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Lesson 27 / Parties & meetings
5 phrases · 12 minutes · Look, listen and try.
Come to the party, bring your stuff and have a fun evening with your friends.
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Everyone showed up for his birthday party.
Everyone showed up for his birthday party.
What time should we show up at your place?
What time should we show up at your place?
An informal way of talking about showing up or arriving. Close to the meaning “turn up” in this context.
Cambridge Dictionary · show up
We sang along with our favourite songs.
We sang along with our favourite songs.
You can sing along even if you do not know every word.
You can sing along even if you do not know every word.
You sing with music that is playing or with other singers. The past form of “sing” is “sang”.
Cambridge Dictionary · sing along
Please bring along some snacks for the party.
Please bring along some snacks for the party.
You can bring a friend along if you like.
You can bring a friend along if you like.
Used when carrying things or bringing an additional person to a place.
I left my phone behind at the party.
I left my phone behind at the party.
Check your bag so you do not leave anything behind.
Check your bag so you do not leave anything behind.
In the lesson, it means leaving without taking an object with you. The past tense of “leave” is “left”.
Cambridge Dictionary · leave behind
Make a wish and blow out the candles.
Make a wish and blow out the candles.
He blew the candles out before cutting the cake.
He blew the candles out before cutting the cake.
Use blowing air to extinguish the fire. The past tense of “blow” is “blew”.
The examples were written for this course. Usage was checked against Matt Errey’s book, pages 116, 117, 14, 77, 12. A2–B1 is the course’s intended level.
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Phúc came to the door of the birthday party with a gift.
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Phúc sings with his friends to the music at the party.
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Phúc brings extra snacks to a friend’s party.
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Phúc went out the door but left his phone on the chair.
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Has everyone shown up for the birthday party?
Has everyone shown up for the birthday party?
Nearly. I brought the cake, but I left the candles behind.
Nearly. I brought the cake, but I left the candles behind.
We have some spare ones. Come and sing along with us.
We have some spare ones. Come and sing along with us.
“Show up” describes arriving; “leave behind” describes someone or something not taken along. With a pronoun for an item, say “leave it behind”.
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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 guest reaches a celebration late. He has the gift, but the card is still on his kitchen table.
Describe the guest’s arrival.
He finally showed up at the celebration.
The guest finally arrived, so he “showed up”; this does not establish that he brought both gift and card.
Replace “the card” with “it”: He left the card behind.
He left it behind.
“It” replaces the forgotten card; “left it behind” puts the pronoun between the verb and “behind”.
Tell the guest how to join the singing.
Come over here and sing along with us.
“Sing along with us” invites the guest to join the singing; “come over here” asks him to approach the group.
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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