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- Greg Malivuk
- gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Word Roots (list 6) - With your partner, try to think of one or two words to explain the meaning of each root.
- re (recycle, rebound, reuse, recline) = again/back
- reg (regulation, regent, regime) = rule
- retro (retrograde, retroactive, retrospect) = backward (This is the same tra/tro ending we see with “extra”, “intra”, and “contra”)
- rupt (disrupt, rupture) = break/burst
- scend (ascend, descend, transcend) = climb
- scope/skep/spec (microscope, skeptic, spectacle) = see/watch
- scrib/script (transcript, scripture, inscribe) = write/draw
- sect/seg (section, bisect, sector, segment) = cut/divide
- semi (semicircle, semiannual) = half (This is the Latin root. The Greek root is “hemi”.)
- sol (solitude, desolate) = alone
- sol (solar, solarium) = Sun
- soph (philosophy, sophisticated) = wisdom
- struct (construct, structure) = build
- sub (subterranean, submerge, substandard) = under
- super (superstructure, supersonic) = over
- tele (telephone, telescope, telepathy) = far
- term (determine, terminate) = end/limit
- terra/terri (territory, terrain) = earth/land
- therm (thermometer, thermal) = heat
- tract (tractor, extract, contract) = pull (or “draw”, which also sometimes means “pull”)
- trans (transport, transaction, transverse) = change/cross
- ultra (ultraviolet, ultrasound) = over
- uni (universe, unique, unilateral) = one
- vac (vacuum, vacate, evacuate, vacant) = empty
- veri (verify, veracity) = true
- viv/vit (vital, vivacious) = life
- vol (benevolent, volunteer, volition) = will
- xeno (xenophobia, xenophile) = foreign/strange
- zoo (zoology, zooplankton) = animal
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- ultrasonic = higher frequency than sound we can hear
- supersonic = higher velocity than sound
- infrasonic = lower frequency than sound we can hear
- subsonic = lower velocity than sound
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- a university, a unique person, a unilateral decision (because these words begin with a /y/ sound)
- an umbrella, an unimportant decision, an underrated movie
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- TOEFL: four sections, four hours, 120 points (30/section), $205
- 1 reading: 54-72 minutes, 3-4 passages, 10 questions per passage (average 18 minutes per passage)
- 2 listening: 40-60 minutes, 2-3 conversations (5Q each), 3-4 discussions or lectures (6Q each)
- (10-minute break)
- 3 speaking: 17 minutes, 4 tasks, 3m45s speaking time
- 4 writing: 55 minutes, 2 tasks, 20+30 minutes of writing time
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- Reading Question Types:
- - vocabulary
- - fact
- - negative fact
- - reference (maybe)
- - inference
- - purpose
- - paraphrase
- - sentence insertion
- - summarize
- - categorize (maybe)
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- Cambridge exercise R19 - Is each statement a correct inference?
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- BREAK
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- exercise R15 - Select all answers that are correct inferences (there may be one, two, or three).
- Compare your answers with your partner. Try to convince them of your answers if you disagree.
- 1 C
- 2 B (It’s the villages that will be restored, not the plans.)
- 3 B (they’re destructive, at least) D
- 4 A B
- 5 B C
- 6 B D
- 7 A C
- 8 B (It’s “unsurpassed”, so it’s the best. Therefore, it’s better than everything else, including cocaine.)
- - The answer to an inference question is a statement that must be true, if the information in the text is true.
- Robert Waldow was the tallest man who ever lived.
- -> Robert Waldo was taller than my dad.
- (The first sentence doesn’t mention my dad, but if he was the tallest, then he was taller than anyone else you could think of.)
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- Cengage exercise 3.1 - Take 6 minutes to choose the valid inference for the first six.
- 1 B (The lost wax process has changed little, but we can’t infer that metalworking in general hasn’t changed.)
- 2 C
- 3 C
- 4 C (The closest star is the Sun.)
- 5 A
- 6 B
- Deeper roots get more lightning.
- Oaks get more lightning than beeches. (So oak roots are deeper than beech roots.)
- Pines are not as safe as beeches but safer than oaks.
- (So pine roots are deeper than beeches but not as deep as oaks.)
- Now take 7 minutes for questions 9 to 15. Convince them if you disagree.
- 9 B
- 10 A
- 11 B (It confirms and contradicts popular notions of a swamp. It has both (cypruses/quagmires/dim waterways) and (sandy islands/prairies/clear lakes). One of those sets must confirm popular notions and the other contradicts them, because it’s things that aren’t usually associated with swamps.)
- 12 A
- 13 C
- 14 C (Some spiders don’t build webs from silk, but they still use silk for other purposes.)
- 15 A
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- exercise 3.2
- Take 5 minutes to answer the questions for passage 1. Then check with your partner.
- 1 D
- 2 A
- 3 D
- 4 B
- 5 C
- Take 6 minutes to answer the questions (35-40) for passage 5. Then check with your partner.
- 35 C
- 36 D
- 37 B
- 38 B
- 39 A
- 40 C
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- Homework: Answer the rest of the questions in exercise 3.2. (questions 6-34, passages 2-4)
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