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Lesson 46 / Go out & explore
5 phrases · 12 minutes · Look, listen and try.
Line up, walk around, and explore a new place with an adult.
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Please line up at the entrance with your class.
Please line up at the entrance with your class.
We lined up to get our tickets.
We lined up to get our tickets.
In this lesson, people stand in a line. British English also commonly uses “queue up”.
Cambridge Dictionary · line up
We can get around the city by bus.
We can get around the city by bus.
Walking is a good way to get around this small town.
Walking is a good way to get around this small town.
In this lesson about travel, it is not about avoiding a regulation. Past tense “got”.
Please keep off the grass and use the path.
Please keep off the grass and use the path.
We kept off the wet floor while it was drying.
We kept off the wet floor while it was drying.
Here, avoid touching or walking on a surface. Different from “keep away from” keeping distance in general.
Cambridge Dictionary · keep off
Let us check out the new dinosaur display.
Let us check out the new dinosaur display.
We checked the little bookshop out after the museum.
We checked the little bookshop out after the museum.
The intimate meaning is to preview or explore; different from checking out of a hotel.
Look out! There is a bike coming along the path.
Look out! There is a bike coming along the path.
My friend told me to look out for the low branch.
My friend told me to look out for the low branch.
“Look out!” could be a short warning. For specific risks, use “look out for”.
The examples were written for this course. Usage was checked against Matt Errey’s book, pages 79, 49, 71, 21, 82. A2–B1 is the course’s intended level.
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Hạ and Minh line up outside the museum entrance.
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Hạ and Minh rode the bus between attractions in the city.
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Hạ walking on the small path next to the protected lawn.
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Hạ and Minh looked at a new dinosaur model in the museum.
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Hạ stands beside Minh and calls out a warning as a bicycle approaches.
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Read the conversation and find the expressions you have learned.
Please line up beside the entrance.
Please line up beside the entrance.
Can we check out the garden afterwards?
Can we check out the garden afterwards?
Yes, but keep off the new grass.
Yes, but keep off the new grass.
“Line up” means form a queue; “keep off” means avoid going onto a specified surface. Notice what follows each instruction.
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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.
Museum visitors wait at a door. A sign asks them not to step onto newly planted grass.
Describe what the waiting visitors should do.
Line up beside the entrance.
Visitors waiting at the door should “line up beside the entrance”.
Complete: Please keep ___ the new grass.
off
The sign prohibits stepping on newly planted grass, so say “keep off the new grass”.
Suggest exploring the model display later.
Let us check out the model display after the tour.
“Check out the model display” means visit and examine it after the tour, not leave accommodation.
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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