Choose a topic, practice it, and we will work on it together in class.
| English | Korean | Example |
|---|---|---|
| take after | (๊ฐ์กฑ์) ๋ฎ๋ค | She takes after her mother in looks. |
| take apart | ๋ถํดํ๋ค | He took the old radio apart to fix it. |
| take away | ์น์ฐ๋ค / ๊ฐ์ ธ๊ฐ๋ค | The waiter took away our empty plates. |
| take back (return) | ๋ฐํํ๋ค / ๋๋ ค์ฃผ๋ค | I took the shirt back to the store. |
| take back (words) | (ํ ๋ง์) ์ทจ์ํ๋ค | I'm sorry; I take back what I said. |
| take down (write) | ๋ฐ์ ์ ๋ค / ๊ธฐ๋กํ๋ค | She took down his phone number quickly. |
| take down (remove) | ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ค / ์ฒ ๊ฑฐํ๋ค | We took down the posters after the event. |
| take in (understand) | ์ดํดํ๋ค / ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๋ค | It was hard to take in the shocking news. |
| take in (deceive) | ์์ด๋ค | Don't be taken in by his charming words. |
| take in (clothes) | (์ท์) ์ค์ด๋ค | The tailor took in the waist a little. |
| take in (give shelter) | ๊ฑฐ๋๋ค / ์ฌ์ ์ฃผ๋ค | They took in a stray cat last winter. |
| take off (plane) | ์ด๋ฅํ๋ค | The plane took off on time despite the rain. |
| take off (clothes) | (์ทยท์ ๋ฐ์) ๋ฒ๋ค | Please take off your shoes inside the house. |
| take off (succeed) | ๊ธ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ค / ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋ค | Her online business took off within a year. |
| take a day off | ํ๋ฃจ ํด๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ค | I'm taking a day off tomorrow to rest. |
| take on (a task) | (์ผยท์ฑ ์์) ๋ ๋งก๋ค | Don't take on more work than you can handle. |
| take on (staff) | ๊ณ ์ฉํ๋ค / ์ฑ์ฉํ๋ค | The factory is taking on new workers this month. |
| take on (an opponent) | ~์ ๋ง์๋ค / ๋๊ฒฐํ๋ค | Our team takes on the champions tonight. |
| take out (remove) | ๊บผ๋ด๋ค / ๋ด๋ค ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ค | Please take out the trash tonight. |
| take someone out | ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๊ฐ ๋์ ํ๋ค | He took her out for a fancy dinner. |
| take out a loan | ๋์ถ์ ๋ฐ๋ค | They took out a loan to buy a house. |
| take it out on | ~์๊ฒ ํํ์ดํ๋ค | Don't take it out on me; I wasn't there. |
| take over | ์ธ์ํ๋ค / ๋๊ฒจ๋ฐ๋ค | She will take over the family business next year. |
| take to (someone) | ~์ ์ข์ํ๊ฒ ๋๋ค | The kids took to their new teacher quickly. |
| take to (doing) | ~ํ๋ ์ต๊ด์ด ์๊ธฐ๋ค | He has taken to jogging before breakfast. |
| take up (a hobby) | (์ทจ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ) ์์ํ๋ค | I took up painting last year for fun. |
| take up (space) | (๊ณต๊ฐยท์๊ฐ์) ์ฐจ์งํ๋ค | The piano takes up half the living room. |
| take someone up on | (์ ์์) ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๋ค | I'll take you up on that kind offer. |
| take someone through | ์ฐจ๊ทผ์ฐจ๊ทผ ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ๋ค | Let me take you through the steps first. |
| be taken aback | ๊น์ง ๋๋ผ๋ค / ๋นํฉํ๋ค | I was taken aback by his rude reply. |
| take place | ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ค / ์ผ์ด๋๋ค | The festival takes place every October in Busan. |
| take part in | ~์ ์ฐธ๊ฐํ๋ค | Fifty students took part in the speech contest. |
| take care of | ๋๋ณด๋ค / ์ฒ๋ฆฌํ๋ค | Can you take care of my dog this weekend? |
| take a break | ์ ์ ์ฌ๋ค / ํด์์ ์ทจํ๋ค | Let's take a break for ten minutes. |
| take a look at | ํ๋ฒ ์ดํด๋ณด๋ค | Take a look at this strange photo. |
| take a chance | ๋ชจํ์ ํ๋ค / ์ด์ ๋งก๊ธฐ๋ค | Sometimes you just have to take a chance. |
| take a risk | ์ํ์ ๋ฌด๋ฆ ์ฐ๋ค | Investors must be willing to take a risk. |
| take advantage of | ~์ ์ด์ฉํ๋ค / ํ์ฉํ๋ค | Take advantage of the free English classes. |
| take someone's advice | ~์ ์ถฉ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๋ค | I took her advice and apologized first. |
| take a seat | ์๋ฆฌ์ ์๋ค | Please take a seat; the doctor is coming. |
| take a walk | ์ฐ์ฑ ํ๋ค | We took a walk along the river. |
| take a shower | ์ค์๋ฅผ ํ๋ค | I take a shower every morning before work. |
| take a nap | ๋ฎ์ ์ ์๋ค | The baby takes a nap after lunch. |
| take a deep breath | ์ฌํธํก์ ํ๋ค | Take a deep breath and calm down. |
| take notes | ํ๊ธฐํ๋ค / ๋ฉ๋ชจํ๋ค | Students should take notes during the lecture. |
| take an exam | ์ํ์ ์น๋ฅด๋ค | I'm taking an important exam next Friday. |
| take medicine | ์ฝ์ ๋จน๋ค / ๋ณต์ฉํ๋ค | Take this medicine three times a day. |
| take a photo | ์ฌ์ง์ ์ฐ๋ค | Could you take a photo of us, please? |
| take turns | ๊ต๋๋ก ํ๋ค / ๋ฒ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ค | The children took turns on the swing. |
| take your time | ์ฒ์ฒํ ํ๋ค / ์๋๋ฅด์ง ์๋ค | Take your time; there's no hurry at all. |
| take it easy | ์ฌ์์ฌ์ ํ๋ค / ์ง์ ํ๋ค | Take it easy this weekend and get some rest. |
| take for granted | ๋น์ฐํ๊ฒ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ค | Don't take your health for granted. |
| take into account | ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ค / ๊ฐ์ํ๋ค | We must take the weather into account. |
| take responsibility for | ~์ ๋ํด ์ฑ ์์ ์ง๋ค | He took responsibility for the team's mistake. |
| take charge of | ~์ ๋งก๋ค / ์ฑ ์์ง๋ค | She took charge of the new project. |
| take effect | ํจ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ฐ์ํ๋ค / ์ํ๋๋ค | The new law takes effect in March. |
| take pride in | ~์ ์๋ถ์ฌ์ ๊ฐ๋ค | She takes great pride in her cooking. |
| take by surprise | ๊น์ง ๋๋ผ๊ฒ ํ๋ค | The sudden storm took us by surprise. |
| take sides | ํธ์ ๋ค๋ค | A good referee should never take sides. |