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Exercises

5. I Here are some different ways in which do up, make up and make out can be used. What is
the meaning of the phrasal verb in each case?
1 Take this prescription to the chemist and she'll make it up for you.
2 Can you make out the little grey house on the shore?
3 A human being is made up of many, often conflicting, desires.
4 If you do up the newspapers, I'll take them to be recycled.
5 I find it impossible to make Jo out.
6 Let's advertise the talk in the hope of making up the numbers a bit.
7 He made out that he had never loved anyone else.
8 We're planning to do up our bathroom at the weekend.

Add the necessary prepositions or particles to complete this story.
Last weekend we decided to start doing ................ (1) our bedroom. We agreed that we
could do ................ (2) the old fireplace in the corner. As we began to remove it from the
wall we found some old pictures done ................ (3) in a bundle behind a loose brick. At
first we could not make ................ (4) what was in the pictures but we wiped them clean
and realised they all depicted the same young man. We spent an enjoyable evening making
................ (5) stories to explain why the pictures had been hidden.

Correct the mistakes in the sentences below. Either the wrong preposition has been used or
the word order is wrong.
1 This weekend we are planning to make the seaside for.
2 Vast amounts of money do not always make of happiness.
3 He makes up for anyone he thinks can help him.
4 Your shoelaces are untied. Do up them or you'll trip.
5 They like to make away that they have important connections.

Write word forks (see Unit 2) to help you learn the meanings of make up, make out, do with
and do up.

Divide the expressions in D opposite into any groups which will help you to learn them.

Complete the following sentences using an appropriate expression from D.
1 Pacifist posters in the 1960s used to say 'MAKE LOVE NOT ................................. !'
2 It doesn't matter if you pass or not as long as you do ..................................
3 Though many companies are going bankrupt, ours made a huge .................................
4 Mrs Thatcher said she could do ................................. Mr Gorbachev.
5 You must make ................................. the fact that he's only seven years old.
6 Dressing smartly for an interview helps you to make ..................................

Choose ten phrasal verbs and other expressions from the opposite page that you particularly
want to learn and write a paragraph using them.

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