TOEFL SKILLS & EXERCISES

🛑 #Vocabulary Exercise 🛑

🔆 #Advanced 🔆

⚜Answer key⚜

⚜We must stop taking our planet for granted before it’s too late.

⚜Would you mind running your eye over this report for me.

⚜I have been put in charge of opening and closing the shop.

⚜I don’t see eye to eye with my father on politics.

⚜The weather is worth bearing/keeping in mind when you visit Ireland.

⚜You should have brought it to my attention sooner.

⚜We stand no chance of getting there in time. 

⚜On account of turning/showing up late, we couldn’t enter the club.

⚜Eating junk food is bound to have an effect on your health.

 
⚜You gave me such helpful advice that I passed the
interview.

⚜She is looked up to by everyone in her field of work.


⚜I regret not following / regret not having followed your advice.

 
⚜I’m afraid we have run out of tickets.

⚜I succeeded in talking her into joining us.

🔆 #Advanced 🔆

⚜ADVANCED KEYWORDS TRANSORMATION ⚜

🔶We have to appreciate our planet more before it’s too late.
▪️GRANTED
We must stop ................................................................................................. before it’s too late.



🔶Could you take a quick look at this report for me?
▪️EYE
Would you mind ................................................................................................. for me?



🔶My manager has made me responsible for opening and closing the shop.
▪️PUT
I ................................................................................................. opening and closing the shop.



🔶My father and I disagree on politics.
▪️SEE
I don’t ................................................................................................. my father on politics.




🔶You have to consider the weather when you visit Ireland.
▪️WORTH
The ................................................................................................. mind when you visit Ireland.



🔶Why didn’t you tell me about it sooner?
▪️BROUGHT
You ................................................................................................. my attention sooner.



🔶It’s impossible for us to get there in time.
▪️STAND
We ................................................................................................. there in time.



🔶We couldn’t enter the club because we got there late.
▪️TURNING
On ......................................................................................., we couldn’t enter the club.




🔶I’m certain eating junk food affects your health.
▪️BOUND
Eating junk food ....................................................................................... on your health.



🔶Your advice was so helpful that I passed the interview.
▪️SUCH
You ....................................................................................... that I passed the interview.



🔶Everyone in her field of work admires her.
▪️LOOKED
She ....................................................................................... everyone in her field of work.



🔶I wish I had followed your advice.
▪️REGRET
I ....................................................................................... your advice.


🔶I’m afraid there is no more tickets left.
▪️RUN
I’m afraid we ....................................................................................... tickets.



🔶I managed to persuade her to join us.
▪️TALKING
I succeeded ....................................................................................... joining us.

#idioms
#Phrasal_verbs



🫧Under the weather =
🍃 slightly ill
🍃You look a bit under the weather.


🫧Off-colour=
🍃slightly ill
🍃She’s been feeling a bit off-colour lately.


🫧Out of sorts =
🍃feeling a little ill or upset
🍃Louise went back to work feeling rather out of sorts.


🫧Fight off =
🍃to try hard to get rid of something, especially an illness or a feeling.
🍃 Elaine’s fighting off a cold.


🫧Come down with
🍃to get an illness
🍃 I think I’m coming down with a cold.