2020-02-12 TOEFL: R purpose, L main idea

Greg Malivuk
gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: Do exercise 4.2 (multiple-choice questions about longer passages).
	(optional - complete exercise 4.1)
Discuss your answers with your partners. If you disagree, try to convince your partners of your answer.
1 B
2 A
3 A
4 B
5 C
6 A
7 D
8 A
9 B (The property of the membrane that they are compared to is the color.)
10 D
11 A (It doesn’t explain how post-modernism evolved from modernism, only that it did.)
12 C
13 D (Furniture is mentioned in order to explain the appearance of the top of the building. Nothing is said about influence in either direction.)
14 B
15 C
16 A
17 D
18 A
19 C
20 C
21 B
22 A
23 A
24 B
25 A
26 D
27 D
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Listening Question Types:
- main idea / gist (content or purpose)
- detail
- purpose/method
- prediction
- inference
- attitude
- function
- complete a chart or table
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Cambridge exercise L9 - What do you think will be the topic of each lecture, based on the first sentence?
1 the United Kingdom
2 architecture award
3 Irish linen
4 hillside figures
5 geology of Mars
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BREAK
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L10 - Listen to the first sentence and choose the probable topic of the lecture.
1 C
2 B
3 A
4 D
5 A
6 D
L11 - What is the topic, and is it stated in the first sentence?
1 magic squares - yes
2 public zoos - no
3 pony express - no
4 Malaysian butterfly house - yes
5 gargoyles - no
L12 - All of these change topic from the first sentence. Identify the most likely topic.
1 ways of recording dance moves
2 why people came to America
3 the lack of historical value in modern photographs
4 official language policy in the United States
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Cengage 9.1 - Listen to the conversations and answer the main idea quesitons. Also answer my detail questions.
1 C
2 B
3 C
4 A
5 A
exercise 9.2 - Do the same for lectures
1 D
2 B
3 A
4 D
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Homework: p. 170-173 - 3L13 and 3L14