Phrasal Verbs about HOLIDAY

Phrasal verbs about HOLIDAY

Hello English learners. Welcome to a new lesson. With August just around the corner, the summer holidays are already in progress. Whether you have been on your deserved holiday this year or you are looking forward to it, you should know these phrasal verbs about holiday.

Wherever you go on holiday, I am sure you will have an opportunity to speak English with some tourists from other countries you meet there and have a chance to test your English and improve it. Phrasal verbs are something you need to know because using them will make you sound natural and smart.

1. Check in/out
2. Chill out
3. Cool off
4. Go through
5. Kick back
6. Laze about/around
7. Look forward to
8. Put on
9. Show around
10. Stop over
11. Take off
12. Wind down

Check in/out

We usually check into a hotel or airport to register and say we’ve arrived. We need to check out when we are leaving and pay the bill.

• We are going on holiday to the French Riviera. We are checking in tomorrow. I’m so excited, I can’t wait.
• The hotel guests who are leaving tomorrow need to check out at the reception desk by noon.

Chill out

If you chill out, you relax and do not let anything disturb you.

• Mark usually chills out with the book when he’s on holiday.
• After a period of really hard work, I’m going to chill out in the mountain resort in the Alps.

Phrasal verbs about HOLIDAY

Cool off/down

To cool off or cool down means to do something to make yourself less hot.

• Sandra decided to have a swim and cool off before lunch.
• Peter fanned himself with a newspaper to cool down.

Go through

Sometimes, the customs officers at the airports or the borders need to examine your luggage; they have to go through it.

• The security officer at the airport went through our luggage.
• They suspected something in Paul’s luggage at the customs control so they went through it.

Kick back

To kick back means to relax.

• As soon as we came to the holiday resort, we kicked back at the local bar with a pint of beer.
• Let’s kick back by the swimming pool.

Laze about/around

If you laze about, you do very little and just try to get relaxed and do the things you enjoy.

• People on holiday have plenty of time to just laze about and do nothing much.
• We spent all day lazing around Vienna, sightseeing and eating and drinking in the local cafes and restaurants.

Phrasal verbs about HOLIDAY

Look forward to

Everyone is excited about their holiday and we think about it, make plans, and dream about it; we look forward to it.

• I’ve been working really hard this year. I’m looking forward to my holiday. I’m going to lie down at the beach all day and take long walks by the sea.

Put on

To put something on or to put on something means to apply it on a surface.

• I’ll put on some sunscreen before I go out. The sun is very strong, I don’t want to get sunburned.
• It’s useless putting makeup on in the summer. It just melts.

Show around

If someone shows you around, he is taking you to different places and telling you about them, like a tourist guide.

• When you come to Scotland, I’ll show you around. There are some really extraordinary places to see.
• The tour guide showed us around Paris.

Phrasal verbs about HOLIDAY

Stop over

To stop over means to stay for a while in a place before you continue your journey.

• We stopped over in Venice on our way to Spain.
• The flight to New Zealand was very long so the plane stopped over in Singapore.

Take off

The plane takes off when it leaves the airport.

• The plane took off with 10 minutes delay.
• The plane took off and headed toward Boston.

Wind down

To wind down means to relax after a period of stress or hard work.

• I can’t wait to wind down in the mountains after an exhausting month at work.
• When I go on holiday, it takes me a few days to wind down before I start relaxing for real.

Phrasal verbs about HOLIDAY

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