Collocations

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 571.

Phrasal verbs

C. Building Vocabulary Skills

Find the phrasal verbs used in the text. Make sure you know their meaning. Fill in the gaps with an appropriate particle and explain the meaning of the phrasal verbs.

1. The newly developing shopping complexes make ____ better shopping facilities. 2. I could barely make ____ the traffic signs through the rain. 3. Over 57 % of our city population is made ____ ____ men. 4. Pure air and water made ____ ____ the lack of the modern amenities. 5. She couldn't make ____ a word the visitor was saying. 6. A lot of people get ____ ____crowded cities. 7. The project has proved very successful, and now other municipal authorities are keen to get ____ ____ the act. 8. We can't get ____ the subject of rising unemployment rate in our villages. 9. Our local authorities managed to get ____ the restrictions. 10. The lack of social life in the village was beginning to get him ____ .

Underline two suitable words which can complete the sentences below.

1. If we were back in urban reality now, we yet retained a glow imparted by our bucolic /country / rural / villageidyll. 2. Barcelona feels a lot more cosmopolitan / global / multicultural than other Spanish cities. 3. Robert the next day seemed urban / urbane / provincial / assertive, sure of himself, even, she thought, pleased with himself. 4. Jackson spent the day meeting with local religious and civic / municipal / urban / uptown leaders. 5. Slum tenants / settlers / dwellers / denizens would filter through into better stock, or be rehoused by local authorities in new estates.
6. The picture showed a typical rustic / pastoral / rural / provincial scene.

Note the adjectives in the box describing urban and rural areas. Think of other useful adjectives related to this topic.

Work in pairs. Talk about your hometown using the adjectives above.