2020-02-05 TOEFL: listening purpose

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 11-15, exercises 1R9 and 1R11
Compare your answers with a partner. Try to convince your partner of your answer if you disagree. (You can refer to context clues like pronouns, transition signals, synonyms and contrast, etc.)
exercise 1R9
1 a
2 c
3 d
4 c
5 b
6 b (‘a’ is another meaning of “traced”, but it doesn’t make sense in context)
7 b
8 c (“maternal” and “paternal” can relate to personality [motherly/fatherly] or to the side of your family someone is related on)
9 d (The connotation of “absurd” is very negative, and it’s too strong to be modified with “somewhat”. In this case “unusual” means “strange”, not “uncommon”. “Seem” tells us this is a subjective judgment, so something objective like “uncommon” also wouldn’t make sense.)
10 a
11 b
12 d
13 b
14 d (“photorealistic” means “as realistic as a photograph”, so only non-photographic images of something can be considered photorealistic)
exercise 1R11
1 a (“longstanding” means something that has stood for a long time)
2 b (This is the best choice of the four, but “propagation” also usually implies spreading.)
3 d (“prosper” and “thrive” both have a positive connotation, which “develop” lacks)
4 b
5 d
6 d
7 b
8 a
9 b
10 b
11 b
12 c (The paragraph talks about an inability to make negative assessments (criticisms) of a loved one.)
13 d
14 b (The findings, like light, help us understand love.)
15 d
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score = noun for the number of points
score = the act of scoring or earning points
score = sheet music, especially containing the parts for all instruments
score = to mark or scratch in something hard
score = twenty
- You have to read the context to be sure which meaning of a word is appropriate for the text.
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raw score / total possible * 30 = baseline estimate for your TOEFL score
(The actual math that ETS uses is “secret”, and can vary based on the difficulty of the reading or listening passage. Usually it’s slightly lower than this baseline for reading and farther below for listening.)
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p. 615-619 - list of common roots, prefixes, and suffixes
p. 621-641 - index for word families on the Academic Word List (Together with a few thousand of the most common English words, these word families add up to about 90% of English used for academic purposes.)
http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/ - Information on a new version of the General Service List and the Academic Word List.
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Listening Question Types:
- main idea / gist
- detail
- purpose/method/organization
- inference
- attitude
- function/replay
- prediction
- complete a chart or table
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Listening Passage Types:
- conversation: between students, or more often between a student and a university employee
- lecture: in a classroom, only the professor speaks
- discussion: in a classroom, the professor and one or more students speak
A listening section has 2-3 conversations and 3-4 lectures or discussions.
It’s divided into sets, 1 long and 1-2 short
- long set = 1 conversation, 2 lectures or discussions (usually one of each), 10 minutes to answer
- short set = 1 conversation, 1 lecture or discussion, 6.5 minutes to answer
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Purpose Questions ask why a speaker says something, in a general way such as, “Why does the speaker mention his college roommate?”
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Cengage exercise 11.1 - Listen to parts of conversations and answer the purpose and attitude 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
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Homework: p. 302-305 exercises 5L6 and 5L8