Фразовые глаголы для TOEFL

В магазине:
- У вас изюм есть?
- Нету.
- А булочки с изюмом есть?
- Есть.
- Ой, наковыряйте мне килограммчик!
Народная мудрость

В языке Шекспира, как в тех булочках, полно изюма. И сегодня речь пойдет о таком изюме, как phrasal verbs. И хотя кое-кто любит его выковыривать и принимать горстями или килограммами, я все же советую не вытаскивать его из теста... ой, из контекста я имела в виду! Я не претендую на статус вашего диетолога, просто опыт показывает, что изюм в булочках лучше усваивается :)

О том, что такое phrasal verbs вы можете узнать здесь. Но я все же предполагаю, что, когда сюда вас привела подготовка к TOEFL, то с природой phrasal verbs вы уже знакомы. Единственное, что остается, практика их применения и понимания.

Поэтому сегодня ваше main dish легко усваиваемое, слепленное мной из phrasal verbs, приправленное vocabulary из этих замечательных phrasal verbs.

If you are checking out this post, you might be a future TOEFL test-taker. A test-taker is a person who takes a test, a future test-taker is a person who gets happy whenever he comes across a TOEFL preparation book and looks through every post of TOEFL.cafe, and who looks forward to getting this test over with, so the same evening he or she can finally hang out with friends in a bar.

While preparing for the reading section of TOEFL stay focused, and look up unknown words in the dictionary only after the first reading of an entire article.
The exam preparation is not the end of the world, so stay in touch with your friends and catch up with them at least once a week.
And even if you like going out every day, try not to stay up late on the day before exam in order to be OK on the day of the exam.

А теперь проверим, все ли phrasals вы правильно поняли.

Vocabulary = phrasal verbs:

To check out - to look at someone or something to see whether you like them
to come across smb/ smth - to meet someone, or to find something by chance
to look through - to read something quickly, especially to find the information you need
to look forward to smth or +ing - to feel happy and excited about something that is going to happen
to get smth over with - to do something or allow something to happen, because you want it to be finished or you want to start something else
to hang out - to spend time in a particular place or with particular people
to look up - to try to find a particular piece of information by looking in a book or on a list, or by using a computer
to catch up with - to talk to someone you have not seen for some time and find out what they have been doing
to go out - to leave your house and go somewhere, especially to do something enjoyable
to stay up - to not go to bed

Делитесь своими примерами использования вышеупомянутых phrasal verbs в комментариях!

INTEGRATED WRITING = READING + LISTENING

Подробнее об этом типе задачи читайте в одном из предыдущих постов здесь.

Сегодня мы коснемся темы экономики. A piece of article from wikipedia to start with.

Economic theory asserts that in a free market economy the market price reflects interaction between supply and demand: the price is set so as to equate the quantity being supplied and that being demanded. In turn these quantities are determined by the marginal utility of the asset to different buyers and to different sellers. In reality, the price may be distorted by other factors, such as tax and other government regulations.
When a commodity is for sale at multiple locations, the Law of one price is generally believed to hold. This essentially states that the cost difference between the locations cannot be greater than that representing shipping, taxes, other distribution costs etc. In the case of the majority of consumer goods and services, the distribution costs are quite a high proportion of the overall price, so the law may not be very useful. In practice it may well make economic sense to offer a product or service for sale at a higher price in a wealthy area than in a deprived area as the marginal utility of the asset for purchasers will be higher in the former.

LISTENING

Now it's your turn:

Write a summary in connected English prose of important points made in the listening passage, and explain how these relate to the key points of the reading passage.

Присылайте свои эссе на 300 слов на заданную или произвольную тему по адресу [email protected], и я с радостью прочту и пришлю вам feedback. И никоим образом не буду копировать ваши эссе ни на сайте, ни где-либо.

Ну и в дополнение к integrated writing, у меня для вас есть тема и на independent writing:

How do movies or television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons
and specific examples to support your answer.

Подготовка к сдаче TOEFL. Some phrasals and economics