P o w e r e d b y c o b u I l d

; NOTE You can also use go through and run over.
sign up
If you sign up, you sign an agreement to do a job or course of study, or join an organization.
She signed up to do a Masters degree after graduating from Columbia.
take in
If you take something in, you pay attention to it so that you understand, remember, or experience it fully.
I didn't take in everything that he was saying.
Alex had been the perfect pupil, listening and watching and taking it in.
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Exercise 1
Match the verbs with the particles to make phrasal verbs from this unit.
through 
up 
behind 
to 
out 
for
1 ratrh / look / mix / sign
4 opt
2 rut / drop / find / hand /Ipavp / miss
5 rplatp
3 run / look / go
6 fall
E x e r c is e 2
Match phrasal verbs 1-8 with definitions A-H.
1 Andrew found the course difficult and dropped out
A find information in a book or website
after a month.
2 They were discussing a complex idea, so it was hard
B leave something you are involved in before it is
to take it all in.
finished
3 Dana missed two classes, so it took her a while to
C decide to do something
catch up.
4 At university Elias opted for political history and
D be connected with something
economics.
5 This chapter relates closely to the last one.
E pay attention so that you understand something
6 I looked up his address on the company website.
F give things out to people in a group
7 She handed out the certificates to everyone in the
G discuss something to make sure someone
class.
understands it