2019-11-21 TOEFL: listening purpose

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework (to start in class): Cengage exercise 1.2 - Answer the fact questions about longer passages.
(Optional: finish the true/false passages from the first exercise)
1 B
2 A
3 C
4 B (or C, if the sentence at the end of paragraph 4 also includes paragraph 3)
5 C
6 B (Sandstone construction is mentioned in paragraph 4.)
7 D
8 C
9 A
10 B
11 C
12 D
13 D
14 C
15 A (Be careful: sometimes negative fact questions require you to scan the entire passage.)
16 B
17 A
18 C
19 A
20 C
21 D
22 B
23 A
24 C
25 C
26 D
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Listening Question Types
- main idea
- fact/detail
- purpose
- inference
- prediction
- complete a chart or table
- attitude
- function/replay
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Purpose and attitude questions
Cengage exercise 11.1 - Listen to the conversations and answer the questions
1 D
2 A
3 B
4 A
5 C
6 A
exercise 11.2 - Do the same for lectures and discussions.
1 C
2 C
3 D
4 A
5 D
6 B
7 C
8 A
9 C
10 A
11 B
12 D
13 B
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Main Idea Questions
Cambridge exercise L9 - What would you predict as the main topic of each lecture?
1 the United Kingdom
2 Award for Architecture
3 Irish linen
4 figures carved in hillsides
5 geology of Mars
exercise L10 - Choose the best guess for the topic
3 It’s about educational possibilities and challenges from communication technology. (They’re communication satellites, not educational satellites.)
5 A - The cold is only mentioned to introduce the more serious illness of influenza, which will probably be the main topic of the rest of the talk.
6 D (Human protein would be protein from human meat.)
exercise L11 - Listen to the first “paragraph” of some lectures. What is the main topic? Is it mentioned in the first sentence?
1 magic squares - yes
2 public zoos - no
3 pony express - no
4 butterfly farm - yes
5 gargoyles - no
exercise L12 - All of these change topic from the first sentence. Identify the main topic.
1 recording/writing dance movements
2 first settlers in North America (and why they came)
3 lack of historical value of contemporary photographs
4 language policy in the US
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Cengage exercise 9.1 - Listen to a conversation and answer the main idea question.
1 C
2 B
3 C
4 A
5 A
exercise 9.2 - Do the same for lectures and discussions.
1 D
2 B
3 A (At least, this is what he says he will talk about.)
4 D
5 C