Essential Verbs & Airport Vocabulary for Travel
Essential Verbs
- accept — aceptar
- allow — permitir/deixar
- ask — preguntar
- believe — creer
- borrow — prestar
- break — romper
- bring — traer
- buy — comprar
- can/be able — poder
- cancel — cancelar
- change — cambiar
- clean — limpiar
- comb — peinar
- complain — quejarse
- cought — toser
- count — contar
- cut — cortar
- dance — bailar
- draw — dibujar
- drink — beber
- drive — conducir
- eat — comer
- explain — explicar
- fall — caerse
- fill — llenar
- find — encontrar
- finish — terminar
- fit — caber
- fix — reparar
- fly
Essential Phrasal Verbs with Meanings and Examples
Verb | Meaning | Example |
| ask someone out | invite on a date | Brian asked Judy out to dinner and a movie. |
ask around | ask many people the same question | I asked around but nobody has seen my wallet. |
add up to something | equal | Your purchases add up to $205.32. |
back something up | reverse | You’ll have to back up your car so that I can get out. |
back someone up | support | My wife backed me up over my decision to quit my job. |
blow up | explode | The racing car blew up after it crashed into the fence. |
blow something up | add |
Pride and Prejudice: Character, Plot, and Dialogue Analysis
Pride and Prejudice: Multiple-Choice Test
Setting
Choose the best answer.
- Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had five _____.
- [ ] sons
- [x] daughters
- [ ] children
- [ ] dogs
- Netherfield was the finest house in the area, with the _____.
- [ ] most beautiful lake
- [ ] most spacious grounds
- [ ] finest woods
- [x] largest gardens
- Mrs. Bennet thought the _____ of the family should visit new neighbors first.
- [ ] mother
- [x] father
- [ ] son
- [ ] head
- Mr. Bennet thought that Lizzie was _____ her sisters.
- [ ] not as clever as
- [ ] prettier than
- [x] more
English Verb Exercises: Practice Past, Present, Future Tenses
Complete the sentences with one of the following verbs in the correct form:
come get happen look make start stay try work
1 ‘You are working hard today.’ ‘Yes, I have a lot to do.’
2 I am looking for Christine. Do you know where she is?
3 It is getting dark. Shall I turn on the light?
4 They haven’t got anywhere to live at the moment. They are staying with
friends until they find somewhere.
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Read MoreEnglish Irregular Verbs with Catalan Translation
English Irregular Verbs
- be was been ser o estar
- become became become convertir-se
- begin began begun començar
- bite bit bitten mossegar
- break broke broken trencar
- bring brought brought portar
- build built built construir
- burn burnt burnt cremar
- buy bought bought comprar
- catch caught caught agafar enxampar
- choose chose chosen triar
- come came come venir
- cost cost cost costar
- cut cut cut tallar
- do did done fer
- draw drew drawn dibuixar
- dream dreamt dreamt somiar
- drink drank drunk beure
- drive drove driven conduir
- eat ate
Decoded: 20 Intriguing Topics from Robots to Rhinos
Make Room for the Robots
1.
A) FALSE: “The scientists who built ASIMO equipped it with many abilities such as climbing stairs, recognizing faces, or even helping musicians make beautiful music.”
B) FALSE: “His company also makes a disc-shaped vacuuming robot called the Roomba, and more than 3 million are already in use.”
2.
A) ASIMO is a robot manufactured eight years ago whose height is 1.2 meters. It was the conductor of the orchestra which played the Detroit Symphony, thanks to both of its robot arms.
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