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ask after someone

-    pytać o kogoś

I don’t understand why you dislike him so much. He asks after you every time I see him.

Nie rozumiem, dlaczego tak go nie lubisz. On zawsze pyta się o ciebie, gdy go spotykam.

settle down

-    ustatkować się

It’s time for you to settle down.

Czas, żebyś się ustatkował.

make up

-    pogodzić się

They usually need a couple of days to make up after an argument.

Zwykle potrzebują parę dni, żeby pogodzić się po kłótni.

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Now listen to the short dialogue. Listen carefully and pay special attention to phrasal verbs that appear in the conversation.

-    So, Sarah, are you going out with Mark?

-    Who told you?

-    Weil, it’s the way your eyes light up whenever you talk about him, I knew yoird fallen for him.

-    Yes, he asked me out several times, when I said no he was rcally put out. Then three weeks ago he turned up at my office with a big bunch of flowers.

I was going to tell him off, but his persistence and, and his smile won me over - so I accepted.

-    And is it working' out? This wonderful romance you’ve embarked on?

Any plans to settle down together if you work out as a couple?

-    Weil, it’s early days yet, I always look forward to our dates though. I love the way he shows me off when wc go out, it makes me feel a million dollars. Sonie guy was checking me out in a club on Saturday, he tried to pick me up. hut

I wasn’t interested. When I told Mark he seemed ąuite put out - with the guy that is!

-    Why?

-    Weil, if his reaction was anything to go by I think he was a bit jealous! He needn’t worry though - I’m not going to break up with him anytime soon.

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Exercise. Translate the following phrases into Polish:

break up - zeiwać, rozstać się

fali for someone - zakochać się u> kimś

tell off - zbesztać

Say it in English:

wyczekiwać, nie móc się doczekać czegoś - look forward to sth poderwać kogoś - pick someone up ustatkować się - settle down

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