Twenty-Six Home From Work

It was five o'clock on a fine May morning. Shakespeare mounted his horse and set off, hoping to reach Oxford before nightfall. Around him, the streets of London were coming to life as the apprentices took the wooden shutters from the windows.

"All this travelling between Stratford and London will wear me out eund in one thought William. I wish I could give it up and settle for good in one place or the other. But Anne doens't like it here and there's playhouse in Stratford."

This time he had had to stay a week longer than expected, but he had hought his family some special gifts to make up for it. They'll get over it as soon as they see me. It will turn out all right. I'm sure .

Notes

WEAR OUT ABC Having to travel between Stratfor and London wore Shakespeare out.

GIVE UP ABCE You can give up smoking, drinking or give up a job.

MAKE UP FOR AD Shakespeare hoped that the gifts for his family would make up for the fact that he stayed in London.

GET OVER AD When something no longes causes you pain, you say "I have got over it."

TURN OUT E Things turn zut well or bedly. They can turn out to he all right on dangerous or a good thing.

Exercises using verbs from the passage

A Complete these sentences

1 Her success in the 200 metres her failure for the 100 metres.

2 His mother died and it took him a year to it.

3 The girl he had never seen before to be his cousin.

4 The party of explorers for the lost city early in the morning.

5 You'll have to cricket if you want to get your degree.

6 Look at your shoes. You've them

7 He'll have to work hard to the time he lost.

8 He arrived late, but things all right , because so did everyone else.

B Answer the questions:

1 is it easy to give up smoking?

2. Name two things which can wear someone out.

3 How long would it take you to get over an electric shock ?

4 What sets off from a port?

5 Do exam results always turn out to be satisfactory?

6 If you emissed a week's work through illness, would you try to make up for it?

7 Name two things you could not give up doing.

8 Hove can nurses help people to get over the effects of rheumatism?

C Use the following pairs of verbs in sentences of your own:

1 turn out, give up

2 set off, wear out

3 wear out, get over.

4 set off, make up for.

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