KEY VERBS
VII. Take
A. Take in a physical sense
If you take apart something or take something apart you separate it into its different parts.
Rod loves taking clocks apart, but he never manages to put them together again.
If you take back something or take something back, you return it to the person or organisation that you bought or borrowed it from.
When you go into town to take back your library books could you also take these trousers back to the shop for me - they're too small.
If you take aside somebody or take somebody aside, you separate someone from a group of people so that you can speak to them privately.
My boss took me aside at the Christmas party and told me he was going to give me a promotion in the New Year.
If you take off, you suddenly leave a place, without telling anyone where you are going.
Most people stayed at the party until quite late, but Rose took off early for some reason.
B. Take in an abstract sense
take up sth or take sth up - start doing a particular job or activity. - My son has recently taken up stamp collecting as a hobby.
take off sth or take sth off (sth) - subtract a particular amount from a total - The shop assistant took off ten per cent because the item was damaged.
take away sth or take sth away - subtract a first number from a second number - If you take it away from 33, you’re left with 22.
take back sth or take sth back - admit that something you said was wrong - I shouldn't have called you lazy - I take it back.
take in sth or take sth in - look at something carefully noticing all the details - He showed us a photo of his house, but I was so tired that I didn't really take it in.
C. Other senses of take
Lucy has started swimming regularly. She has taken out [1] a year's membership at a local
sports club and has taken to [2] going to the swimming pool every lunch hour. She is so taken
up with [3] her swimming that she wouldn't even take me up on [4] my offer to buy her lunch in
the best restaurant in town. The exercise certainly takes it out of her [5]- she is too exhausted
to go anywhere in the evenings.
1 subscribed to or registered for something officially
2 started to do something often
3 very busy doing something
4 accept
5 makes her feel very tired
KEY PARTICLES
VIII. Up
A. Read this text about someone complaining about having to do housework. Notice how the
particle up sometimes expresses the idea of completing or totally finishing something.
I spent all morning yesterday clearing up [1] my study. There were books and papers everywhere. Then I had to sweep up [2] the rubbish and dead leaves on the terrace. After that I tried to tidy up [3] my bedroom. There were dirty clothes all jumbled up [4] in a pile on the floor. I had to hung up [5] four jackets and several pairs of trousers I’d left lying on chairs. That took me an hour. Then I discovered the washbasin was clogged up [6] in the bathroom, so I had to clear that. By that time I’d used up [7] al my energy and I was too tired to do anything, so I just fell asleep on the sofa.
1 making a place tidy and clean, especially by putting things where they usually belong
2. remove rubbish or dirt, usually from the floor using a brush
3. make a room or a group of things tidy by putting things in the correct place
4. (adjective) mixed together in an untidy way (from the verb jumble up)
5. hang something, especially clothes, on a hook
6. blocked
7. finished a supply of something
Note how the particle up can be used for emphasis:
Eat up your vegetables, children! Drink up your juice! Paul's used up all the milk.
These three sentences could be written without up, but using up emphasises the meaning of 'finish it all or completely'.
B. Read this live Internet chat between Robert and Gemma.
G: Hi Rob, are you there?
R: Hi Gemma, what’s new?
G: My sister Val showed up [1] at last. She’s been promising to come for weeks.
R: Great!
G: Yeah, she turned up [2] yesterday evening.
R: What’s she doing these days?
G: She’s just opened up [3] a restaurant serving exotic food from different countries. It’s in that shopping mall in Dunston, you know.
R: Wow! That’s original. It’ll certainly liven Dunston up [4] a bit, it’s such a boring place. How did she think of that?
G: Oh, she’s always full of new ideas.
R: So, what’s the set up [5]? Is she the only person involved?
G: No, she has a business partner that they divide up [6] the work – and the profits!
R: Sounds like fun.
G: Yeah, but she says it’s hard work. She spends half the day chopping up [7] food and cleaning the kitchen.
R: Mm. Maybe we’re better off working in office jobs…
1 arrived, especially at a place where people were expecting her
2 arrived
3 started a new shop or business
4 make something more
5 interesting and exciting
6 (noun) the way that something is arranged (from the verb set up)
7 separate something into smaller parts or groups cutting something, especially food, into small pieces
1 making a place tidy and clean, especially by putting things where they usually belong
2. remove rubbish or dirt, usually from the floor using a brush
3. make a room or a group of things tidy by putting things in the correct place
4. (adjective) mixed together in an untidy way (from the verb jumble up)
5. hang something, especially clothes, on a hook
6. blocked
7. finished a supply of something
Note how the particle up can be used for emphasis:
Eat up your vegetables, children! Drink up your juice! Paul's used up all the milk.
These three sentences could be written without up, but using up emphasises the meaning of 'finish it all or completely'.
B. Read this live Internet chat between Robert and Gemma.
G: Hi Rob, are you there?
R: Hi Gemma, what’s new?
G: My sister Val showed up [1] at last. She’s been promising to come for weeks.
