phrasal verb (intransitive/separable) · neutral
look up from
speakingtask1
to raise one's eyes or attention from something one is doing
Examples
“She looked up from her phone when someone called her name.”
“If students never look up from screens, classroom interaction suffers.”
“During the lecture he rarely looked up from his notes, so he missed the question.”
Band 8 sentence
“He looked up from his laptop only to notice that the room had emptied entirely.”
Collocations
- look up from your phone
- look up from work
Word family
look up phrasal verb (related)
Common mistakes
use "look up" alone to mean 'ngẩng lên'→use "look up from" to specify what you lift your eyes from
Say it for a higher band
5raise your head→6look up→7+look up from
Synonyms
raise one's eyes
glance up
Easily confused
look up
“She looked up from her book and smiled.”
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