Study the phrasal verbs. Lead-in.
“Kate, I don’t need this computer, so I decided to give it away, take it,” Chris said.
“Oh no! It’s terribly expensive! I can give it back to you any time you want,” she said.
The student is giving his report in to the teacher.
The teacher is giving the books out to the students.
More phrasal verbs with GIVE …
| give away | give sth for free: If you don’t need this book any more, give it away to someone who may find it useful. |
| reveal a secret or confidential information: The police found the person who had been giving away the confidential information to a group of criminals. | |
| give back | return sth: Could you please lend me this box? I’ll give it back to you tomorrow morning. |
| give in (B1) | hand a piece of paper/ document to sb to read: “Children, give in your drawings now, the time’s up,” the teacher said. |
| accept your defeat, surrender: Jacob refused to give in as it would mean his humiliating defeat. | |
| give off | produce light, heat, smell, gas, etc: “Do you know how much carbon dioxide burning coal gives off?” asked the professor of ecology. |
| give out | distribute sth within a group of people: The teacher started giving out the printouts to his students. |
| be completely used up, have no more of sth: Their supplies in the mountains soon gave out, so they didn’t even have clean drinking water. | |
| give over | stop doing sth irritating: Come on, give over pretending you like your parents-in-law, you just can’t stand them! |
| used to show disbelief when you have been told sth incredible or unbelievable: Jack’s fallen for Jane? Give over! | |
| give oneself over/ up to sth | dedicate all your time to sth: Mary decided to give herself over/ up to helping sick children. |
| give up (B2) | stop doing or trying to do sth, owning or using sth: Jerry tried to give up smoking so many times, but with little success. |
| accept your defeat or surrender: He’ll never give up, he won’t accept his defeat. | |
| give up on sb | abandon all hope that sb will change, us. for the better: Anne wanted her husband to change so much, but eventually she gave up on him and divorced. |