2019-03-27 TOEFL: reading reference, study advice

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: exercise 6.2 (optionally, you can also finish 6.1)
1 D
2 B
3 D - With the pharase “another type”, look for earlier uses of the word “type”, especially “one type”.
4 C
5 C
6 D - “they can be skimmed off and saved.” - Grammatically it could be either minerals or bubbles, but we want to save the minerals in this process, so that must be the answer.
7 B
8 A
9 C
10 C
11 A
12 A
13 D
14 B
15 B
16 C
17 C
18 D
19 A
20 B
21 D - These are the only things that could be “as important as the lines of text”.
22 A
23 D
24 A
25 A
26 C
27 C
28 A
29 B
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Corrections on your writing from last week.
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If you don’t catch a point from the lecture for integrated writing, try your best to guess what it might have said, usually in contrast to the points from the reading.
Hopefully you can catch at least a few words about each point, which should help you guess more accurately how it might challenge the points from the reading.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/testing-dna-museum-artifacts-unlock-natural-history-worth-potential-damage-180971697/
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/viking-warrior-woman-archaeology-spd/
- Look for articles about the science of history and archaeology. This might make you more interested in those topics. (The study of how history is studied and written is historiography.)
Charles Mann - 1493: history of the Americas after European contact.
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLghL9V9QTN0jLWtG3E8tSAHOD4UHw0QDF - 8-bit Philosophy uses video game animations to illustrate philosophical ideas
(The Wisecrack channel also has a lot of other videos about making difficult things accessible.)
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Bill Bryson has a number of books that bring together many different topics to discuss one thing.