Phrasal verb mimes

New Headway Pre-Intermediate Unit 12 pg 100

Student A

Mime the literal/ most common meanings of the following verbs

Put	Get/ take	Pick	Turn	Walk
Throw	Look	Fall	Lie	Run
Break	Fill	Grow	Go	Give
Sit	Ask	Sort	Move	Come

Mime the literal/ most common meanings of the following prepositions or adverbs

Away	On	Off	Up	Down
Past	In	Out	Forward	Back
After	Before	With	To	From

Mime the following multiword verbs/ phrasal verbs until your partners guess what it is (they don’t need to guess the parts in brackets, but get extra points if they can). You can mime by their meanings and/ or by the meanings of their two or three parts

Put (some clothes) on

Get it out (of the freezer)

Pick (your clothes) up (off the floor)

Take (the dog) out (for a walk)

Go back (to your country)

Turn round (and face the back wall)

Walk out (and slam the door)

Sort out (a problem)

Put out (a cigarette)

(The plane) took off (from the runway)

Give up (playing tennis)

Look after (a baby)

Look up (a word in the dictionary)

Run out (of water)

(My car) breaks down

Look out (a baseball is going to fall on your head!)

Make conversations with your partner using the phrases above

Phrasal verb mimes

New Headway Pre-Intermediate Unit 12 pg 100

Student B

Mime the literal/ most common meanings of the following verbs

Put	Get/ take	Pick	Turn	Walk
Throw	Look	Fall	Lie	Run
Break	Fill	Grow	Go	Give
Sit	Ask	Sort	Move	Come

Mime the literal/ most common meanings of the following prepositions or adverbs

Away	On	Off	Up	Down
Past	In	Out	Forward	Back
After	Before	With	To	From

Fill in (a form)

Take off (your shoes)

Try (a jumper) on

Throw (your worksheet) away

Turn (the lights) off

Turn (the volume) down

Grow up (to be a beautiful woman)

Look forward to (the end of the lesson)

Go out with (a boy/ a girl)

Go away (and leave me alone)

Get out of (bed)

Move on to (a new unit)

Fall off (your bike)

Come on! (Hurry up!)

Wake up (and turn off your alarm clock)

Give (the pencil) back (to your classmate)

Make conversations with your partner using the phrases above

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