{"id":7388,"date":"2020-05-31T16:56:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T20:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/?p=7388"},"modified":"2021-04-11T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T18:32:48","slug":"phrasal-verbs-and-their-opposites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/phrasal-verbs-and-their-opposites\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verbs and their opposites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greetings, everyone! How\u2019s life?\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of people have been taking these unusual times we are living in as a chance to take a hard look at their lives and rethink their whole routines. Spending more time at home inevitably leads to dedicating more to our hobbies, exploring new ones or looking for ways to practice skills we wanted to improve. So, how have you been keeping yourself busy during the confinement? I was teaching an online lesson the other day and the topic of discussion was precisely how people are living life at a different pace and trying to <\/span><b>slow down<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. As usual, during my lessons, I find it useful to elicit opposites whenever we focus on a certain term. However, I could tell that some students were struggling to come up with the phrasal verb <\/span><b>speed up<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as the counterpart of slow down. And this is why I thought it might be a good idea to work on a blog post that would list some commonplace phrasal verbs and their antonyms for a vocabulary boost! So let\u2019s speed things up and get moving!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">SPEED<strong> UP X SLOW DOWN <span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8439 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/05\/spi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"171\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Drivers are supposed to<strong> slow down<\/strong> when going past schools\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This new system update will <strong>speed up<\/strong> the application process for its users<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The doctor advised Tony to <strong>slow down<\/strong> a bit and try to work less<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ted, if you don\u2019t <strong>speed up<\/strong> we will show up late for the appointment\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8440 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/05\/ge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"198\" \/>GET ON X GET OFF\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once you leave the airport, head to platform 1 and <strong>get on<\/strong> the bus 212 which will take you straight to the city center\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I saw Elaine <strong>getting on<\/strong> a cab on First Avenue, but she didn\u2019t see me wave at her\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let\u2019s <strong>get off<\/strong>, this is our stop!\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To get to the National Museum, you should <strong>get off<\/strong> at the next station<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>PUT ON X TAKE OFF<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8441 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/05\/pu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"196\" \/><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s getting warm in here, I\u2019m going to <strong>take<\/strong> my jacket <strong>off<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was running late this morning, so I didn\u2019t have time to <strong>put<\/strong> any makeup<strong> on<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Excuse me, sir, would you like to <strong>take off<\/strong> your coat so I can hang it up for you?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Make sure to <strong>put on<\/strong> a sweater before we leave, it\u2019s getting chilly out!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>RUN AFTER X RUN AWAY<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8445 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/05\/run.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"181\" \/><\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don\u2019t forget to close the gate behind you, otherwise the cat might <\/span><b>run away<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I saw the police <\/span><b>running after<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> some car robbers earlier<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You\u2019re an adult now, Jerry, you shouldn\u2019t<\/span><b> run away<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from your responsibilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why do you waste your time <\/span><b>running after<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> men like him?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>PICK UP X DROP OFF <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8446 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/05\/pick.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"193\" \/><\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ll be waiting for you by the main entrance, so make sure to tell the cab driver to <\/span><b>drop you off<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> there<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John is taking me out to dinner tonight. He\u2019s supposed to <\/span><b>pick me up<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at 8h\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Could you <\/span><b>drop<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the children <\/span><b>off<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at school for me tomorrow? I have an early meeting<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dad would always<\/span><b> pick me up<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> after parties when I was a teenager<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>LOOK DOWN ON X LOOK UP TO<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8447 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2020\/05\/look.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"172\" \/><\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Mrs. Ethel can be quite arrogant. She <strong>looks down on<\/strong> everyone who doesn&#8217;t hold a college degree<\/li>\n<li>Children tend to <strong>look up to<\/strong> their teachers when they are in primary school<\/li>\n<li>I really <strong>look up to<\/strong> single mothers. Raising children by themselves can&#8217;t be easy<\/li>\n<li>The shop assistant<strong> looked down on<\/strong> the customer because he didn&#8217;t look like he had any money<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can you come up with any other phrasal verbs and their opposites? Let us know. Look forward to next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"327\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/05\/spi.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Greetings, everyone! 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