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- Greg Malivuk
- gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-caffeine-keep-us-awake-hanan-qasim
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- Word Roots (list 6) - With your partners, try to think of one or two words to explain the meaning of each root.
- re (recycle, rebound, reuse, recline) = again/back
- reg (regulation, regent, regime) = rule
- retro (retrograde, retroactive, retrospect) = backward
- rupt (disrupt, rupture) = break/burst
- scend (ascend, descend, transcend) = climb
- scope/skep/spec (microscope, skeptic, spectacle) = see
- scrib/script (transcript, scripture, inscribe) = write/draw
- sect/seg (section, bisect, sector, segment) = cut/divide
- semi (semicircle, semiannual) = half (This is the Latin root. The Greek root is “hemi”.)
- sol (solitude, desolate) = alone
- sol (solar, solarium) = Sun
- soph (philosophy, sophisticated) = wisdom
- struct (construct, structure) = build
- sub (subterranean, submerge, substandard) = under
- super (superstructure, supersonic) = over
- tele (telephone, telescope, telepathy) = far
- term (determine, terminate) = end/limit
- terra/terri (territory, terrain) = Earth/land
- therm (thermometer, thermal) = heat
- trans (transport, transaction, transverse, transoceanic, transcontinental) = across/through
- ultra (ultraviolet, ultrasound) = over (the opposite prefix is “infra”)
- uni (universe, unique, unilateral) = one (When it has this meaning, “un” is always pronounced with a /y/ sound at the beginning.)
- vac (vacuum, vacate, evacuate) = empty
- veri (verify, veracity) = true
- viv/vit (vital, vivacious) = life
- vol (benevolent, volunteer, volition) = will (the noun)
- xeno (xenophobia, xenophile) = foreign/strange
- zo (zoology, zooplankton, paleozoic) = animal
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- TOEFL: 4 sections, 3.5-4 hours, 120 points, $205
- 1 reading: 54-72 minutes, 3-4 reading passages, 9-10 questions about each one
- 2 listening: 40-60 minutes, 2-3 conversations, 3-4 lectures
- (10-minute break)
- 3 speaking: 17 minutes, 4 tasks, 3m45s of total speaking time
- 4 writing: 55 minutes, 2 tasks, 20+30 minutes of writing time
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- Reading Question Types:
- - fact
- - negative fact
- - inference
- - reference
- - vocabulary
- - paraphrase
- - purpose/method
- - sentence insertion
- - summarize
- - organize/categorize
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- Purpose and Method questions ask why or how the author of a passage does something.
- - Purpose: Why does the author mention redwood forests? (to give an example of a temperate community)
- - Method: How does the author explain the point about temperate zones? (by giving the example of redwood forests)
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- Cengage exercise 4.1
- passage 1
- 1 T
- 2 F
- 3 F (We have no reason to think it’s true.)
- 4 F - Optical physics is the purely scientific study. Optical engineering is contrasted with that.
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- BREAK
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- passage 2 - Check with your partner and try to convince them of your answer if you disagree.
- 5 T
- 6 T
- 7 F
- 8 T
- 9 F
- 10 T
- 11 F
- passage 3
- 12 F
- 13 T
- 14 F
- 15 T
- - Purpose question can ask about a specific phrase or detail, about the purpose of a whole paragraph, or about the relationship between paragraphs or larger parts of the passage.
- passage 4
- 16 F
- 17 F
- 18 F (All three of these are incorrect answers because the given reasons are false.)
- 19 T (The paragraph is about the contrast between the western ⅓ and the eastern ⅔ of the continent.)
- 20 T
- passage 5
- 21 T
- 22 F
- 23 T (Managers tend to look inward, so management mode involves not looking outward.)
- 24 T (Not being in leadership mode is a failure of leadership.)
- passages 6 and 7
- 25 F
- 26 T
- 27 T
- 28 T
- 29 F
- 30 F
- 31 T
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- Homework: finish the handout (Try not to spend more than about 1 minute per question)
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