# Pen and Pencil

## Expressions with pen

* write with a black pen
* mark with a red pen
* pick up / put down your pen
* hold your pen
* borrow / lend a pen
* your pen doesn't work / write
* fill _out / in_ a form **in** pen
* ballpoint pen
* **fountain pen**

## Expressions with pencil

* use a pencil
* sharpen your pencil
* break your pencil
* write **in** pencil
* draw **in** pencil
* a sharp / blunt pencil
* colored pencils
* a pencil sharpener

## Exercise

### Expressions with pen

1. Please fill out the application form in pen, not pencil. - f
2. My pen has stopped working. Have you got a spare one I could borrow? - d
3. The teacher had marked all my mistakes with a red pen. - g
4. I was so nervous I could hardly hold my pen. - b
5. Can you lend me a pen please? I've forgotten to bring one today. - a
6. Ballpoint pens are cheap and aren't as messy as fountain pens. - c
7. Please stop writing and put down your pens. - e

### Expressions with pencil

1. I pressed too hard on the paper, and _**broke**_ my pencil.
2. My brother uses his penknife to _**sharpen**_ his pencil. I use a pencil _**sharpener**_.
3. When I was at school, we always _**wrote**_ in pencil. When we had finished something, we then wrote it out in ink.
4. I can't write _with_ this pencil - it’s _**blunt**_! Have you got a _**sharp**_ one!
5. Children don't _**use**_ pencils and rubbers any more. They all have pens.
6. It's best to _**draw**_ _in_ pencil first. That way it's easy to make changes to your drawing.

## Notes

1. We say my pen isn't working, but not my pencil isn't working.
2.  If we write in pencil, we can _**rub out**_ what we write:

    _I made notes **in** pencil **at the side of** the page, but rubbed them out before I took the book back to the library._
3.  Note this expression:

    _I think it's about time I **put pen to paper** and replied to that letter from my brother in Canada!_
4. Another way of saying '_**use a pen**_' is _**write in ink**_.
5.  A _**pen friend**_ or _**pen pal**_ is someone you write to, but may never have met.

    _When I was at school, I had a **pen pal** in France._
6. A _**pen name**_ is a name used by a writer instead of his her real name.
