Practice Phrasal Verbs in the Past Tense
with the History of Transportation
Who hasn’t used some form of transportation?
The need to go farther and carry more has always driven humans to create new ways to move — adapted to every environment and social reality.
From sleds to airplanes, the spirit has remained the same: to go farther, to go faster.
Transportation isn’t just movement — it’s the foundation of real human connection.
Below, we’ll take a journey through the main forms of transportation used in the past — many of which are still part of daily life for thousands of people around the world.
From carts to trains, from the earliest airplanes to the invention of submarines, each mode of transport tells a story.
Recognizing the phrasal verbs used to describe these moments of movement is a step toward understanding the bold, exploratory spirit we each carry within us.
🚢 Submarines Quiz
From Jules Verne to Modern Technology — Test your comprehension with phrasal verbs!
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📚 Phrasal Verbs from this Quiz:
- bring up – to mention or introduce a topic
- keep up – to maintain the same pace or standard as others
- come up with – to think of an idea or plan
- point out – to draw attention to something
- blend in – to combine or mix smoothly
🚢 Submarines Quiz - Phrasal Verb Equivalents
Find the best alternative phrase using a different phrasal verb!
Which option best replaces the bolded phrase?
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📚 Phrasal Verbs from this Quiz:
- bring up – to mention or introduce a topic
- point out – to draw attention to something, highlight
- look into – to investigate, examine
- put off – to postpone, discourage
- keep up – to maintain the same pace or standard as others
- match up – to be equal to, to correspond
- stand out – to be easily seen or noticed
- give up – to stop trying, surrender
- come up with – to think of an idea or plan
- thought of – (past of think of) to conceive an idea
- give up on – to stop hoping for or believing in
- take after – to resemble a parent or relative
- points out – to draw attention to something, highlight
- highlights – to emphasize, make prominent
- look for – to search for
- run over – to hit with a vehicle; to review quickly
- blend in – to combine or mix smoothly
- combine with – to merge, mix together
- break down – to stop functioning; to separate into parts
🧠 Phrasal Verbs Mind Map
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💡 Study Tip
Look around you — your day is full of opportunities to learn English!
Try to describe your actions and environment using phrasal verbs.
🧹 “I woke up, got up, and turned off the alarm. Then I looked for my shoes and picked up the keys.”
This turns everyday habits into natural English practice.
✔️ You’ll connect language to real life
✔️ You’ll remember more — because it’s your story
✔️ And you’ll get used to thinking in English, not just translating
The more you talk about your day in English, the more English becomes part of your day.
🎧 Listening Comprehension
🚂 The Train Revolution Quiz
Test your comprehension of how trains reshaped the world!
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📚 Key Concepts from this Quiz:
- Revolutionary Impact: Trains reshaped societies and economies.
- Travel Transformation: Shift from arduous journeys to faster, more efficient travel.
- Industrial Backbone: Trains facilitated raw material supply and product distribution.
- Economic Expansion: Farmers gained access to broader markets.
- Standardization: Railway time led to modern time zones.

💡 Study Tip
Don’t just memorize — personalize!
Choose one phrasal verb a day and write a short sentence using it to describe your life.
It can be about your routine, your mood, or even your plans.
📝 Instead of just learning “give up,” write: “I won’t give up on my English goals!”
This daily habit helps you:
🧠 Remember faster (because the phrase means something to you)
✍️ Practice grammar in real use
💬 Get used to thinking in English
The more personal, the more powerful. One sentence a day = steady progress.
🚂 Train Phrasal Verbs - Fill-in-the-Blanks
Complete the sentences using the correct phrasal verb from the options provided.
1. Today, we live in an era where high-speed rail, airplanes, and automobiles are so commonplace that we barely them a second thought.
2. The emergence of coal-powered locomotives didn't just change transportation; it entire societies.
3. Long distance travel was an arduous, costly, and often perilous endeavor trains became widespread.
4. Most people horses, horse-drawn carriages, or slow-moving boats.
5. The world, for most, was their immediate surroundings.
6. Suddenly, trains could hundreds of passengers and tons of cargo across vast distances.
7. Rail networks expanded rapidly, together regions that had previously been isolated.
8. The flow of people, goods, and ideas like never before.
9. Farmers no longer had to solely on local markets.
10. The very concept of time was with the introduction of railway time.
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📚 Phrasal Verbs & Key Vocabulary:
- give (something) a second thought – to think about something again
- reshape – to change the shape or form of something (often used metaphorically)
- rely on – to depend on
- confined to – limited to, restricted to
- carry – to transport (as a core verb, fits phrasal verb context)
- weave (together) – to join together closely
- accelerate – to increase in speed
- standardize – to make consistent or uniform
- **Other phrasal verbs used as distractors:** `call off`, `turn down`, `put off`, `make up`, `look into`, `take over by`, `bring about`, `cut down on`, `get over`, `look up`, `break down`, `put up with`