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Lesson 33 / Meals
5 phrases · 12 minutes · Look, listen and try.
Fill cups, hand out food and choose what to eat for the morning.
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Please fill up my cup with water.
Please fill up my cup with water.
I filled the bottle up before school.
I filled the bottle up before school.
Here it is to fill a cup, bottle or vase; not just add a little.
Cambridge Dictionary · fill up
Can you hand out one banana to each person?
Can you hand out one banana to each person?
We handed the sandwiches out at the table.
We handed the sandwiches out at the table.
Used when giving each part to a group; Close to the meaning “give out”.
Cambridge Dictionary · hand out
Pick out a piece of fruit for your snack.
Pick out a piece of fruit for your snack.
I picked the biggest apple out of the bowl.
I picked the biggest apple out of the bowl.
The meaning in the lesson is to choose something from the options, not to lift it up in "pick up".
There is no jam today, but we can do without it.
There is no jam today, but we can do without it.
I can do without a big breakfast before an early trip.
I can do without a big breakfast before an early trip.
You accept or manage without that thing, not just say that thing is gone.
Have you finished with that bowl? I can wash it.
Have you finished with that bowl? I can wash it.
Put the spoon here when you have finished with it.
Put the spoon here when you have finished with it.
Used when an object is no longer needed for the current task.
The examples were written for this course. Usage was checked against Matt Errey’s book, pages 45, 61, 96, 37, 45. A2–B1 is the course’s intended level.
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Phúc poured water into the cup until it was full.
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Phúc gives a portion of food to each Phúc at the table.
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Phúc chose an apple from a basket with many fruits.
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Phúc ate bread without adding jam because the jam jar was empty.
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Phúc finished his bowl and gave it to Phúc who set the table.
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Could you fill up the water jug?
Could you fill up the water jug?
Yes. Shall I hand out the cups too?
Yes. Shall I hand out the cups too?
Please do. Everyone can pick out a piece of fruit.
Please do. Everyone can pick out a piece of fruit.
“Fill up” means make full; “hand out” means distribute. A full jug can serve several people, but distribution does not describe how full it is.
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The answers below are models. Other answers can also work if they preserve the facts, meaning and structure requested in the task.
At a breakfast club, one child prepares a water jug while another gives cups to each table.
Describe preparing the jug.
Fill up the jug with water.
“Fill up the jug” prepares a full water container rather than distributes cups to the tables.
Replace “the cups” with “them”: Hand out the cups.
Hand them out.
“Them” replaces the cups being distributed and goes between “hand” and “out”.
Ask someone to choose the ripe pears.
Please pick out the ripe pears for our table.
“Pick out the ripe pears” selects the ripe ones from the available pears, rather than taking arbitrary fruit.
The usage comparisons are checked against the Cambridge Dictionary entries linked beside the compared expressions. The additional conversations and exercises are written for this course.
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