2019-03-07 TOEFL: listening inference

Homework: Cengage p. 106-114 - Exercise 5.2 (handout)
Compare your answers. Convince your partners their answers are wrong if you disagree.
1 C
2 A
3 B
4 C
5 B
6 D
7 D
8 A
9 C
10 B
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Listening Question Types:
- main idea (content or purpose)
- detail
- purpose/method
- function (replay)
- attitude
- inference
- prediction
- complete a chart/table (multi-part detail question)
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Handout (Cambridge) p. 289 exercise L18 - Decide if each inference is correct.
1 Yes
2 No
3 No
4 Yes
p. 290 exercise L19 - Choose the correct answer to each question.
1 B
2 D
3 A
4 B
exercise L20 - In your own words, answer the questions.
1 She is (or plans to be) an art major.
2 To give examples of low-tech toys that children don’t lose interest in as quickly as high-tech toys.
3 So students can improve their Spanish outside of class (and with regional accents).
4 There was an assault on campus.
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BREAK
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Handout (Oxford) p. 231 - pre-listening questions and abbreviations
In British English, “faculty” means something like “school” or “college” does in an American university.
	(It is a level above individual departments.)
1 app / appt / apmt
2 bhvr / beh.
3 cog neurosci / cg NS
4 bio sci
5 sp deg
6 req
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4L6 - Listen and take notes about the conversation. Then answer the questions.
1 c
2 a
3 a d
4 b c d
5 c d
6 c
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4L7 - Listen to the discussion and take notes. Compare your notes with your partner’s and complete the outline on p. 232.
1. Study
    * participants
    - school children
    * method
    - measured body mass, did exercise to assess fitness, took a (cognitive) test
    * results
    - fittest students scored higher
2. Science behind results = process
    1. move the muscles
    2. produces IFG-1, which goes to the brain
    3. increases the production of BDNF
3. BDNF = Brain-derived neurotrophic factor
    * promotes higher level thought
    * more exercise = more capacity to handle cognitive tasks
    * study: BDNF causes new brain cells and new connections between cells
    * chemical that facilitates learning
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p. 233 4L8 - answer the questions
1 c
2 d
3 b (It is a protein, but the professor only describes it as “a brain chemical”.)
4 a c
5 a
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Speaking Tasks
1 independent, open-ended - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
2 independent, choice question - 15/45
3 integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation - 30/60
4 integrated R/L/S, academic text and lecture (general/specific) - 30/60
5 integrated L/S, conversation about a problem and solutions - 20/60
6 integrated L/S, academic lecture - 20/60