TEACHER'S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Phrasal Verb Jeopardy

Activity Type Introduction

Listening and speaking In this fun teaching activity, students play a quiz game where they
activity guess phrasal verbs from their definitions.

Procedure
Language Focus
Draw the grid from the worksheet on the board. Write the points
Phrasal verbs
at the top and verbs down the side.

Aim
To guess phrasal verbs
from their definitions.
Tell the students that they are going to play a quiz game where
they guess phrasal verbs from their definitions.
Divide the students into four teams.

Have each team choose a team name.

Preparation
Start by choosing a square to begin the game, e.g. break 100.
Make one copy of the
worksheet.
Read the definition of the phrasal verb, e.g. to end a relationship.

Level The first student to raise their hand and give the correct phrasal
verb wins that square for their team and the amount of points in
Intermediate the square, e.g. 100 points. Their team name is then written in
the square.

Time The winning team gets to choose the next square. However, any
30 minutes team can try to guess the phrasal verb.

If a student answers incorrectly, it goes to the other teams.

At the end of the game, add up the points for each team.

The team with the most points wins the game.

As a variation, when a student answers correctly, the winning

team tries to make a sentence with the phrasal verb. If they do
this successfully, the points for the square are doubled.

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 PHRASAL VERBS

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Phrasal Verb Jeopardy

100 200 300 400 500 1000

to force to develop
to end a
to escape to get upset to separate entry into a a skin
relationship
break building condition

break up break out break down break up break in break out in

to meet to become
to retaliate
to go on a to get out of (usually interested in
to return or take
vacation bed for social something
get revenge
reasons) again

get get back

get back get away get up get back at
together into

to make a to suffer,
to start or to follow to compete
loud noise or to review lack or
proceed someone or oppose
go explode deprivation

go off go ahead go over go after go against go without

to be careful, to be excited to think less

to have a lot
to try to find vigilant or to investigate about the of or consider
of respect for
look take notice future inferior

look look down

look for look out look into look up to
forward to on

to put what
to insult
you are
or make
holding on to postpone to assemble to tolerate to extinguish
someone feel
put a surface or
stupid
floor

put
put down put off put down put up with put out
together

to pay for
to remove
someone to resemble
something to return an to break into
to start to fly to go a family
(usually item pieces
take somewhere member
clothing)
with you

take off take off take back take apart take out take after

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