Study the phrasal verbs. Lead-in.
Clare turned down Peter’s proposal:
Peter: Will you marry me?
Clare: No!
She turned him away as she didn’t want to see him anymore.
Woman: “Turn out your pockets, or I’ll turn you in to the police, you little pickpocket!”
Keith turned on the radio an hour ago.
“I can’t hear a thing, I’ll turn it up.”
“Now it’s too loud, I’ll turn it down.”
“I don’t want to listen to the radio anymore, I’ll turn it off.”
The CEO at the press conference: “Our company turns out 100.000 cars a year. So, it turns over $30.000.000 a year.”
More phrasal verbs with TURN …
| turn away | not allow to enter: She immediately turned him away as she didn’t want to see him. |
| turn down (≠turn up) | reduce the volume of sth: Turn down the radio please, it’s too loud. |
| not accept an offer: Miley turned down Ted’s proposal. | |
| turn in | return sth you no longer need: At the exit of the bank Sam turned in his badge as he didn’t need it any more – he got the sack for cheating. |
| (sb in to the police) give information to the police about sb who has committed a crime: His wife turned him in suspecting him of the bank robbery that had taken place the week before. | |
| turn into | transform into sb else/ sth: Suddenly, to everybody’s astonishment, the white swan turned into a beautiful young girl. |
| turn sb/ sth from sth into sth else: Regular trainings turned Ken from a lazy weak boy into a strong promising footballer. | |
| turn off | stop using equipment and/ or utilities, e.g., water, gas, electricity by pressing a switch/ button: Turn off the light, there’s nobody in the room. |
| stop listening or get distracted: The speech was so boring that soon I turned off. | |
| turn on (≠ turn off) | start using equipment and/ or utilities, e.g., water, gas, electricity by pressing a switch/ button: Turn on the light, it’s dark in the room. |
| attack: A huge dog turned on a little kid, but luckily, it didn’t hurt him. | |
| criticize: I have no clue why they all turned on him, he did what he had to do. | |
| arouse interest in sb: She turned me on by saying that she had something that might interest me. It’s difficult to turn children on to maths. | |
| turn out | appear to be as a result: Graham turned out to be a decent person. |
| produce: This factory turns out 10000 cars yearly. | |
| empty sth, e.g., a bag: The mother made her son turn out his pockets before entering the house as he is used to bringing in stones and pebbles. | |
| turn over | turn a page: We have finished working on page 87 of the textbook. Now please turn over the page and read the dialogue in pairs. |
| shift to another TV channel: When we were watching a film on TV, my brother took the remote control and turned over to Discovery. | |
| enter a place to steal sth and leave it in a mess: The police station was turned over, I wonder what burglars were searching for and whether they found it. | |
| take sb to the authorities or the police and leave them there: The burglar was turned over to the police after he had been discovered at the scene of the crime. | |
| make a certain amount of money (noun turnover): The company turns over € 22 million a year. | |
| turn sb/ sth over to sb | give sb/ sth to the authority: The manager had to turn his accountant over to the police as they had the order issued by the judge. |
| turn to | ask sb for help: In an emergency Lesley always turns to her aunt. |
| turn up | increase the volume of sth: Could you please turn up the tv? I can’t hear anything. |
| appear, usu. unexpectedly: The man in a black suit turned up the moment nobody was expecting him. | |
| make clothes shorter: These jeans are too long for Jimmy; they need to be taken up. |