American Culture Class (4/9)

Last culture class, we learned about phrasal verbs. First we read a love story in phrasal verbs and students had to fill in the blank with the correct phrasal verbs. Read the complete story here, and look up any phrasal verbs you don't recognize.   

Daisy and Eric: A Love Story in Phrasal Verbs

Daisy and Eric met at a mutual friend’s house and got along really well. They talked for hours at the party. At the end of the night, Eric and Daisy agreed to go out for dinner the following Friday. Eric ended up having to reschedule their date for Saturday because on Friday he had to look after his nieces. Daisy was looking forward to her date with Eric. Eric picked her up at 7PM on Saturday night. They drove to a neighborhood that Daisy didn’t know, and Eric pulled over the car in front of a fancy restaurant she had never been to before. After dinner, Daisy and Eric made out on her doorstop before saying goodnight, and decided to become boyfriend and girlfriend.

After dating for some months, Daisy and Eric decided to move in together. Things went well at first, but then little things that Eric did started to annoy Daisy, like how he never cleaned the dishes and always left his socks on the floor. She didn’t want to bring up these little things that annoyed here, but after a while she couldn’t put up with Eric’s habits anymore and broke up with him.

When his relationship fell apart, Eric was very upset. He thought about Daisy all the time – he could not get over her. Daisy felt the same way, as she could barely carry on without Eric’s company. A few days later when Eric was reading on a bench in the park near his house, Daisy turned up walking her dog through the park. Both of them were very happy to see each other, and after talking for hours they decided to get back together. Now Eric and Daisy live happily ever after. 

Next students were given a card with either a verbs or preposition on it and were asked to go around the classroom looking for the student were a corresponding card to complete their phrasal verbs. Students then defined and created an example with correct usage of the phrasal verbs and we made an English-language phrasal verb dictionary. Finally we, played a phrasal verb game where students were asked to translate phrasal verbs into normal verbs and vice versa using pre-detemined sentences. 

We planned our groups for our English-language Tocantins travel guide, and will continue to work on this project in coming classes. 

This week's prompt: 

Write a five sentence story using a phrasal verb from class in every sentence.