2020-03-19 TOEFL: speaking 4, topical vocab

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-s-a-squillo-and-why-do-opera-singers-need-it-ming-luke
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Speaking Section: third section, after the break, four 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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ETS 1 test 1 - Visual elements in painting.
- The prompt will usually refer to the topic of the lecture, but your task is always essentially to summarize its main points.
You can organize your response (and thus also your notes) like this:
1 Introduction: state the topic of the lecture
2 Lead-in: state what kind of point(s) the professor makes (examples, types, counterexamples, studies, etc.)
3 First point: “First, she talks about color.”
4 Detail/example: “There are warm and cool colors,...”
5 Second point: “Second, she talks about texture.”
6 Detail/example: [explain what texture is and explain why it’s important]
(7 Conclusion - if you have time)
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This is very similar to task 3, the only difference is that the topic introduction is part of the lecture instead of a text you read first.
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Record your responses to ETS 2 tests 1, 4, and 5.
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Listen to the book’s sample responses. What’s good and bad about each one? How do they compare to your own responses?
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- summarize the points better
- watch the time closely and move onto the next point
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BREAK
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IELTS Vocabulary - Geography
copse - a small group of trees, often in the middle of open land
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Science and technology - Take a few minutes to replace the bold words with words from the box.
1 research
2 development
3 innovations
4 react
5 invented
6 discovered
7 analyzed
8 combined
9 a technophobe
10 a technophile (or “techie”, informally)
11 safeguards
12 experimented
13 genetic engineering (vs. genetics)
14 molecular biology
15 cybernetics
16 nuclear engineering (vs. nuclear physics)
17 breakthrough
18 life expectancy
19 proliferated
20 advances
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The letter ‘i’ only has the sound like in “ski” at the end of a word, or in some words borrowed from e.g. Spanish or Italian.
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Global Problems part 1 - take 2 minutes to choose the correct spelling
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Homework: part 2 of this section and part 1 of the health and medicine section