# 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.
