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There are three times as many extroverts as introverts.Due to this fact, Introverts need to acquire more coping skills at the onset of their lives since they will feel an excessive amount of pressure on them to correct and make them resemble the majority.

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Transcript

Vocabulary

How much did you understand?

In the podcast, Rich and Jack used some words and phrases that might be new for you. Do you know the words in bold?

I was glued to the screen.

There was an electric atmosphere in the stadium.

France took the lead against the run of play with the first chance they had.

Some boys and their football coach went into a cave in Thailand and got stuck.

There were a few tricky words in the podcast. Do you know what they all mean? Try the activity below, then, listen to the podcast again to hear how we used the words.

Words and phrases we use when summarising something

In this week's podcast, Jack and Rich used quite a few different words and phrases that are useful when we are summarising something for someone else. Look at these five examples from the podcast:

Basically, I think Croatia were really unlucky

Can you give it to me in a nutshell?

All right, to cut a long story short, France won 4-2!

At the end of the day, France deserved to win.

All in all, I'd say it's the best World Cup I can remember.

All of these phrases are used when summarising. Basically is used to tell people that you are just going to give them the most important information. In a nutshell and to cut a long story short are both idioms which are used to tell people that you are giving them the short version of a story rather than the full or longer version. At the end of the day and all in all are used to conclude a summary and to give your final opinion.

Do you know any other words or phrases that are similar to these?

Summarising Skills

In the podcast, Rich and Jack spoke about one important thing to do in order to give a good summary. They said that the best thing to do is make sure you give the listener all the key or most important information. They said that the best way to do this is to think about what you are summarising and try to answer as many of these five questions as you can:

1. Who was involved?

2. When did it happen?

3. Where did it happen?

4. What happened?

5. Why did it happen?

Jack summarised a news story about the trapped football team in Thailand. Had you heard about this story?

Task

A summary or review:

Your task this week is to summarise something that you have done, seen or read in the last few months. You can choose to summarise:

a football match or tournament that you have watched

a film you have seen or book that you have read

a news story that you have seen or read about

Write your summaries in the comments section below and use some of the words and phrases that you heard in this podcast.

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In TOEFL Speaking and Writing, paraphrasing is very important. Even if a response in these sections is grammatical and easy to understand, it will still receive a very low score if the test-taker copies a lot of the language from the passages or audio tracks.

"Echoing" words you read or hear, repeating them with minimal changes, is something you can easily do without even realizing it. In less formal, non-academic English use, it can be natural and acceptable to imitate words you've just heard or read-but this is definitely not OK in the academic English on the TOEFL exam. To avoid this common TOEFL mistake, it's important to practice paraphrasing during TOEFL prep. And it's good build mental habits that help you to paraphrase things easily. You want true paraphrasing to come very naturally to you on test day.

Kate has already written a great post on paraphrasing practice exercises you can include in your TOEFL studies. In today's post, I'll walk you through another activity that can help get really comfortable with paraphrasing.

As you look over the activity below, remember that paraphrasing is more than just someone else's words and saying them differently. In the broadest sense, paraphrasing is about understanding that there are many different ways to say the same thing. In a good paraphrase, you choose a new way of saying something that personally works for you. In this way, you don't just restate a piece of information-you put it in your preferred words, making the information your own.

Think of paraphrases as learning tool that allows you to understand ideas more fully, in your own thoughts and words. To see how this works, I'm going to show you some lines from a TOEFL Integrated Speaking passage, followed by several different paraphrases of the same original information. (The passage is one for Speaking Task 3, and it comes from page 23 of TOEFL Quick Prep Volume 1.)
SCULPTURE COURSES TO BE DISCONTINUED
University administrators announced yesterday that the sculpture program, a division of the art department, will be eliminated. "The main reason is a lack of student interest," reported one administrator. "Although the number of art students has increased, fewer and fewer art majors are taking sculpture classes." Furthermore, the department's only sculpture professor is retiring this year. "Given the art department's limited budget," the administrator explained, "it just doesn't make sense to hire a new full-time professor to teach sculpture for only a handful of students."

TOEFL Speaking Task 3 reading passages like this one are ideal for paraphrasing practice. This is because the information in a Task 3 passage needs to be shortened into a very brief summary that you can easily recall and restate when you start speaking. This kind of shortened restatement requires sharp paraphrasing skills. Let's look at three of my own possible paraphrases of this 85 word article:
PARAPHRASE 1:
The university will discontinue the sculpture program. Administrators say students simply don't have much interest in sculpture anymore, and the one sculpture professor in the art department is about to retire anyway.
PARAPHRASE 2:
University officials have announced that the sculpture program will be cancelled. They cite declining student interest as one of the main reasons for the cancellation. Another issue is a lack of instructors; the only teacher of sculpture courses will be retiring shortly. Finally, the art department doesn't have enough money for more sculpture classes.
PARAPHRASE 3:
The school's sculpture classes are all about to be permanently removed from the art department's offerings, as students are no longer interested in sculpture, the only sculpture professor is leaving, and there is not enough funding to keep offering these courses.
PARAPHRASE 4:
The art department at the university is getting more and more students, but at the same time, fewer and fewer students are enrolling in sculpture classes. Because students are no longer interested in sculpture and because the sculpture professor is retiring, school administrators decided to cancel the sculpture program.

The fun thing about human language is that there are almost infinite ways to say anything. I could probably come up with at least ten more paraphrases of the passage, easily. There's a lot of different directions you can go with a paraphrase! Just remember the two important rules for TOEFL paraphrasing: make the new statement shorter, and try to use as few of the original words as possible.

As you go through my paraphrases, you may find reasons to criticize the four different approaches I took above. You might feel I left out an important idea, included an unnecessary detail, or made a paraphrase too long or too short. If you can find fault in my re-wording of the passage, good! The example paraphrases above should help you think about how you would paraphrase something, if you did the activity yourself.

On your own, try making multiple paraphrases of text or dialogue from a TOEFL practice material. Do this multiple-paraphrase exercise for other samples English writing and speech too. Think about which of your multiple paraphrases would work best for you if you were sitting for the actual exam. Aim for the paraphrases that are efficiently short and capture your true thoughts on the info you've just taken in.

About David Recine

David is a test prep expert at Magoosh. He has a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a Masters in Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He has been teaching K-12, University, and adult education classes since 2007 and has worked with students from every continent. Currently, David lives in a small town in the American Upper Midwest. When he's not teaching or writing, David studies Korean, plays with his son, and takes road trips to Minneapolis to get a taste of city life. Follow David on Google+ and Twitter!

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