1. Eat in/out (To eat at home/to eat in a restaurant)
Are you going to eat in tonight? No, mum. I'm eating out with my friends.
2. Eat up (To finish all your meal, usually used with children)
Eat up your breakfast now or you'll be late for school.
3. Pick at (To eat small amounts of food because you're not hungry or you don't like it)
Is something wrong with you? You've been picking at your food for half an hour.
4. Dig in (To start eating)
Dig in before your food gets cold!
He polished off a plateful of lentils in next to no time.
Make up 3 sentences with these phrasal verbs and post them in the commentary section below.
1)When did you last eat out with your family?
ReplyDelete2)Let"s eat in today.
3)Anne ate out when there was no time for cooking.
1)Stop talking and eat up this porridge.
2)If you eat up the soup,you will go for a walk.
3)You should eat up everything.
1)Try to eat your dinner.You have just been picking at it.
2)He picked at his food but had no appetite.
3)I was picking at the last piece of cake because there was no one else to eat upit.
1)Dig in while it is hot.
2)Pull up a chair and dig in.
3)The food is ready,so dig in.
1)No matter what he is offered to eat he polishes it off in an instant.
2)She polished off the remaining potatoes.
3)I was still hungry after dinner,so i polished off the Chinese food in the fridge.
1. He is sick and doesn't want to eat, so he has been picked at his food for a long time.
ReplyDeleteShe picked at that meal, because she didn't like it.
The children like to pick at their food.
2. He liked this new meal so much, that he polished off the whole pot.
Every breakfast he polishes off the plate.
She is great cook, her children always polish off their plates.
3. The family gathered at the table, read the prayers and dig in their meal.
Every meal they digs in together.
He dug in his breakfast very late.
4. We should eat up our breakfast soon, if we want to be in time at school.
She ate up her meal last.
Whoever finishes eating up last washes up.
5. In this restaurant we can take food to eat in.
Thy can celebrate her birthday in the cafe and eat out.
She prefers to eat in, because she is homebody.
1. We won't eat in tonight.
ReplyDelete2. She didn't want to eat out.
3. Do you eat out a lot?
1. You should eat up your vegetables!
2. They ate up all biscuits.
3. Eat up before it goes cold.
1. I have caught a cold and now I pick at my food.
2. She ate much, so she picked at her dessert.
3. Why are you picking at your food like that?
1. As soon as everyone got their food, we dug in.
2. Dinner's ready, dig in, everybody!
3. Dig in before it gets cold.
1. He polish off all the food in the fridge.
2. We polished off the pie and the fruit.
3. It didn't take the children long to polish off the rest of the cream cake.
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ReplyDelete1) Today is a gala evening, so we will eat in a restaurant.
ReplyDelete2)Eat up the peaches and don't ask any questions.
3)She was sitting at the table and picking at her food with a fork.
4)Don't be coy, dig in the cookies.
5)He polish off the whole pie.
1. Do you eat out a lot?
ReplyDelete2. It's raining outside, so let's eat in tonight.
3. I really don't feel like cooking, so I want eat out tonight.
1. Go on, eat up and go to school.
2. I think you shouldn't eat up his food. You've known this person for 5 minutes. What if he has some kind of disease?
3. Leave the food to the cat. She'll eat it up later.
1. You're not even eating, you're just picking at your dinner. Has something happened?
2. She used to eat everything with an appetite, but now she just picks at food.
3. She thought so much that by the end of dinner she was just picking at her food.
1. Now sit down and dig in.
2. Hurry up, dig in now. But be sure to taste every bite.
3. You could use a little meat on your bones. Now dig in.
1. Someone polished off the apricot yogurt.
2. We were polishing off the third bottle of beer.
3. Caught up on a bit of correspondence, polished off the last cup of coffee and then turned in.