2019-07-10 TOEFL: reading inf, listening inf

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-ocean-currents-work-jennifer-verduin
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Homework: Cengage exercise 3.2, passages 2-4 (questions 6-34)
Do it now in class.
Take 10 minutes for passage 2
6 B (It predicted there would be a planet between Mars and Jupiter, so it must have to do with the locations of planets.)
7 C (“another astronomer” means he wasn’t part of the group of “celestial police”)
8 A (“While trying to find Ceres again” means he wasn’t looking for Pallas.)
9 A
10 B (“even tighter clusters” means they’re closer together than groups)
11 B (They’re no longer “commonly accepted”, which isn’t quite the same as being considered invalid.)
12 A
13 D
14 A
15 C
Take 8 minutes for passage 3. Then compare your answers and convince your partner your answers are correct if you disagree.
16 B (Used to be 60-65 minutes between eruptions, now 30-120 minutes.)
17 A (There are 300 in the basin and 700 in the park, so there must be at least 400 in the park that are not in the basin.)
18 A (It makes the geyser pressure-tight.)
19 D (Eliminate A because it erupted before 1959. Eliminate B because the geyserite is the important thing, not the loose rock, sand, and soil. D is correct because “all [geysers] have a narrow spot”.)
20 C (If Old Faithful is relatively simple, it means other geysers have more complicated systems.)
21 B (The probe confirmed the constriction, narrow shaft, and reservoir.)
22 A (It “looks like a miniature volcano”, so it must have a similar shape.)
23 D (Fountain geysers have open pools, but Old Faithful is a columnar or cone geyser.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_5Ce7JgBPM - slow-motion videos of a (fountain) geyser in Iceland
https://youtu.be/Sb7D_BlQxfM?t=260 - explanation of how geysers work.
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BREAK
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Listening Question Types
- main idea (purpose or content)
- function/replay
- inference
- detail
- prediction
- attitude
- complete a chart or table
- purpose/method (“why” and “how” questions about the speakers)
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Inference Questions
Cambridge exercise L18 - Listen and decide if each inference is correct.
1 Yes
2 No - She’s being sarcastic and isn’t at all interested in the topic.
3 No
4 Yes
Exercise L19 - Listen and take notes, then answer the inference questions.
1 B
2 D
3 A
4 B - It’s a university lecture about getting junior high school students interested in something.
Exercise L20 - Answer the questions in your own words. (These are really more purpose questions.)
1 She is (or wants to be) an art major.
2 Those are toys that keep children’s attention because they can use their imaginations.
3 So they can hear different (authentic) Spanish accents.
4 There was a recent assault on campus.
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Cambridge listening mini-test 3 - Listen and take notes, then answer the questions.
1 A
2 B
3 B
4 A
5 D
6 B - The beginning of a term is when a required reading list would most likely be handed out.
7 D
8 A - They’re on microfiche, on reserve, so they can’t be removed.
9 B
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Homework: finish the listening mini-test, and do exercises 4L6 (231) and 4L8 (233) in your book