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Lesson 62 / At school
5 phrases · 12 minutes · Look, listen and try.
Line up, give seats and observe festival activities.
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We queued up at the school book stall.
We queued up at the school book stall.
Please queue up and wait for your turn.
Please queue up and wait for your turn.
Popular in British English; American English speakers often use "line up", learned in the previous lesson. The past tense ending is “queued”.
Cambridge Dictionary · queue up
Can you move over so I can sit beside you?
Can you move over so I can sit beside you?
We moved over to make room for another friend.
We moved over to make room for another friend.
In a song, it is to move the position to the side, usually to give up space; don't have to move house.
Cambridge Dictionary · move over
I looked on while my friends played the first round.
I looked on while my friends played the first round.
Some parents looked on as the children played.
Some parents looked on as the children played.
Observe an activity without participating directly; different from looking at an object in “look at”.
I reached out to shake my friend’s hand.
I reached out to shake my friend’s hand.
She reached out for the card on the table.
She reached out for the card on the table.
In the lesson, it is the movement of the hand. The phrase also means contact or help in other contexts.
We passed by the book stall on our way to the game.
We passed by the book stall on our way to the game.
I pass by the school gate every morning.
I pass by the school gate every morning.
You pass near a place or person; not sure to drop in as in “drop by”.
The examples were written for this course. Usage was checked against Matt Errey’s book, pages 103, 88, 82, 106, 94. A2–B1 is the course’s intended level.
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Phúc lined up with his friends at an activity booth at school.
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Phúc moves aside on the chair so you can sit.
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Phúc stood watching his friends play ring toss, but did not participate in this round.
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Phúc reached out to shake hands with a friend.
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Phúc walked past the bookstore to another activity.
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Please queue up for the next game.
Please queue up for the next game.
Could you move over a little so I can see the sign?
Could you move over a little so I can see the sign?
Of course. You can look on until your turn comes.
Of course. You can look on until your turn comes.
“Queue up” means wait in a line; “move over” means shift sideways to make room. Moving sideways does not itself give away a place in a queue.
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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.
Visitors wait in a line for a planetarium. One seated visitor needs to shift sideways for a friend.
Describe what the waiting visitors do.
They queue up outside the planetarium.
The visitors form a line outside the planetarium: “queue up”; this differs from the seated visitor’s task.
Complete: Could you move ___ so I can sit beside you?
over
“Move over” asks for a sideways shift to make seating space, rather than leaving the visit.
Tell a younger visitor how to watch before joining.
You can look on until your turn comes.
“Look on until your turn comes” allows watching others before taking part.
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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