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11.2 ARE YOU A MORNING PERSON?

1. COMMUNICATION PRACTICE. Answer the questions below.

1 What time do you wake up during the week?

2 Do you use an alarm clock to wake up? If not, what makes
you wake up?
3 Do you get up immediately after you wake up?
4 When you first get up do you feel...?
a awful
b quite sleepy
c awake and energetic

2. Read an interview with Sarah Mohr-Pietsch. Match the questions and answers.

1 What time do you get up when you’re doing the Breakfast Show?________
I get up at 4.45 a.m. and leave the house at 5.20.

2 ____________________________________________________________
Yes. I usually set my radio alarm to come on at 4.30 so that I can wake up
slowly as I listen to the world news. I set my phone alarm for 4.45 and leave
it on the other side of the room so I have to get up to turn it off.

3 ____________________________________________________________
It depends – some mornings I feel rested and awake, but other mornings it’s
quite hard to get out of bed. It depends on the season. I find I need much
more sleep in the winter.

4 ____________________________________________________________
If I’m slow to get up, then I wait until I’m in the studio before having
breakfast, but most mornings I have a bowl of cereal before I leave the house.

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That depends on the season too. In the summer I usually wait until the
morning to decide. But in the winter I often leave clothes out the night before
so that I can stay in bed until the last minute!

6 ____________________________________________________________
A car picks me up at 5.20.

7 ____________________________________________________________
In the winter, any time between 8.30 and 9.30 p.m. In the summer, usually
more like 9.00 to 10.00 p.m.

8 ____________________________________________________________
What social life? I certainly can’t go out for a wild night during the week, but
I’m lucky because a lot of my closest friends live near me, so I can see them
in the evenings and still go to bed quite early.

9 ____________________________________________________________
Sometimes I think I would like to have more normal working hours, but I
love my job so much that I’d never want to give it up. The buzz of being
‘live’ on the radio early in the morning as people start their days is really
wonderful.

A Do you choose what you wear the night before?

B Do you have anything to eat before you go to work?
C Do you use an alarm clock to wake up?
D How do you feel when you wake up?
E How do you get to work?
F How does this affect your social life?
G What time do you get up when you’re doing the Breakfast show?
H What time do you go to bed when you’re working the next day?

3. Answer the questions.

1 Would you like to work the same hours as the radio presenter?
2 In general are you a morning or evening person?

4. VOCABULARY PRACTICE. Look at some sentences from the interview. Say what the highlighted
phrases mean.

‘I leave it on the other side of the room so I have to get up to turn

it off!’
‘A car picks me up at 5.20.’

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‘I love my job so much that I'd never want to give it up.’

5. Read the information box. Can you think of a phrasal verb which means…?

1 to try to find something you have lost

2 to put on clothes in a shop to see if they are the right size
3 to have a friendly relationship (with somebody)

Phrasal verbs
Wake up, get up, turn on / off, give up, etc. are common phrasal
verbs (verbs with a preposition or adverb).
Sometimes the meaning of the two separate words can help you
guess the meaning of the phrasal verb, e.g. turn off. Sometimes the
meaning of the two words does not help you, e.g. give up.

6. (Recording 11.4). Match the sentences and the pictures. Then listen and check.

[ ] The match will be over at about 5.30.

[ ] I need to give up smoking.
[1] Don’t throw away that letter!
[ ] Turn down the music! It’s very loud.
[ ] Turn up the TV! I can’t hear.
[ ] He looked up the words in a dictionary.
[ ] Could you fill in this form?
[ ] I want to find out about hotels in Madrid.
[ ] It’s bedtime – go and put on your pyjamas.
[ ] Could you take off your boots, please?
[ ] My sister’s looking after Jimmy for me today.
[ ] I’m really looking forward to the holidays.

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Type 1 = no object
The verb and the particle (on, up, etc.) are never separated.
I get up at 7.30.

Type 2 = + object
The verb and the particle (on, up, etc.) can be separated.
Turn the TV on. OR Turn on the TV.

Type 3 = + object
The verb and the particle (on, up, etc.) are never separated.
Look for your keys. NOT Look your keys for.

