TOEFL SKILLS & EXERCISES

#quiz #Collocations 💥Choose the correct words that best complete the following sentences .

#quiz #Collocations ⚜Choose the correct collocations that best complete the following sentences:

#Collocations with TIME

#quiz #Collocations ⚜Complete the following sentences with the correct time collocations:

#Collocations ⚜"Get" is a very common verb in English, but it is not always appropriate for talking about changes. 🔆Note also alternatives to get which can improve your style. 📌Go, not get 🔘Go is used for changes in people's personality, appearance and physical abilities: ~ People go mad/bald/grey/blind/deaf. 🔘Go is often used for sudden, usually negative, changes: ~Suddenly the sky went very dark and it started to rain. 🔘Go can also be used for slower colour changes: ~The pages of the book had gone yellow over the years. 📌Turn, not get ▫️Turn often collocates with colours: ~When the tomatoes turn red, the farmers pick them and sell them. ~The news gave his mother such a shock that her hair turned white overnight. ⏺Get and become 🔘Get and become can often be used with the same collocations, but become is more formal and is therefore more appropriate in essays: ~She gave up smoking when she became pregnant. ~I would like to become involved in raising money for charity. ▪️The same is true for collocations with adjectives such as angry, bored, excited, depressed upset, impatient, violent: ~He became depressed after his wife's death. 🔹Become, not get, is used with the following: extinct, (unpopular, homeless, famous. ~Our local baker's has become famous for its apple tarts. ☑️Alternatives to get and become ~She fell ill and was taken to hospital. ~Everyone fell silent when they heard the shocking news. ~As my father grew older, he spent less time working. ~The noise grew louder and soon we realised it was a plane approaching. 🚫Overusing and misusing get Here are some sentences from students' essays where get is wrongly used. 🔅sentences with get : ❎I was able to get new friends. ❎If I get a child of my own one day ... ❎A year ago he got a heart attack. 🔅more appropriate alternatives: ✅A year ago he had/suffered a heart attack. ✅If I have a child of my own one day ... ✅In June. I had a baby, James.

#quiz #Collocations

📌 #Collocations with WORK, JOB & CAREER. 🔘JOB: ~afulfilling job . ~a steady job. ~to offer someone a job. ~a permanent job. ~a demanding job. ~a high- powered job = an important job. ~to apply for a job. 🔘WORK: ~to carry out work ~to complete work ~to supervise work ~available to start work ~to work closely with ~to take on work 🔘CAREER : ~to wreck/ruin someone's career. ~to embark on a career = to start a career ~at the height/peak of your career. ~to have a career in (medicine). ~to climb the career ladder. ~a promising career. ~someone's career lasted. ~a brilliant career. ~a career takes off = a career starts to become very successful. 📌NOTE : we say have a job, NOT have a work .

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#Collocations 🔘Sports ▪️The first important collocation involving sports is when to use the verbsplay, do, and go. 🔸We typically use play for team sports – you play soccer, play basketball, play tennis, play baseball, and play golf. 🔸The verb do is used for more individual sports –you do yoga, do gymnastics, do martial arts, and do aerobics.Also, in more general terms, you do exercise. Another common individual exercise is to lift weights. 🔸The verb go is used with most activities that end in –ing:you go swimming, go biking, go surfing, go rock climbing, go bowling, and go fishing. 🔸With the team sports, we can use the word game or match:a soccer game, a basketball game, a tennis match, etc. 🔸You can win the game, lose the game, or tie the game – that’s when the final score is 1-1 or 2-2, for example. 🔸A team can play a home game – when they play in their own stadium or field – or an away game – when they play at the opposing team’s stadium or field. When there are many teams that are playing many games to see which one is the best, we call this a tournament. 🔸When one team is winning in the middle of the game – for example, 3-1 – we say that team hasthe lead. However, the other team can make a comeback – score points from a losing position – and takethe lead, 4-3. 🔸With the sports that use “do” and “go,” we typically use the word competition –a gymnastics competition, a martial arts competition, a surfing competition, an ice skating competition, etc. 🔸The exception is sports where you go from one place to another – like running, biking, and swimming – in that case, we often call the event a race. 🔸Athletes can enter a competition and try to win first place. Some athletes try to enhance their performance with illegal substances such as steroids. But if they fail a drug test, they’ll be disqualified from participating. 🔸If the athlete is performing well, they may achieve a personal best – and if they perform better than ANYONE ever has in the past, then they could even break the world record or set a new world record. If they get injured, however, they might have to withdraw from the competition (voluntarily leave the competition) .

#quiz #Collocations 🔘Choose the correct collocation to complete the given sentences :

#Collocations #quiz 🔘Choose the correct collocation:

#Collocations #Fwytm 🔘🔘🔘🔘🔘 Law/Justice 🔘🔘🔘🔘🔘 The government is responsible for passing laws (approving new laws to be put into practice), and the courts and legal system are in charge of upholding and enforcing the law (applying the law to the population). When a person is charged with a crime (formally accused of the crime), he or she must appear in court to stand trial (be judged guilty or innocent). Both the prosecution and the defense will present their cases before the judge and jury. After consideration, the judge or jury will reach a verdict (arrive at a decision). If there is irrefutable, overwhelming, or concrete evidence, this means that it is very obvious that the person committed the crime, and it’s possible that the jury will be unanimous (meaning they all agree) in their decision. However, if the evidence is circumstantial or inconclusive (the evidence does not 100% prove the conclusion), then the decision will be more difficult – it’s possible to have a hung jury, which cannot agree on the verdict. Less serious crimes will receive a light sentence(a small punishment) – for example, the offender may have to pay a fine or do community service. For more serious crimes, the person will probably go to prison – and especially heinous crimes can result in a harsh sentence such as life in prison (or life imprisonment) or, in some places, the death penalty. After the decision is made, the lawyers can choose to appeal the verdict (try to change the decision), and the case may turn into a prolonged legal battle as the courts decide whether to uphold or overturn the original verdict – “uphold” meaning to continue with the original decision, and “overturn” meaning to change the decision. As a convicted criminal is serving time (spending time in prison), he or she should remember the possibility of being released from prison early for good behavior, as long as they are not deemed a threat to society (possibly dangerous to other people). A criminal who is released early is said to be “on parole,”meaning that he or she must comply with certain conditions after getting out of jail – such as getting a job and refraining from drug/alcohol use.