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June 23

Phrasal Verbs Quiz 1

Ok everybody, I've made some multiple-choice questions for you to practice your phrasal verbs with. So for each question below, two sentences are right and one is wrong. Choose the sentence that is wrong and leave your answers in the comments section. I'll post the correct answers in a few days. And don't cheat off of each other. This is for your own good. There's no grade. There's no competition. So do the quiz before you read the answers! And if you know the Chinese equivalent to these verbs, go ahead and tell us "na guo ni"s in the comments section, I'd love to learn them!


Good luck Monkeys!

 

 

  1. Go after someone -- follow or chase someone.
    1. There’s the guy that stole my bike! Let’s go after him!
    2. My car wouldn’t go after it ran out of gas.
    3. Kevin has a crush on Laura. It’s obvious – I mean look at how he’s going after her!

 

  1. Go ahead – Start to do something.
    1. You can go in front of me in line. Please, go ahead. I insist!
    2. Go ahead and start dinner without me tonight; I’ll be working late.
    3. I have to go ahead home and get my lunch.

 

  1. Look into something – investigate.
    1. We are looking into against the best soccer team in the state this weekend.
    2. The police are looking into the crime.
    3. What’s wrong with the U.S. economy? Well, if you look into it, you’ll see that the mortgage crisis is the biggest part of the problem.

 

  1. Hang on – wait a minute (等一下).
    1. Oh, I forgot my coat! Hang on, I’ll go get it.
    2. Put your shirt on a hang on and leave it in the closet.
    3. You want to talk to my mom? Hang on; I’ll go get her.

 

  1. Let someone in – let someone enter a place.
    1. Let me in! It’s cold out here!
    2. I heard Wal-Mart is going to let in the price of snowboards today.
    3. After pounding on the door for 10 minutes, they finally let him in.

 

  1. Make something up – Tell a lie about something.
    1. I don’t believe you; you’re making that up.
    2. Ken and Nick made up a story about why they were late.
    3. Girls look better when they don’t wear a lot of makeup.

 

  1. Pass out – faint, go unconscious.
    1. They say if you hold your breath for too long, you can actually pass out!
    2. Why don’t you try to pass out this car in front of us; he’s going so slow.
    3. When she heard the news, she passed out on the floor.

 

  1. Pass away – die.
    1. This team is really good at passing away, but their shooting isn't as great as last year.
    2. I’m sorry to hear that your grandfather passed away.
    3. He passed away at age 85.
If you're reading this, you're a "niu ren"!
Brass Monkey
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June 20

Verb's The Word

Hey guys, in AF2 this week we were talking about phrasal verbs (two-part verbs). It seems like this was really challenging for some of you, but it's such a good area to study!
 
So I'll give you a list of these verbs with examples so you can learn them. Since this list is 15 pages long, I'll just give you the link instead of printing out copies for everyone:
 
 
Hope you like it. Study these well because I'm going to post some quizzes in a few days that use  these phrasal verbs.
 
 (Phrasal verbs? What's wrong with me?! I'm getting more boring every day...!)
 
Now get to work!
 
Jake

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June 18

PARTY SATURDAY NIGHT: PREFERE BAR 9 PM

Party PARTY SATURDAY NIGHT: PREFERE BAR 9 PM (near hong kou football stadium, 虹口足球场)

There's a Star celebratory mood in the air Star. Also, the Sleeping half-moon evenings recently have been awesomely comfortable and the bar has an outdoor seating area that we can take advantage of.

Thanks to karma and Jay's lakers winning another championship, we have some excuses to meet friends and drink the night away!! Wear Laker colors if you're cool.

东江湾路 / 四川北路。。。 附近 虹口足球场地铁 和 鲁迅公园

Its been too long since we met, so I hope to see y'all there.
If you have any questions please comment below.
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June 01

That's A Stumper

Hi everybody,

In the English, if you don't know the answer to some question, you can say you're "stumped." Kind of like saying I'm stopped; I can't figure out the answer. So if you have a really tough question that you can't answer, you can say, "that's a stumper." This is just for fun, I don't think anyone's going to go around saying the word "stumper" regularly. In fact, I would recommend that you don't, lol.

So, here's a riddle for you to solve. It's not exactly a stumper though. But they'll get harder after the first one!

