English Phrasal Verbs Book 3: 3 Words a Day, #3
By Keith Folse and Kelly Sippell
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The third volume in one of the most useful vocabulary series you'll find!
The five books in this series for learners of English feature the most common phrasal verbs in English, presented in order—the 30 most common phrasal verbs are in Book 1, the next 30 most frequently used verbs are in Book 2, and so on. However, you do not need to use the books in order. Advanced students may wish to start the series in the middle.
Each unit presents three phrasal verbs. You'll see the verbs used in context, study definitions, and then practice using them in a variety of different exercises. There's even additional online practice. Throughout the book, phrasal verbs from previous units are recycled, so you have additional support in remembering them.
You can learn and practice at your own pace. You can use the book to support a class you are taking or just to learn on your own.
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English Phrasal Verbs Book 3 - Keith Folse
INTRODUCTION
Phrasal verbs are one of the most difficult parts of English. They cause headaches for English learners no matter what your first language is. This book will help you with the phrasal verbs that are most frequent in spoken English.
To function well in a new language, you need vocabulary—and lots of it! Some studies say you can do simple things with just 1,000 words, but you can’t really speak any language with just 1,000 words. Other experts have said you need 5,000 words, and some recent studies now say you need 10,000 (or even more!) words to speak your new language well. The more vocabulary you have in a new language, the better your speaking and listening will be.
A phrasal verb is one type of vocabulary. It consists of a verb and a preposition. The verb is usually a very simple short word like get, make, or take. The most common prepositions in phrasal verbs (in order of frequency) include out, in, up, down, on, off, back, and over (Gardner and Davies, 2007).
The problem for English learners is that these two words together have a new meaning that is not the same as the meaning of just the verb or the meaning of just the preposition. If you know the meaning of the verb and the meaning of the preposition, it does not mean you know the meaning of the phrasal verb. The meanings are often very different.
For example, let’s look at the phrasal verb call off. Call mostly means to contact someone on the phone, and off is the opposite of on. But call off means cancel and has no connection to a phone: The coach called off the game. Other examples include figure out, go on, and show up.
Learning phrasal verbs is very difficult. English has hundreds of phrasal verbs, and each phrasal verb can have several meanings. In fact, frequently used phrasal verbs can have more than five different meanings.
WHY ARE THE 150 PHRASAL VERBS IN THESE BOOKS IMPORTANT?
You can easily find a list of phrasal verbs on the internet, but those are just lists taken from big dictionaries. Many of those phrasal verbs are not so common, which makes them a waste of your time, and your time is important.
In these five books about phrasal verbs, you will practice the 150 most frequently used phrasal verbs in English. This list is the result of an extensive computer analysis of a large collection of approximately 130 million words of spoken English (PHaVE List: Garnier and Schmitt, 2015).
Sometimes one phrasal verb can have five or more meanings, so what should you learn first? You should learn the most common meanings, so the books in this series teach only the top meanings of each phrasal verb based on important information from a very detailed study by Liu and Myers (2020). The meanings are listed in order of frequency, so the first meaning is more frequently used than the second meaning, etc. (A few changes from the original list have been made for better learning.)
In sum, these books teach the most common phrasal verbs with the most common meanings in spoken English. Information about the 150 verbs chosen for these books comes from these sources:
Adolphs, Svenja, and Dawn Knight. Building a spoken corpus.
The Routledge handbook of corpus linguistics (2010): 38–52.
Davies, Mark. The corpus of contemporary American English (COCA). (2008-): available online at https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/.
Gardner, Dee, and Mark Davies. Pointing out frequent phrasal verbs: A corpus‐based analysis.
TESOL Quarterly 41.2 (2007): 339–359.
Garnier, Mélodie, and Norbert Schmitt. The PHaVE List: A pedagogical list of phrasal verbs and their most frequent meaning senses.
Language Teaching Research 19.6 (2015): 645–666.
Garnier, Mélodie, and Norbert Schmitt. Picking up polysemous phrasal verbs: How many do learners know and what facilitates this knowledge?
System 59 (2016): 29–44.
Liu, Dilin. The most frequently used English phrasal verbs in American and British English: A multicorpus examination.
TESOL Quarterly 45.4 (2011): 661–688.
Liu, Dilin, and Daniel Myers. The most-common phrasal verbs with their key meanings for spoken and academic written English: A corpus analysis.
Language Teaching Research 24.3 (2020): 403–424.
HOW ARE THESE BOOKS ORGANIZED?
There are five books. The phrasal verbs in Book 1 are more common than those in Book 2, etc., so you should start with Book 1 and continue through the books in order: 2, 3, 4, 5. The order is