Transportation phrasal verbs
Phrasal verbs (transportation)
Exercise 1. Read the vocabulary and practice.
• Get away to leave to go on holiday
• Stop over to change flight in a city
• Back up to go backwards
• Crash into to collide with something
• Pull out to drive out of a driveway
• Pull over to move to the side of the road
• Veer off to turn sharply from something
Exercise 2. Match the vocabulary to the sentences
1. Every summer, we _____________
E to Cancun for one week. A. crash into
2. A flight to Canada usually __________________
D in New York. B. pull over
3. Be careful not to _________________
C trees or poles in the street. C. pull out
4. The police told the criminals to ______________
B to the side. D. back up
5. I ________________
A from the garage before I go to school. E. get away
Exercise 3. Write sentences with the following phrasal verbs.
1. Get on _____________________________________________________
They got on the train
2. Stop over _____________________________________________________
You didn't tell me you had a New York stop over.
3. Get in _____________________________________________________
This is your window to get in there with her
4. Veer off _____________________________________________________
I like to veer off the beaten path myself.
5. Get away _____________________________________________________
We walked to the next beach to get away from the crowds.
Exercise 4. Categorize the following means of transport into get on and
get in.
Truck Van Plane Taxi
Car Train Bus Boat
GET ON GET IN
train car
plane truck
bote van
bus
taxi
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