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Lesson 38 / Working together
5 phrases · 12 minutes · Look, listen and try.
Support your friends, ask others for help, and gather group ideas.
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My friend will back me up when I explain what happened.
My friend will back me up when I explain what happened.
We backed her up when she needed support.
We backed her up when she needed support.
The meaning in the lesson is to support a person, not to back up data.
Cambridge Dictionary · back up
I will go along with your plan for the game.
I will go along with your plan for the game.
Everyone went along with the new rule.
Everyone went along with the new rule.
The three-word phrase here means agreeing, not just accompanying in terms of movement.
Cambridge Dictionary · go along with
We can turn to our teacher when we need help.
We can turn to our teacher when we need help.
I turned to my brother for advice.
I turned to my brother for advice.
It is not necessary to turn around; in the lesson is to find someone to help or give advice.
I want to put forward an idea for our poster.
I want to put forward an idea for our poster.
She put a new suggestion forward at the meeting.
She put a new suggestion forward at the meeting.
The meaning in the lesson is to make suggestions for everyone to consider; There is no need to move the date earlier.
We put together a plan for our class project.
We put together a plan for our class project.
Can we put our ideas together before drawing?
Can we put our ideas together before drawing?
This article is used with ideas and plans; different from joining parts of furniture.
The examples were written for this course. Usage was checked against Matt Errey’s book, pages 10, 55, 134, 101, 103. A2–B1 is the course’s intended level.
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Bảo encouraged his friend who was presenting an idea.
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Bảo agreed to the group's play plan.
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Bảo asked Minh for help when he encountered a difficult step.
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Bảo raised his hand to suggest a method for the whole group.
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The children put together their own ideas into a plan on paper.
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Read the conversation and find the expressions you have learned.
Will you back me up when I put forward the plan?
Will you back me up when I put forward the plan?
I support the aim, but I cannot go along with that deadline.
I support the aim, but I cannot go along with that deadline.
Let us put together a timetable we can both manage.
Let us put together a timetable we can both manage.
“Back up” a person means support them; “go along with” means agree to a suggestion or plan. Supporting someone does not require agreeing with every idea.
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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.
A volunteer supports a friend’s project but cannot agree with its unsafe timetable.
Describe the support using back up.
I will back you up when you present the project.
“Back you up” promises support during the presentation without agreeing to every project detail.
Correct: I cannot go along your timetable with.
I cannot go along with your timetable.
Keep all of “go along with” before “your timetable”; do not move “with” to the sentence end.
Write a supportive disagreement.
I back your idea, but we need to put together a safer timetable.
The reply supports the idea while asking the group to put together a safer timetable.
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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