Gate

Common expressions

• open / shut a gate

• leave the gate (wide) open

• the garden gate

• the factory gates

• the school gates

Exercises

Common expressions

1. The school gate open at 7.30 every morning, but most children don’t arrive till 8.30.

2. Someone had left the gate wide open and the sheep had managed to get out onto the main road.

3. While walking in the countryside, please remember to shut all gates behind you.

4. When the workers turned up this morning, the factory gates were closed.

5. Our garden gate leads out onto the open fields at the back of our house.