There are hundreds of phrasal verbs in English and the ones used here are not really a representative sample. While it would be great to be able to include the more elaborate phrasals such as "bring about" or "pick apart", the nature of this kind of interaction means that only the more visual ones can be used. The game has 36 phrasal verbs which were chosen according to how easy they are to represent visually. Some learners may even feel they get most out of just clicking though the images on the review screen. Although, as with most content like this, the responsibility is really on the learner to make best use of this as a resource. In this respect, the game is quite behaviourist in its approach - repeatedly pairing the words and meaning to strengthen the association. Hopefully, students can understand the meaning from the image and sentence, then from repeatedly matching the phrasal to this context they can associate the phrasal verb with the meaning, and then subsequently transfer this to everyday usage. The aim of this game is to help students learn and practice a set of phrasal verbs in an easy and engaging way. Because of the subtle meanings, phrasal verbs can be a difficult area for language learners For example, "throw up" meaning to vomit would be quite hard to infer just from the 2 parts. Often the meaning of a phrasal verb can vary from the meaning of the component parts. For example, "take on", meaning to be responsible for something, is made up of the verb "take" and the preposition "on". Phrasal verbs are typically made of a verb + preposition. For example, "give up" is a phrasal verb meaning to quit. The target audience is learners of English as a second language.Ī phrasal verb is a pair of words that go together and act as a verb. This is a mini game for studying English phrasal verbs.
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