R: Great!
G: Yeah, she turned up [2] yesterday evening.
R: What’s she doing these days?
G: She’s just opened up [3] a restaurant serving exotic food from different countries. It’s in that shopping mall in Dunston, you know.
R: Wow! That’s original. It’ll certainly liven Dunston up [4] a bit, it’s such a boring place. How did she think of that?
G: Oh, she’s always full of new ideas.
R: So, what’s the set up [5]? Is she the only person involved?
G: No, she has a business partner that they divide up [6] the work – and the profits!
R: Sounds like fun.
G: Yeah, but she says it’s hard work. She spends half the day chopping up [7] food and cleaning the kitchen.
R: Mm. Maybe we’re better off working in office jobs…
1 arrived, especially at a place where people were expecting her
2 arrived
3 started a new shop or business
4 make something more
5 interesting and exciting
6 (noun) the way that something is arranged (from the verb set up)
7 separate something into smaller parts or groups cutting something, especially food, into small pieces
TASK: WRITE A RIDDLE (DON'T WRITE THE ANSWER TO IT!) REMEMBER TO WITE NOT MORE/LESS THAN 250 WORDS.
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Those teachers who say that we are a very disciplined and highly motivated students can take their words back. It is either we are so taken up with personal affairs or the first month of classes took it out of us, but more and more people take to playing truant these days.
The brightest example was Thursday when less than half of the group showed up. Here is the situation. There are twelve students in our group. Among them one guy, two girls with same names, one-already married, three people living in the hostel, two- from Zakamsk and three from Parkovii.
On Thursday, two people from Parkovii showed up, they were expected though. Unfortunately, no one from the hostel could make it. Furthermore, one of the girls has taken out a week internship abroad. One of us probably spent all day clearing up the flat or did other household chores. One representative of Zakamsk turned up just in time for the second lecture. Although the people who usually liven up the atmosphere of lectures and classes were present, it felt as though they used up all their energy. The group was taken apart with so many people missing.
There was no mix up with names on Thursday. Both females and our sole male were present. The girl, who is often late, was on time, she took up chatting with the rest immediately. All the students present had names beginning with different letters. I was there taking in who came and who was absent.
So the riddle is: who attended the two lectures on Thursday?
P.S. sorry, couldn't think of any sensible riddle of 250 words!
I am a factory accountant at a big industrial enterprise. I used to do my job quickly and usually I have a lot of free time at work. That’s why I took to watching my colleagues.
One day I noticed that in the near by department someone was taking all the computers apart. And another person was wrapping all the details so as to take them back to the storehouse.
I decided to inform our shift boss about it. I took him aside, but he said that my job was to take away and to sum up and that I sticked my nose into other people’s business.
However, I wanted to take it in. I found our director of operations and he promised to take this affair up. Together we visited that strange department.
To my great surprise our shift boss was sweeping up the floor and tidying everything up. Moreover, he took his words back. Our director of operations, having seen that, just took off. For me it was impossible to understand who was taking the computers apart and what for.
Suddenly my boyfriend turned up. Of course, I livened up. I took him up on his offer to by me a lunch. Eating, I told him the story and he easily understood who was at the head of this machination.
Having eaten everything up, I went to the office with a police-officer.
So, the riddle is: Who wanted to thieve the computers?
5 different persons live in 5 different houses of five different colours, smoke 5 different sorts of cigarettes, drink 5 different beverages, have 5 different habits and raise 5 different animals.
1. Englishman lives in the first house and he likes sweeping up everything which is on the terrace of his house.
2. French lives in a red house and never clean it up.
3. Dane drinks tea and one day he opened up his own tea-room.
4. That man who smokes “Pall Mall” lives near that man who raises cats.
5. That man who lives in yellow house smokes “Dunhill” and never takes back his words.
6. German smokes “Marlboro” and never takes up on his wife’s propositions.
7. That man who lives in the central house drinks milk.
8. The neighbour of the man who smokes “Rothmans” drinks water.
9. That man who smokes “Pall Mall” raises birds
10. Russian raises dogs and never chop up food.
11. American lives near the green house.
12. That man who raises horses lives in a blue house
13. That man who smokes “Philip Morris” drinks beer
14. A man from green house drinks coffee and often takes apart and put together again his coffee-machine.
The question is: who raises fish?
Mr Doolittle always dreamed about great career of a detective or something like that. He could never be an ordinary boy - there was something in crime that he found it a set up.
That evening he was especially excited. the first working day of his office was over. Mr Doolittle smiled and closed his eyes. Just like that he was sitting in his father's study planning his own future. He wasn't jealous at all, he was conceited. Mr Doolittle, his respected and well-known father, wasn't wise enough. Yes, he managed to clear business up successfully, but a real detective should take everything into account... even the intentions of his nearest. His son was going to liven him up.
That day James had almost persuaded Mr Doolittle to give money for openeng up his own office when damned Miss Black suddenly turned up to tidy up the room and serve tea. James used up all the reasons why she couldn't do it at that moment...
