Искать (в словаре, справочнике, на карте, в расписании и т. п.); наводить справку.

CHECK IN (INTO)

To register (as in a hotel) and formally establish one’s presence; make one’s presence known; to arrive (Formal)

When you check into a hotel or if someone checks you into it, you arrive at the hotel, collect the key to your room, and fill in any forms which are necessary. Регистрироваться (в гостинице, в аэропорту).

1. Translate into Russian:

1. Don’t forget to check in the key before you leave.

2. Dear colleagues! You should check in at the register every time when you get a key.

3. Excuse me, Sir. Have you checked me in?

4. Is this book checked in?

5. After you check in to the hotel, meet me for dinner.

6. Sir, unless you care to check in, we can’t possibly take your bags up to the room.

7. Give me a moment to relax. I just checked in.

8. Did you check in at the hotel when you arrived there?

9. Do people always check in a hotel after their arrival?

Review: check out.

COME ACROSS

To find or encounter by chance. (Informal)

If you come across someone or something, you find or meet them by chance, without having expected to or without having thought about it.

Наткнуться, натолкнуться, случайно встретить.

1. Translate into Russian:

1. I came across Jack in the park last night.

2. Last Friday she got up at 6 a.m. as usual, put on her sport costume and trainers, opened the door, went outside and just came across an envelope which was on the porch.

3. There is no surprise there when we come across someone we often think about.

4. She is still thinking about a young man she came across on her way home last Saturday.

5. If you come across my notebook, please let me know immediately.

6. If I keep looking I am sure I’ll come across it sooner or later.

7. I wouldn’t want to come across somebody like that in a dark alley, that’s for sure.

DROP BY (IN)

To make a short or unplanned visit.

To drop by/in means to visit someone informally without having arranged the visit.

Заглянуть, навестить без предупреждения.

1. Translate into Russian:

1. We are going to drop by our old friend today.

2. It happened so that she dropped by me on Tuesday morning, but I was very pleased with her visit.

3. Were you pleased with their dropping by?

4. Why are going to Mrs Greenfield’s house? Do you think to drop by her?

5. Drop by any time you’re in the town.

6. I dropped by his office but he wasn’t available. He’s in and out all the time. I left the money with his secretary.

7. You can drop by if you like but I may not be here.

Review: drop in (syn), stop in (syn) , stop by (syn).

FEEL FREE

To feel one is allowed to do something.

Used for telling someone that they can do something if they want to.

Не стесняться делать что-либо.

1. Translate into Russian:

1. Feel free to phone me in any time you need.

2. I know you need a dictionary. Feel free to use mine.

3. Feel free to have another dessert.

4. Many people don’t feel free to spend their time as they choose.

5. Feel free to stay as long as you like.

Review: be my guest, go ahead.

LOOK UP

To search for and find information, as in a reference or other source. (Formal)

If you look up a piece of information in a book, or on a timetable or a map, you look there to find the information.

Искать (в словаре, справочнике, на карте, в расписании и т. п.); наводить справку.

1. Translate into Russian:

1. You should look up everything you don’t know.

2. He didn’t know the dates of the Civil War so he looked up in encyclopaedia.

3. You can look up idioms with the Idiomagic.

Often used with ‘it’. “Look it up.”

6. PUT OFF

To delay; postpone. (Informal)

If you put off an even or appointment, you delay or postpone it. Отложить. Отсрочить.

1. Translate into Russian:

1. Is she going to put her trip off?

2. Why did they put off their wedding?

3. They put off the voting, didn’t they?

4. Doing your homework is the thing you are constantly trying to put off.

5. She never puts off anything.

6. Did he again put off his visit to the dentist?

7. The school put off the graduation ceremony until the terrorists were captured.

8. It’s not a good idea to put off studying a foreign language until you actually need to speak it.

9. He never meets any of his deadlines because he keeps putting things off. He has no discipline.

Review: get around to (ant); make it snappy (ant).

7. TAKE IT EASY

To relax. (Informal)

To rest and not do things that will make you tired.

Расслабиться.

1. Translate into Russian:

1. He got a bad mark, but he took it easy and went for a walk in the park.

2. He says he is busy tonight. Take it easy and put off the talk till tomorrow.

3. You look so tired. Why not take it easy and go to the swimming pool?

4. Just take it easy for a moment.

5. We need to take it easy every once in a while or we’ll suffer nervous breakdowns.

6. I need to go on vacation and take it easy for a few weeks.

Review: dying to do something (ant).

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