Google + Challenges Facebook.

Exercise 1. Read the text and complete the sentences by choosing a suitable phrasal verb in the correct tense form.

Section 2.

Exercise 5. Paraphrase each of the sentences providing a suitable phrasal verb antonym for the phrasal verb underlined.

Exercise 4. Replace each of the underlined phrasal verbs below with a suitable phrasal verb synonym in the correct tense form.

1. It was not easy to make out what the militants wanted.
2. Four refugees fainted in the heat but were soon brought round with water.
3. The immigrants’ Spanish came along a lot since they joined the language class.
4. People always try to put aside a tidy sum for the retirement.
5. The MP’s meaning did not get across.
6. The insurgents set out early in the morning.
7. The riot police were not able to hold back the protesters.
8. The secretary had to write down the details of where the clients live and work.
9. The man got behind with his payments for the van.
10. There are issues that the ministers have to bring up in committee.

1. Many families often run out of good food (stock …).
2. When on vacation, students do not like to get up early (turn …).
3. It did not take long for the two companies to make up (fall …).
4. They were always letting out their clothes in summer (take …).
5. We cannot put off the negotiations any longer (bring …).
6. Unfortunately, the cashier had to give away the combination of the safe (hold …).
7. The gang set off at dawn (get …).
8. The company had to bring down its prices because of economic crisis (put …).
9. The test papers were given in to the teacher (give …).
10. The robber knocked the lady out (bring …).

Online search giant Google launched a new social networking website in its attempt to 1._____ Facebook. Google + allows individuals to share photos, messages and comments. It also aims to help users easily organise contacts within groups. But some analysts say Google has simply reproduced features of Facebook while adding a video chat function. Google has taken several stabs at Facebook in recent years. Its previous efforts 2._____ failure, with both Google Wave and Google Buzz proving unpopular with users. The company is now boasting that four features in Google+ could help make the company a permanent player in social networking:circles - a functionality that allows individuals to place friends into groups; hangouts - live multi-user video conferencing that permits friends to 3._____ and 4._____ of live group conversations; huddle - group instant messaging; and sparks - a feature that connects individuals on the network to others with common interests. But some analysts have said Google could have a difficult time converting Facebook devotees to their new social network. "People have their social circles on Facebook - asking them to create another social circle is challenging," Debra Aho Williamson, principal analyst with research firm eMarketer, told the Associated Press news agency.

http:// www.bbc.co.uk/news/ (abridged and changed).

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