James Doolittle took in the orders he got today and smiled again. "Customer: Mr Black. Matter: murder of the daughter, a servent"
Who killed whom?
A week ago a reach businessman was murdered in his own house after a party which he gave for his friends. His wife found him dead at about 2.00 a.m. The set up of the house was well-appointed and all the rooms were soundproof. 2 of the businessman’s friends, Robert and Susan stayed for the night. There were also his wife, Helen, his daughter Elizabeth, and a housemaid in the house. The police interrogated all of them. That’s what they said.
Helen. “I don’t know anything! The party took it out of my husband and he went up to our room at about 1.00 a.m. I was downstairs with Robert and Susan. My daughter was in her room upstairs. Then Susan said she wanted to sleep and went upstairs to the guest room. We stayed in the living room with Robert. Rosa brought us tea and we were sitting there till 1.50. Then I went up and saw that my husband was dead”.
Elizabeth. “I went to my room at about 1.00. I was tired and I had to do something in my room. I hadn’t known what to put on for the party and I had tried on several dresses and all of them were on the floor. So I had to hung them up my clothes which were on the floor. Then I went to the bathroom and then to bed at about 2”.
Rosa, housemaid. “I had a lot of work that night. I was taken up with the dirty dishes. Then at about 1.30 I used up all my energy and went to bed”.
Susan. “That’s horrible! I was sitting downstairs with Helen and Robert. I felt that I wanted to sleep at about 1.20. I wanted to say good night to Susan and take back some words which I had told her the day before. But I heard that she was singing in the bathroom and decided to go bed because Liza usually takes a shower for about an hour. So I went to the guest room and went to bed.
Robert. We were sitting downstairs with Helen and Susan. Then Susan went to bed at about 1.15. I stayed with Helen in the living room. We drank tea and talk and at about 2 I went to bed. I don’t know how that happened!
Who killed the businessman?
Mr. Graves came to the police station to report a burglary which was perpetrated yesterday:
- I decide to change my job, because such kind of work with a strict director took it out of me. My friend Mr. Jones suggested me taking up our own business. I took him up on his sensible suggestion. We established a cleaning company (clearing up the rooms, sweeping up the carpets and so on)… The business throve and the money flew like water. Yesterday my colleague Mr. Jones invited me to a party. He told me that he wanted to talk over some new ideas regarding our enterprise. When I showed up at the place, Mr. Jones took off and I left among the strangers. A couple of minutes later three of them took me aside from the rest and did an advantageous offer. However, they demanded money straight away. Oh, it was me who was guilty… I let the cat out of the bag in our conversation. I told that I kept a lot of valuable in my house and that I could pawn them in order to get the money. But soon I realized that these men were swindlers, so, I immediately left a strange party. Having returned home and hung up my coat, I didn’t even turn back when suddenly they stunned me at my head from behind by a heavy object. I fainted away… Thank goodness that the day before yesterday I insured my property…
Later he told the police that he recognized the burglars and he demanded the insurance company to pay him a round sum of money. However, the police refused to open the case and the insurance company didn’t make up losses. WHY??? =)
I'm sorry for my mistake in the beginning of the story: there should be written "I decided to change my job"...
The day was gray. It was Sunday, a gloomy Sunday. There was no one in the office, everything was silent and still. An ordinary guy was all by himself on the 31st floor of a skyscraper of his damned corporation. He stared through a dirty glass smeared with soot and dust of the megalopolis which lay far below. He stared and tried to take in the picture. Down there people were bustling around, cars beeped violently, traffic lights hysterically blinked and advertisement hoardings flashed chaotically. Up there where he stood there was cold vacuum. He closed his eyes. At the moment his life seemed to be one large muddy smear spreading in front of him. He had never felt so tired before. For the past few months he has taken to going to a bar every evening to pass a glass or two, he took up smoking and was being gradually swallowed by a quagmire of apathy and depression. Sometimes anything outstanding would turn up – a party, a wedding, a funeral. He always took up the invitations but the occasions neither moved his heart nor mind. He was hollow, exhausted and bored. Suddenly, he took a deep breath, slid the window open and jumped through it. The flight was momentary, he fell in a wink. He landed, stood up to his feet and walked away.
He was no superman and there was nothing to slow his decent, so how did he manage to survive?
Once upon a time there was a king. He had two daughters. One day he decides to marry off his daughters. One of the daughters wants to marry very much, the other is absolutely indifferent to that fact. Then the prince turned up from one of the richest kingdoms. But there was the only problem – the prince couldn’t choose a wife for him, because both daughters were very beautiful, and when the king took out of this situation, he made up a decision to hold a competition and everyone took up on this suggestion.
So, in two absolutely identical rooms with two absolutely identical fireplaces he put the identical saucepan with the same amount of water. Every girl is in her room with this saucepan and at the same time they put it on the fire. The daughter in the saucepan of whom water would boil first, could marry prince.
Which of the girls would marry first?
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