Look After /Take care of - st/sb/yourself

Look after something/take care of something
Look after somebody/take care of somebody
look after yourself/take care of yourself
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* Firstly let's annalyse some sentences and try to understand the meaning.

1- My mother found that looking after me and my five siblings on her own was not easy.
2- Who is taking care of  Najla while Caio is working?
3- You must look after your computer because it cost a lot.
4- Bianca was just thirteen and she felt that was able to take care of  herself.
5- Andrew is still very sick and he is being looked after our personal nurse.
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** To accomplish the exercises below ,  you need to pay attention on the sentences above.
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1- Choose the best answer to complete the sentences and find out the meaning of look after/take care of.

a- not alone              b- dry                c-  safe                 d- happy   -               e-  in good condition

>>If you look after somebody you make sure that they are .........................................
>>If you take care of something you make sure that it is .................................................

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2- Which of those sentences are gramatically possible:

A- I took my brother care of.
B- She looks after my daughter because she is my friend.
C- I love her. So that I look her after.
D- My Daddy needed to go somewhere and my neighbor took care of me.
E-  My sister was looked after.

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3- I'll give you four object pronouns . Use them to complete the following sentences using the correct form of look after/take care of.

* himself                                 *him                        *children                            * your clothes

A- When my neighbor was in hospital, the nurses.....................................................   very well.
B- Stop worrying about Jose Luis! he's quite old enough to ......................................
C- You can always ask Selma to babysit. She loves.................................................
D- Your new t-shirt is dirty already! I wish you would..............................................

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You can replace look after by using "care for " and " take care of   ". Both means the same thing. As far as I'm concerned " care for"  is more formal   .The phrasal 'look after" is used more in British English while "take care of"  in American English.