{"id":880,"date":"2017-07-05T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.254.11.177:8081\/?p=880"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:28:05","slug":"phrasal-verbs-going-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanlanguage.es\/blog-aprender-ingles\/phrasal-verbs-going-out","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal Verbs: Going out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title:<\/strong> Phrasal Verbs: Going Out
\nDuration:<\/strong> 8\u201310 minutes
\nLevel:<\/strong> Intermediate +
\nLanguage Focus:<\/strong> Phrasal verbs
\nObjective:<\/strong> Vocabulary \u2013 phrasal verbs related to going out<\/p>\n

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Read the following dialog. Use the context to understand the definition of the phrasal verbs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the phrasal verbs are related to GOING OUT (to a bar\/club etc.).<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2013 Hey Sara, are you going out tonight?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Hi Michael!<\/strong> I didn\u2019t have plans, but I\u2019d love to. Maybe we can check out that new club that opened?<\/p>\n

\u2013 I don\u2019t really like clubbing. What about that party that Jaime is having at his house? I hear there\u2019s a lot of people going.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 That sounds great, I\u2019ve always wanted to ask him out. Do we need to dress up?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 No, it\u2019s not fancy dress. Why don\u2019t we meet up at 9pm? I can come from work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 I\u2019ll be there a bit earlier, but I\u2019m happy to hang around until you get there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Great, I\u2019ll see you then!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

So, what do you think the definitions of the phrasal verbs are?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Look at the definitions and examples to see if you were correct!<\/p>\n

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    \n
  • Go out:<\/strong> To go on a night out to a bar or club etc.
    \nSara and Michael were talking about where to go that night.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Check out:<\/strong> To look at something or go somewhere for the first time.
    \nTara asked if Michael wanted to see what the new club was like.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Ask out:<\/strong> To ask someone to go on a date with you (usually for dinner or drinks).
    \nSara is interested in asking Jaime if he will go out with her.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Dress up:<\/strong> To wear a costume or a uniform (usually to a fancy dress party or at Halloween).
    \nSara wanted to know if it was a costume party.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Meet up:<\/strong> To meet with someone at a specific place or time.
    \nMichael suggests that they meet each other at 9pm.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Hang around:<\/strong> To wait in a location without doing anything in particular.
    \nTara was happy to wait around the area until Michael arrived.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Read the following dialog. Use the context to understand the definition of the phrasal verbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/api.americanlanguage.es\/uploads\/0332e789ee5d41da88ccb027dfecab28.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlanguage.es\/blog-aprender-ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlanguage.es\/blog-aprender-ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlanguage.es\/blog-aprender-ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlanguage.es\/blog-aprender-ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlanguage.es\/blog-aprender-ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlanguage.es\/blog-aprender-ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlanguage.es\/blog-aprender-ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlanguage.es\/blog-aprender-ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlanguage.es\/blog-aprender-ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlanguage.es\/blog-aprender-ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanlanguage.es\/blog-aprender-ingles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}