A window cleaner is cleaning the windows on the 25th floor of a skyscraper, when he slips and falls. He is not wearing a safety harness, and nothing slows his fall, yet he is not injured. How?
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May 05

The Race

Hi everyone, hope you had a good Labor Day weekend.
 
Have you ever heard of the "positive psychology" movement? It's become quite a popular idea in the last 10 years or so, since experts in the field of psychology started studying emotions as a positive force in people's life instead of just a problem area. Basically "positive psychology" tells you to that a positive attitude can improve your life. 
 
Here's a positive, inspiring story that I hope you enjoy. This story is kind of like a poem. It has a strong rhythm, so that'll help you practice stressing the "content words" in a sentence. In the first sentence the content words are in bold, that should help you get a feel for the story's rhythm. This story is a little long, so I'm going to post it in 3 parts, so you don't feel like you have to read it all at once. Hope you enjoy it!
 

The Race

(attributed to Dr. D.H. "Dee" Groberg)

Whenever I start to hang my head in front of failure’s face,
    my downward fall is broken by the memory of a race.
A children’s race, young boys, young men; how I remember well,
    excitement sure, but also fear, it wasn’t hard to tell.
They all lined up so full of hope, each thought to win that race
    or tie for first, or if not that, at least take second place.
Their parents watched from off the side, each cheering for their son,
    and each boy hoped to show his folks that he would be the one.

The whistle blew and off they flew, like chariots of fire,
    to win, to be the hero there, was each young boy’s desire.
One boy in particular, whose dad was in the crowd,
    was running in the lead and thought “My dad will be so proud.”
But as he speeded down the field and crossed a shallow dip,

    the little boy who thought he’d win, lost his step and slipped.
Trying hard to catch himself, his arms flew everyplace,
    and midst the laughter of the crowd he fell flat on his face.
As he fell, his hope fell too; he couldn’t win it now.
    Humiliated, he just wished to disappear somehow.

But as he fell his dad stood up and showed his anxious face,
    which to the boy so clearly said, “Get up and win that race!”
He quickly rose, no damage done, behind a bit that’s all,
    and ran with all his mind and might to make up for his fall.
So anxious to restore himself, to catch up and to win,
    his mind went faster than his legs. He slipped and fell again.
He wished that he had quit before with only one disgrace.
    “I’m hopeless as a runner now, I shouldn’t try to race.”

But through the laughing crowd he searched and found his father’s face
    with a steady look that said again, “Get up and win that race!”
So he jumped up to try again, ten yards behind the last.
    “If I’m to gain those yards,” he thought, “I’ve got to run real fast!”
Exceeding everything he had, he regained eight, then ten...

    but trying hard to catch the lead, he slipped and fell again.
Defeat! He lay there silently. A tear dropped from his eye.
    “There’s no sense running anymore! Three strikes I’m out! Why try?
I’ve lost, so what’s the use?” he thought. “I’ll live with my disgrace.”
    But then he thought about his dad, who soon he’d have to face.

“Get up,” an echo sounded low, “you haven’t lost at all,
    for all you have to do to win is rise each time you fall.
Get up!” the echo urged him on, “Get up and take your place!
    You were not meant for failure here! Get up and win that race!”
So, up he rose to run once more, refusing to forfeit,
    and he resolved that win or lose, at least he wouldn’t quit.
So far behind the others now, the most he’d ever been,
    still he gave it all he had and ran like he could win.
Three times he’d fallen stumbling, three times he rose again.
    Too far behind to hope to win, he still ran to the end.

They cheered another boy who crossed the line and won first place,
    head high and proud and happy -- no falling, no disgrace.
But, when the fallen youngster crossed the line, in last place,
    the crowd gave him a greater cheer for finishing the race.
And even though he came in last with head bowed low, unproud,
    you would have thought he’d won the race, to listen to the crowd.
And to his dad he sadly said, “I didn’t do so well.”
    “To me, you won,” his father said. “You rose each time you fell.”

And now when things seem dark and bleak and difficult to face,
    the memory of that little boy helps me in my own race.
For all of life is like that race, with ups and downs and all.
    And all you have to do to win is rise each time you fall.
And when depression and despair shout loudly in my face,
    another voice within me says, “Get up and win that race!”

So there it is, the whole story. I hope you liked it. Have a good rest of the week Monkeys! If you've read the whole story, thanks for putting forth the effort! You're some of the best students at EF for sure!

Brass Monkey

 



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