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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 1) - With your partner, try to think of one or two words to explain the meaning of each root.
- ab (abduct, abdicate) = off/away
- ad (advocate, addition, advance) = on/toward
- aer/aero (aerial, aerate) = air
- agri/agro (agriculture, agribusiness, agrarian) = field/farm
- ambi (ambidextrous, ambiguous, ambivalent) = both
- amb/ambul (amble, ambulatory, ambulate) = move/walk
- ami/amo (amiable, amorous) = love/friendship
- andro (android, androgen) = man/male
- anim (animate, animal) = movement/motive
- ann/enn (annual, millennium, anniversary) = year
- ante/anti (antecedent, anteroom, anticipate) = before
- anthropo (anthropology, philanthropy) = humanity
- anti (antibacterial, antisocial) = against
- aqua (aquamarine, aqueduct, aquarium) = water
- arch (monarch, hierarchy, archbishop) = first (in importance or power)
- archa (archaeology, archaic) = first (in time) / old
- art (artist, artifact, artisan) = skill (“liberal arts” are the skills traditionally expected of a free (non-slave) person)
- astro (astronomy, astrology) = star
- aud/audi (audience, audible) = hear
- auto (automatic, autograph) = self
- bell (belligerent, rebellious) = war
- bene (benefit, benevolent) = good
- bi (bilingual, bilateral, bisexual) = two
- bio (biology, biography, biosphere) = life
- cept/ceive (intercept, receive) = catch/capture
- cardi/cardio (cardiac, cardiology) = heart
- carn (carnivore, carnal) = flesh/meat
- cede/ceed (intercede, exceed) = go
- cent (century, centimeter, centennial) = hundred
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- TOEFL = Test Of English as a Foreign Language
- - 4 hours long, 4 sections, $205, 120 points total (30 per section)
- 1 reading: 60-80 minutes, 3 or 4 passages, about 14 questions per passage
- 2 listening: 60-90 minutes, 2 or 3 sets (each set = 3 listenings, 17 questions, 10 minutes to answer)
- (10-minute break)
- 3 speaking: 20 minutes, six questions, 5.5 minutes of speaking time
- 4 writing: about 1 hour, two tasks, 20+30 minutes of writing time
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- Reading Question Types:
- - vocabulary
- - fact/detail
- - negative fact
- - purpose/method
- - inference
- - reference
- - paraphrase
- - sentence insertion
- - summarize
- - organize
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- Handout (Cambridge) p. 181-182 - Are each of these statements true or false about the passages?
- Passage 1:
- A. T
- B. F
- C. T (“military risks” = “security threat”)
- D. T (“doubt as to the feasibility of construction” means some people didn’t think it was a viable idea)
- E. F
- F. F (There was no construction in 1930, and “the construction of the tunnel” as the subject implies that there was.)
- G. F
- H. T
- “The expense was prohibitive” = The expense “prohibited” building. That is, it was impossible to build because it was too expensive.
- - We also have the description “cost-prohibitive” to describe anything that is too expensive to do.
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- Passage 2
- A. T
- B. F (The animal was probably this size, but the fossils they found were much smaller.)
- C. F (If it was a land-dwelling animal, the area couldn’t have been underwater at the time.)
- D. T
- E. T
- F. F (The separation of the bones allows them to detect the source.)
- G. T
- H. T (“the separation of these bones in marine whales” tells us that whales living in the sea have separated bones)
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- BREAK
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- Longman p. 51 - Take 5 minutes to read and answer the questions about Lake Baikal.
- Compare your answers and convince your partner if you disagree.
- 1 D
- 2 A - It’s the ninth largest, so 8 other lakes are larger.
- 3 D - fresh water, not all water
- 4 C
- 5 B
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- - scan for key words from the question
- - scan for key words from the answer choices
- - eliminate answer choices you know are incorrect
- - guess among remaining choices
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- p. 52 - 5 minutes about the postage stamp
- 6 C (1837 is between 1800 and 1850, so it’s the first half of the 19th century)
- 7 A (should be based on weight and should be paid in advance (before - by the sender))
- 8 D
- 9 B
- 10 C
- p. 53 - 5 minutes for Clovis Culture.
- 11 A
- 12 D
- 13 C
- 14 B
- 15 D
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- Cengage p. 32-33 - scan the passage to find the answers to questions 11-20
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- p. 38-40 - Take 7 minutes to scan passage 2 for the answers to questions 12-18
- 12 D
- 13 D (1 course = 1 note, “there are from twelve to twenty-two courses”)
- 14 C (“some musicologists challenge this classification” - paragraph 2)
- 15 A (The other three are all mentioned, but the santir is mentioned in paragraph 1.)
- 16 B
- 17 A
- 18 C
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- Homework: Answer the questions for passage 1 (35-38) and 3 (40-42).
- Also: answer the T/F questions from passages 3 and 4 on the first handout
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