2018-10-24 TOEFL: listening main idea

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-princess-who-rewrote-history-leonora-neville
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Homework: finish p. 40-45 (NOT “The Role of Government in the Economy”)
Check your answers with your partner. If you disagree, convince your partner that their answer is wrong.
Quiz 1
5 C
6 B
7 D
8 D
9 C
10 A
Quiz 2
1 D
2 B
3 A
4 B
5 C
6 A
7 D
8 D
9 A
10 C
11 A
12 B
13 D
14 C
15 D
16 C
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Listening Question Types:
- main idea (content or purpose)
- purpose
- detail
- attitude
- prediction
- inference
- organization
- function
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Main Idea Questions
DELTA p. 197 - Listen to the conversation and answer the question. Why are the other answers wrong?
- Incorrect answers sometimes include the same or similar words as the conversation, but not with quite the same meaning.
p. 199 describes other wrong answers.
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p. 199 exercise 2.1.A - Identify the main ideas of some conversations.
(Take notes while you listen, and then look at the question and answer choices afterward.)
1 C
2 C
3 B
4 A (xylem and phloem)
5 D
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When you guess a spelling in your notes, you need to be able to recognize that word’s correct spelling later if you see it in a question.
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p. 200 - Do the same thing for lectures.
1 B
2 A
3 C
4 D
5 A
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p. 201 exercise 2.1.C
1 A
2 D
3 B
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BREAK
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4 C
5 A
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Handout (Oxford) - Outline for answering gist (main idea) questions.
p. 167 - Answer the pre-listening questions.
Listen and take notes.
3L5 - With your partner, use your notes to write some information about each of these things. (What details did the professor give about each one?)
1 1 degree F during the last 100 years
2 11 of the hottest years on record were within the past 13 years (This is mentioned as evidence that it’s speeding up, but it doesn’t really show that.)
3 greenhouse gas emissions since the Industrial Revolution
4 CO2 (carbon dioxide), O3 (ozone), CH4 (methane), CFCs, N2O (nitrous oxide)
5 the planet gets warmer (because the gases absorb and reflect the heat radiation given off by the Earth)
6 burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas)
7 emissions are now 130 times more than at the beginning of the 19th century
8 possibly 10F more (A change of 9F is a change of 5C)
9 hurricanes, heat waves, melting ice, more flooding
10 heat waves kill, lack of water, flooding in coastal areas, hurricanes destroy lives and livelihoods
11 (this is the main idea question)
3L6 - b
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Listen to the conversation and take notes.
3L7 - Answer these questions.
1 To talk about his presentation
2 Brainstorm a list of surprising facts about what people can change
3 replace lightbulbs, reduce household waste, avoid excess plastic packaging, something else?
	- household waste - reduce 275 billion pounds of CO2
(The US produces about 12,000 billion pounds of CO2, so this would be a 2.3% reduction.)
http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/emis/tre_coun.html
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https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/7/14/15963544/climate-change-individual-choices - If you want to stop climate change, don’t be rich.
http://science.time.com/2013/12/16/the-triple-whopper-environmental-impact-of-global-meat-production/ - The impact of meat production on global warming
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3L8 - What is the student’s problem? - d (He thinks his topic is “tired”.)
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Listen and take notes about an architecture lecture.
p. 169 - Compare your notes and answer the questions in 3L9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_Tree_Hab
3L10 - b
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Homework: answer the rest of the “Test Questions” sections on the handout