24.06: Practice time!
Read the text and complete the gaps with these phrasal verbs. Remember to change their form if necessary.
_ give up get out of get by get over face up to get on _
A long time ago me and my wife ran our own business. We provided cooking and catering services. Those were hard times, people were used to cooking and eating at home and despite working a lot, we only had enough money to (1) ………….. . We had to take out a credit to rescue ourselves. Unfortunately, it didn't help much, only made our financial situation worse. After struggling for several months we finally had to (2) ………….. the fact that we weren't going to (3) ………….. in that business. We decided to (4) ………….. . Of course it wasn't easy to (5) ………….. it and all our commitments, but finally we did it.
Now we both work for medium-sized local companies and can finally sleep well and peacefuly. However, it took us quite a long time to (6) ………….. ourfinancial problems.
Key
- get by
- face up to
- get on
- give up
- get out of
- get over