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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-likely-is-a-shark-attack-gerd-gigerenzer
- https://twitter.com/justsaysrisks - Reports the absolute risk changes for various research headlines.
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- Speaking Section: third section, after the break, 17 minutes total, 3m45s speaking, 4 tasks
- - The TOEFL changed in August. Speaking tasks 1 and 5 were eliminated from the test.
- 1 (old 2) independent, choice question - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
- 2 (old 3) integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation - 30/60
- 3 (old 4) integrated R/L/S, academic text and lecture - 30/60
- 4 (old 6) integrated L/S, academic lecture - 20/60
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- Task 2 (used to be task 3) - ETS G.1 example
- - 45 seconds to read a text about a change on campus (already happened, planned, or suggested)
- - What is the change? (no more free bus service)
- - Why? (few students use it, it’s expensive - money saved will go to new parking)
- - listen to a conversation between students
- - Who has the opinion? man
- - What opinion? bad change
- - Why? (two reasons)
- - bus routes are old so students don’t live in those areas any more
- - more parking means more traffic and noise on campus; should discourage driving
- - read/hear the prompt
- - 30 seconds to prepare your response
- - 60 seconds to record your response
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- Your response can be organized like this:
- 1 Introduction: summarize the change and reasons from the text
- 2 Thesis statement: state the speaker’s opinion (“The man thinks this is a bad change.”)
- 3 Lead-in: (“He gives two reasons to support his opinion.”)
- 4 First reason (“First, he says people don’t ride the bus because the routes are old.”)
- 5 Detail/example (“They go through neighborhoods where students don’t live any more, so…”)
- 6 Second reason (“Second, building more parking will…”)
- 7 Detail/example
- (8 Conclusion - if you have extra time)
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- read
- - no more bus
- no students
- expensive
- listen
- - bad change
- old routes
- parking = + traffic, should discourage driving
- During the preparation time, you probably shouldn’t need to write a new outline, you can just go back and mark your existing notes to make it clear which points you’ll talk about.
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- ETS 1.1
- - What is the proposal? - adding evening computer classes
- - Why would they do this? - complaints that classes are overcrowded and not enough computers
- - What does the student think? - he disagrees with this proposal
- - Why does he think this?
- - students are busy at night (so couldn’t take evening courses)
- - adding new courses would be more expensive than buying new computers for existing courses
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- Record your responses to ETS 1 tests 2-4.
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- BREAK
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- Listen to your recordings. Pick the one we can listen to as a class.
- Listen to your classmates’ responses. What’s good and bad about each one of them?
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- Homework (optional): If you want more feedback on your writing than a score and one or two sentences, email me with a self-evaluation. What could you have done better? What do you think you did well? What can you work on for next time?
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