2019-10-24 TOEFL: speaking 1

Homework: finish coming up with examples (try to get two for each)
Noun to Adjective: national, peaceful, helpless, democratic, revolutionary, friendly, cloudy, Colombian, Japanese, Israeli, racist
Verb to Adjective: confident/assistant, walkable, specific, informative/creative, boring, bored
Noun to Verb: book (no suffix), exemplify, victimize,
Adjective to Verb: simplify, nationalize, soften
Noun to (other type of) Noun: racism, racist, kingdom, friendship, neighborhood, forestry
Verb to Noun: communication, confidence/assistance, walk (no suffix), resident/assistant, teacher, appointment, employee, storage, healing, health
Adjective to Noun: weakness, wisdom, cutie, individual (no suffix), personality, honesty, safety
Noun to Adverb: clockwise, homeward
Adjective to Adverb: quickly
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Handout - explains the meanings of some of these endings
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Another set of changes that don’t include suffixes:
noun / verb
life / live
belief / believe
breath / breathe
excuse / excuse (pronunciation change from /s/ to /z/)
	same for: abuse, use, house, reuse
(voiceless / voiced)
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voiceless: /t/, /p/, /f/, /k/, /s/, /θ/, /ʃ/
voiced: /d/, /b/, /v/, /g/, /z/, /ð/, /ʒ/
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Speaking Section: third section, after the break, 17 minutes, 4 tasks, 3m45s speaking time
1 independent, choice question - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
2 integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation - 30/60
3 integrated R/L/S, academic text and lecture - 30/60
4 integrated L/S, academic lecture - 20/60
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The independent speaking task asks you to make a choice. You can practice this sort of question by looking at “would you rather” lists online.
https://conversationstartersworld.com/would-you-rather-questions/
The skills to practice are making a decision quickly and thinking of reasons to support it. Obviously the TOEFL would never ask you if you’d like to be covered in scales.
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For any choice question like this, you can practice by first giving yourself 15 seconds to pick an answer and think of two reasons. It’s a good idea to write them in a “mini outline”:
	answer
	- reason 1
	- reason 2
example:
	sea animals
	- discover things
	- like swimming
You can use your mini outline to organize your full response:
1 Introduction: state your answer (“I would rather be able to talk to sea animals than land or flying animals.”)
2 Lead-in: (“I have two reasons for this preference.”)
3 First reason: “First, I would be able to discover many new things.”
4 Detail/example: “We don’t know how many species…”
5 Second reason: “Second, I really like swimming.”
6 Detail/example: “I spend a lot of my time in the ocean and it would be nice to be able to…”
(7 Conclusion - if you have time)

(One or both of your reasons can be disadvantages of the other option(s).)
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BREAK
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Record your responses to ETS 2 tests 2-5, question 2.
Listen to your recordings and pick the best one.
Listen to your classmates’ responses. What’s good and bad about each one?
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