Make up

 To make something up
Is that a real song, or are you making it up?

 To make it up to someone
I’m sorry about it, I promise I’ll make it up to you
You’re gonna have to work extra hard to make it up to me

 To make up for something

I’ll make up for what I did

 To make up with someone

I have decided to make up with her this evening
I really want to make up with you

 To make up someone’s mind

Have you made up ypu mind yet?
Come on! You need to make a decision!
Well,make up your mind,or we’ll have to leave you here
Before you make up your mind, let me show you something
 Give up
 Rendirse, dejar de hacer algo ( normalmente algo que te
gusta hacer), renunciar a algo, entregarse...
And he never gave up, to the end on his life
Sonia gave up smoking last year
I don’tknow rthe answer, I give up!

Show up
 Aparecer, presentarse en algún sitio
Victor didn’t expect Olivia to show up on time
My brother showed up at the party an hour late
You didn’t show up for your talk with the teacher

 Dejar en ridículo a alguien, avergonzar a alguien

Don’t show me up in front of my classmates,Mom!!!
 Wake-Get up
 Wake up no implica necesariamente que nos levantemos
en ese momento. Solo indica que estamos despiertos
aunque permanezcamos en la cama
I woke up when the alarm rings but I get up ten minutes later

 Get up se refiere al amomento en el que, tras haber

despertado, salimos de la cama. Tambien al hecho de
levantarse en el sentido de ´´alzarse`` (de una silla, un
sodá, etc..)
Sometimes ge doesn’t get uo from bed for days
I’m gonna get up and walk out of here
We’d better get up early tomorrow morning
 Walk, drive, run
 Con verbos en movimiento como estos, podemos poner
´´up`` y ´´down`` para indicar la dirección en la que se
realiza la acción.
She was walking down the stair while he was walking up
She was running down the stairs while he was running up
To get to her place, drive up the hill outside of town
Miriam ran down the street as fast as she could
 Look up
 Buscar información
I might need to look that word up in the dictionary
I can’t remember her phone number. I’ll look it up in my agenda
We just had to look it up on the internet

 Mirar hacia arriba

He looked up and saw the birds flying all over him

 Look up to someone
The look up to him because he’s a wonderful teacher
I just look up to your dad so much

Look down Mirar hacia abajo

She looked down and saw she had stepped in the mud
When people feel guilt, they always look down and away

 Look down on somebody: mirar a alguien con mala cara,

menospreciar
Don’t let others look down on you
Why do foreigners look down on us?

Pick up - Put down

 Pick something up significa recoger algo del suelo. Up se
refiere en este caso a un movimiento hacia arriba.

 Lo contario sería put something down, que sería dejar algo

en el suelo

Don’t just leave ypur stuff on the floor. Pick them up!
The thieves put their weapons down and gave themselves up to the police
Put your suitcase down next to the bed
Could you put yor book down and come help me?
 Pick up - Drop off
 Pick somebody up significa recoger a alguien en algún sitio
 Lo contario de este significado de pick up sería drop off.

I’ll pick you up at the airport as soon as you arrive

She’ll pick up her sister from school
Would you drop off my clothes at the cleaner’s
Just let me drop off my stuuf at my apartment
 Turn up - Turn down
 Turn up significa subir el volumen (o algo parecido) en un
aparato electrónico. Lo contrario sería turn down, bajar el
volumen.
Would you please turn down the TV?I’m trying to work
We need to turn up the air conditioning? It’s too cold in here

 Turn up también significa lo mismo que show up. Aparecer o

llegar a un sitio.
My keys finally turned uo under the sofa
By the time they turned, we’d already finished

 Turn down significa rechazar algo o a alguien

He asked her out but MAria turned him down
They offered Peter a job abroad but he turned it down

**Turn down Vs refuse Vs deny

- Refuse se refiere a negarse a hacer algo o rechazar, normalmente una

petición o una demanda. Muy parecido a decline
My request for a pay rise was refused/declined
I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more

- Deny se refiere a negar o desmentir una afirmación que han podido

hacer sobre ti
Carmen couldn’t deny that fact
She instantly denied owing money to the bank
Neil denies that he broke the window, but I’m sure he did
She has denied her family and refuses to have any contact with them
 Se refiere a
Break up
dejar una relación con una persona,
normalmente una romántica.
She’s just broken up with her boyfriend
Their marriage broke up as a result of long separations
She met her second husband not long after her first marriage broke up

Break down
 Quiere decir averiarse, dejar de funcionar
Our car broke down and we had to push it off the road
The lift has broken down again

 También puede significar echarse a llorar, derrumbarse.

The boy broke down and cried when he got a bad grade
When we gave her the bad news, she broke down and cried

***Let me break it down for you: déjame que te lo explique.

 Speed up - Slow down
 Speed up se refiere a subir la velocidad de algo. Slow down
significa bajar la velocidad de algo o relajarse.

The car suddenly sped up and went through a red light

He developed a new system to help speed up the work
The doctor has told him to slow down or he’ll have a heart attack
He slowed down as he came up to the junction
 Catch up
 Ponerse al día sobre algo:

Let’s go for a coffee- I need to catch up on all the gossip

She’s staying late at the office to catch up with/on some reports

 Llegar a alcanzar la calidad/nivel de algo o alguien

Will Spain Industry ever catch up with JApanese innovations?

 Alcanzar a alguien (en el sentido literal)

Go ahead, I’ll catch you up in a minute

 End up
 Este verbo se usa mucho y es muy útil y significa acabar o
terminar haciendo algo

They’re travelling across Europe by train and are planning to end up in Moscow

Much of this meat will probably end up as dog food

After travelling the world, she ended up teaching English as a forgein language
 Call up - Call down
 Llamar a alguien por teléfono

He used to call me up in the middle of the night

I just wanted to call up and say ´´thanks``

 Traer recuerdos de algo a una persona

Seeing Marta in that white dress callep up memories of his aunt Rosa

 Que te llamen para el ejército

He was callep up at the beginning of the war

 Call somebody down significa regañar a alguien

My manager called me down in front of everyone for my mistake

 Keep up - Keep down
 Keep up significa estar al día del algo

I read the papers to keep up with what’s happening in the outside world

 También se refiere a mantener el mismo ritmo de alguien o

algo
You run too fast, I can’t keep up

 Keep it up!!!

 Keep down significa reprimir o controlar algo

The demonstrators have been kept down by the military forces