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Phrasal Verbs about Education 1
Be aware that many of these phrasal verbs also have other meanings. 
Phrasal verbs often include another preposition if they take an object. 
Phrasal Verb Mix and Match
 Connect each of the phrasal verbs below with the correct definition.
1) account for	 		a) to understand somebody 
2) add up 	 		b) to not go to school, play truant 
3) allow for 		 	c) to quickly write 
4) be with somebody 		d) to discover or calculate the solution to something 
5) brush up 			e) to accumulate or make a total sum 
 
6) bunk off 			f) to revise a subject or ability 
7) catch up 			g) to give to the appropriate or responsible person 
8) crack on	 	 h) to leave a course of education early 
 
9) dash off 			i) to fail a course of study 
		 
10) drop out	 		j) to be the reason, cause or explanation for something
 
11) drum into (in) 		k) to browse quickly, read fast 
 
12) dumb down 		l) give extra consideration for something in calculations
13) fall behind 	 		m) to make too simple or easy to understand or do 
14) figure out 	 		n) to continue doing something laborious already started 
 
15) flick through 		o) to distribute from an official source 
16) flunk out	 	 	p) to teach by continuous repetition 
17) hand in 			q) to get to a much lower level of performance than the rest 
18) hand out 		r) to reach the same level of performance as the rest 
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Phrasal Verbs about Education 1
account for	add up allow for be with brush up bunk off catch up crack on dash off drop out drum into dumb down fall behind figure out flick through flunk out hand in hand out
2) add up 
Insert the phrasal verbs that fit best into the gaps in the sentences below.
You will need to conjugate them appropriately. 
1) The teacher used bingo to _________ as many phrasal verbs as possible _______ us. 
2) They didn’t like maths and would _________ ________ on Thursday mornings to avoid going to classes.
3) They had to incorporate an algorithm to _________ ________ fluctuations in temperature. 
4) Could you repeat that please? I ________ not _________ you at all. I don’t understand anything. 
5) The teacher _________ ________ the exam paper to each student and told them not to look until it officially started.
6) My Spanish is terrible! I think I’ll take some classes and _________ ________ on what I know.
7) She _________ ________ a quick note giving basic instructions to her secretary on how to access the website. 
8) Politicians have accused the school of _________ ________ the core subjects of study so that they can manipulate the exam results to show higher pass rates. 
9) The weather is terrible and there is a big concert in the city centre. That would _________ _______ the heavy traffic today. 
10) He missed three weeks of maths classes because he was very ill. Now he is finding it difficult to _________ ________ with the rest of the class. 
11) Once the students finished their exam, they _________ ________ the papers to the teacher and left the room. 
12) She had been revising for the exam for 6 hours when she decided to take a break. She went to the pool for a swim, had some breakfast and then, once she felt refreshed, decided to _________ ________. 
13) The police wanted to talk to the accountant. The company finances and records just didn’t _________ ________. 
14) I only had time to superficially _________ ________ a couple of books before the exam. I should have revised a lot harder. 
15) The famous scientist set a difficult mathematical problem for everybody to solve just before he died. Nobody has been able to __________it ________ since his death. 
16) She went to university to study law but _________ ________ after 2 years and went to live on a commune in Wales where she has lived ever since. 
 
17) He was doing very well in science at first but when he got ill and missed a couple of weeks’ classes he _________ ________ and found it difficult afterwards. 
18) Even though she passed her history exam she _________ ________ of the course because she hadn’t attended enough classes. 
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 	Insert the phrasal verbs that fit best into the gaps in the story below.
 You will need to conjugate the verbs appropriately. 
Old Tom’s Schooldays
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In many ways, on the surface, school today and school 60 years ago are not so different. If you were to __________ ______ the pages of the average school curriculum of 60 years ago you would notice that some subjects have changed their names and a couple of them may have disappeared altogether. But if you were to ask Tom Green all about his schooldays of 60 years ago you would probably be unable to __________ _______ such a transformation in the education system in such a relatively short time. 
Tom is astonished that today’s school children are allowed to take calculators into the classroom. In his day, you had to ________ everything ________ in your head when doing maths. Perhaps not surprisingly, Tom is very quick to accuse the modern education system of __________ ______ the teaching of basic educational skills, such as maths and English, through the use of electronic gadgets and apps, unlike in his day when everything was committed to memory. 
Perhaps he has a point, but there are plenty of specialists who would disagree. After all, a certain amount of mental arithmetic is expected in exams today when students must __________ ______ complex calculations without any electronic help. However, when the official papers are __________ ______ before the exam begins, perhaps a student who hardly ever uses a calculator is more likely to feel much less nervous than a student who uses them frequently. Perhaps that would explain the satisfied looks on the faces of some students when it comes time to ________ the exam papers back ______.
In Tom’s day, he admits that many students would __________ ______ during their least favourite classes and go for a walk in the countryside or meet up with friends in town because there wasn’t really an effective way to control attendance. However, if you were caught, the punishments were much more severe. Tom recalls that he was caught by the truant officer one February and was forced to do two months of detention in an effort to __________ ______ him the importance of attending his classes. 
Perhaps it was just as well, as there were no remedial classes for students to __________ ______ with their classmates in Tom’s day. If you __________ ______with your schoolwork in those days because of missed classes, you were more than likely to __________ ______ and fail many of your exams as a result. Specialist remedial classes that are offered to students today can give the students the chance to recuperate all they have missed but they can also offer the possibility to __________ ______ on what they already know and improve their skills and abilities even more.
But these aren’t the only differences. “In my day, you couldn’t just say ‘I’m sorry, I’______ not ______ you,’ if you didn’t understand your teacher. The teacher was likely to hit you on the side of the head for something like that,” says Tom. And he’s right! British schools allowed teachers to physically punish their students 60 years ago and some teachers had a reputation for violence Perhaps the lack of violence __________ ______ a more confident student and explains their high performance and success rates in today’s world. “Wewere terrified of our teachers,” added Tom. “I was offered a place in sixth form college after I passed all my exams but in the end I _________ ______ and joined the army. The sergeants and corporals were less scary than my teachers and I think I learnt more in the military, anyway,” he remarks.
We asked Tom about the education of his children. “I don’t want to appear to be a hypocrite, but I insisted that they studied hard and go to university. And I’m glad I did. My daughter is a journalist and spends only 5 hours a day __________ ______ articles on her word processor for a pretty decent salary. As for my son William, he is now back at university studying for his PHD. That sort of thing would intimidate me but he didn’t even think twice about it. He just applied and __________ ______! I think education, at the end of the day, is much better than it used to be,” he concedes.