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The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs. Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:59 am  The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs.
 

Teachers, is there a "right" way to teach phrasal verbs? I mean, what is the most effective way of doing so? Do you feel that you, as a teacher, are teaching such verbs in an effective way? If so, in which way are you doing that?

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"Phrasal verbs are aspects of grammar that are not as straightforward to teach as are other aspects. Many teachers avoid or put off teaching phrasal verbs until students are at a higher advanced level. Darwin and Gray’s Going After the Phrasal Verb: An Alternative Approach to Classification (1999) gives three specific reasons why phrasal verbs are avoided in teaching. They say that phrasal verbs are (1.) hard to define, (2.) not much work has been done with corpora to find which phrasal verbs are used most frequently and (3.) methods of teaching commonly group phrasal verbs by verb or by particle instead of promoting use."

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~kw382698/Phrasal%20Verbs.htm
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The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs. Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:18 am  The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs.
 

As a teacher you can point out to your students what phrasal verbs are giving them some examples and encouraging them to pay attention to phrasal verbs when they listen to English audio books, TV/radio programs, podcasts, etc. As long as your students are aware of the fact that learning English is an ongoing process they will also pick up new phrasal verbs subconsciously.

If a student is interested in learning more about phrasal verbs, I usually direct them to materials such as phrasal verb break or phrasal verb bring. The important thing is help students become aware of the fact that learning phrasal verbs is a process that requires different methods and activities.
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The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs. Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:31 am  The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs.
 

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Thanks, Torsten. Getting students to notice phrasal verbs is a good thing.

Tell me, would you suggest beginning from use?

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(3.) methods of teaching commonly group phrasal verbs by verb or by particle instead of promoting use."
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The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs. Fri Jun 20, 2008 19:49 pm  The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs.
 

I don't know what a 'phrasal verb' is. Very Happy
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The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs. Fri Jun 20, 2008 20:17 pm  The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs.
 

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I don't know what a 'phrasal verb' is. Very Happy
You probably shouldn't simply make up a definition for "phrasal verb", but you could look it up in a dictionary. You just may come across a definition there. Wink Laughing
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The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs. Fri Jun 20, 2008 20:24 pm  The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs.
 

SkiIucK wrote:
I don't know what a 'phrasal verb' is. Very Happy

I think you can do without knowing what it is Smile Believe me, most native speakers of English, when asked what it is, whould shrug their shoulders in perplexion, but they use them just as well.
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The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs. Fri Jun 20, 2008 20:39 pm  The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs.
 

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The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs. Fri Jun 20, 2008 23:25 pm  The "right" way to teach phrasal verbs.
 

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you could look it up in a dictionary. You just may come across a definition there.


Which dictionary should we trust, Amy?

phrasal verb

• noun Grammar an idiomatic phrase consisting of a verb and an adverb or preposition, as in break down or see to.

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/phrasalverb?view=uk

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phrasal verb

–noun Grammar. a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=phrasal+verb&r=66
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