2020-10-15 TOEFL: L detail, speaking 1

Greg Malivuk
greg.malivuk@gmail.com
https://pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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Homework: “Listening - Detail” pdf exercise 10.1 - Listen to the other conversations and answer the detail questions about them.
1 A
2 D
3 C
4 B
5 C
6 D
7 A
8 B C
9 D
10 B
11 C
12 A D
13 A
14 B
15 B D
16 D
17 D (Their office is in Staunton Hall.) or A (The seminars are held in the library.)
18 D
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Campus Vocabulary next week - Conversations in the Listening section and for Speaking task 2 are usually easier if you have a basic understanding of how US universities work.
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Most of the detail questions about lectures and discussions are related to the specific academic topic of the class. (A good way to practice for this is watching and listening to things like TED talks and TED-Ed videos.)
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Sometimes I’ll say “lecture” to include any classroom listening, but other times I’ll use “discussion” to refer to in-class interactions between a professor and student(s), and “lecture” for listenings when only a professor speaks.
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Exercise 10.2 - Do the same thing for lectures and discussions.
1 A C
2 B
3 C
4 B
5 A D
6 D
7 A
8 C (He also talks about maybe half a million pieces that are too small to monitor.)
9 A
10 A D E (A is big enough that it’s easy to avoid, D and E are small enough that they won’t cause much damage.)
11 B
12 D (He talks about potential or possible uses, which implies that there aren’t yet real examples in use.)
(If you want to practice more, the next listening starts at 17m30s on the 10.2 audio track.)
13 A
14 A
15 B
16 B
17 A C
18 C
19 D
20 B
21 B D
22 C
23 D
24 A D
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BREAK
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Speaking Section: third section, after the break; 17 minutes, 4 tasks, 3m45s of speaking time
1 (old 2) independent, choice question - 15 seconds to prepare / 45 seconds to speak
2 (old 3) integrated reading/listening/speaking, campus announcement and conversation - 30/60
3 (old 4) integrated R/L/S, academic text and lecture - 30/60
4 (old 6) integrated L/S, academic lecture - 20/60
- They removed two speaking questions from the test in 2019, but most of the practice materials are older than that.
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Task 1
During the 15 seconds of preparation time, you should only write a “mini outline” of your response

answer
- reason 1
- reason 2

traditional
- communicate w/ each other
- interactive

When you speak, you’ll add details to make a full response, which you can organize like this:
1 Introduction: state your answer (as a complete sentence)
2 Lead-in (optional): “I have two reasons for this opinion.”)
3 First reason (“First, it’s easier to communicate with each other in a classroom.”)
4 Detail/example (“For example, if you want to get help from a classmate you can…”)
5 Second reason
6 Detail/example
(7 Conclusion - if you have extra time)
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You can find score descriptions at https://www.ets.org/s/toefl/pdf/toefl_speaking_rubrics.pdf

- The key concept for pronunciation and grammar is “listener effort”: How hard does the listener have to work to understand what you’re trying to say?
- Another important grammar/vocabulary point is that they look for some range and variety. If your response has no mistakes but also no vocabulary above a beginner level, you won’t get a high score.
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Rule 1 for independent speaking:
	LIE - The person listening doesn’t care what you really think.