a cheese

Burns like a living coal in the soul

But across it, like a mob's menace, fell the thunder

But thou art fled, like some frail exhalation

Butterflies like gems

The Car

Hank lived in a small town, but then he got a job in a big city and moved there with his wife and his two children. On the first Saturday in their new home, Hank took his new red car out of the garage and was washing it when a neighbor came by. When he saw Hank's new car, the neighbor stopped and looked at it for a minute. Then Hank turned and saw him.

The neighbor said," That's a nice car. Is it yours?"

"Sometimes", Hank answered.

The neighbor was surprised. "Sometimes?" he said, "What do you mean?"

"Well", answered Hank slowly, "When there's a party in town, it belongs to my daughter, Jane. When there's a football game somewhere, it belongs to my son, Joe. When I've washed it, and it looks really nice and clean, it belongs to my wife. And when it needs gas it's mine."

* That's what a  family car is*.

How much / how many

Find the correct answer:

1. We need some tea. ______ do we need?
    A. How much
    B. How many

2. We need some eggs. ______ do we need?
    A. How much
    B. How many

3. We need some paper. ______ do we need? 
    A. How much
    B. How many

4. We need some money. ______ do we need?
    A. How much
    B. How many

5. ______ cigarettes do you smoke a day?
    A. How much
    B. How many

6. ______ packets of cigarettes do you have?
    A. How much
    B. How many

7. ______ work have you got to do?
    A. How much
    B. How many

8. ______ sleep did you get last night?
    A. How much
    B. How many

9. ______ children have you got?
    A. How much
    B. How many

10. ______ bottles of wine are there in the cellar?
    A. How much
    B. How many

11. ______ English grammar do you know?
    A. How much
    B. How many

12. ______ Americans do you know?
    A. How much
    B. How many

13. ______ sugar do you take in your tea?
    A. How much
    B. How many

14. ______ apples do you eat in an average week?
    A. How much
    B. How many

15. ______ fruit do you eat in an average week?
    A. How much
    B. How many

16. ______ chairs are there in your house?
    A. How much
    B. How many

17. ______ furniture do you have?
    A. How much
    B. How many

18. ______ traffic was there on the motorway today?
    A. How much
    B. How many

19. ______ times must I tell you?
    A. How much
    B. How many

20. ______ real friends do you have?
    A. How much
    B. How many