Collocations:

Last night, abroad a crazy, bald and blind boy went direct to see his grandmother. First he picks up his cousin and then they arrive to theirs Granma’s house so they can have diner early. This was the routine al Tuesdays. One time, the boy came home late so it was very dark and he didn´t saw a grate close. He didn´t had a cellphone so he couldn’t warn his cousin that he was late. He starts to despair.  He starts to walk and he found a public phone into view. When he get there, he start a call, pi pi pi… the phone didn´t work. He starts to cry and he thought that the night was just bankrupt, it was a bad night for him. 

Phrasal Verbs:

·      Ask someone out: invite someone on a date. EX: Pedro ask me out and I didn´t like him. 

·      Ask around: To enquire about something to different people. EX: I just ask around for a cinema in this town.

·      Add up to something: To join or unite so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope. EX: He just added up 12 inches to the deck

·      Back something up: prove something true. EX: She can back up the theft.

·      Back someone up: help, support for someone. EX: María always back up my brother when he is in trouble.

·      Blow up: explode: cause to burst with a violent release of energy. EX: We exploded the nuclear bomb.

·      Break down: make ineffective. EX: Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination.

·      Break in: enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act. EX: Someone broke in while I was on vacation.

·      Break into: express or utter spontaneously. EX: "break into a yodel"; "break into a song"; "break into tears".

·      Break something: to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments. EX: He broke a vase.

·      Break up: to end a romance or to separate. EX: Julia just break up with Pedro. I just break up my CD player.

·      Break out: erupt: start abruptly. EX: After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc.

Andrea Corral Zamacona