2020-04-15 TOEFL: listening method

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-marijuana-bad-for-your-brain-anees-bahji
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Homework: finish the handout (Try not to spend more than about 1 minute per question)
Check with your partners and try to convince them if you disagree. (If you haven’t done it, do as much as you can now.)
1 B
2 A
3 A
4 B
5 C
6 A
7 D
8 A
9 B
10 D (They were criticizing modernism, not postmodernism.)
11 A
12 C
13 D (The pink granite and the furniture-like tower on top are for decoration. The postmodernist emphasis on decoration can be seen in the works of Philip Johnson, who designed the AT&T building.)
14 B (Chinese is one example, but the rest of the passage is about different ways to divide nouns into classes, so it isn’t about languages that don’t do this.)
15 C
16 A
17 D
18 A
19 C
20 C
21 B
22 A
23 A
24 B
25 A
26 D
27 D
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Listening Question Types
- purpose / method
- function (replay)
- detail/fact
- attitude
- complete a chart or table
- inference
- main idea / gist
- prediction
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There are sometimes listening questions about how the professor organizes the information, especially for lectures. Understanding the overall structure of a lecture is also useful for organizing your own notes.
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Some patterns of organization:
- concept and examples
- problem(s) and solution(s)
- research and conclusions (sometimes the opposite order)
- causes and effects
- chronological history
- compare and contrast
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(Realistically, you’ll only have at most one or two chart questions on a listening section.)
Oxford handout p. 1 exercise 5L3 - How do you think the professor will organize the lecture?
You should organize your notes into categories for
pre-pregnancy (or pre-p)
post-pregnancy (or post-p)
post-birth (or post-b)
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BREAK
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Listen to track 15 and answer the questions in part 5L4
1 a
2 b
3 - 2 3 3 1 1 2
4 - 1 1 3 1+2
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Gender and comfort food - pre-listening discussion
Listen and answer the questions
1 c (The professor does a, b, and d, but those don’t describe the overall organization of the material. In this way orgnization questions are similar to main idea questions.)
2 a
3 - 2 1 1 2
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Gender and communication styles
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4488 - There has never been any good evidence for the belief that women consistently talk more or use more words per day, but the fake statistic gets repeated often.
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5L8 - Listen to the lecture and answer the questions.
1 c (This answer choice talks about two research viewpoints, each of which can include multiple researchers and studies. One viewpoint is the “large number of researchers who suggest that males and females are like two different cultural groups”. The other viewpoint includes the three specific studies discussed that show similarities between men’s and women’s communication.)
2 d
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5L11 - Listen and answer the questions about gender-bending chemicals.
1 b
2 a
3 b
4 c
5 - 1 1 2 1 2 2
6 - 3 2 1 3