Use of English for advanced learners 5 - Thấm Tâm Vy

Thẩm Tâm Vy, April 23rd, 2020 USE OF ENGLISH FOR ADVANCED LEARNERS ~ 05

USE OF ENGLISH - 05 FOR ADVANCED LEARNERS Develop Your Use of English skills: rephrasing and transforming I. Choose the sentence which means the same as the first. 1. I was offered the job because of my Linked In® profile. a. My Linkedln profile was responsible for me getting the job. b. I got the job in spite of my Linkedln® profile. 2. We found out about, their engagement on Twitter. a. When we heard they were engaged, we tweeted the news ourselves. b. We hadn’t heard about their engagement until we read their tweet. 3. He has so many friends on Facebook that he can’t possibly check all their updates. a. He doesn’t check all his Facebook friends’ updates, so he has more time to make new friends. b. He can’t, check all his Facebook friends’ updates because there are so many of them. 4. She had a wi-fi connection set. up so her customers could connect to the Internet free of charge. a. She wanted her customers to access the Internet without paying, so she had a wi-fi connection installed. b. She wanted to set up internet access for her customers, but she didn’t want to pay for it. 5. I saved all the photos you uploaded onto one of my storage devices. a. Your online photos have been transferred to one of my storage devices. b. I downloaded the photos you posted onto my laptop. II. Decide if the sentences have the same meaning (S) or a different meaning (D). 1. She takes pleasure in posting comments on online newspaper articles. She frequently skips the comments section of online newspaper articles. D 2. This open source software allows you to call people on their mobile phones without charge. This software is open source and lets you make free calls to mobile phones. . ..... 3. You don’t, have to be computer savvy to know how to share videos on the Internet. Even a computer novice can learn how to share videos online. ...... 4. Young people often imagine that humans were socially detached before the invention of instant messaging and social media. It is not uncommon for younger generations to believe people were more sociable ...... before the advent of electronic communications. 5. I have been a member of this bulletin board for the last five years. I first, signed up to this bulletin board five years ago. ...... III. Rewrite each sentence using the structure given. 1. A thousand people follow me on Twitter. a. (passive voice) ............................................................................... b. (have as a main verb) .................................................................... 2. We asked an expert to install our new computer system

a. (passive voice) .................................................................... b. (causative form) ................................................................... 3. I regret putting that photo online! a. (wish) .................................................................... b. (modal perfect) .................................................................... IV. Complete each sentence using the correct form of a word from box A and a word from box B.

A: adapt ■ depend ■ essential ■ interact ■ typical

B: for ■ of ■ on ■ to ■ with

1. I believe it is..................people to have hobbies awray from their computers. 2. Carla..................her internet connection to speak to her family back home. 3. My uncle took up blogging to help him ..................life after retirement. 4. I waited over an hour for Sanjay to call on Skype™, but that sort of behaviour is ..................him. 5. Having a smartphone has really helped me..................clients more easily V. Rewrite each sentence using the verb form of the noun in bold. 1 There is a need for further study into the effect computer games have on people’s social skills. 2. I am in constant communication with friends and family around the world using the Internet. 3. It is my hope that I can increase my bandwidth so I can …