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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/the-surprising-reason-our-muscles-get-tired-christian-moro
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- Word roots (list 2) - With your partner, try to think of one or two words to explain the meaning of each root.
- cert (certain, ascertain, certificate) = sure
- chrom (monochrome, achromatic) = color
- chron (chronological, anachronism, synchronize) = time
- circum (circumscribe, circumspect, circumnavigate) = around
- claim/clam (exclaim, proclamation, clamor) = yell (say loudly and forcefully)
- clar (clarify, declare) = clear
- cline (inclination, decline, recline) = lean
- co (coworker, coeducational, coauthor) = together
- col before L: (collaborate, colleague)
- com before M, P, B: (communicate, composition, combine)
- cor before R: (correlate, corroborate)
- con before other consonants except H: (connect, convention, contemporary)
- (co before vowels, H, and in new words like “copilot” and “coworker”)
- cogni (cognizance, incognito) = know (sometimes “think”)
- contra (contrast, contradict, controversy) = against (This is con+tra or tro. It’s the same “tr” that we see in “intro”, “retro”, “extra”.)
- corp (corporation, corpse, incorporate) = body
- cred (credible, credit, credulous) = believe
- crypto (cryptography, cryptic, encrypt) = hide
- de/di (decelerate, dethrone, decrease, divide, diverge) = down or apart
- dem/demo (demographics, democracy, epidemic) = people
- di (dilemma, dihedral) = two
- dia (diameter, dialect) = across/between
- dict (dictator, dictionary, contradict) = tell/say
- domin (dominate, dominion, predominate) = master/control
- don (donate, pardon) = give
- duce/duct (introduction, deduct, conduct, educate, duke) = lead/take
- dyna (dynamic, dynamite, dynasty) = movement/power
- dys (dystopia, dyslexia) = bad (The opposite prefix is “eu”.)
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- TOEFL: 4 sections, 4 hours, 120 points total, 30/section
- 1 reading: 3 or 4 passages, 54-72 minutes, 10 questions for each passage
- 2 listening: 5-7 listenings, 40-60 minutes, 2-3 conversations (5Q each), 3-4 lecture/discussions (6Q each)
- (10-minute break)
- 3 speaking: 4 tasks, 17 minutes, 1 indepedent, 3 integrated, 3m45s of speaking time
- 4 writing: 2 tasks, 55 minutes, 1 integrated (20m to write), 1 independent (30m to write)
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- Reading Question Types:
- - fact (According to the text, which of the following is true?)
- - negative fact (Which of the following is NOT true?)
- - vocabulary (Which word is closest in meaning to the highlighted word in the text?)
- - paraphrase (Which sentence best expresses the essential meaning of the highlighted sentence?)
- - purpose (Why does the author _____?) / method (How does the author _____?)
- - inference (What can be inferred about _____? / What does the author imply about ____?)
- - sentence insertion (Where does the new sentence fit best in the text?)
- - summary (Choose the three sentences that express the most important ideas of the passage.)
- - reference (What does the highlighted pronoun refer to?) [probably not on the test any more]
- - categorize (Put the answer choices into the correct categories.) [probably not on the test]
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- BREAK
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- Fact Questions
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- Cambridge p. 181-182 - Decide if each statement is true or false.
- 1 A T
- B F
- C T (“military risk” is a security threat)
- D T (There was “doubt as to the feasibility”, which means some people thought it wasn’t feasible.)
- E F
- F F
- G F (There was no tunnel made in 1930, so any sentence that attributes some characteristic to “the tunnel made in 1930” is false.)
- H T (The estimated cost was one thing that led to rejection, so it prohibited construction.)
- 2 A T
- B F (The animal was probably this size, but the fossils are only small pieces.)
- C F
- D T
- E T
- F F
- G T
- H T (The paragraph treats the “isolation” of the bones as synonymous to “separation”.)
- “The separation of these bones in marine whales…” -> There is separation in marine whales.
- 3 A T
- B F
- C F (It gives off a glue, not a scent.)
- D T
- E T
- F F (The paragraph only gives percentages for aphids and that percentage is for the hybrid, not the wild.)
- G T
- H T (“the hairs also trap beneficial insects” = the hairs harm insects that help the potato)
- 4 A F
- B T
- C T
- D F
- E F (The quality comes from the type of varnish, but not from its color, which can be different.)
- F T
- G F
- H T
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- “The newly elected prime minister is involved in a scandal.”
- - The noun clause tells us:
- 1 The country has a prime minister.
- 2 The prime minister is elected.
- 3 There were recently elections.
- 4 Those elections picked a new prime minister.
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- Longman p. 51 - Take 4 minutes to answer the questions about Lake Baikal.
- 1 D
- 2 A (It’s the ninth largest, so there are 8 larger lakes.)
- 3 D
- 4 C
- 5 B
- p. 52 - postage stamp
- 6 C (The first century was the years 1 to 100 AD.)
- 7 A (“in advance” means it was paid before sending)
- 8 D
- 9 B
- 10 C
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- Homework: Cengage p. 35-42 - Answer the fact questions about these three passages. (Question 4 is a bit unclear.)
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