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7. Look at these other phrasal verbs you have studied in this course. Can you remember what they
mean?

get up
come on
go away (for the weekend)
go out (at night)
stand up
sit down

turn on (the TV)

turn off (the TV)
try on (clothes)
give back (something you've borrowed)
take back (something to a shop)
call back (later)
pay back (money you've borrowed)
switch off (the air conditioning)
write down (the words)
put away (e.g. clothes in a cupboard)
pick up (something on the floor)

carry on (doing something)

look for (something you've lost)
get on / off (a bus)
get on with (a person)

8. What kind of things can you a) set up, b) take up, c) find out, d) give up, e) put on, f) put down?
Use the idea in the box. Some can be used with more than one phrasal verb.

clothes a sport a business a book

golf chocolate information
a company shoes facts weight a
meeting smoking the answer
a hobby news a pen

You can set up a business, a company or a meeting.

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9. GRAMMAR PRACTICE: Word order of phrasal verbs. Look at the picture and underline the
object of the phrasal verb in each sentence.

[1] Turn off the alarm clock!

[2] Turn the alarm clock off!
[3] Turn it off!

10. Complete the rules about separable phrasal verbs with noun or pronoun.

1 If the object of a phrasal verb is a ____________, you can put it

after the verb + up, on, etc. OR between the verb and up, on, etc.
2 If the object of a phrasal verb is a ____________, you must put it
between the verb and up, on, etc.

11. Look at the tables and learn the rules.

1 What time do you get up?

I don’t usually go out during the week.
2 Put on your coat. Put your coat on. Put it on.
Turn off the TV. Turn the TV off. Turn it off.
3 I’m looking for my glasses.
Have you found your glasses? No, I’m still looking for them.

● A phrasal verb = verb + particle (preposition or adverb), e.g.

get up, turn on, look for.
1 Some phrasal verbs don't have an object, e.g. get up, go out.
2 Some phrasal verbs have an object and are separable. With
these phrasal verbs you can put the particle (on, off, etc.) before

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or after the object.

● When the object is a pronoun (me, it, him, etc.) it always goes
between the verb and particle.
Here’s your coat. Put it on. NOT Put on it.
3 Some phrasal verbs have an object and are inseparable, e.g.
look for. With these phrasal verbs the verb (e.g. look) and the
particle (e.g. for) are never separated.
I’m looking for my glasses. NOT I’m looking my glasses for.

12. Choose the correct form. If both are correct, put [+].

Turn off your mobile / Turn your mobile off before the film starts. [+]
1 Tonight I have to look my sister after / look after my sister. [ ]
2 Let’s go out this evening / go this evening out. [ ]
3 Turn down the radio / Turn the radio down. It’s too loud. [ ]
4 My brother is looking for a new job / looking a new job for. [ ]
5 You should throw away those old jeans / throw those old jeans away. [ ]
6 I don’t like shopping for clothes online – I prefer to try them on / try on them
before I buy them. [ ]
7 Take off your shoes / Take your shoes off before you come in. [ ]
8 That’s my sister – I think you’d really get on with her / get on her with. [ ]
9 If it doesn’t fit, you should take back it / take it back to the shop. [ ]
10 What time do you get up in the morning / get in the morning up? [ ]

13. Complete the sentences with it or them and a word from the list.

back in on (x2) up (x3) down

I can’t hear the radio. Turn _it_ _up_.

1 Your clothes are all over the floor.
Pick _______ _______.
2 Here’s your coat. Put _______ _______.
3 ‘What does this word mean?’
‘Look _______ _______.’
4 To get your passport there are three forms.
Please fill _______ _______ now.
5 You remember that money I lent you? When can you give
_______ _______?
6 Is there anything on TV? Let’s turn _______ _______ and see.
7 You won’t remember my address. Write _______ _______.

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14. COMMUNICATION PRACTICE. Read the questions in the questionnaire and think about your
answers.

PHRASAL VERB
QUESTIONNAIRE
● Have you ever forgotten to turn your mobile phone off in a concert
or the cinema?
● Do you throw away old clothes or do you give them to other
people?
● Do you enjoy trying on clothes when you go shopping?
● Do you often go away at the weekend? Where to?
● Before you go shopping do you usually write down what you have
to buy? Do you only buy what’s on the list?
● Do you enjoy looking after small children? Why (not)?
● Have you ever asked your neighbours to turn the TV or the music
down? What happened?
● What’s the first thing you turn on after you wake up in the
morning?

15. Work with your teacher. Interview each other with the questions.