2019-03-13 TOEFL: listening purpose, all speaking

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: Handout (Cengage) exercise 4.2 (p. 91-101)
Check your homework with your partner. Convince them of your answers if you disagree.
(If you didn’t do it, try to do as much as you can now, while the good students check theirs.)
Passage 1
1 B
2 A
3 A
4 B
5 C
6 A
7 D
Passage 2
8 A
9 B (The air inside is the hemoglobin.)
Passage 3
10 D
11 A
12 C
13 D (“ornamental” = “decorative”)
Passage 4
14 B (A language that treats all nouns the same does not have noun classes.)
15 C
16 A
17 D (“Is it useful?” is a rhetorical question - the author thinks it’s not. “Learning more rules than nouns” is an example of a bad way to learn a language.)
18 A
19 C
20 C
21 B
Passage 5
22 A
23 A
24 B
25 A
26 D
27 D
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Listening: second section of the test, 60-90 minutes, 2 or 3 sets
	- each set = 3 listenings (1 conversation, 1 lecture, 1 discussion), 17 questions (5+6+6), 10 minutes to choose answers
Listening Question Types:
- main idea (content or purpose)
- detail/fact
- inference
- purpose/method
- function (replay)
- attitude
- prediction
- complete a table or chart (type of detail question)
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Cambridge L21 - Identify the speakers’ attitudes in each conversation.
1 A D
2 B D
3 B C
4 A C
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For attitude (and function) questions, it’s important to:
- recognize tone of voice
- recognize rhetorical questions
- recognize sarcasm
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BREAK
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Cengage p. 308 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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Speaking - With your partner, give responses for ETS 2 test 5