Step 49: Get It Done
Everyday actions — Core phrasal verbs 1
📖 Read — Ethan's Morning, Verb by Verb
Ethan's alarm rings at six. He wakes up, gets up, and turns on the light. He puts on his school shirt, picks up his bag, and looks for his keys. “They were here!” he says. Finally, he finds them under his notebook.
At school, Miss Taylor smiles. “Class, today you'll find out your test results.” Ethan takes off his jacket and sits down. “And remember,” she says, “never give up! If a question is hard, carry on and try the next one.” Ethan opens his book. Get it done — that's his plan for today!
🧩 Grammar — Phrasal Verbs — Verb + Small Word, New Meaning
A phrasal verb is a verb + a small word (up, on, off, out) that makes a NEW meaning: turn on the light, look for your keys (= search), give up (= stop trying). With many phrasal verbs, the object can go in the middle: turn the light on / turn it on — but with a pronoun, it MUST go in the middle: turn it on (never 'turn on it'). Learn them inside sentences, not lists!
- I wake up at six.
- Please turn it off.
- I'm looking for my keys.
- Never give up!
🏗️ Key structures
- I wake up / get up at ___ — I get up at six thirty.
- Turn it on / off — It's dark — turn the light on.
- I'm looking for ___ — I'm looking for my phone.
⭐ Idiom & natural phrases
He shouted at everyone at breakfast — he got up on the wrong side of the bed!
🔤 New words
stop sleeping
I wake up at six every day.
leave your bed and stand up
He wakes up at six but gets up at six fifteen.
start a machine, light, or TV (opposite: turn off)
Turn on the TV, please.
take something in your hand; also go and collect someone
Pick up your bag — we're leaving.
move clothes onto your body (opposite: take off)
Put on your jacket — it's cold.
remove clothes; also, a plane leaves the ground
Take off your shoes at the door.
search; try to find something
I'm looking for my keys.
learn new information; discover
You'll find out your results today.
🎧 Say it with me
I wake up at six, get up, and turn on the light. I put on my shirt, pick up my bag, and look for my keys. I never give up!
🎤 Your turn to speak
Tell your morning routine with at least four phrasal verbs: wake up, get up, turn on, put on, pick up, look for…
Say it out loud three times. Even better: record it on your phone and listen — your ear is your best teacher.
✍️ Your turn to write
Write 5 sentences about your morning or your school day using five different phrasal verbs from this step.
See a model answer
I wake up at six thirty and get up at once. I turn on the radio and put on my clothes. At school, I take off my jacket and find out my homework for the day. I never give up on a hard question!
Self-check: capital letters? Full stops? Did you use the grammar of this step?
📝 Quick check
Go deeper
This step is a doorway — the full lesson goes much further:
Phrasal Verbs: The Grammar (separable or not?) — full lesson + 50-question quiz
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