Phrasal Verbs Exercises With Answers (Free PDF Practice)

Phrasal verbs are everywhere in natural English but rarely guessable — 'give up', 'give in', and 'give away' share a verb and mean completely different things. That's why a strong exercise tests the specific phrasal verbs you taught, in context, rather than asking for definitions in isolation.

Before downloading anything, decide your grouping. A set organised by topic or by particle is far more useful than a random list, because students remember the pattern, not twenty separate items.

These sites offer printable phrasal verb practice with keys, sorted by level and topic:

Skim the answer key first — many phrasal verbs have more than one meaning, so make sure the key uses the meaning you taught. Then read a few items out loud to catch dated or overly idiomatic examples.

Match the level, too: everyday phrasal verbs for A2–B1, separable/inseparable distinctions and idiomatic uses for B1 and above.

Worksheets give students the answers but not you the data. Take five or six phrasal verbs from your own lesson — the exact ones in the exact contexts — and run them as a short end-of-lesson quiz.

Because the questions come from what you covered, you can see precisely which phrasal verbs need another pass next lesson instead of reteaching the whole set.