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Your turn!
Think about clothes or fashions that you like. Use 
the phrasal verbs in this unit to talk about them. For 
example:
When I'm cold I like to put on my favourite sweater.
I enjoy dressing up in the latest styles.
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had o
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-the same dress.
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9
Studying and learning
catch up
If a person or thing catches up or catches someone or something up, they reach the same standard or 
level.
Once you become so behind with your studies, it's really hard to catch up.
They did well early on, but other businesses are catching them up now.
cut out
If you cut out part of something, you remove it by cutting it.
She had cut out pictures of animals and stuck them on the wall.
I cut an article out of the paper and sent it to her.
drop out
If you drop out, you leave something that you are involved in before it is finished.
She had dropped out of college in the first term.
He dropped out of school and went to work in the supermarket.
fall behind
If someone or something falls behind or falls behind someone or something, they do not reach the 
standard or level of similar people or things.
These children often fall behind with their reading.
His salary has fallen behind those of many of his colleagues.
find out
If you find out something, you learn something that you did not already know.
I'm only interested in finding out what the facts are.
I used the Internet to find their names out.
go over
If you go over something, you examine or discuss each part of it, especially to make sure that someone 
understands it or that it is correct.
I'll go over the main points of what she said.
hand in
If you hand in a piece of work, you give it to someone so that they can read it or deal with it.
At half-past eleven they handed their exam papers in.
Don't forget to hand in your homework.
hand out
If you hand things out, you give them to people in a group so that each person has one or some.
They handed out questionnaires to the audience.
The teacher asked me to hand the books out.
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